Category: Film
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Finding my Inner Bartram
A post from the wonderful Andrew Bartram got me thinking.
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This is SPARTA!
I buy an EOS300 to replace the stolen EOS33. It’s not as good, but it does the job.
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New Film who dis?
I test out K200 in a boring and dry post about film testing and developing in D23r.
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Edgar? I ‘ardly know ‘er
Last week I shared an image that I shot with the new to me Zeiss Ikon Nettar of a waterfall at Edgar’s creek. Which is near to where I live. I had finally managed to sneak some time into the darkroom to actually print this up and I think it turned out ok. I’m an…
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Creeks a little, but gets the job done
I live in Melbourne, Australia. It is currently early september 2025 as I write this and we are just coming out of winter into false spring (Melbourne has about 11 seasons, so we are about to enter the bit where we all think “Hooray winter is over” before the temperature plunges and it rain again…
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London Calling
Ortho80 was fun when it came out, but with the way I used it, it was contrasty as hell.
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Negative Lab Pro
I’m not much of a colour film shooter. Not becuase I don’t like colour photos, I really do, but because the film is generally more expensive and it’s more of a pain to develop. Well under my old development regime where I didn’t care about temp for BnW, colour was more a hassle. As I…
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Country Victoria
Every Easter I go camping with a large group of people. It used to be that we were in our 20s, we would drink all day and night then pass out and start it all again the next day. These days we all have kids ranging from 2 weeks old (my new little one) to…
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Testing FP4: A New Hope
As I progress further in my film journey I have been reading more and more. As I have started to broaden my knowledge base I’ve realised that I have never actually performed any tests on my exposure and development. I had seen that people like to rate their films differently but unless I was “Pushing…
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XP2 Super in Ilfosol3
Back in 2019 I shot a roll of Ilford’s XP2 super but didn’t have any C41 Chemicals to process it. Living in cambridge at the time I only had Ilfosol 3 to hand and decided to develop using Black and White chem. I had heard it works but I hadn’t actually given it a go.…
Alexander Davenport 