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Home » Articles » Experiments

Category: Experiments

Experimentation plays a huge part in film photography – it’s baked right into the medium. Explore experimental development techniques, pushing and pulling film, cross processing, redscale photography and much, much more.

65 photographic projects you can do when you're stuck at home
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65 photographic projects you can do when you’re stuck at home

Avatar - EMby EMMarch 24, 2020August 28, 2021

To help beat the boredom, I reached out to the film photography community and asked what kinds of photography projects they’d be doing while stuck at home/physically distancing over the next…

Testing CT Scanners: Here's how badly they can damage your film
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Testing CT Scanners: Here’s how badly they can damage your photographic film

Avatar photoby Jelmer QuistMarch 19, 2020July 31, 2021

Recently, a number of film companies have issued warnings about new and enhanced scanning technology (CT scanners). As I was travelling through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport recently, I thought I would sacrifice a roll of film to see what the damage looks like.

Say hello to the LEGO Nikon F3, the new "plastic fantastic" film camera
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Say hello to the LEGO Nikon F3, the new “plastic fantastic” film camera

Avatar photoby Ethan BrossardDecember 24, 2019July 31, 2021

Christmas has come early for LEGO fans and film photographers alike in the form of the LEGO Nikon F3 created by Ethan Brossard – aka LegoDog0126. The Nikon F3 needs no introduction but Ethan and his creation most certainly do. For that, it’s over to him. ~ EM This is a LEGO model of the […]

Cover: Research - is there really a difference between real and simulated film photography
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Research: is there really a difference between real and simulated film photographs?

Avatar - Roy Fochtmanby Roy FochtmanJune 19, 2019July 31, 2021

To answer this question, I researched the foundations of film and digital photography; and which factors can influence the style of the results for my bachelor thesis.

Cover: Not for legal use- passport photos on wet plate collodion v2
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Not for legal use: Polaroid passport photos on wet plate collodion

Avatar - EMby EMMarch 25, 2019July 31, 2021

Wet plate collodion doesn’t spring to mind as either the most practical or in fact, legal approach to creating passport photographs but that didn’t stop EMULSIVE interviewee #196 Markus Hofstaetter from giving it a shot.

Markus isn’t a stranger

Cover - Appendix B of the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer- Metering for finite and infinite multiple exposures
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Appendix B of the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer: Metering for finite and infinite multiple exposures

by David AllenMarch 7, 2019July 31, 2021

Welcome to the second appendix to the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer.

Cover - A Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer - Appx A
Posted inDarkroom

Appendix A of the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer: push/pull processing calculations

by David AllenFebruary 12, 2019July 31, 2021

I originally wrote the full “Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer” as a quick reference for technical photographers in the field.

Fatso IR - Superheadz UWS with R72 filter
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How-to: convert a toy camera to shoot BW infrared film

Avatar - Lucy Wainwrightby Lucy WainwrightJune 26, 2018July 31, 2021

Ok, so as photography how-to’s go, this one is as simple as they come.

Cover - Peeled apart for good - FUJI FP-100C
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Peeled apart for good: the creative obligation not to f**k it up, my last frames of FUJI FP-100C

Avatar - Ludwig Hagelsteinby Ludwig HagelsteinMay 31, 2018July 31, 2021

For about a year and a half, every time I opened my fridge I saw my last remaining 10 exposure pack of Fuji FP 100C instant film, and every time I opened said fridge I was reluctant to take it

Cover - Four seasons on Kodak EASTMAN Plus-X 5231
Posted inDeveloping Film, Experiments, Film stock reviews, Kodak Film Stock Reviews, Reviews

Four seasons with: Kodak EASTMAN Plus-X 5231

Avatar - Marco Calemmeby Marco CalemmeMay 29, 2018August 28, 2021

And this is where my journey of home developing begins! After a couple of disappointments – in rapid succession – of the work of some photo labs, it was time to take full responsibility for all the loosely cut last

Scott Hays - Kodak T-MAX 400 (expired 2002) - HC-110 F
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Developing Film, Experiments

Developing expired large format black and white film

Avatar - EMby EMMay 4, 2018July 31, 2021

If you are old enough, you will remember a time when expired film was like kryptonite to a photographer.

Cover - Comparing ACROS 100, Delta 100 Pro and T-MAX 400
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Comparing Fuji NEOPAN 100 ACROS, ILFORD Delta 100 Professional and Kodak T-MAX 100

Avatar - Dan Marinelliby Daniel MarinelliApril 27, 2018July 31, 2021

This whole project started when I realized I had been blindly allegiant to certain black and white films for a number of years without any particular rhyme or reason.

The Ceramic Pinhole Project - Finished ceramic pinhole camera (no lens 02)
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The Ceramic Pinhole Camera build

Avatar - Toby Van de Veldeby Toby Van de VeldeApril 20, 2018July 31, 2021

In the summer of 2017 I decided that I needed a new pinhole camera.

Double exposure portraits - by Clara Araujo
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Creating double exposure portraits

by Clara AraujoJanuary 30, 2018July 31, 2021

One of my favorite things about shooting film is that I can make multiple exposures, which are photographs that contain 2 or more images on the same frame.

Finished Film Processor
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How-to: Build your own JOBO-style semi-automatic film processor: Pt.2

Avatar - Joe Pitzby Joe PitzJanuary 4, 2018July 31, 2021

Welcome back to this guide on building your own JOBO-style automatic film processor.

Finished Film Processor
Posted inGuides & How-Tos

How-to: Build your own JOBO-style semi-automatic film processor: Pt.1

Avatar - Joe Pitzby Joe PitzNovember 21, 2017August 28, 2021

I have always wanted a Jobo film processor.

Cover - Long exposure film tests part three- Kodak Professional Ektar 100, Portra 160, Portra 400, Portra 800 and Fujifilm PRO 400H by Toni Skokovic
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Long exposure film tests part three: Kodak Professional Ektar 100, Portra 160, Portra 400, Portra 800 and Fujifilm PRO 400H

EMULSIVE Contributor - Toni Skokovicby Toni SkokovicOctober 6, 2017July 3, 2021

Welcome to the third instalment of my Long Exposure Test series. In this part, I am looking at 5 readily available colour negative films and how adjustment of longer exposure times effects the outcomes.

How to: Working with the narrow latitude of color reversal (slide) films - By Yusuf Wiryonoputro
Posted inArticles, Experiments

How to work with the narrow latitude of color reversal (slide) films

by Yusuf WiryonoputroSeptember 5, 2017July 3, 2021

Exposure latitude is defined by the satisfactory range between the shadow and highlights at which details can still be visible and color reversal (slide) films are known to have exposure latitudes that are much narrower than black and white, or

Fuji Velvia 50 - Magenta cast eliminated. See the water and the sand - Compare with the previous image above.
Posted inArticles, Experiments

How to eliminate the Fuji Velvia “Magenta Cast”

by Yusuf WiryonoputroJuly 24, 2017July 3, 2021

I love the colors of Fuji Velvia, but I don’t like the magenta color cast that can result during daylight shooting.

Crank Case - Minolta XD7
Posted inExperiments, Film stock reviews, Fujifilm Film Stock Reviews, Reviews

Comparing Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS to… Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS

Avatar photoby Stig StarrJuly 7, 2017July 3, 2021

Looking back at my Lightroom folders I can see that I started taking photography more seriously in 2013 when I acquired an entry-level DSLR. One of the things I really wasn’t taking to was all those menus and buttons.

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