Analog Photography Assistant - 1.3.0

July 24 2026 · analog-photography-assistant

Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.3.0 with a bunch of new features and updates. The greatest hits are listed below, otherwise read the changelog for more detailed notes.

Link to this section Light Meter

Aperture Sets and Exposure Compensation have been added to the Light Meter.

Aperture Sets allow you to define named collections of f-stops you want …

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July 2026

July 10 2026 · blog

I’ve made some changes to a couple of photo albums on the website. southern-mountains features the same grainy black and white photographs from the South island taken in 2024, but I’ve re-edited them to add more punch.

Along Hall Arm.

Along Hall Arm.

The photographs are shot on Ilford HP5+ film, which gave me a film negative with a wide …

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Maniototo Landscapes II

May 2 2026 · landscape-photography central-otago
Sutton.

Sutton.

Sutton Railhut.

Sutton Railhut.

Up the Rock and Pillar.

Up the Rock and …

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Sutton Sunset

April 15 2026 · landscape-photography central-otago

The Sutton landscape summons me to Rohan in The Lord of the Rings. Golden grasses and jagged schist cover the landscape. These seemingly go on forever, until they hit the Rock and Pillar Range in the northwest which always stands in shadow at this time of the day.

Sutton.

Sutton.

I wanted to be at Pukerangi to shoot the railway shelter illuminated by the …

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The Taieri River Tunnel

April 8 2026 · landscape-photography central-otago
The Taieri River diverted through the tunnel.

The Taieri River diverted through the tunnel.

The Taieri River starts in the Lammerlaw Range, flows north through the Maniototo Plain, before taking a sharp turn south down the Strath Taieri and Taieri Plain into the Pacific Ocean. The 1860s brought a gold rush to Otago, and while sites along the Taieri …

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