After having shot black and white film for a while but always having shied away from properly developing it at home (I had developed a few rolls of film in Cinestill Df96 monobath — these were just test rolls and didn’t really have much archival or sentimental value), I decided to go straight for gold […]
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5 Frames… Of New York City on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm format / EI 320 / Nikon FM2 + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.2) – by Ray Quy
I’ve primarily been a digital photographer; however, with the pestering of my college friend, I’ve picked up film photography. I grew up watching my father take pictures of me and my family with cameras, one of which is the Nikon FM2 that I used to take these images. And of all of the cameras I’ve […]
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5 Frames… Of ILFORD HP5 PLUS on a shelf queen Kodak Tourist (620 format / EI 400 / Kodet 86mm f/12.5)
Up until the past few years, most of the film cameras that I have in my possession have been for decoration. The small shelves I purchased make them a perfect addition to my home office. On the rare occasion I pick one up, it is usually to dust it off, not to take photos with. […]
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5 frames… Of one gas station on 5 different film stocks, using 5 different cameras – By Fayed
I know, I know… We’re all fed up with all of these gas station photos all over Instagram but trust me, none of these photos were shot on CineStill 800T film, yet the results were very interesting! It all started when I went on a different route to work other than my usual, and doesn’t […]
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5 Frames… Of a weekend in NYC on ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional (EI 3200 / 35mm format / Nikon FM2 + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D)
This trip to New York City was my first time there in about 15 years. I have always admired several photographers who were known for capturing New York street photography. Some of my favorites are Joel Meyerowitz, Vivian Maier, Jill Freeman, Gordon Parks, and Saul Leiter. My work isn’t anywhere close to their incredible street […]
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5 Frames… Of ILFORD FP4 PLUS with my new Contax clone (35mm format / EI 100 / Kiev-4a + Jupiter 8M 50mm f/2) – by John Tarrant
I am a long-term Leica user, but have always admired the Contax aesthetic and Contax users were usually as enthusiastic about the Zeiss product as Leica users were about the Leitz products. So I recently took the opportunity to acquire fairly elderly Kiev-4a camera and prepared to enjoy the Contax experience. The Kiev-4a is sometimes […]
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5 Frames… At Westonbirt Arboretum on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional Rolleicord Va + Xenar 75mm f/3.5
Rolleicord Va is a medium format (6×6) camera using 120 size films, with which you will get 12 frames per roll. It is a Twin-Lens Reflex (TLR) camera and has a Xenar 75mm f/3.5 as the taking lens and a 75mm f/3.2 as the viewing lens. My Rolleicord Va is a version 2, according to […]
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5 Frames… At the farm on ILFORD HP5 PLUS and Voigtlander ULTRON SL II 40mm F/2 (35mm format / EI 400 / Nikon FM3A) – by Michael
I was recently in a farming community outside Columbia, Missouri, where my in-laws have a wonderful farm. It’s where my wife, my daughter, and I go to get away from the city and relax. My mother-in-law had just returned from a cattle auction the week before and she brought several new cows home with her. […]
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5 Frames… Of portraits on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (120 Format / EI 320 / Green #11 filter Bronica SQ-A + Zenzanon PS 150mm + S-18 extension tube) – by Cameron Breze
These frames were selected from a recent test shoot on my new (to me) Bronica SQ-A and first medium format shots that I had ever taken with extension tubes. I began my film journey mainly by accident; I had taken digital photos for years prior to giving film a shot. It had never crossed my […]
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5 Frames… Of Rex and Neil on a 90-year old Rolleiflex Standard 621 (120 Format / EI 400 / ILFORD HP5 PLUS)
Just over a year ago, whilst hunting for the mythical £10 Leica in an antique shop, I came across this old Rolleiflex disguised amongst about twenty box brownies. The focus dial was borderline seized, the focus screen — apart from being dark enough to be totally useless in the dim light — seemed to be […]
