Over the last 6 months I created Analog Photography Assistant, an Android app to help photographers shoot old film cameras. The app provides a bunch of utilities such as measuring the amount of light in a scene, and a calculator to factor in the reciprocity failure characteristic of film.

Before this, I’d never written an Android application and the extent of my Kotlin experience was using the ungodly Kotlin DSL for Teamcity CI/CD pipelines. I’m now at the first major release of the …

Analog Photography Assistant is a free, ad-free, privacy-first app for film photographers. I wrote it for my own personal use, and have now released it on the Play Store. It has the following features:

• Light Meter – meter scenes with your phone. Set the ISO of the film you’re using and get aperture and …

Update: Now available for download on the Play Store.

Over the last six months I have been developing an Android app to aid in my film photography. I now use it every time I go out shooting and am making it free for everyone to use.

Analog Photography Assistant is a free, ad-free, privacy-first app with the …

I get my film developed at a local film lab and scan the negatives myself at home. The scanning setup is simple. I suspend the film negative flat over a lightbox, mount my sony digital camera to a copy stand so that it’s facing down, and shoot the negative using a macro lens. I get much better results than the local film …

There’s an urban wasteland walking distance from the Melbourne central business district. No, not Elizabeth Street, but an in-between area of the city – you’ve left the city going north west but haven’t yet reached the suburbs. You drive over it on viaducts, or travel through it on metro train lines. It’s an …