“The rituals are symbolic actions, an enormous signifier that without transmitting anything, the community recognizes in them signs of identity.” The Disappearance of Rituals, Byung-Chul Han What is the meaning of a tradition? Recently, I was invited to a celebration, a party to commemorate the 15th birthday of a coworker’s granddaughter, with whose family we […]
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5 Frames… Of a Rhode Island Spring on Cinestill 400D (35mm Format / EI 800 / Nikon F4 + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S) – by J Balcourt
I’ll start by saying I’ve never been much of a color film user. Although I have nothing against it, I can’t see much of a difference between color film stocks with my red/green color deficiency and therefore feel like I can’t appreciate their nuances most of the time. Even when shooting digital portraits (don’t worry, […]
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5 Frames… Of the peripheries of Boston on JCH StreetPan 400 (35mm Format / EI 200 / Pentax K1000 + SMC Pentax-A f/2 50mm) – by Anthony L. Barron
On an early spring day I walked over to my local camera store; I’m lucky enough to live in city that still has one. I was looking for a lens cap cover for my camera. It was recently cleaned and repaired after years of abuse and the light meter was once again functional. While I […]
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5 Frames… Of ILFORD HP5 PLUS on my 3D printed camera (120 format / EI 400 / custom shutter and Surplus Meniscus 65mm f/10 lens) – by Mark Hiltz
Over the past decade or so, I’ve seen dozens of headlines for “fully 3D printed cameras,” and the one question that always got me to click on them was “how did someone 3D print a shutter?” What I found was that nearly all of these, as beautiful as they were, were either pinhole cameras or […]
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5 Frames… Of Mexico City, Xalapa, Veracruz on ILFORD Pan 400 (35mm Format / EI 400 / Olympus XA2 + D-Zuiko 35mm f/3.5)
I shot this roll of film on a trip in 2021 while on a trip with my good friend Eric. We met up in Mexico City, where we explored various neighborhoods where some of these photos were taken. Roma Norte, San Ángel, Coyoacan, Juarez were the neighborhoods we spent the most time in. Upon arriving […]
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5 Frames… Walking from Marble Arch to Bond Street on Fomapan 100 Classic (35mm Format / EI 100 / Canon EOS 650 + Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 EF USM II)
I first got interested in photography at school in the 1970s. I was hopeless at most forms of art; I couldn’t draw or paint or sculpt. But the school had a darkroom, and one of the art teachers brought in an old SLR for the small group of us who wanted to learn the entire […]
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5 Frames… Flying over Apulia on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm Format / EI 400 / Coca-Cola Can Camera) – by Andrea Bianchi
In Autumn 2022 one of my best friends invited me to fly with him over Apulia. I had been waiting for this opportunity ever since he got his private pilot’s licence, but we had to wait for the plane — a SOCATA TB-9 — to finish its scheduled maintenance. When it was finally time to […]
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5 Frames… Of a Montreal Winter on Fuji Velvia 100 (120 format / EI 100 / Rolleicord Vb)
“Nice camera,” said a passing Montrealer as I looked up from the waist-level viewfinder of my Rolleicord Vb. I’d just photographed their local depanneur (convenience store) in the Vieux-Rosemont neighbourhood of Montreal. I had sought out this depanneur specifically due to its big blue sign which jutted out of a residential building. Fortunately for me, […]
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8 Frames… Of my newborn son on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm Format / Nikon Nikkormat / Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S) – by Spencer Cameron
My mother passed away in December of 2019, it was a very hard time, thankfully my family and faith were able help us endure. Shortly after that, as we all know, the pandemic hit, and a lot of tough times were headed our way. Through this time, I was able to get married, and keep […]
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5 Frames… Of Zeche Zollverein on Silberra Color 50 (120 Format / EI 125 / Mamiya 645 1000s + Sekor-C 45mm f/2.8, 80mm f/2.8 and 150mm f/4) – by Ernst-Jan de Vries
Nowadays, more and more companies are selling bulk-loaded/rebranded Kodak Aerocolor 2460 for still photography. One of the first companies to do this was Silberra from St. Peterburg in spring of 2021. They brought out three iterations, Silberra Color 50, 100, and 160. According to them, all films with their own unique colours but in fact, […]
