In the digital world we live in, many people ask "why film?". It's something I asked myself when I first started this great hobby just three years ago. Once I started shooting f...
I might say, pushing the boundaries of film in this case is more like returning to its roots.
When rock ‘n roll and hard bop burst through the famed and now widely regarded as ...
9 May, 2022
The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 2: From Black and White to “Coloured” – By Nandakumar
In my previous piece, I mentioned how colour photography on film has become completely unaffordable for me since 2016. In 2018, having shot most of my remaining colour films, I ...
This is my story of film photography over the past two decades. I come from an era where film photography was the only form of photography known to the common man. Unfortunately...
22 March, 2022
Digital Nostalgia – 5 Early Digital Cameras from between 2001 and 2005 – By Bob Janes
The world spins. Everything comes around. Eventually we start to get misty-eyed about stuff that seems to have only just left the room. Yes, I'm at that point. I’m about to get ...
21 March, 2022
The Rise of the Vintage Digital Camera
A good camera is a good camera, right? That’s how it should be. Of course, in the world of digital cameras where the image making technology is built into the camera, how long a...
22 February, 2022
The Leica for a Year Project – By Patrick Medd
The Venn diagram describing the readership of 35mmc and of Mike Johnston’s blog ‘The Online Photographer’, may not have a huge amount of overlap—on the other hand it may, I don’...
30 January, 2022
The Benefits of (B&W) Polyester Film – By Emanuel Hentes
It has (much) better archival qualities. That’s it. That’s why it's so great. The rest of the article just expands on that idea.
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I am implicitly assuming you agree ...