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Mini-review: The RETO Ultra Wide & Slim – Experiences and a change in attitude to P&S cameras
Traditionally I have avoided the point and shoot class of camera because I wanted to be able to make my own exposure decisions. I either shoot Manual, or in Aperture Priority modes with one finger on the exposure compensation button. Most of my cameras date from the 20th century and most of those are entirely manual. In […]
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5 (or 6) Frames… Of Thai urban and Rural Scenes with ILFORD SFX 200 and a Pentacon Six TL (120 Format / EI 200 / Carl Zeiss Jena MC Biometar 80mm f/2.8)
Despite a number of potential problems, I bought a Pentacon Six medium format SLR earlier in 2021. I had wanted one for a while and the article by Ludwig Hegelstein here on Emulsive convinced me that, the problems were manageable. I bought one of these solid East German medium format cameras that look a lot […]
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5 Frames… Of Seri Menanti on ILFORD Delta 400 Professional (120 format / EI 400 / Hasselblad 500C + Planar C 80mm f/2.8)
I recently acquired the Hasselblad 500C and was itching to have a crack at ILFORD Delta 400 Professional (recently expired) at box speed after having tried Bergger Pancro 400 in my search of an ISO 400 film to be part of my kit. Armed with the Hasselblad, light meter and tripod, I headed south, out […]
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of large format street portraits
Like most large format photographers, I started shooting large format with a 4×5″ monorail camera, but the bulk of my LF work was shot on a wood 8×10″ field camera, and then a 4×10″ panorama camera. The 4×10 is a rather weird format at the best of times — and the subject of this article! […]
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Kentmere Pan 400 at EI3200 – A low-cost, high speed alternative?
Recently I looked at Kentmere Pan 400 made by HARMAN/ILFORD in the UK. I showed 5 Frames shot at box speed with my Leica M6 and 35mm f/2.4 Summarit-M. I was very pleasantly pleased with the prints I made from this film. How about rating the film for a higher EI (aka underexposing it and […]
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Featured project: Memories of a man once there… The project that made me reinvent myself as an artist and a photographer
It was early in 2020, and like many of us, I felt lost… We all have endured every little aspect of the pandemic and it had an impact on all of us… And so it had on me. To be honest, it was the best thing that happened to me and my photographic dream. It […]
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5 Frames… Around Largo da Memória on ILFORD FP4 PLUS and a Walzflex TLR 6×6 (120 Format / EI 125 / Walz 75mm f/3.5) – by André Leite Coelho
Along with NEOPAN 100 ACROS, ILFORD FP4 PLUS was one of the first BW films I tried back in 2004, when I started to take photographs. As a consequence, even today I find myself imagining the scenes I see as fine-grained pictures, with the vast midtones of grays these two film stocks produce. Recently I’ve […]
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5 Frames… On ILFORD FP4 PLUS (35mm / EI 125 / Nikon F100 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D)
Mid October is really the time of year that marks the end of summer in Greece, with the first rainy days starting to appear, it was on such a rainy day I visited the new National Gallery of Greece in Athens along with friends. The building that the gallery is housed in was recently renovated, […]
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Benefits of ample exposure in black and white film photography: Or, let there be light
Detail of a component on one of the very few operating steam locomotives in the United States, Oregon Rail Heritage Center, Portland, OR. Hasselblad 503CX, Zeiss Planar f3.5 100 mm. Kodak T-MAX 100 developed in HC-110.
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5 Frames… Of Fuhr’s Huette: a hut built under a fallen rock on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 400 / 120 Format / Rolleiflex SL66)
Shortly before Christmas 2020 my friend Erik visited me and we went on a photo trip to Fuhr’s Huette in Idar-Oberstein, a small hut built under a massive fallen rock in 1702. I chose the Rolleiflex SL66 with the Zeiss Distagon 4/50 because of the narrowness at this place. And for film, the well-known ILFORD […]
