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628 Reviews, Guides, and Essays

Trafalgar on Deck
May 2021 — London
September 10, 2021
Stepping into London this past May after months of lockdown in the quiet Midlands felt much like I imagine moving from a rural medieval village to the bustling metropolis of Renaissance Rome must have felt like in centuries past. All of a sudden, life and joy met anger and fear in a flash of color and heat.
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Pentax Espio 140V Camera Review
Could This Be the Affordable 35mm Point and Shoot You’ve Been Looking For?
September 10, 2021
Pentax Espio 100v is a relatively modern film camera from the ‘90s that features a decent zoom lens.
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Snyder Quarry
Granite Aggregate Operations
September 7, 2021
The Snyder Quarry is located in South Western Oklahoma in the town of Granite, Oklahoma. With the nifty Holga 120n and a roll of Ilford’s Black and White HP5 Plus 120mm, a field trip to the granite quarry was going to make for some great film shots. These photographs were taken during the Fall of 2019.
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Film Photography News — August 2021 Recap
A Look Inside Moscow Dayze 2nd Ed. Photobook
September 3, 2021
Read the first four chapters of the new Moscow Dayze photobook.
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Canon EF, an FD-Mount 35mm SLR Camera
The Irresistible Appeal of the Non-Revolutionary
August 31, 2021
An extremely detailed article; the history, use, and quirks of this mid-range Canon SLR.
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Panorama Ridge on Lomochrome Purple
Field Test Report
August 8, 2021
Panorama Ridge is a tough hike from the base of the Lake Garibaldi trail to the top of the nearby mountains.
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Desert Islands
A Salty Salt Lake Trip — July 2021
August 3, 2021
While working on my rotating 2-week shift in Jal, New Mexico, I sat behind a computer screen at midnight on a frac pad, already pondering what to do in 2-weeks when I get off work. I looked at the cheapest flights out of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and low and behold Salt Lake City, Utah caught my eye.
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MiNT Flash Bar 2
A Principal Polaroid SX-70 Accessory
August 2, 2021
A brief review of MiNT’s versatile little flash for Polaroid SX-70 cameras. Complete with plenty of beautiful sample images.
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“Happiest Place on Earth”
An Analog Account of Disney World, Florida
July 29, 2021
Even when visiting a colorful place such as Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL, one can frame photographs in a way to capture interesting and contrasting black-and-white pictures. These shots were taken in December of 2019 on an Ilford HP5 disposable.
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Film Photography News — July 2021 Recap
My Book, Dropped In/Out Film, Gadgets, and a Festival
July 27, 2021
Fuji discontinues Velvia, Ilford increases prices. Plus: A new photo book, new film, a new light meter, a new film machine, and a new film photography festival.
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Once Upon a New Year
A Pre-Pandemic Swiss Journey Documented on Analog Film
July 26, 2021
Late December of 2019 through early January of 2020. A last-minute trip before we really knew what “pandemic” meant. A group of 5 lifelong friends from California decided to meet up with a 6th, who was ending his time studying abroad in Zurich for the semester.
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Bolsey ‘Model C’
User Guide + Review
July 25, 2021
An in-depth review & user guide of the only 35mm TLR camera ever created that is also a rangefinder.
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Colour Infrared
My Experience With Kodak EIR Film
July 22, 2021
Analogue and alternative photography offers many avenues towards visual creativity. Infrared colour film creates one of those special opportunities to try something quite different than straight colour work.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 Film Review
A Classic High-Contrast, Easy to Scan Monochrome Emulsion
July 18, 2021
Tri-X is a unique film in that it requires no post-scanning adjustments for most well-exposed frames, at least when developed in Ilford DD-X. Once you get your negative digitized, it’s usually enough to just invert it. No normalization, no contrast adjustments, no sharpening required.
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Canon Demi Half-Frame Camera Review
July 7, 2021
Canon Demi is the famous Japanese camera maker’s answer to the Olympus half-frame series. It features a fast 𝒇2.8 28mm lens and a unique exposure control.
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Film Photography News — June 2021 Recap
6 New Films, New Book Coming, Fujifilm Hackers, New Logo and Film Shortages
July 1, 2021
This month’s letter is a little late — sorry about that. I’ve been busy home-printing a new photo book about my recent trip to Russia.
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Searching for Freedom
A 6000-Mile Road Trip Across America
June 17, 2021
The following collection of photos is from a road trip taken with my brother and two friends of mine last summer, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In the span of a few weeks, our lives, and the world around us came to a screeching halt.
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Adox CMS 20 II: An Ultra-High Resolution 35mm Film
Test Results and Sample Close-Ups From a 400-Megapixel Scan
June 11, 2021
An experiment to test the resolving power of the world’s finest-grained black-and-white film for 35mm.
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The Best Resolution (DPI) for Scanning Film
Optimal Settings for Web/Social, Print, and Archiving Film Scans
June 7, 2021
Get the optimal resolution for scanning 35mm, 120, and large format film for the Web, print, and archiving.
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How to Invert Colour Film Negatives in Photoshop
Using Replicable Equalization Technique
May 31, 2021
This guide will demonstrate and explain a simple, reliable method for making high-quality positives from scanned colour film negatives.
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