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Behind the scenes with Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet and the cast of Little Women on 1860s wet plate photography + photographer Q&A
Going against the grain, the on-set photographer of 2019’s Little Women included the use of traditional wet plate photography – also known as tintypes – to capture Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, James Norton and the rest of the production’s cast. It’s not very often that a unit still photographer gets to…
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How to shoot expired film or, no you do not need to add one stop per decade
There is a “rule” for shooting expired film. This “rule” states that when shooting expired film, one should add one stop of exposure per decade it has been expired. The rule is wrong and by blindly following it, you are doing yourself, your film and your subjects a disservice. No-one knows where the rule came…
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Four very different darkroom printers test ILFORD’s new Multigrade RC Deluxe paper
ILFORD released a raft of new and updated products in late 2019, one of which was brand new Multigrade RC Deluxe paper. Called “MG V” by some in our community, I was provided a box some weeks before the official release to either test myself or give away as part of a competition/event. I decided…
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Five major film studios ink new 2020 deal to secure the future of motion pictures shot on film
Coming from Kodak’s Fourth Annual Kodak Film Awards is the news that five of the six major Hollywood film studios — Disney, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros — have signed new deals with Kodak guaranteeing their use of the company’s motion picture film products from 2020 for the foreseeable future. This…
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EMULSIVE interview #212: I am Alys Tomlinson and this is why I shoot film
Welcome to the latest EMULSIVE interview, featuring none other than Alys Tomlinson, Sony World Photography Awards, Photographer of the Year 2018. There’s a lot to unpack here, so I’ll let Alys crack on. Over to you, Alys! Hi Alys, what’s this picture, then? AT: This was the first portrait I took for my project Ex-Voto.…
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My year on film in 115 photos: A 2019 retrospective or, my not-a-365-project
What follows is my 2019 in film photography, a 365 photography project that was absolutely not a 365 project. In this article, I share the results from 115 of the sheets/rolls of film I shot in 2019. It boils down to over one hundred photographs taken by yours truly, all wrapped up in a couple…
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EMULSIVE interview #211: I am Graham Spinks and this is why I shoot film
Greetings and welcome to this week’s fresh EMULSIVE interview – number 211 to be specific. I have great pleasure in introducing you to the words and work of erstwhile philosopher, Graham Spinks. It’s over to you, Graham. Hi Graham, what’s this picture, then? GS: This photo was taken at the National Trust’s Canons Ashby earlier this…
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Billingham AVEA 7 和 AVEA 8 侧口袋好用吗?
我使用 AVEA 7 和 AVEA 8 已经年，它们一直挂在我 Billingham 包两侧。对于 大部分人来说，AVEA 系列侧袋是一种固定在 Billingham Hadley、S、f/stop 等 系列相机包上的侧包。
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EMULSIVE December 2019: month in review
These are the 31 days and 34 articles that made EMULSIVE in December 2019. Enjoy!
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EMULSIVE interview #210: I am Carlos Lopez Medrano and this is why I shoot film
Welcome to 2020 here on EMULSIVE! I hope you all had a peaceful ringing in of the new year. For my part, I was in bed ten minutes after the fireworks finished. I’m pleased to be able to kick off the year off with my first film photographer interview of 2020: number 210 to be…
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The Hypersensitive Podcast Episode 08.1: Motivation, stopping -ISM and powering the Matrix
Update: The sped-up version has been taken down 😉 Update: Approximately 0.5% of all listeners hated the “commute optimised” version of episode 8. It’s still up there for the enlightened but as a fallback, you can also get the “unoptimised” episode 8.1 as your own risk (link below). It had been four months since we…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular articles of 2019
And here it is, the final listicle of 2019: the most popular articles of the year as decided by you. For a year dominated by new product releases across the board, it’s no surprise that announcements/updates from and about film, paper and camera manufacturers took a number of slots in the list below. If you’ve…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular film camera reviews of 2019
Here’s one for all you gear heads, this year’s most popular camera reviews on EMULSIVE. It probably comes as no surprise that three of the top ten feature compact cameras (four if you count the Mamiya 6 MF) and I’m glad that at least one part of my Hasselblad V-System guide made it into the…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular film stock reviews of 2019
There are a few days left for 2019 but fingers crossed, it’s the first year for quite some time where we haven’t seen one or more film discontinued – great, isn’t it? In fact, we’ve seen somewhere in the region of three new film stocks announced AND released – ILFORD ORTHO PLUS, Fujifilm NEOPAN 100…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular darkroom related articles of 2019
If you’re on social media, you will have no doubt noticed an uptick in darkroom-related activities in our community. From home processing black and white and colour film to RA-4 darkroom printing, it seems that more and more people are getting into the darkroom in one way or another, and that’s fantastic news. Here are…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular featured community projects of 2019
Passion projects abound in our global film photography community – you’re reading one right now – and I’ve been lucky enough to have published details of a fair few this year. The most popular ten of this year follow below but don’t let that fool you into thinking that’s all there were. Check out the…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular film photographer interviews of 2019
Welcome to the second of this year’s top-ten-as-chosen-by-you-listicles. Today’s (as you will have guessed by the title), is all about this year’s most popular film photographer interviews. Gearheads, be patient. You’ll get your fix in a few days. Before I let you go on, I just want to extend a massive thanks to the folks…
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EMULSIVE’s most popular “5 Frames” of 2019
Merry Christmas! Hope you’re having a great day so far. It is with a heavy heart I bring to you the first of this years top-ten-as-chosen-by-you-listicles. Regular readers will know I’m not a huge fan of them but as the year draws near, I feel the need to recharge and although these take a fair…
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It’s OFFICIAL: Kodak EKTACHROME E100 is out in 120 and 4×5 this Winter [UPDATE 03]
UPDATE 03: Updated pricing of US$9.99/$49.95 for 1x/5x 120 rolls and $39.95 per box of 4×5 has been provided by the Film Photography Project and US$9.55 for 1×120 roll at the Find Lab. UPDATE 02: Pricing of US$18/£13.50 for 1×120 roll has been provided by Analogue Wonderland. This may be subject to variations on other…
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Canada Post loses $1,500 of Super 8 film documenting lost Tsuut’ina First Nation artefacts
Imagine sending your film off for development, receiving a tracking code for its return leg and then being handed an empty envelope when it finally arrived. Well, empty save for the sales receipt. Now imagine that instead of a roll or two of 35mm or 120 film, you were waiting for 12 reels of Super…
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