Author Archives: Nikki Coulson

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The Widelux Returns!

Here it comes…the first new film camera for many years! No we’re not being rude nor are we belittling the entry level plastic cameras recently and so successfully introduced by Kodak and Agfa etc but this one we view as a major step forwards for the film photography industry… Those little things have been responsible […]

Nik & Trick’s Fuss Free Guide to Film Processing…The Easier Way to Develop Your Own Films Without Worry!

So you’ve decided that it’s time to take that step…to discover the joy of developing your own films at home… So you go on the internet…and gee, isn’t there some stuff out there?? Much of it serving only to put you off…telling you it’s SO difficult, or confusing, contradictory and even misleading! Well, push that […]

Bellinissimo…the Director’s Cut!

Originally Authored in July 2020 This article about the photochemical DNA of BellinoFoto and Nik & Trick…a tale of two businesses and their people…gets a 2023 update! To begin with, this piece it will may seem like a bizarre way to begin an article about this particular subject perhaps but bear with me here…. From […]

Under the safelight?

Film Developing Processing & Scanning Services

At the beginning…new paper developers! We all know the usual products but Ilford and Kodak and Tetenal and so on but Adox too having been making some very fine paper developers for a long time…and then we have brought to the UK market new offerings from our lovely colleagues at BelliniFoto so we thought we’d […]

2020 Vision ~ The Future is Film!

2019 for us personally, should have been our best year what with Nik coming to work in the shop full-time and all…Sadly due to a couple personal tragedies and some disasters at home (yes we do have one!) it has been not so great. Some of that bad luck has carried over to our business […]

2018 What a year!  The Year of Reversal (films and processes!)

I don’t think that I personally, nor we as a team have ever shot so many films for making slides with…and not just colour E6 process films at that.. Yes we all knew that a new version of Kodak Ektachrome was coming since some PR sprog at Kodak HQ in Rochester got over-excited and let […]

Kodak Motion Picture Films – Our Vision! – Episode II

Well….since our original blog on these lovely films (Here), which includes an explanation on what Remjet is and what it does.  And now things have moved along a little… First, we have now upgraded all Kodak Vision stocks to the latest Vision3 films…we have also taken in some of the Fuji equivalent, in the form of […]

Kodak Motion Picture Films – Our Vision!

Researching these you’ll find the word REMJET thrown up as if it were a horror story – a total blockade in terms of moving forwards.   It’s as frustrating now looking back as it was then! Kodak describe Vision films as the best they’ve ever made so it didn’t seem fair that the movie industry […]