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Kodak Portra 400

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Penny for your thoughts: Documenting a unique bike race on medium format film

by Isaac D. Pacheco

Lomography Special Effect film comparison- Metropolis, Purple, Turquoise, Redscale - by Ryan Gabbard

Lomography Film Stock Reviews

Lomography special effect film comparison: Metropolis, Purple, Turquoise, Redscale

by Ryan Gabbard

How-to: Shoot paper negatives with a Polaroid pack film Land Camera

Guides & How-Tos

How-to: Shoot paper negatives with a Polaroid pack film Land Camera

by Jim Skelton

Featured projects

Build log: Take one Polaroid Model 455 and one Instax 100 camera and what do you get? A serious hack job

by Jim Skelton

A Year In Plastic 2009 - Week 52, Dec 31st 2009

Featured projects

A Year in Plastic: One film, one camera, one week, one picture, one year (Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2009)

by Chris Storey

Mamiya RB67 Pro S, Mamiya Sekor 90mm f:3.8, Sach Alvarez 0

My First Roll…

My first roll… On the cheapest (probably) Mamiya RB67 Pro S ever…and Fuji Pro 400H – Santiago Alvarez

by Santiago Alvarez

5 Frames… Of the Market in Ottawa on Lomography Metropolis (120 format / EI 200 / Pentacon Six TL + Carl Zeiss Biometar 80mm f/2.8 MC)

by TechPan Alex

5 Frames… Of Polaroid Color SX-70 Film at the tiny Greek island of Anafi (ISO 160 / Polaroid SX-70 + 116mm f/8 lens) – by George Pavlopoulos

by George Pavlopoulos

5 Frames… Of the Gatineau River on LOW ISO Color film (35mm format / EI 1.6 / Nikon FA + Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D) – by Alex Saucier

by TechPan Alex

5 Frames… At Beers & Cameras Sacramento on expired Kodak Supra 400 (35mm / EI 25 / Leica M3 with 50mm f/2 Dual-Range Summicron)

by Brendan Flesher

5 Frames… Of ILFORD HP5 PLUS on a shelf queen Kodak Tourist (620 format / EI 400 / Kodet 86mm f/12.5)

by Jason Morrison

Cameras used, from left to right: Pentax K1000, Yashica Mat, Olympus XA2, Polaroid 636, and Nikon F4s.

5 frames… Of one gas station on 5 different film stocks, using 5 different cameras – By Fayed

by Fayed

5 Frames… And Five Life Lessons from a Kodak Brownie – by Dan Kehlenbach

by Dan Kehlenbach

5 Frames… Making mistakes with a Graflex Speed Graphic and Arista Ortho 3.0 4×5 film – by Mark Rutledge

by Mark Rutledge

5 Frames… Of a weekend in NYC on ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional (EI 3200 / 35mm format / Nikon FM2 + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D)

by Matthew T Rader

Cover - Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight: A 36-Day Quest to Discover the Daily Miracle of Nature’s Quiet Moments – by Dan Kehlenbach

by Dan Kehlenbach

5 Frames… Of ILFORD FP4 PLUS with my new Contax clone (35mm format / EI 100 / Kiev-4a + Jupiter 8M 50mm f/2) – by John Tarrant

by EM

Latest featured reviews

Camera review: The Exakta TL 1000

My Nikon F3, MD-4 Motor Drive, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S, Dorothy Key 3

Film review: A roll of Kodak Portra 800 (Nikon F3 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S) – by Dorothy Key

My adventures somewhere in-between medium & large formats on 120 format Kodak Gold 200

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5 Frames… At Westonbirt Arboretum on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional Rolleicord Va + Xenar 75mm f/3.5

by EM

5 Frames… Of cold-weather testing airships by the arctic circle on Kodak Portra 160 (35mm Format / EI 160 / Contax G1 + Planar 45mm f/2) – by Igor Immfun

by Igor Immfun

5 Frames… Of Charleston on Kodak EKTACHROME Infrared film (35mm format / EI 400 / Canon EOS 3 + Canon 17-40 f/4) – by Daniel Kompass

by Daniel Kompass

5 Frames… Around Blois on LomoChrome Purple XR 100-400 (35mm format / EI 200 / Yashica FX – 3 + Yashica Lens ML 50mm f/2) – by Steven Munday

by EM

5 Frames… Over 3 years on Kodak Portra 400, starting in New Orleans and finishing at Venice Beach (35mm format / EI 400 / Pentax Spotmatic + Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4)

by Eric Houge

A look back at my personal One-Shot-Per-Week challenge of 2021 – by Tim Soderstrom

by Tim Soderstrom

Latest guides and how-tos

Repurposing orphaned instant cameras: Creating the Polaroid “SX-450”

Restoring the moldiest, most rusty camera lens I’ve ever seen: How bad (or good) could it be?

