FAS Photo, photograpy by Frank Sollecito

The FAS Photo Blog

Historic Waterloo Village - Part 1 -Photo inspiration outing after outing

February 22, 2024

Being a New Jersey based photographer I am fortunate enough to have many historic destinations to visit and photograph that are generally within a 2 hour or less driving...

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Semi stand developing 120 black and white film

December 06, 2023

I have been developing black and white film since 1971, but it wasn't until just a couple of months ago, that for the first time I tried a method of film developing known...

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The Pentax MX-1 - With renewed interest in digicams, is it still relevant?

November 10, 2023

Capturing images with a digital camera has pretty much taken a back seat to my overwhelming interest in film photography these days. That being said, I would still like t...

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Bulk loading 35mm black and white film

September 02, 2023

I shoot a lot of 35mm black and white film and when I started shooting film again, which goes back around three and a half years now. I began by simply purchasing individ...

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Using a one camera one lens approach to photograph a local car show

July 09, 2023

A little over a month ago I shot some black and white photos at local classic car show, and more often than not these days I find myself approaching my film photography i...

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The Sunny 16 rule - daylight photography without a light meter?

May 17, 2023

I first started taking photos in the very early 1970's using my dad's Argus C3 rangefinder camera and then shortly after my very first slr - the Exakta VX500. Neither cam...

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The Lomography Sprocket Rocket - a fun plastic panoramic camera keeping film photography fresh.

March 21, 2023

Released around 2011 the mostly plastic, Lomography Sprocket Rocket is an interesting and fun, double frame 35mm panoramic camera with a plastic wide angle lens that expo...

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My new pinhole camera - entering another dimension of film photography

December 01, 2022

This past August of 2022 I purchased a new Kingpin medium format pinhole camera that captures photos in three different image sizes - 6x12, 6x9 and 6x6 using 120 roll fil...

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Liberty State Park a couple of classic Pentax film cameras and some Ilford and Fomapan film

October 11, 2022

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon this past June my better half (Brenda) and I decided to take a ride up the New Jersey Turnpike to Liberty State Park in Jersey City. I hav...

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Film Developing Tanks - Plastic vs. Stainless Steel?

June 26, 2022

The following is strictly my opinion and thought process on a topic that comes up from time to time and is one of personal choice based on my situation and needs for deve...

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Welcome to my blog - Sharing my photographic experiences. My favorite photo locations, the camera gear I use, digital and analog image capture techniques, as well as my passion for black and white film photography, the film I shoot and how I process it, and anything else I may encounter along my photographic journey.