The SP-445 compact 4×5 processing system is one of the top gear purchases I’ve made this year, full stop. It’s made the prospect of developing sheet film much more palatable: from something messy and stinky that filled me with trepidation, to something easy and straightforward. For someone without a proper darkroom, it’s very nearly perfect.
Author Archives: James Cockroft
10 Ways to Avoid Punishment in the Afterlife
From a lecture by Sheikh Dr. Yasir Qadhi, which he derived from Ibn Taymiyyah’s Punishment By the Hellfire is Repelled By Ten Causes by Ibn Tamiyyah, a reminder to me first… Life is short. Like it or not, we’re all going to die. If you adhere to one of the monotheistic faiths, you’re likely aware of …
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Unboxing MIT’s Camera Day special…
MIT Press celebrated Camera Day 2016 with 40% off on all in-print photography books, and given my predilection for theory, I jumped on 5. Four of them arrived yesterday, and I tore in… https://youtu.be/y5l7pFyYNP8
an open apology
Over the past couple of months, I’ve significantly increased the number of Islamic reminders, rumination, and rejoinders that I post to this blog, and in my zeal, I’m afraid that I offended some family members and old friends. I’ve also begun responding to uninformed and/or specious claims about my faith or my ±1.6 billion brothers and sisters in …
Happy Anniversary, Hanabibti and me!
It’s been three whole years! Can you believe it?
Going on Holiday…
… from social media for a bit.
Apples and Errors
I got off work yesterday at 2:30pm and arrived home by 3:15 or so. I had a very brief nap, shot a quick unboxing video of the SP-445 and had it posted by 5:15. By 6:15, I had two negatives drying in the shower and was changing clothes to go mow the lawn. I expected …