Tag: 2019 – February
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Camera review: Satisfying a 37 year dream… My first Nikon F3
I remember the Nikon F3 being expensive when it first came out in 1980. At the time, a new Nikon F3 with a 50mm lens cost about US$1,175 – that’s about US$3,500 adjusted for inflation.
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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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Photography: Pads – Shot on Kodak AEROCHROME III 1443 (Large format)
Pads Shot on Kodak AEROCHROME III 1443 at EI 400 Color infrared aerial surveillance film in 120 format shot as 6×9 Shot with #21 orange filter Read the Kodak AEROCHROME review
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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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Photography: Nook #02 – Shot on Kodak AEROCHROME III 1443 (Large format)
Nook #02 Shot on Kodak AEROCHROME III 1443 at EI 400 Color infrared aerial surveillance film in 4×5 large format AEROgraphic / Kodak Anastigmat 161mm f/4.5 / Orange #21 filter Read the Kodak AEROCHROME review / Prints available here  
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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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The Wabi-Sabi rangefinder: Yasuhara 一式 T981 (Isshiki T981)
After Shin Yasuhara left his job at Kyocera, the large Japanese high technology company, he set out on designing his own dream camera.
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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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Photography: Cup holder as standard – Shot on ILFORD HP5 PLUS at EI 400 (120 format)
Cup holder as standard Shot on ILFORD HP5 PLUS at EI 400. Black and white negative film in 120 format shot as 6×9. Fuji GW690III + EBC Fujinon 90mm f/3.5. Development notes Kodak HC-110: 1+31(B), 20°C/68°F, 05:00
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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.
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Appendix A of the Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer: push/pull processing calculations
I originally wrote the full “Technical Field Guide for the Discerning Analog Photographer” as a quick reference for technical photographers in the field.
Recently published
- Ultreia: Making pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
- 5 Frames… In the pits at Brands Hatch motor racing circuit on FP4 PLUS (35mm format / EI 125 / Nikon L35AF) – by Nik Stanbridge
- 5 Frames… Of my boy (skeleton) Jeffrey on Polaroid Color SX-70 film
- New film day! Say hello to HARMAN Phoenix 200, a brand new mid-speed colour film
- My First Roll… With a Yashica Mat 124G
- The Contax 645: Not just a wedding camera
