(Previously: A few pictures from 2020: 3. The living) I started developing my own black-and-white films at home a couple of years ago. There's nothing quite like toiling through the process before emerging with a strip of negatives which you have to hang up and let dry, knowing there are pictures on them but being unable… Continue reading A few pictures from 2020: 4. Deepest black

(Previously: A few pictures from 2020: 2. Cinefilm. Following: A few pictures from 2020: 4. Deepest black) In March I discovered that the jammed Minolta Auto-Rokkor 55mm lens I'd just cleaned and lubricated was lovely for portrait-distance shots. But I didn't use it as much as I should have, because I also discovered I'd reassembled it with… Continue reading A few pictures from 2020: 3. The living

(Previously: A few pictures from 2020: 1. Keep Going. Following: A few pictures from 2020: 3. The living) A company called Silbersalz35 sells 35mm cartridges loaded with various sorts of motion-picture film, at a price including processing and scanning. The films have to be developed with the ECN-2 chemical process, so the inclusion of processing matters, as… Continue reading A few pictures from 2020: 2. Cinefilm

(Following: A few pictures from 2020: 2. Cinefilm) At the start of January 2020, I hopped on a bus to the North Circular to take a couple of photos of bleak, slightly alarming empty urban scenes. Had I known how redundant that would seem later in the year, I might not have bothered. Though it may… Continue reading A few pictures from 2020: 1. Keep Going