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Ah, HP5 at 1600... my dad swore by it in Microphen, though to be fair he swore by most things in Microphen, including the time he tried developing the holiday snaps in the kitchen sink and turned…

Heard Ilford have reworked Delta 400... no idea what it'll cost yet but I'll be first in the queue, as ever. Has anyone actually seen it on a shelf? Or is it one of those things that exists only on…

Report from the kitchen table: front group came apart with the jar opener as promised, fungus came off with the peroxide, and there's a faint mark left on one surface if you shine a torch through…

Hear hear

I'm afraid I couldn't possibly... it's been looking at me from the kitchen table all morning. Spanner wrench ordered. If I end up with a pile of tiny screws and regret, you'll be the first to know

This is why I shoot Ilford. HP5 has been HP5 since I was in short trousers... well, HP5 Plus, but you take my point. Nobody's renaming it 'Harmapan', are they? Are they?? My dad had a theory that…

Not far off a roll of Gold, give or take. Cheaper than therapy, more confusing than therapy. Shoot it somewhere boring, Hannah, it does its best work on things that don't matter.

Dad's darkroom, which was also the downstairs loo... which meant everyone in the house had to knock and wait, and my mum's patience was legendary. I'd sit on the edge of the bath at about seven…

I was going to stay out of this... but. When I started, the bloke behind the counter at our chemist told me I was wasting my pocket money on "arty" black and white when colour was the future, and…

The Pentax people always say this, and the irritating thing is that they're always right... my dad bought a K1000 in 1979 with the 50 f/2 and I still have the receipt in a biscuit tin somewhere…