Software & Apps Archives

17 April, 2023

darktable Mini-Review – A Quick look at my Favorite Software

By Steven G

darktable is open source image workflow software. Open source means it’s free, both in terms of cost (in this case and many others, but not all), and in terms of what you ...

7 May, 2022

Film Log: A Free App for Film Exposure Record-Keeping – by Dmitri Tcherbadji

By Dmitri Tcherbadji

I started my film photography journey with a Canon QL25 — a slower sibling of the popular QL17 GIII 35mm rangefinder. Unfortunately, my old QL's lightmeter wasn't working, so I ...

14 November, 2021

Datafilm: The Note Taking App Designed For Film Photographers – By Vincent

By Vincent

I am excited to present a project I have been working on during the past few months. It is called Datafilm and it is a modern note taking iOS app designed for film photographers...

6 August, 2020

Film Shots – Another Film Exif App For Android And iOS, But With A Difference – By Oleksii Novikov

By Oleksii Novikov

I hope you will love my new app 'Film Shots' - it lets you log your data right from the Lock screen and integrates with Lightroom.

31 July, 2020

Grain2Pixel Review – A Photoshop Plugin for Converting Negatives – By Arild Edvard Båsmo

By ArilBas

Today I am going to review a new piece of software, or rather a plugin to Adobe Photoshop called Grain2Pixel, which can convert scans of negative film into positive images. It c...

21 May, 2020

Bridging Analog Photography and Digital Metadata with Exif Notes – By Babak Farshchian

By Babak Farshchian

Some people enter analog photography to escape the digital. Some see added value and pleasure in analog photography but don't quite want to leave the digital world. I belong to ...

9 March, 2020

Analog Memo – Creating a Digital Notebook App for Android – By Barry Carr

By bscarr

Sometime in 2018, my friend, Rob Kent, downloaded an Android app that would help him record analogue exposure information. The app would let you enter the aperture, shutter spee...

25 July, 2016

RNI ‘Really Nice Images’ Review – and some wider thoughts on film simulation

By Hamish Gill

What do you think of the 6 images below? Are they film or digital. Some of them are film (obviously digitised), and some of them are digital, some of which have been made to loo...

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Jeffery Luhn on VE Day – Victory in Europe Day with a Balda CA 35 and Polaroid High Definition 200
What a cute little camera. Not in the least bit intimidating. "Mummy, why is that man pointing a toy camera…
Jeffery Luhn on Konica Autorex – Shooting full and half frames on the same roll of film
That's a very unique camera feature. I'm trying to imagine the conversations between engineers and marketing people about the cost…
Dustin Neikirk on Capturing the War of 1812 on Film – Reenactment of the Battle of Longwoods
Your photography and writing style always makes me happy. Thank you for more great images and another enjoyable read!

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