Category: Articles
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Appendix B of the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer: Metering for finite and infinite multiple exposures
Welcome to the second appendix to the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer.
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Fujifilm: put down your pitchforks, it’s survival of the fittest
Update 2019-06-10:Fujifilm announces a return to black and white photographic film production with brand new NEOPAN 100 ACROS II, available Autumn 2019. The film photography community is once again up in arms about Fujifilm’s latest raft of price
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5 Frames… With Rollei ATP 1.1 (EI 32 / 120 format / Yashica Mat-124G)
On Valentine’s Day 2018, I stopped by my school’s photo lab on a whim and was unexpectedly treated to blindly pick from a grab bag of various films.
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EMULSIVE February 2019: month in review
February was another busy month here on EMULSIVE.
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5 Frames …With FOQUS A125 (EI 125 / 35mm format / Nikon F60)
This film, FOQUS A125, is made by an enthusiast in Russia, and is hard to obtain without Russian connections (Russians buy it from the man himself on a forum full of untranslatable idioms).
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Photoset: On business in NYC with my Mamiya 645 1000s and Kodak Portra 400
I wrote this text at the end of spring in 2018, but for some reason, I postponed publishing it anywhere.
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Special Gunpowder for a Special FP4 Party
On the very last shoot day of January 2019’s FP4 Party, I went with my family to the nearby city of Gaillac.
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5 Frames… With Kodak VISION3 500T 5219 (EI 1500 / 35mm format / Nikon F3) – Kevin Tan
Just out of the blue, my dear friend Edward, a stage magician, called me up to ask if I could cover his performance. Without hesitation, I said yes.
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No joke: 30%+ price increase on Fujifilm photographic film and paper from April 1st 2019
Update: Within hours of this announcement several online retailers and eBay sellers have increased their prices by up to 40% in anticipation of the April 1st change. Price gouging continues to thrive in 2019.
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#FP4party January 2019 winner announcement and bonus bits
Greetings from EMULSIVE HQ and welcome to the winner announcement for FP4 Party 2019 plus bonus bits! Bonus bits? Well, yes.
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5 Frames… With Kodachrome 25 (EI 1.5 / 35mm format / Canon EOS3)
I loved Kodachrome! It was a wonderful film and untold rolls of it went through my cameras in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Ice crystals on tintype: making nature a part of my photographic process aka a song of ice then fire
I am a native New Yorker who has been photographing the streets city streets and musicians for over two decades, from up and coming bands to big names like Alice in Chains, Lenny Kravitz and Ice-T, I’ll shoot in
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5 Frames… With Kodak Gold 200 (EI 200 / 35mm format / Olympus LT-1)
Just by chance, I saw a Facebook post about Sherry Christensen’s Frugal Film Project in late January. A couple of messages later, I was in.
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Creating the Stearman Press SP-8×10+ film development system
It has taken several years and a lot of experimentation, (not to mention a lot of wasted film), but we finally have the answer for processing large, large format without a darkroom.
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5 Frames… With Kodak Portra 400 (EI 400 / 120 format / Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16)
The Munda Bidi Trail is a wonderful thousand-kilometre dirt bicycle ride between Perth and Albany in Western Australia. I started down the Albany at the south-west tip of Australia and spent nine days meandering north.
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UPDATED: NEW TETENAL taking over operations and production from insolvent parent company
UPDATE: English press release added An employee initiative in the form of a management buy out has offered to purchase all photochemical formulas, the Tetenal brand and the production facilities of its former employer starting April 1st 2019. It
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Introducing MAYA: the incredible modern digital darkroom timer
MAYA is a brand new, modular, from scratch digital darkroom timer that can be used (right now) for both making prints and timing film/paper development.
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New film: announcing medium format Kosmo Foto Mono 100 120 format film
In November 2017, the first batch of 35mm Kosmo Foto Mono 100 made its way from the Czech Republic to Kosmo Foto HQ in south east London. It was the culmination of nearly 18 months of planning;
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Shooting an album cover on film – Eyedress’ Sensitive G
I had previously worked with Eyedress in Tokyo at Big Love Records. He’s a Philipines based artist who is currently on Lex Records based out of England.