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20 September, 2021

Contrast and Tonality Part 1: Histograms of Famous Photographs and What They Can Teach Us – By Sroyon

By Sroyon

Let’s face it, “analysing” photos with histograms can only take us so far. A hundred years later, people may or may not look at your photographs and gasp in ad...

29 August, 2021

Juggling Parenting and Film Photography – by Richard McKenzie

By Richard McKenzie

It’s a cliché but it’s true: everything changes the moment you become a parent. There’s the stuff they tell you about—the crying, the nappies, the many, many sleepless nights—an...

18 August, 2021

Joys and Challenges of Publishing Zines – By Floyd K. Takeuchi

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

I thought I knew a thing or two about publishing a zine. In a previous life, I ran a Honolulu, Hawaii-based media company that published six monthly consumer magazines. We cove...

16 August, 2021

Picking your Color Negative Film Stock – An Alternative Approach – By Matt Wright

By Matthew Wright

The film community is a high point of the internet. Coming back to film after a 20+ year hiatus was facilitated by all of the excellent work that has been done over the last few...

9 August, 2021

A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Two main factors determine how a pinhole camera “sees” – that is, whether its angle of view is wide, normal or tele. The first is the sensor size (throughout ...

1 August, 2021

How to use a Modern Flash Gun with a Leica M3, M2 and M1 – By Phong Nguyen

By Phong Nguyen

Photographers using Leica M film cameras often say that they do not need flash and prefer to shoot in ambient light. However, if you go through websites related to Leica, the su...

25 July, 2021

Caffenol for Breakfast – My First Experiments with Homemade Developer – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

I had never really pursued caffenol seriously because some of the first examples photos I had seen were less than impressive. Frankly, the "unpredictable flaws in film are cool...

20 July, 2021

16mm Film – Shooting Subminature Film in 2021 – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The best camera is the one you have with you. Now we have camera phones that fit in our pockets: back in the 1950s cameras were larger and were made of materials that were compa...

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