Category: Featured
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Saxonvale: two years documenting a brownfield industrial site
This is the story of a photo project which started on a whim and grew into something far bigger than I’d imagined. Fingers crossed it’s not finished yet, but more on that later.
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Oly travel twins: The Olympus Trip 35 vs the Olympus XA2 in the field
Both these little cameras get a lot of love and I think they deserve it.
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A new multi-format camera is born: meet the CAMERADACTYL HOMONCULUS 69
There’s a new camera on the block and it just so happens to be the latest addition to the CAMERADACTYL family. I call it the HOMONCULUS 69 – because it can take photographs up to 6×9 in size.
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Foma Bohemia celebrates upcoming 100 year anniversary with new packaging
With their 100-year anniversary coming up in 2021, Foma Bohemia, makers of FOMAPAN black and white photographic film and papers is popping the cork a little early with three new, limited edition “retro” 1930s styled box art for its
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In defence of 35mm point and shoot cameras
Point and shoot film cameras are often looked down upon within the film community and you’ll hear more than the occasional accusation of them being an accessory to “make you look trendy”.
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The GOOSE: Reviewing the Polaroid 600SE
The 600SE was the crème de la creme of Polaroid cameras in its day.
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How to: Connect legacy film scanners to modern computers
It’s time to simplify and demystify the dark art of connecting legacy film scanners and other hardware to modern computers.
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UPDATE: New film from Shanghai: GP3 100 now in 35mm format…plus 120 format updates
See the latest updates (2019-06-25) at the foot of this page. Retailing at just $3.50 per 36 exposure roll, another new film stock for 2019 has been announced in the form of 35mm Shanghai GP3 100, which was made
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The best medium format camera ever made – Mamiya 6 MF review
About a year and a half ago I finally bit the bullet and bought my very first medium format camera, a Mamiya 6 MF.
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Research: is there really a difference between real and simulated film photographs?
To answer this question, I researched the foundations of film and digital photography; and which factors can influence the style of the results for my bachelor thesis.
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Color drama: Negative Lab Pro v2… Finding the right workflow for scanning color film at home
What if you had a scanning solution for color negative and black and white film that enabled you to scan and convert a whole roll of 35mm film in less than 15 minutes and all that in next to
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The EMULSIVE x CineStill Community Interview: results time
In mid-December 2018, I released a call for questions for the latest EMULSIVE Community Interview, this time with the folks at CineStill in Los Angeles. You obliged and here are the results.
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Brand new film from Fujifilm: NEOPAN 100 ACROS II announced, begins shipping Autumn 2019
Updated with additional details, speculation and sample images. Picked up just a few moments ago is the heart-stopping news that Fujifilm is officially bringing black and white films back to the market in Autumn 2019 with the all-new NEOPAN
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EMULSIVE Interview #200: I am Jonathan Canlas and this is why I shoot film
I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to finally bring today’s interviewee to these pages.
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A practical guide to… Lith printing
When mainstream photography was entangled with the darkroom, the act of printing a photo would show the artist’s hand as much as what was photographed.
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Changing gear: how the theft of my kit pushed me into medium format
Changing Gear is a new series here on EMULSIVE where photographers are invited to talk about equipment or events that have changed the way they approach the world through their lens.
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Amazing canned food pinhole selfies (featured project and how to)
It all started with some idle musings between a few photographers. Some were expressing a bit of disdain for the “selfie generation”, which triggered a chain of thought that lead me to a fusion of pop-art and selfies.
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How I built my darkroom for less than $500
“Oh sure, it may not look like much, but it’s going to be my new photo darkroom.” I said this, with a touch of nostalgia, a bit of a whim, and the driving force of practicality around the return
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A new TETENAL product for (and from) the film community?
The recent the opening of the SilvergrainClassics Studio/Lab in Germany gave Marwan El-Mozayen, editor-in-chief of PhotoKlassik International and co-owner of the lab the chance to organize an impressive meeting of the minds. There was an opportunity to let company