Like many commodities affected by the COVID pandemic, photographic film prices have soared to unprecedented heights. I acutely remember 25 sheet boxes of ILFORD Delta 100 Professional 4×5 film selling for $45 at my local camera store in 2019, only to see that price rise almost 70% to $65 in September 2021 — before tax. […]

Author Archives: Cameron Zucker
Based in Northern Arizona and at-home in the entire American Southwest, I strive to create images which reveal the extraordinary hidden just behind the ordinary. If I can drive to it, hike to it, or cling to it just long enough to take a photograph, my camera will be there. Draining batteries and validating temperature ratings since 2017.
Beerol: How I learned to stop worrying and develop film in gas station beer
When I saw Fat Tire and Field Mag announce their contest to develop film in beer I knew I was entering a rabbit hole, but I couldn’t have possibly known how far that rabbit hole went, or what I’d find at the bottom. While I’d been told about Caffenol and its derivative formulas for developing […]
5 Frames… At Raid Area 51 on Kodak Portra 160 (EI 100 / 120 format / Pentax 67)
I shot the Area 51 Raid 2019 on a Pentax 67 using Portra 160, and it was (almost) the perfect camera for the job.