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  1. Inside the Armstrong Hall: large format photographs of a theatre frozen at lockdown The Armstrong Hall in Thornbury closed its doors at the start of UK lockdown and stayed locked for more than four years. Before it reopens after renovation, I went in with a 4x5 camera and 24 sheets of FP4 to document a building frozen at the moment of its closing. A shoot diary.
  2. Missing my Bronica S2A: an appreciation I am in Canada and my Bronica S2A is at home. I have been missing it more than I expected to. This is a quiet appreciation of the medium format camera that has become part of the family over the last seven years, and the reasons I will never sell it.
  3. Freewell V2 Hybrid VND/CPL review: combining a variable ND and circular polariser The Freewell V2 Hybrid combines a 3-to-7-stop variable ND and a circular polariser in one filter. I tested it on 4x5 in the countryside. The clever bit is how the stop markings account for the polariser's light loss, which makes film exposure calculations genuinely easy. Honest review from a non-landscape shooter.
  4. Fuji GSW690iii review: a technically perfect camera I cannot quite work out what to do with The Fuji GSW690iii produces immaculate 6x9 negatives from a fixed 65mm f5.6 super-wide lens. Reliability is bulletproof. The lens is genuinely flawless. So why am I struggling to work out what I want to do with it? An honest review of a camera that might be too good.
  5. Fuji GX680 review: a £40 beast with insane image quality The Fuji GX680 is the biggest, heaviest medium format SLR I have ever owned, and it produces the sharpest, most detailed images I have ever got from film. Dead batteries make these cameras dirt cheap, and the fix is simple DIY. Here is how I got one working and a flash-and-smoke portrait shoot to prove what it can do.
  6. Hasselblad 500C/M review: are Hasselblads really that special? Are Hasselblads worth the hype and the money? I borrowed a Hasselblad 500C/M for a day of portraits to find out. The honest answer: yes, they really are that good, and that is almost the problem.
  7. Kentmere Pan 200 review: a budget black and white film with real character Kentmere Pan 200 is Ilford's new addition to the budget Kentmere line, slotting between Pan 100 and Pan 400. Tested across three rolls on Bronica GS1, Rolleiflex SLX and a walk around Toronto, this is a properly good film with some bite to it. And at around £5 a roll it costs significantly less than FP4.
  8. Mamiya RB67 review: a great camera, but most of them have been ruined The Mamiya RB67 is a great medium format camera in good condition. The problem is that most of the ones for sale are not in good condition. I bought three. I returned two. I bought four lenses and returned two. Here is what to look for if you want to buy one that actually works.
  9. Rolleiflex 6006 review: a great camera, and I'm still selling mine After six months of failure with a broken first copy and a saga involving a retired camera tech in Toronto, I finally got a working Rolleiflex 6006. It is genuinely a great camera. So why am I selling it? The honest answer involves the Rolleiflex SLX, the survival rate of 80s electronics, and a bit of unshakeable PTSD.
  10. Stenopeika Air Force 4x5 long-term review: a great first large format camera Eighteen months and only one large format camera. This is the long-term review of the Stenopeika Air Force 4x5, the entry-level field camera I have used exclusively for 4x5 work. Portability, the 65mm lens trick, the time I dropped it and it crumbled, and why I love it anyway.