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30 January, 2022

The Benefits of (B&W) Polyester Film – By Emanuel Hentes

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. Assumptions I am implicitly assuming you agree ...

26 January, 2022

Building a Darkroom From the Ground Up – By Katie Cooper

By Katie Cooper

Lockdown 2020 was a blessing in (a very big) disguise, as it gave me the opportunity to research, build and begin work on creating a darkroom. My passion for analogue photograp...

24 January, 2022

Latent Postmodernism and The Act of Photography: Deconstructing the Yashica Y35 – By Michael Kaplan

By Michael Kaplan

I have been involved in some aspect of photography for forty-five years. I was 15 when I took my first precarious steps attempting to understand the complex simplicity of a pinh...

21 January, 2022

28mm Point & Shoot Showdown – The plot widens… – By Daniel Rider

By Daniel Rider

After shooting for a while with 50mm and 40mm fixed lens cameras, I stumbled onto a Ricoh SLR and the old guy at the shop offered me a Pentax 28mm lens for cheap to go with the ...

20 January, 2022

A Year in Slide Film Part 2 – Developing – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

Welcome to part two of my exploration of slide film. You can read part one here. I was really pleased with the number of slide enthusiasts who commented and the general consensu...

18 January, 2022

Photographic Nostalgia and the Myth of Soulfulness – By Ailbíona McLochlainn

By Ailbíona McLochlainn

My interest in tableaux photography now spans nearly two decades. And one type of scene I like to enact can perhaps be described as stills from a fictitious 1960s Soviet film se...

14 January, 2022

Memento Mori – The making of a Zine – By George Griffin

By George G

The Industrial Revolution changed the world forever. The coming of mechanised production was a shift from a mainly agricultural society to a technological one. London was the fi...

7 January, 2022

Is Bulk Loaded Cine Film a Panacea for Rising Film Prices? – By Matt Wright

By Matthew Wright

In November 2021, Kodak announced a film price increase. Some members of the film community lashed out on social media critical of the price increase. Measured thinkers reasoned...

Colin on Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera
Looks fun - some nice photos. Small gripe - shaking to "develop faster"... back in the heyday of "real" instant…
James Cockroft on Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera
I too have been a Hipstamatic user since 2010. One of my favorite and most used features is 'Shake to…
Ibraar Hussain on Agfa Ultra 100 and Agfa Ultra 50 with a Contax G2 and Rolleiflex 6008i – The Perfect Summer Holiday Films
Thanks Alexander ! The Agfa ultra 100 has to be my favorite print film The reds especially really pop

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