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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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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 →

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I have a troubled history with 200-speed films. They’ve always given me more trouble and often try too hard, which can be detrimental. I struggled to find a way through Fomapan 200 and Rollei Superpan 200. Both Svema and Derev Pan 200-speed offerings were far more trouble than they’re worth. And then last year, along came Kentmere 200, a middle child for the Kentmere budget offerings. In all these colour film releases, Kentmere 200 took a backseat. But I latched onto Kentmere 200 almost right away. I already enjoyed Kentmere 100 and Kentmere 400, and the first flush of Kentmere 200 proved a solid performer.Read More →

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Thinking back to what could have been, I remember when I first got into film photography, photography in general and happened across Minolta. The SR-T 102, Hi-Matic 7s, even the X-7a, but I wanted to make the jump to autofocus. I was in a local bargain shop and happened across an open box, the Maxxum 7. It didn’t come with a lens and was well outside my price range. And now that I know more about that shop, it was probably hot also. I ended up switching to Nikon. But here it is now, the Minolta Maxxum 7, what many online sites describe as theRead More →

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When I originally wrote this review back in 2019, Ilford had not yet done a major brand refresh of Kentmere 400 or made any tweaks to the formula. Since then, I’ve shot a lot more of the film and decided that in my original review, I did Kentmere 400 a disservice. As of today (2026), I have found it to be a rather good film in the right conditions and with the right developers. So I made a point of reshooting the entire review, all in 35mm again, to refresh and show off that Kentmere 400 isn’t as bad a film as I first thought.Read More →