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Kodak won’t be making any new film this November.

During an earning call, Eastman Kodak’s CEO Jim Continenza said, “So on film, right, we’re doing a shutdown in November, total shutdown.” (finance.yahoo.com/news/q3-…)

Jim states the “shutdown” is necessary for the factory upgrades: “…in November, we will be modernizing the plant, putting more investment within that.”

Film demand was the first item the CEO listed as a key growing product at Kodak: “As we continue to grow the different initiatives… which really comprises of film, chemicals, substrate coating for EVs…”

This summer, I estimated that film production (for still photographers alone) is a $7.2B market (analog.cafe/r/how-big-is-f…), in which Kodak is a dominant player, at least when it comes to colour.

@platinumarks mentioned this call on Reddit on the same day it was published (reddit.com/r/AnalogCommuni…). It has since been picked up by Kosmo Foto (kosmofoto.com/2024/11/east…) and @metalfingersfilm (youtube.com/watch?v=NSs8JT…)

This grabby news item generated many positive comments from the community, who were excited about an upcoming improvement to Kodak film (maybe it’ll be cheaper?) and a nice +5% bump to Kodak stock.

#editorial

The Canada Post strike is delaying product shipments — including ones from Flic Film, Reveni Labs, Camera Traders, and Analog.Cafe.

Canada Post is part of an EMS system that coordinates shipments via various countries’ domestic/government mail services. It’s often the cheapest, safest, and easiest way for small businesses and individuals to ship goods. This is what I use when I ship film, cameras, books and accessories from the Analog.Cafe-associated Etsy shop, FilmBase: filmbase.etsy.com

Canadian film photography businesses you may’ve heard of that rely on EMS include Flic Film, Reveni Labs, Camera Traders, and Analog.Cafe. If you plan to shop at any of those places in the next few weeks, double-check the shipping times!

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(Pictured, a local Canada Post distribution center).

What is the best glue for fixing a leatherette on a film camera?

Pliobond 25 is highly recommended thanks to its excellent gripping power, flexibility, drying time, and solvability in rubbing alcohol for easy removal.

These properties are very important for sticking a piece of leather, which may need to be removed a few months/years later without damage. (Since leatherettes often cover screws that block repair and maintenance access — and they can also deteriorate, thus needing replacement).

However, Pliobond 25 is hard to find and expensive to ship. According to @the120ist on YouTube, the best alternative is either E6000 or a specific double-sided tape: youtube.com/watch?v=cBM0dH…

I’ve used tape before, though it seems that E6000 is easy to find in North America — plus, there’s just one kind — instead of the vast variety of double-sided tapes on the market. For consistency’s sake, this sounds like the best option.

A quick search confirms that E6000 will soften when soaked in rubbing alcohol (although it’s fully dissolvable in acetone). I think this will be my leatherette glue of choice.

Related: “Home Film Camera Maintenance and Basic Repair Guide” analog.cafe/r/home-film-ca…

#editorial #repair

Update: I’ve been working on the gingerbread camera article for the past few weeks, and it looks like I’ll need to push it until December.

Since I started writing it, I’ve decided to remake it to be more helpful. So, instead of just describing how the gingerbread camera was made, the article will show practical designs for creating a simple instant camera using sugar lens optics and an advanced version with instant film.

Unfortunately, the materials needed to build the above new cameras for this article will come too late for me to finish it in time.

Instead, I’ll release an app this November for better tracking of development chemicals. This member-only feature will help you calculate chemical exhaustion more accurately.

Amateur Photographer opens Inaugural Film Photographer of the Year competition for UK residents.

The UK’s biggest-selling photography magazine is now taking free entries to their first analogue-centric competition, sponsored by Kodak, Analogue Wonderland, and Ricoh Imaging.

Deadline: 5th January 2025, 11:59 pm GMT.

Submission: 5 images shot on film in 2024 (some editing allowed).

Prizes: the winner will get a brand new Pentax 17 film camera, a year’s supply of Kodak film (I’m curious to see what they consider a year’s supply, given that we all shoot at different rates), a year’s supply of film developing and scanning with the Analogue Wonderland lab, and a limited edition Pentax t-shirt and baseball cap. There will also be two runner-ups with smaller prizes.

