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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. 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.
  3. Multi-exposure paper reversal self-portraits for a Vienna exhibition Asked to submit work to a photography exhibition in Vienna, I made a series of multi-exposure self-portraits on black and white paper reversal. The technique produced something unexpected and rather lovely. A piece about introspection, self-sabotage, and the Tolifo PL100 RGB Palm Light that lit it all.
  4. Reveni Labs Lumo review: a $200 light meter that punches well above its weight Hands-on review of the Reveni Labs Lumo, a tiny multi-function light meter that does almost everything a Sekonic L858-D does for around a fifth of the price. Filmed at Matt Bechberger's lab in Hanover, Ontario, with a Fuji Velvia 4x5 portrait test in the snow.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Stenopeika Caronte 4x5: first impressions of the cypress-wood field camera Stenopeika's new Caronte 4x5 is a premium step up from their affordable Air Force 4x5, with a Tuscan Cypress body and an all-metal base. Hands-on first impressions from a Toronto studio shoot with Velvia, including the bits that went wrong as well as the bits that went right.
  8. Stenopeika Minutero 2.0 review: paper reversal at the kitchen table The Stenopeika Minutero 2.0 lets you develop 4x5 black and white paper inside the holder itself, with no darkroom required. After my first session producing portraits of my daughters in the kitchen, it has changed how I work on the paper reversal project.
  9. Finding the Best Paper and Developer for Black and White Paper Reversal: a four-day contrast test Sixteen papers, eleven developers, four days in the darkroom, trying to find the combination that reduces contrast in black and white paper reversal. Ansco 120 made the decisive difference. Bromide papers do not work at all, and here is how I found that out.
  10. Zhiyun Cinepeer CF100 review: a stick light for film photography? The Zhiyun Cinepeer CF100 is an LED stick light aimed at video shooters. I tested it for analogue film portraits, including dry plates at ISO 2, to see whether a strip light has a place in a film photographer's kit. It does, and the shape of the light is the reason.