When I first started out I remember how confused I was about pushing and pulling film development. This post sets out my understanding of this topic largely as a way of making sense of it for myself. Sources of confusion One source of confusion stems from the fact that the words ‘push’ and ‘pull’ are […]

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It’s taken quite some time for me to work out an approach to 35mm photography that delivers what I want from it. Here are my thoughts … One film/developer combination or many? I’m very much a one film/one developer photographer, more or less. I say ‘more or less’ because I realise that there isn’t one […]

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A few weeks ago I bumped into a photographer acquaintance who by chance was carrying the same model of camera that I had with me that day, a Nikon FM3A. That’s quite a coincidence as it’s not a commonly-seen camera. Over coffee the conversation turned to cameras and he asked me what one film camera […]

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