Recently my Dad and I were going through old papers of my grandfathers and came across these photos sitting in an envelope with a few Matsqui council papers, referencing a…
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Film and Darkroom
One of the questions I always get as someone working in a camera store is “what’s in your camera bag?” I never know how to answer this question because let’s…
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We have some soon to be arriving new colour film called Elektra 100 from FlicFilm. It is a bit of an understatement to say that colour film has been hard…
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Like every summer, for most of August I took my holiday time and went home to Manitoba for a few weeks. My parents still live on the farm there and…
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After my recent rant about plastic cameras NEVER working for me, one finally did! The very cool plastic Coca Cola can camera. Sadly mine is pretty beat up and its... Continue reading →
No. EDIT: At the insistence of my manager and colleagues, I will list some reasons. It’s too heavy. It’s too loud. It’s not pretty. The lenses are amazing, but…
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With the importance of trying to do things in a more sustainable way and lessen our impact on the earth, it might be time to look at our darkroom practices.... Continue reading →
Thinking about the environmental impact of my photographic practice led me to do some research on alternative developers. Caffenol (developer made with coffee) has been around for quite a while... Continue reading →
A few months ago I finally got my own Rolleiflex 2.8, the “C” model. It’s not one of the more fluid ones to use (I say this because often the…
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Reticulation! So in the March 2022 newsletter I expounded upon my bad luck shooting plastic cameras…and my latest reticulation “adventure.” I had two rolls of the offending garage stored Agfa…
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