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Two dark tarred boat bows against a bright white hull in hard sunlight, Brittany

25 July, 2026

The Zone System on a Leica, without the mental arithmetic

By Jürgen Suk

There is a specific moment on a shoot that I never enjoyed. The light is doing something interesting and about to stop doing it, and instead of looking at the scene I am staring...

The BorderTool Pro interface — colour controls, presets, and live preview in one window.

16 July, 2026

I’m a Photographer Who Builds Tools — How Two Mac Apps Grew Out of My Own Workflow

By Michael Damböck

I have roughly fifteen packs of Fujifilm FP-100C instant film in my fridge. I know I should use them. I’ve been telling myself that for years. They’re discontinued, ...

2 July, 2026

M-Kamera (Magic, Mental, My!) – Fixing the smartphone photography

By vzzdor

The best camera is the one with you, and yet most photographers, including myself despise smartphones as photographic tools. There are some good reasons for that, but for me per...

Frames film photography logbook & Metadata iPhone app

21 May, 2026

Frames, One Year Later – Building a Film Photography Logbook App Full Time

By Vincent

A year ago I wrote a piece here introducing Frames, an app to log film photography metadata and write it back into your scans. What I didn’t tell you was that I’d ju...

Pellica film roll tracker app for analog photographers

6 May, 2026

Pellica – Why I Built an App to Track My Film Rolls

By Imad Djebarni

Last November I sent three rolls to my lab and more or less forgot about them. When the envelope came back three weeks later I spread the negatives on my desk and tried to work ...

30 April, 2026

C41 Development Isn’t the Problem – Guessing Is!

By James Maher

I didn’t set out to build an app. I’m a photographer. I built it because I got fed up with guessing (and sometimes getting it wrong). Home C41 development is full of it. Not the...

28 July, 2025

SmartConvert – Inverting negatives smartly

By marco

There are many methods to scan and convert film negatives into positives. One common method is to scan into a raw file with a scanner or, more commonly, a digital camera. The pr...

8 July, 2025

Introducing Analog Photography Assistant – a full featured film photographers app

By Logan Mortimer

The Fuji GW690iii was my first camera that had no electronics. It has produced some of my favourite photographs, but fundamentally changed the way I meter scenes for light. Give...

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