Category: Articles
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5 Frames… With Agfa Vista Plus 200 (EI 200 / 35mm format / Agfa Silette)
A while ago I went to a flea market here and there I saw this Agfa Silette camera. It was in decent condition. The man was asking for 50kn, I told him I’d buy it for 35 (about US$5) and we agreed. According to a serial number inside the camera it was produced in 1954.…
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Film review: The magic of TMZ – Kodak T-MAX P3200
Have you ever wondered if magic is real or not? Well, I can tell you that it is, and somehow, Kodak has managed to harness that magic and stuff it into a small film canister for me to bewilder over. I have absolutely no idea how they did this but I’m so happy they did. Kodak T-MAX…
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Book: Tim Heubeck’s “A place to be”
My name is Tim Heubeck and I am a photographer based in Germany. I run a website and Instagram channel; all under the name of wasteoffilm (links at the foot of this article). Photography, for me, is less about what the things we are familiar with look like and more about everything that lays under…
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5 Frames… With Fujifilm Superia 100 (EI 100 / 120 format / Yashica-mat 124)
I was loading film in my Hasselblad on a street bench in Prague when an old man approached me. He used to be a professional photographer back in the day, and he was curious about my camera. Coincidentally, his freezer had died a few days before, and there were some 120 rolls that he was…
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Embracing winter conditions in my film photography workflow
Winter 2018 was when I really buckled down and took black and white photography seriously, as a response to a few uninspiring grey-feeling colour rolls. I wanted to take command of that grey aesthetic, and quickly went through pushed ILFORD XP2 Super, Delta 3200 Professional, Delta 400 Professional, and even some SFX 200, looking to…
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5 Frames… With Kodak Portra 400 (EI 400 / 35mm format / Konica Hexar RF)
These photos were shot on my last trip to Japan during the cherry blossom season. Japan held a special place in my heart and I have always wanted to capture its beauty on film, especially since acquiring the Konica Hexar RF months ago in mint condition. Previously I have shot Kodak Portra 400 alongside with…
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Where to from here?
We (almost) all put ourselves on display via the many and varied social platforms with our photography, writings, podcasts and whatever else. We do this in the hope of gaining an audience that understands and appreciates our work and when it happens, it feels incredibly great… …but social platforms have all started to implement algorithms…
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5 Frames… With ILFORD Delta 100 Professional (EI 100 / 35mm format / Canon A-1)
This young lady’s mother asked me several months back about shooting graduation photos. Despite not being a pro by any stretch of the word, I was confident that Olivia’s natural beauty would make up for some of my inexperience and that I already knew her well enough that we’d at least have fun shooting! We…
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The Hypersensitive Podcast Episode 08.1: Motivation, stopping -ISM and powering the Matrix
Update: The sped-up version has been taken down 😉 Update: Approximately 0.5% of all listeners hated the “commute optimised” version of episode 8. It’s still up there for the enlightened but as a fallback, you can also get the “unoptimised” episode 8.1 as your own risk (link below). It had been four months since we…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular articles of 2019
And here it is, the final listicle of 2019: the most popular articles of the year as decided by you. For a year dominated by new product releases across the board, it’s no surprise that announcements/updates from and about film, paper and camera manufacturers took a number of slots in the list below. If you’ve…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular film camera reviews of 2019
Here’s one for all you gear heads, this year’s most popular camera reviews on EMULSIVE. It probably comes as no surprise that three of the top ten feature compact cameras (four if you count the Mamiya 6 MF) and I’m glad that at least one part of my Hasselblad V-System guide made it into the…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular film stock reviews of 2019
There are a few days left for 2019 but fingers crossed, it’s the first year for quite some time where we haven’t seen one or more film discontinued – great, isn’t it? In fact, we’ve seen somewhere in the region of three new film stocks announced AND released – ILFORD ORTHO PLUS, Fujifilm NEOPAN 100…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular darkroom related articles of 2019
If you’re on social media, you will have no doubt noticed an uptick in darkroom-related activities in our community. From home processing black and white and colour film to RA-4 darkroom printing, it seems that more and more people are getting into the darkroom in one way or another, and that’s fantastic news. Here are…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular featured community projects of 2019
Passion projects abound in our global film photography community – you’re reading one right now – and I’ve been lucky enough to have published details of a fair few this year. The most popular ten of this year follow below but don’t let that fool you into thinking that’s all there were. Check out the…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular film photographer interviews of 2019
Welcome to the second of this year’s top-ten-as-chosen-by-you-listicles. Today’s (as you will have guessed by the title), is all about this year’s most popular film photographer interviews. Gearheads, be patient. You’ll get your fix in a few days. Before I let you go on, I just want to extend a massive thanks to the folks…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular “5 Frames” of 2019
Merry Christmas! Hope you’re having a great day so far. It is with a heavy heart I bring to you the first of this years top-ten-as-chosen-by-you-listicles. Regular readers will know I’m not a huge fan of them but as the year draws near, I feel the need to recharge and although these take a fair…
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Found film: My 1960s Kodak Verichrome Pan mystery
Several months ago though, I pined for a new hobby. I decided that delving into the lost art of film photography was what was called for. I started collecting Brownie box cameras and came to enjoy shooting 120 roll film. I learned to develop my own film since I didn’t like the expense and the…
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Say hello to the LEGO Nikon F3, the new “plastic fantastic” film camera
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…
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5 Frames… With pushed Fujicolor C200 (EI 800 / 35mm format / Canon AE-1)
I’ve been told millions of times over – DO NOT PUSH COLOR FILM. Color shifts, grain issues, and just generally bleh images can occur. I’ve also been told, and have taken into my personal philosophy, that rules are made to be broken. I had a fun and active week ahead of me, a day out…
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5 Frames… With Kodak Tri-X 320 (EI 320 / 120 format / Rolleiflex Automat 6×6 Model 2 K4B)
It had been 20 years since I handled black and white film. “Here’s a Rolleiflex with 8 rolls of Kodak Tri-X 320”, my friend said. It expired 12 years ago, but it should be OK.” Even though I had never shot with a medium format camera and I couldn’t wait to snap my first picture.…