Elevating the humble cyanotype…with a UV-enlarger!

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Latest film photographer interviews

EMULSIVE Interview: I am Daniel Boklage and this is why I shoot film

EMULSIVE Interview #228: I am Daniel Boklage and this is why I shoot film

EMULSIVE Interview #227 - I am Lucy Ridges and this is why I shoot film

EMULSIVE Interview #227: I am Lucy Ridges and this is why I shoot film (NSFW)

Canon A1- FDn 50mm f/1.4 - Fuji Superia X-TRA 400

EMULSIVE Interview #226: I am Brian Dubois and this is why I shoot film

Andrea Bianchi - Hasselblad SWC - Fujichrome Provia 100F Expired and X process

EMULSIVE Interview #225: I am Andrea Bianchi and this is why I shoot film

Lifeguard

EMULSIVE Interview #224: I am David Imel and this is why I shoot film

Shot on Nikon F2 in 2019, hand printed selenium toned and hand coloured. London

EMULSIVE Interview #223: I am Ellen Rogers and this is why I shoot film (Mildly NSFW)

Latest 5 film camera reviews

Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super

Opinion: Why did Zeiss stop making cameras?

by Gavin Lyons

Mini-review: The Canon A-1 in Thailand

by James Patrick

Rheinmetall Weltax + Meyer-Optik Trioplan f/3.5 75mm

Rheinmetall Weltax + Meyer-Optik Trioplan f/3.5 75mm + Lomography Redscale and Kodak Portra 160… A review (kind of)

by Martin Siegel

Leica M4

Enter the Leica M4: Upgrading my Barnack Leica

by Simón Ducos

Konica C35 EFP - Black

A creative machine: The Konica C35 EFP

by Diego Boccacci

The Lipca Rollop II. Portrait by Nikon F80, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 OS HSM, and ILFORD HP5 PLUS (@ EI 1600).

Crash! Bang! Rollop! What a Picture! A review and test of the Lipca Rollop II TLR

by Nigel Fishwick

Cover: Film review - ADOX HR-50, a high-resolution film with a boost

Film review: ADOX HR-50, a high-resolution film with a boost

by Astrid Robertsson

Canon AL-1

The Canon AL-1: Do opposites attract?

by Alex Nevelychko

Camera review: The LEGO VIP Rewards Vintage Camera + build video

Camera review: The LEGO VIP Rewards Vintage Camera + build video

by EM

Latest 5 film stock reviews

Kentmere Pan 400 at EI3200 – A low-cost, high speed alternative?

by Philip Harrison

Chromogenic inspiration: ILFORD XP2 Super - Andrea Bianchi

Chromogenic inspiration: ILFORD XP2 Super – Andrea Bianchi

by Andrea Bianchi

Svema Foto 65 – Shooting Expired Film from 1989

by Gavin Lyons

My Pentax MX and SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7

Film review: Cinestill 50D on Zurich’s smaller streets – Pentax MX and SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7

by Astrid Robertsson

Taking Stock: A shootout with 3 very different color films highlights creative possibilities – Kodak Portra, Fuji C200 and Fuji Velvia 100

by Isaac D. Pacheco

Purple nights on Lomochrome Purple with the Pixels and Grain Collective

by Pixels and Grain Collective

Film stock review: Cinestill BWXX - by Simon King

Film stock review: Cinestill BWXX

by Simon King

Foma Retropan 320 Soft: A valuable way of seeing

by Yorgo Douramacos

Blood-red Witchery: Portraits on Kodak AEROCHROME III color infrared slide film

Blood-red Witchery: Portraits on Kodak AEROCHROME III color infrared slide film

by Mikhail Kostin

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How-tos & Guides

My Quest to make art for the living room wall - Part 1: Iterating contact prints by Sarah Hall

My Quest to make art for the living room wall – Part 1: Iterating contact prints

Pentax 67 panoramic photographs - 35mm film mask

Shooting 35mm panoramic photographs with the Pentax 67

Pricing your work: Economies of print, or “assigning worth when value is subjective”

Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor 56:2 and Luna Pro

How-To: Push-metering for simple cameras

Start at the Stop: How to respool 35mm film into 127 (and 120) backing paper

Cover - EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT AUTO (THYRISTOR) FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ...BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

Everything you wanted to know about auto (thyristor) flash photography …but were afraid to ask

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