Submission form: photocrowd.com/photo-compe…

Another chance to get free gear and film is great news for everyone in the UK.

For everyone else, this can be read as a sign of the continuing growth of analogue photography’s popularity — an offline craft advanced by the extremely online generation of photographers. Film has been in resurgence for over a decade — almost immediately after crashing in the early 2020s — yet I don’t think its new popularity has peaked.

What do you think?

#submissions #editorial

OK thank you! Will review it shortly and reply via email.

Я отправил Вам письмо на электронную почту.

Да, совершенно верно, именно Андроид! А я уже сошёл с ума проклиная себя за свою тупость

Looks like you’re using an Android device to compose your submission, which is crashing that part of the website. It’s a bug on my end — sorry!

If you like, you can email me instead: [email protected]

Собственно вот и всё, сколько я не пытался, но так и не смог ничего сделать…

Я вставляю текст который написал и не могу затем выйти из графического редактора, а если просто закрываю то остаётся заголовок и два предложения… сколько я не мучался над этой проблемой так и не смог найти выход из этой ситуации. Это мне непонятно, почему так происходит. И загружается только одно фото, и нет возможности загрузить еще. Наверное я что-то не так делаю, вполне возможно, но я по разному пытался это сделать, но к сожалению результатов нет положительных…

Не загружается несколько фото, а из редактора не загружается полностью текст

Oh no! Did you see any error messages? How could you tell it didn’t go through? A screenshot would help!

Уважаемый Дмитрий добрый вечер! Наконец-то собрался с духом и написал обзор на мой первый опыт и фотокамеру 120 формата Минольтафлекс 2, но к сожалению так и не смог Вам отправить. Не могу понять как это делать, хотя следовал всём советам, но увы, видимо я что то не смог сделать, хотя и заголовок написал и статью и фото попытался приложить, да только одно и прошло… видимо не судьба, хотя я старался…

Call for Submissions: “What the Film?!”

Help us build a game for film photographers.

How well do you think you know your colour films? Can you guess if something was shot on Ektar, Portra, or Velvia?

Daren (instagram.com/learnfilm.ph…), Yvonne (instagram.com/yvonne), and I are building a game that will test your knowledge of films. It’s based on the popular “What the Film?!” game (featured on PetaPixel and 35mmc). WTF?! was made for black-and-white film. The new one will focus on colour. 🌈

We need you to help us build it:

👉 Submit your colour film photos to analog.cafe/app/what-the-f…

Once we have enough images, we’ll build the game. Your name and profile will be featured under each photo, and we may also feature you in the videos about the game. You will also get to play the game with a slight advantage and have your name listed in the Top 100 Rankings table!

Play the black-and-white WTF?! game levels here: analog.cafe/app/what-the-f…

See how well the community did guessing black-and-white films here: analog.cafe/r/photographer… (do you think we’ll do better with colour?)

Thank you!!

#submissions #editorial

New search tools and recommendations live on Analog.Cafe!

This blog hosts over 630 long-form articles and thousands of notes like this one. Some are reviews, others are essays, guides, apps, community, or editorials. You could always use the search function on Analog.Cafe (analog.cafe/search), but it wasn’t custom-built for this blog — it’s a Google bolt-on service that works OK, but it can’t distinguish various types of content, and it would often surface unhelpful pages.

This weekend, I built a new search engine and a recommendation tool that should help you get more out of this website:

You can now refine your article searches by limiting your results to specific sections (film, cameras, guides, books, apps, essays, etc.) and perform separate comment and long-form article searches.

You can also like & reply to comments right in the search results.

This new search engine also now powers relevant recommendations below each article and comments like this one.

I hope these new tools help you find the right stuff and discover new reads about your favourite films and film cameras. Let me know if you see any bugs or have ideas on how to improve things.

I’m also curious if you find updates like this one helpful. Do you?

#website #editorial v3.24.28

Yes! Gimp has a Heal tool as well. It seems to work a little differently but should be able to accomplish similar results.

Hello and thank for article. Is it possible to do the same restoration using Gimp tool?

Thank you for this, Lexie! Glad it helped

This was extremely helpful! I am new to film in general, although I specifically want to learn more about flash film photography and there isn’t much info about it out there.