Category: Articles
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EMULSIVE’S most popular darkroom-related articles of 2021
Here’s listicle #2 for this year, and it’s 100% focused on the darkroom. From pricing your prints to cyanotype printing or building a camera, this list has you covered…the list goes on. Darkroom and darkroom-related work continues to increase through our community as more and more photographers find themselves coming back to traditional film development…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular “5 Frames” of 2021
If you’re celebrating today, Merry Christmas to you and yours! If you’re not, welcome to the end of the year that 2020 won 😉 If it’s your first time here, this is the beginning of a week-long look back at the best of EMULSIVE’s articles and photography for the year just gone in the form…
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Month in review: May 2021
These are the 31 days and 33 articles that made EMULSIVE in May 2021. As usual, you’ll find a recap of all the articles published, starting with the most popular 10 articles of the month in order of publication (as decided by you).
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5 Frames… Of Dublin’s Georgian Quarter on Kodak 100 T-MAX (35mm format / EI 100 / Nikon F65 + Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G) – by Conor O’Brien
When I saw the “$20 Film Camera Challenge” article on DPReview in August 2020, I never expected to end up writing this article a year later. Being a child of the 70s and 80s, I grew up in an analogue world where a good camera was something you aspired to. You didn’t buy the latest…
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Photography: Water damage #05 – Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)
Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)Color negative film in 120 format shot as 6×6Hasselblad 2000FCW + Hasselblad Planar F 80mm f/2.8
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Photography: Water damage #04 – Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)
Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)Color negative film in 120 format shot as 6×6Hasselblad 2000FCW + Hasselblad Planar F 80mm f/2.8
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5 Frames… Expired cheap ISO 400 color film (Minolta SRT 303B + Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm f/2) – by Yves Ponçon
Every year, during the summer, every inch of beach or rock by the sea is used. The population, here in the south of France, triples during the two months of summer. People gather to enjoy the sea under the warm sun. It is crowded. People wear flip flops and a towel, some go swimming, others…
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Kentmere Pan 400 at EI3200 – A low-cost, high speed alternative?
Recently I looked at Kentmere Pan 400 made by HARMAN/ILFORD in the UK. I showed 5 Frames shot at box speed with my Leica M6 and 35mm f/2.4 Summarit-M. I was very pleasantly pleased with the prints I made from this film. How about rating the film for a higher EI (aka underexposing it and…
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Featured project: Memories of a man once there… The project that made me reinvent myself as an artist and a photographer
It was early in 2020, and like many of us, I felt lost… We all have endured every little aspect of the pandemic and it had an impact on all of us… And so it had on me. To be honest, it was the best thing that happened to me and my photographic dream. It…
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5 Frames… Around Largo da Memória on ILFORD FP4 PLUS and a Walzflex TLR 6×6 (120 Format / EI 125 / Walz 75mm f/3.5) – by André Leite Coelho
Along with NEOPAN 100 ACROS, ILFORD FP4 PLUS was one of the first BW films I tried back in 2004, when I started to take photographs. As a consequence, even today I find myself imagining the scenes I see as fine-grained pictures, with the vast midtones of grays these two film stocks produce. Recently I’ve…
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Photography: Water damage #03 – Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)
Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)Color negative film in 120 format shot as 6×6Hasselblad 2000FCW + Hasselblad Planar F 80mm f/2.8
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Polarity, A Lockdown Project
“Polarity” is a current project of the Pixels and Grain Collective. Very simply, these are portraits of power and telecommunications poles in our local neighbourhoods, made by members of the collective in Sydney and Thailand during the 2021 coronavirus lockdowns. 2021 was optimistic in Sydney. We had more or less crushed the coronavirus numbers…
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Photography: Water damage #01 – Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)
Shot on Kodak Plus-X at E125 (120 Format)Color negative film in 120 format shot as 6×6Hasselblad 2000FCW + Hasselblad Planar F 80mm f/2.8
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5 Frames… Of portraits with an industrial vibe on Japan Camera Hunter Streetpan 400 (35mm / EI 200 / Canon AE-1 + FD 50mm f/1.8)
The guys at my local camera shop seem to always have some new film to recommend! The most recent thing that was new in stock was Japan Camera Hunter Streetpan 400. I wasn’t familiar with it at all, but after being shown a few sample images, I decided to take a roll and test it…
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Semflex Studio: the tele-TLR with a French accent
The world of Twin-Lens Reflex cameras seems to be endless and has plenty of surprises, but few manufacturers have offered TLRs with long focal length lenses permanently attached to the camera. Interestingly, the Tele-Rolleiflex was not the first to be released, as a rather unusual French camera predated it on the market by a few…
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Zürich Pride 2021 on Cinestill 50D and BWxx film / Pentax MX and SMC-Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens – by Astrid Robertsson
In September I went to pride for the first time since coming out. I didn’t intend to take a lot of photos but I always have a camera with me and in a hurry to get to the bus I picked some film to put in my bag to shoot. I chose Cinestill 50D because…
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5 Frames… Of twisty trees on Fomapan 200 Creative and a Mamiya C22 (Mamiya-Sekor 80mm f/2.8)
I’ve had my Mamiya C22 TLR for a few months now and run a few rolls through it. It occurred to me the other day though that I’d only used it in the studio, and mostly at minimum focusing distance. After macro photography, my second favourite thing to take pictures of is probably knobbly twisted…
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5 Frames… On ILFORD FP4 PLUS (35mm / EI 125 / Nikon F100 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D)
Mid October is really the time of year that marks the end of summer in Greece, with the first rainy days starting to appear, it was on such a rainy day I visited the new National Gallery of Greece in Athens along with friends. The building that the gallery is housed in was recently renovated,…
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Bringing back instant 20×24″ photography in an age after the 20×24 Polaroid with CAMERADACTYL
During the long pandemic quarantine, I bought a laser cutter the size of a small Volkswagen to cut ventilator prototype parts, Brooklyn Film Camera Polaroid scan trays, and a number of other photographic equipment parts. I bought the largest cutter that I could fit in my shop, because I had been dreaming of the 20×24…
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The Lomography Atoll 17mm f/2.8 M-mount lens: Get close to your subject. No, closer. No, really, get a bit closer…
This is just a bit of fun with my Leica M6 and the new Leica M-mount Lomography Atoll 17mm f/2.8 wide angle lens. This isn’t really a review, it’s certainly not too technical, and I’m not going to talk about edge sharpness at f/4 or the lens’ micro-contrast: It’s one user’s experiences with & opinions…
Recently published
- Ultreia: Making pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
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