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5 Frames… Ektachrome 160T expired in poor conditions cross processed in ECN-2 (120 Format / EI160 / Mamiya RB67 + Mamiya Sekor C 50mm f/4.5) – by Pablo Cruz Villalba
I recently bought a Mamiya RB67 with a Mamiya Sekor C 50mm f4.5 and a 90mm f3.8. After a month away for a CLA I got it back, where a few expired rolls were waiting for it. I was eager to shoot a lot, since I’m used to shooting a lot of 35mm and half […]
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5 Frames… On my grandparents’ Kodak Brownie No. 2 Model E (120 format / Fomapan 400 Action) – by Ross Gardner
Shortly after my mom passed, I came across my grandparents’ Kodak Brownie. I also found some 6×9 negatives of my mom when she was a child in the 1930s. A thought crossed my mind – could this camera possibly be the one used to photograph my mom? I discovered I had a Kodak Brownie No. […]
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6 Frames… Of Prague on six films on a Plaubel Makina 67 (120 format / EI 100-50 / Nikkor 2.8/80mm – by Frédéric Schneider
In the summer of 2022 I had a fantastic photo week in Prague (Czech Republic) with my friend João. I used six different films with my Plaubel Makina 67. The weather was sunny and warm (up to 38°C on one day, but Czech beer helped a lot to keep cool) with some clouds all over […]
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5 Frames… Crisscrossing the old Route 66 on a Polaroid 600 – by Matt Andrews
On December 21, 2022 I headed out of Nashville on I-40 towards Camarillo, CA for the holidays. I barely outran the “bomb cyclone” storm just past Oklahoma City and had pretty good weather for the next 2 weeks. I brought a few cameras, but the wildcard was my mom’s Polaroid 600. She was an elementary […]
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5 Frames… Of Kodak PPF Pro 400, expired 1999 (120 Format / EI 50 / Mamiya RB67 + Mamiya Sekor C 90mm f/3.8 and 50mm f/4.5) – by Pablo Cruz Villalba
I recently bought a Mamiya RB67 with a Mamiya Sekor C 50mm f/4.5 and a 90mm f/3.8. After a month’s CLA, I got it back and as luck would have it, a few expired rolls were waiting for it. I was eager to shoot a lot of rolls with the camera, since I’m used to […]
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5 Frames… From Devotion chapter one: “Girls” – Kodak Tri-X 400 (120 format / EI 400 / Yashica 635) – by Lisa K Cho
My new project, “Devotion” takes its inspiration from my newfound love and commitment to my hometown, Hawaii. The series invites the viewer to see Hawaii through my lens as I revisit memories from my youth, collaborate with the new wave of creatives, and explore the deep relationships we have with one another and our community. […]
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5 Frames… Of Orwo DN21 during a hot Como summer on a Contax 139Q (35mm Format / EI 12 / Yashica ML 24mm f/2.8 lens) – by Sergio Palazzi
Along with the Orwo UN54 that I quoted before, I also ordered a 30.5 m roll of DN21 from the Orwo Shop. This was something unusual for me, as films not primarily intended for taking pictures in a normal camera are not my cup of tea. I mean, for graphic purposes I used a lot […]
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5 Frames… Kodak Potra 400 / 35mm / EI 320 / Voigtländer Bessa R3a + Voigtländer Nokton Classic 35mm 1.4 II – by Marco Rotondo
This story goes all the way back to 2001 when I went on a vacation in the beautiful Salento region of southern Italy. That time I not only met and fell in love with my wife, but I also fell in love with the beautiful villages, landscapes and charismatic people of this region.
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5 Frames… Of canals, locks, floodgates, sluices, and levees on ILFORD XP2 Super (35mm / EI 320 + Y48 Filter / Nikon F3 + MD-4 / 50mm 1.2 AI-s) – by Patrick Gillin
ILFORD XP2 Super often gets a bad rap, as did the C41 B&W offerings from Fuji and Kodak before they were canned. I started shooting it while home from university for holidays and summers, since I could get it inexpensively and easily processed near my parents’ house rather than bringing the exposed film back to […]
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5 Frames… Of Kodak Plus-X Professional 125 / 120 / EI 50 / Ansco Speedex 4.5 Special + Agfa Solinar 85mm f/4.5) – by Rodolfo E. Ramírez
The 1950s saw the release of the Ansco Speedex 4.5 Special, a 6×6 folding camera made in Germany and sold by Ansco and Agfa under the names Speedex and Isolette. The camera lineup offered a range of models with diverse lens and shutter configurations to suit different budgets. As a piece of photographic equipment, the […]
