Nik Stanbridge
Analogue photography and printmaking
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The surface of water, film grain, and the search for the perfect neg scan
I choose to have grain in my images. I use Rodinal as my developer to help feed my love of grain. Grain with Rodinal, pretty much irrespective of the film stock, is delicious, tight, defined and sumptuous. The subjects I choose to photograph tend to benefit from grain, like the puddles, I love expanses of
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Photo essay: Gongoozeling Experiences Along England’s Canals with a 5cm Summitar and an M3
An article I wrote for 35MMC based on a canal trip back in 2021. It was well received by folks all over the world including those for whom narrow boating was a novelty. Click here to be taken to the article
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Surviving two Leica fails on a motorhoming trip around the Balkans
An article I started writing to help me deal with the jamming of my M3 and the prior unscrewing incident I had with my Summaron lens.
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Sue & Nik. Rebecca & Nick. Sarah & Nick.
Candid, fun and quirky photos of a weekend trip with family. Images were all shot on 35mm film.
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5 Frames of the Brittany Granite Coast on Delta 100 in Rodinal
My first major motorhoming (RV if you will) trip was around the coast of France, starting in eastern Brittany. The beautiful granite coast was sort of the first part of the trip, the bit where we really found our feet.
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5 Frames with the Leica Summicron 50 Dual Range at closest focus
One of the factors that influenced my yes/no decision to get a Leica rangefinder was whether I could get a 50mm lens that would focus as close as an SLR 50. This article is the story behind the Leica lens I went with.
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The Polymer Photogravure Process (an overview of my experiences)
When I thought I’d perfected my process of producing polymer photogravure printed (photopolymer etchings), I was so excited that I wrote this article. It turned out that I hadn’t quite mastered it, but I was, am, an evangelist nine the less.
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5 Frames in a Reclamation Yard with a Leica M3 and Summitar 50/2
bought the 1940s Leica 5cm Summitar lens (Leica gives all its lenses names, some of which denote series of lenses) as a stop gap while I looked for something more ‘modern’ (from the 1950s!). It’s a lens full of period character/softness and this is an article about that illustrated with some very grainy images.
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PHOTOBOOK: Instagram 4
A further installment of the printed version of my Instagram feed. November 2016 to April 2018.
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Exhibition: Oxfordshire Artweeks 2022
May finally came round and I finally had some prints to put on the wall. Plan back in January was to display roughly A3 sized giclee prints (I much prefer the term “archival pigment ink prints”) and I’d already had some test prints made and decided who was going to print them (theprintspace) and on