The title pretty much says everything you need to know but as ever, the devil is in the detail! Let’s start with what HARMAN Phoenix is. HARMAN Phoenix is a completely new 35mm ISO 200 colour negative film that’s launching worldwide today (December 1st, 2023). It’s the first film manufactured by HARMAN Photo and is […]
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My First Roll… With a Yashica Mat 124G
The Yashica Mat 124G, an embodiment of mid-20th-century camera engineering, greeted me with its robust, yet elegant, presence. The utilitarian design, devoid of modern frills, conveyed a sense of purpose. This camera deserves to be out there, not on the shelf for some decorative purpose. Yashica Mat 124G A few months ago I won this […]
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The Contax 645: Not just a wedding camera
Six months ago I changed cameras. Deciding that I needed a new medium format camera was for me, both a difficult and easy choice. There are no prizes for guessing what I eventually went for, it is after all in the title of this post, but first with the appropriate level of respect, here is […]
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EMULSIVE Secret Santa 2023: Registration for year 9 is open until November 19th
Welcome to the 9th annual EMULSIVE Santa film and traditional photography gift exchange! Registration this year is open until November 19th, 2023. A huge thank you to the 650-ish players in over 50 countries who came together to participate in 2022’s 8th annual EMULSIVE Santa. It was a strange event following an even stranger couple […]
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Deep price cuts on fresh 120 film from Lomography as of October 18th 2023
Lomography has announced significant reductions in the prices of most of their 120 format film stocks, with some discounts up to 30%, potentially sparking a larger future trend in film pricing.
Posted inFeatured projects
Beacons Through Time: East Coast US lighthouses captured on solargraphs
“Beacons Through Time” explores the themes of patience, constancy, and rhythm by capturing US East Coast lighthouses using extreme long exposure solargraphs. Between 2022 and 2023, I visited roughly 25 lighthouses along the coast and rivers, spanning Midcoast Maine to northern Georgia, to place and retrieve nearly 200 cameras. In this article, I outline the […]
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5 Frames… Of tradition on a Kodak Pro Image 100 (35mm Format / EI 100 / Nikon F4 + Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF) – By Abel M
“The rituals are symbolic actions, an enormous signifier that without transmitting anything, the community recognizes in them signs of identity.” The Disappearance of Rituals, Byung-Chul Han What is the meaning of a tradition? Recently, I was invited to a celebration, a party to commemorate the 15th birthday of a coworker’s granddaughter, with whose family we […]
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5 Frames… Of a Rhode Island Spring on Cinestill 400D (35mm Format / EI 800 / Nikon F4 + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S) – by J Balcourt
I’ll start by saying I’ve never been much of a color film user. Although I have nothing against it, I can’t see much of a difference between color film stocks with my red/green color deficiency and therefore feel like I can’t appreciate their nuances most of the time. Even when shooting digital portraits (don’t worry, […]
Posted inFujifilm Film Stock Reviews
Film stock review: Three rolls with “Made in USA” Fujifilm 400
Fujifilm’s Superia X-TRA 400 35mm film has been a stock mainstay of Walmart and many other Superstores and drug stores in the USA for decades. As you might be aware, Fujifilm has recently been having supply problems, and many stores here in the US have been out of stock of for months on end. Suspicion […]
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5 Frames… Of the peripheries of Boston on JCH StreetPan 400 (35mm Format / EI 200 / Pentax K1000 + SMC Pentax-A f/2 50mm) – by Anthony L. Barron
On an early spring day I walked over to my local camera store; I’m lucky enough to live in city that still has one. I was looking for a lens cap cover for my camera. It was recently cleaned and repaired after years of abuse and the light meter was once again functional. While I […]
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5 Frames… Of ILFORD HP5 PLUS on my 3D printed camera (120 format / EI 400 / custom shutter and Surplus Meniscus 65mm f/10 lens) – by Mark Hiltz
Over the past decade or so, I’ve seen dozens of headlines for “fully 3D printed cameras,” and the one question that always got me to click on them was “how did someone 3D print a shutter?” What I found was that nearly all of these, as beautiful as they were, were either pinhole cameras or […]
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5 Frames… Of Mexico City, Xalapa, Veracruz on ILFORD Pan 400 (35mm Format / EI 400 / Olympus XA2 + D-Zuiko 35mm f/3.5)
I shot this roll of film on a trip in 2021 while on a trip with my good friend Eric. We met up in Mexico City, where we explored various neighborhoods where some of these photos were taken. Roma Norte, San Ángel, Coyoacan, Juarez were the neighborhoods we spent the most time in. Upon arriving […]
Posted inGuides & How-Tos
How-to: Make DIY your own black and white transparencies (slides)
If you are reading this article, you are a keen film photographer and have most likely experienced the joys of film photography across a range of film types, such as monochrome or colour negatives and colour transparencies. But black and white “slides”? Whoever heard of that? Go back 55 years to the time when I […]
Posted inTravelogue
Travelogue: Fujicolor in Paris on a Nikon L35AF
If I’m being completely honest, Paris was not my first choice for a vacation destination in February. We were headed to Mallorca to meet with my in-laws for a week, and it was cheaper to fly to Paris and then to Spain, so we decided to spend a few days in the French capital. I […]
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5 Frames… Walking from Marble Arch to Bond Street on Fomapan 100 Classic (35mm Format / EI 100 / Canon EOS 650 + Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 EF USM II)
I first got interested in photography at school in the 1970s. I was hopeless at most forms of art; I couldn’t draw or paint or sculpt. But the school had a darkroom, and one of the art teachers brought in an old SLR for the small group of us who wanted to learn the entire […]
Posted inPhotosets and stories
Fallen grace: The beauty of fallen leaves
When Photo Clubs announce a contest named “Fallen Leaves”, most participants will think of autumn. Images of red maple leaves floating in a still pond come to mind, as well as stands of birches, their yellow leaves and white trunks brightening the reflection in a dark mountain lake, and the list goes on. This is […]
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Rant: Analysing analogue grandpas. Or, sucking the joy out of photography online since Jan 1st 1983
I was recently the victim of a “cruel” and “brutal” online slaying of my self-worth, my photographic ability, knowledge, dress sense, and the weird shape of my head. In fact, I’m pretty sure that I was even told I was ugly and I smelled. Ok, so I might be projecting a little, and some of […]
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A month in the South of Italy on a Leica M4 and ILFORD HP5 PLUS
I always assumed people romanticised Italy; there is no way a country can host that much history, culture, and natural beauty without any drawbacks other than excessive tourism. However, in the brief time I spent in Sicily and Puglia in the summer of 2021, I was proven wrong. Leica M4, Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm f/2.5 PII […]
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How-to: Convert an automatic Polaroid pack film camera to use manual shutter speeds
Back in 1960s, automatic exposure was an amazing advance in photography. Polaroid, in its quest to make a really easy-to-use camera, made most of its cameras with only automatic exposure. I mean, who needed anything else? Fast forward to today and it seems automatic exposure has lost its mojo. Complete control over shutter and aperture […]
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5 Frames… Flying over Apulia on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm Format / EI 400 / Coca-Cola Can Camera) – by Andrea Bianchi
In Autumn 2022 one of my best friends invited me to fly with him over Apulia. I had been waiting for this opportunity ever since he got his private pilot’s licence, but we had to wait for the plane — a SOCATA TB-9 — to finish its scheduled maintenance. When it was finally time to […]
