Agfamatic 200 and Truprint XG 200

Agfamatic 200 and Truprint XG 200

Reading Time: 3 minutesI am going back a bit through some of my archives and pulling out a few old experiments to look over. This is partly personal – I have not done as much photography for a while, and also have a pile of undeveloped film I 

Black and White Cambridge

Black and White Cambridge

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile I am busy archiving photos and generally sorting stuff out a little, I found these scans. Every year at High School we had a “Special Week” – with various activities. One year was a photography workshop where we took and developed out own films. 

Agfa Agfamatic 2000 Pocket Sensor

Agfa Agfamatic 2000 Pocket Sensor

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a simple 110 cartridge film camera, designed by  Schlagheck Schultes Design; like the rest of the range it is styled in black and silver and has the ubiquitous red sensor button for the shutter.  The film is advanced by closing and opening the case after shooting. It has a 3 element resin Color Agnar Lens at 26mm with a fixed aperture of f/9.6. It has a socket for Magicube Flash Bulbs.

Canon T50 and Kodak Ektar

Canon T50 and Kodak Ektar

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor all the fun of old and random cameras, it is great to play with a decent, high quality SLR from time to time. From my late aunt’s chattels I received, by gift of my father a good condition Canon T50 and a couple of 

Scotch Chrome

Scotch Chrome

Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been going back a bit to get some more ‘blog style posts onto this site (something I originally aimed to do) – inspired in part by managing to edit a good selection of film scans which have been hanging about for ages, and 

Revlog Kolor Wierdness

Revlog Kolor Wierdness

Reading Time: 2 minutesNot content with this being a random effect from poor light seals (or indeed poor construction) it is now possible, courtesy of Revlog to purchase film that is pre exposed to give these (and other) effects. What a time to be alive. I am being 

Splitzed and hacked and filtered…

Splitzed and hacked and filtered…

Reading Time: 4 minutesAnd so, back again to the dreaded Lomography. It is funny how it always ends up there.  One thing I will say is that the Lomography crowd have an almost insatiable desire for hacking things, making cameras do weird and wonderful effects and sometimes I 

Sepia Sprockets

Sepia Sprockets

Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from my post on stand development in Rodinal a few days ago, this seems as good an opportunity as any to write about another film for which I used this process, along with some digital trickery to create some exciting hybrid images. The 

Old E4 film in Rodinal

Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes I wonder about my sanity. A long time ago, I bought a random collection of old film from that den of iniquity that is Ebay. I think I was pulled in by the fact that it had a couple of 126 Cartridges, which are 

Blue Bleach Bypass

Blue Bleach Bypass

Reading Time: 2 minutesEver pushing the boundaries of odd techniques in kitchen development – I decided in the middle of a hectic and busy developing session recently to try something a bit odd. Cross processed, bleach bypass slide film. An experiment in blue Quite what led me to 

Snow!

Snow!

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the floods of a couple of weeks ago we now have some fairly impressive snow, for Leeds at least. These are round meanwood mill pond. I’ve also taken the opportunity for a bit more arty shutter dragging which has worked very well in these 

Wintery York

Wintery York

Reading Time: 4 minutesI was asked by work to attend a meeting in York the other day – so with my best bargaining head on I agreed to this if I could have the rest of the day off, as York in the run up to Christmas is