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After getting some excellent results from TMax 400, could lightning strike twice with TMax 100? Now I like TMax 100 far more than the 400 version mainly because TMax 400 despite being super sharp lacks a lot of character. But with TMax 100 I’ve always liked the results I’ve gotten out of it, but I’ve always under-exposed and pulled in development but I’ve never under-exposed and pushed. So will I get similar performance from TMax 100 as I got before? Well the answer is… Film Specs Manufacturer: Kodak Name: TMax 100 (100TMX) Type: Panchromatic B&W Film Base: Acetate Film Speed: ASA-100 Formats Available: 135, 120,Read More →

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There are small cameras, and then there are small cameras. When designing cameras, there are certain constraints that you must work within. In the realm of 35mm cameras, you do have to make sure there’s enough room to fit the cartridge, and there have been some small 35mm cameras that I have reviewed. The one I think of is the RETO Ultra-Wide & Slim, and in the 35mm world, the smallest I’ve worked with is the Pentax MX (smaller than even the Olympus OM-1 and Nikon FM). But once you start to scale down the size of the film, you can bring the size ofRead More →

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Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 is a film that has achieved cult status and is almost universally loved by film photographers. Personally, I see the value in Acros and appreciate what it can do, but it never became a staple in my photography. It offers fine-grain, incredible sharpness and tonality. It also has a long reciprocity making it perfect for long exposure. A capable portrait film that provides amazing skin tones, but is also versatile to use in other applications like landscape, astrophotography, and architecture. But then Acros 100 went away; Fuji discontinued Acros 100 in 2018, citing the inability to source the needed raw materials.Read More →

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Do I really need to do another D-76 clone review? The answer is yes, yes I do. So during the end of production of Kodak chemicals by Sino Promise the fine folks at Adox Photo went out and purchased the rights to some of the names of Kodak chemicals, including D-76 (although you can still get Kodak D-76 now produced in the USA) as part of their efforts to ensure that the supply of these chemicals continue. And so in 2023 Adox D-76 hit the market, the one thing that sets Adox’s version apart is that it has a longer shelf life thanks to aRead More →

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I love winter. Well, a specific type of winter, the winter we had this past winter. And while we’re all here now, looking forward to spring, I wanted to look back at the winter that was, because I had a lot of fun this year. So what made this winter better than, say, the past two that we had? Well, first off, we got snow early, back in November 2025, which was awesome. And sure, we did lose all of it over the rest of the month and into December. But we did get some back in December, only to lose it again. But weRead More →

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Alright, I said I wasn’t going to get one of these, well, specifically an autofocus version of the Nikkor 20mm lens. The Minolta one solidified my enjoyment of the 20mm focal length, and I was passively looking for a manual focus lens, either AI or AI-S, because then it would work on all my cameras without fail. But I also don’t turn up my nose to a lens when offered. And well, here we are, the 20mm f/2.8D. I do like my wide-angle choices, and the 20mm offers up a nice in-between when 24mm isn’t wide enough and 14mm is too wide. And I don’tRead More →

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In the Urban Exploration hobby there is a concept of a risk to reward ratio. The idea is that an explorer needs to determine if the risk of entering the abandoned building is worth the reward of what might be seen inside. In my case, if I saw an abandoned house in an active neighbourhood, I might think that the risk of getting caught inside what could be a mundane house is not worth the potential reward of having a perfectly intact time-capsule. Another explorer might think differently. But if I saw an abandoned factory, I would probably think that the risk of getting caughtRead More →

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Many photographers of a certain age started with the Pentax K1000. I went a different route, and it’s different from even my preferred camera type today. I went with the Minolta Hi-Matic 7s, a fixed lens rangefinder from the 1960s. The Hi-Matic made things real; it was the first camera that was mine and the first good camera that I used. Before this, I used disposable cameras, like the point-and-shoot my parents had, and I still remember the 110 plastic camera I got at a McDonald’s event (at least, that’s what I think in my head-canon). While I would end up with a lot ofRead More →

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It has taken me a bit of time to figure out Kodak TMax 400, I’ve always been much more of a fan of traditional grained films, T-Grained films have always looked too clean, too modern. But they do have one thing, films like TMax 400 has a wide latitude. And I’ve also heard that TMax 400 pushes far better than Tri-X. Now I have done push processing with TMax 400 in the past, I’ve also done pull processing in the past so that should make things even more interesting. Film Specs Manufacturer: Eastman-Kodak Name: Kodak TMax 400 Type: Panchromatic B&W, Tabular-Grained Film Base: Acetate FilmRead More →

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Last year, for an episode of the Classic Camera Revival, I interviewed Pedro, the owner of Máquinas de Outros Tempos, or Machines from Another Time, a dedicated film lab and camera shop in Porto, Portugal. One of the other projects that the company runs is Cinemot, a supplier of film, both respooled and directly contracted for production. After listening to Pedro’s passion for film photography, I decided to order some of the film stocks offered by the company the black-and-white offerings. More importantly, I ordered these directly from Cinemot, and the time it took to get from Portugal to Canada was rather quick. Those beingRead More →