Category: Articles
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5 Frames… With Kodak Ektar 100 (EI 100 / 120 format / Mamiya 7)
It is said that landscapes should be shot with, at the very least, a medium-film camera.
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Welcome to #PortraParty 2018: celebrating 20 years of Kodak Portra films
It’s Kodak Portra’s 20th anniversary and we’re here to celebrate!
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5 Frames… With J. Lane Dry Plates ( EI 2 / 4×5 format / Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic)
The photos presented here are made with my workhorse setup: my Graflex Speed Graphic, Schneider Symmar 210 f/5.6 convertible, and J. Lane Dry Plates.
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Repulsion to attraction: my Kodak T-MAX 400 story so far
Kodak T-MAX 100 is undoubtedly the film I prefer after Tri-X 400 but despite this T-Grain appreciation, I have never been able to fully appreciate T-MAX 400.
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Every single film stock still made today – Part 5: Oriental to Rollei (v3)
Update 02: 2018-09-20 Welcome to part five of this series exploring every single film stock (including instant film, dry plates, etc.), still being made today.
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5 Frames… Harman Direct Positive Paper (EI 2 / 4X5 format / Intrepid 4×5 Mk III)
I was recently reading Daphne Schnitzer’s interview and one of the many materials she uses is Harman Direct Positive Paper (DPP).
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July 2018 film photography horoscope – ‘mystic’ help to better photography
Hallo everyone. I’m sorry for being late this month.
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5 Frames… With CineStill 800T (EI 800 / 120 format / Fujifilm GS645 Professional)
I’m a latecomer to film photography, but have been working hard to catch up. After reading a lot about CineStill’s products, I recently…
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5 Frames… With Fuji Superia 400 (EI / 35mm format / Konica Waiwai)
At first, I didn’t get the hype but I really respect Dan Ko’s opinion when he said he would buy any Konica Waiwai at the silliest price he could find.
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5 Frames… With Kodak Portra 400 (EI 320 / 120 Format / Mamiya 7)
On August 21, 2017, thousands of people converged on Alliance, Nebraska, as one of the prime Solar Eclipse viewing locations in North America.
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How-to: convert a toy camera to shoot BW infrared film
Ok, so as photography how-to’s go, this one is as simple as they come.
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5 Frames… With Impossible Project I-Type Color (Polaroid Originals One Step 2)
Up until recently I wasn’t one for instant photography at all, I’d tried it with an Instax but that had been for a specific project that had petered out and never really gone anywhere.
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5 Frames… With Kodak ColorPlus 200 (El 100 / 35mm format / Mamiya 7 + Panoramic Kit)
I have lusted after a Hasselblad XPan for a while, but the prices have gone through the roof to the point where I simply can’t justify one.
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How-to: creating a photo book, some do’s and don’ts
Photographs become something special when printed. You can touch them, feel them, and get up close to them.
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The Hasselblad V-System master guide: CF, CF FLE and IHI lenses
I kicked off the previous article in this series by stating that in its V-System, Hasselblad created one of, if not the world’s most comprehensive and flexible medium format camera system.
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Where are my effing pictures? Or, finding an archive system for my film photography
In 2009 I bought my third digital camera, a little Panasonic Lumix LX3 to complement my somewhat chunkier DSLR. In 2012 I sold it, partly to fund its replacement, a Sony RX100.
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Announcing: CineStill Df96 “DEVELOPER&FIX” Monobath
Hot off the press: there’s a new black and white monobath developer from the Brothers Wright over at CineStill – CineStill Df96 Monobath – and it’s available to buy this very minute on their website as a 1-Liter kit at
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5 Frames… With ILFORD FP4 PLUS (EI 125 / 35mm format / Leica M2)
It must be 30 years since I’ve used ILFORD FP4 PLUS, of course, it was plain FP4 in those days (I stopped using it before the PLUS arrived in 1990).
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Introducing the pixl-latr: democratising the digitisation of film [with exclusive creator Q&A]
Innovative solutions for digitising film abound, from homegrown solutions using copy stands, digital cameras and scanning masks, to Nikon’s endlessly delayed ES-2 35mm film digitising adapter.
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EMULSIVE May 2018: month in review
Welcome to the month that was May 2018, all 31 days, 22 daily photos and 32 articles of it – here on EMULSIVE at least.