https://gamesolox.com/ 2026-08-09T09:00:00Z https://gamesolox.com/writing/fibre-paper-and-the-curl.html2026-08-09T09:00:00Z

First box of fibre-based paper: slower development, long washes, prints that dried into tubes, and blacks that made it worthwhile.

https://gamesolox.com/writing/a-sticky-shutter-at-one-twenty-fifth.html2026-04-26T09:00:00Z

A folding camera with slow speeds that stuck. Measuring the shutter by its sound, three rounds of lighter fluid, and no new oil.

https://gamesolox.com/writing/pushing-a-four-hundred-film-to-sixteen-hundred.html2025-11-02T09:00:00Z

A 400 film shot at 1600 in November kitchens: 14 minutes 30 in stock developer, thin shadows, grade 1.5 prints, eleven keepers.

https://gamesolox.com/writing/the-exhausted-fixer-lesson.html2025-05-18T09:00:00Z

Three framed prints turned yellow at the edges. The cause was reused fixer past its capacity, and the one-minute clearing test I now run.

https://gamesolox.com/writing/first-prints-in-the-bathroom.html2024-12-07T09:00:00Z

Blackout fabric, a plank across the bath, an enlarger on the toilet lid: the first evening of printing and what the test strips taught me.

https://gamesolox.com/writing/developing-the-first-roll.html2024-06-16T09:00:00Z

Twenty-five minutes loading a reel in a changing bag, nine minutes forty-five in the developer, and thirty-four frames that came out.