Category: Articles
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Street photography in 1974: Shooting a hand-me-down Leica llla in Paris – by Gerard J. van den Broek
“School’s out for summer” sang Alice Cooper a few years earlier in 1972. Well, in our case, school was out forever, entirely. We got our diplomas and summer was way back in our minds. A friend and I wanted to do something different. I had gone to mandatory military service in September, but with the…
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How-to: Shoot 120 & 35mm film in a Polaroid pack film camera
After using a Polaroid pack film camera to shoot paper negatives, I was wondering how easy it would be to shoot other film types. The closest size native to the Polaroid is 120 film, so it made sense to explore that option. I’ve seen other conversions to 120 using existing commercial 120 backs adapted to…
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5 Frames… Of Eid-al-Fitr 2022 on Fuji Superia 1600 and a Pentax ME (35mm format / EI 1600 / SMC Pentax-M 28mm f/2.8) – by Yusuf Husain
This story begins on Eid, the last day of the holy month of Ramadan. Usually, on Eid, you give cash as gifts. But instead, a friend gave me an expired roll of Fuji Superia 1600. Context: Superia 1600 wasn’t necessarily a hard film to find when it was still produced but these days, it’s reached…
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5 Frames… Of “Sinostill” 800T a cheaper alternative to Cinestill 800T? (EI 800/35mm format/Nikon F3 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8) – by Wenhong
Cinestill 800T is popular these days and many people use it to get unique-looking pictures. However, I am hesitant to use this film due to its high cost; 35mm Cinestill 800T sells for USD23 per roll in my local shops and is more expensive than Kodak Portra 800. A few months back when I shopped…
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The Pure Land: Mexico – by Willem van den Heever
Mexico, or perhaps more specifically, Mexico City – the Pure land. Pure not in the sense of not being mixed with any other matter or free from dirt, but pure in the sense of honest, real, unobscured, and unobstructed, something quite scarce in this modern day and age. Maybe unknowingly and unconsciously I was drawn…
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Camera review: Loving Lomography’s New LomoApparat 21mm wide-angle camera
I want to start off by thanking Lomography Philippines for lending me the LomoApparat after some dramatic pleading. I don’t know about you, but it’s always exciting when Lomography announces a new product. Even with avid, long time film shooters like us who have been exposed to a wide variety of tools – dirt cheap to…
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How New Exit Group photographs community
All stories are shaped and reshaped by those who tell them, those who hear them, and that which inspired them. No story exists in a vacuum, there is always an intersecting framework of contexts by which a narrative can be understood; even when the story is about someone “outside” of society, it is still a…
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A few thoughts on overcoming photography blocks
I am finding myself in a transitory stage with regards to photography. I haven’t picked up my camera with a decisive thought or the motivation to go and photograph something in a few months now. Everybody hits a wall at some point. I am only five years into my photographic journey, which is not much…
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EMULSIVE Santa 2022, a gift-giver’s guide
EMULSIVE Santa is the highlight of my year! And nothing brings me unabashed joy more than when I start alerting EM around June …then July …then August ….then September about the impending swap. As I have always said, EMULSIVE Santa is really about being a part of a bigger effort to pull the entire film…
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5 Frames… Through Western Canada on CineStill 400D (35mm Format / EI 400 / Lomography LC-A+) – by Julia Beyer
When I go on vacations where I know that amazing landscapes are awaiting me, the decision of which film and camera to take with me always takes me a long time. I try to think as carefully as possible if the colors of the film match the scenery I expect to see, and the camera…
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EMULSIVE Secret Santa 2022: Registration for year 8 is open until November 13th
Welcome to the 8th annual EMULSIVE Santa film and traditional photography gift exchange! Registration is officially open until November 13th, 2022. A huge thank you to the 850-ish players in over 50 countries who came together to participate in 2021’s 7th annual EMULSIVE Santa. It was a strange event following a stranger year but we…
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Photos, photographing, and why: A photo essay shot in Red Hook, Brooklyn on a Pentax 6×7
They say golden hour is the prettiest. I wait until it ends. I don’t usually plan exactly where to shoot, and in more spontaneous moments take a train to a stop I’ve never been to. Today, however, the plan was to take the F train to at Red Hook, arriving at around 8:00 p.m. The…
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5 Frames… Of expired FotoStop Colour Print Film 200 (EI 200 / 35mm format / Olympus OM-1) – by Ed Worthington
Hello again everyone. As I’ve said before, the pinch on new film prices has had me going through the rolls of long expired mystery film that I’ve had stored away for who knows how long and shooting them without a care of what the results really look like. So join me as I delve back…
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5 Frames… Of street photography in Buenos Aires on the Mamiya RB67 (120 format / EI 100 / Kodak T-MAX 100) – by Simón Ducos
In the summer of 2019, I sold my trusty Olympus XA in order to buy my then-dream camera: the Mamiya RB67. Although these cameras are vastly different, the XA being ideal for travel and street photography while the RB is more for studio shoots and still-life, I was convinced that when the time came I…
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Shooting 21st-century 5×7 Zebra Dry Tintypes in a 19th-century Radiguet Tailboard Camera
In November of 2020, during a peak in the pandemic, a neighbor posted a series of photos to a local Facebook “Buy Nothing” group of a large number of unwanted household items she had put out on the curb for anyone to come by and help themselves to. In one photo, sitting on a table,…
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5 Frames of… Redscaled Kodak ULTRA MAX 400 (35mm format / EI 100, Canon AE-1 + Canon FD 50mm f/1.8) – by Piper McManamon
A friend of mine told me once that she had a special surprise in mind for a roll of film she was shooting. She left me in the dark about what exactly it was for about a week until the roll was completed and she showed me the results. The photos were all bathed in…
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Featured Project: Ballet on film, Honolulu Classical Ballet through the pandemic
“Ballet on Film” is an intimate story of how Honolulu Classical Ballet evolved to keep art and its artists relevant during the pandemic. It was a collaboration with Honolulu Classical Ballet and artistic director Romi Beppu into the rich hues, spirited movements, and magical artistry that is ballet in Hawaii. Instead of focusing on the…
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A review of a camera you’ve never heard of… but maybe should have: The 1959 Olympus Ace rangefinder
It’s easy to establish the age of an Olympus Ace; they only made them for one year. Odds are you didn’t even know it existed until now, but if obscurity, quality optics, and low price all appeal to you, you’ve come to the right place. After Leica’s success with the 1954 launch of their M3…
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5 Frames…With expired Boots Universal 400 (EI 400 / 35mm format / Olympus OM-1) – by Ed Worthington
Well, it’s been a spell since I wrote anything here so firstly, hello everyone, I’m back for a bit. Well, kind of. I thought I’d write a series of short articles in the 5 Frames flavour as I’ve had an idea and I’ve missed talking about shooting film with strangers on the internet. If you’re…
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5 Frames… ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm format / EI 400 / FED-3 Type B + Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.5 Aspherical LTM)
After having shot black and white film for a while but always having shied away from properly developing it at home (I had developed a few rolls of film in Cinestill Df96 monobath — these were just test rolls and didn’t really have much archival or sentimental value), I decided to go straight for gold…