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Polaroid just made a new special-edition film available at their store: Reclaimed Green.
You may remember last year’s Reclaimed Blue release (analog.cafe/r/polaroid-rec…), which sold out quickly as it was the first emulsion of its kind.
Unlike the Duochrome editions, which are essentially black-and-white films with added dye, Reclaimed Blue is a colour film capable of rendering whites (Duochromes use colour dyes which cover whites of the black-and-white positives, yielding darker images).
Reclaimed Green is nearly identical to Reclaimed Blue in the way it works (including its ability to produce whites), only with a yellow dye added to the formula, which turns it green. However, the resulting effect is lighter than that of Duochrome Green (see analog.cafe/r/polaroid-gre…).
Polaroid Reclaimed Green 600 is available at the web store for $16.99 ($3 cheaper than the regular colour film): polaroid.pxf.io/an3RPZ [affiliate].
You can learn a bit more about this film from the excellent In An Instant channel on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=5sSpVp….
The phrase in the recent short video about the celebrated Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden, “I’ll be broke in a year,” preoccupied the internet today.
The video: youtube.com/watch?v=foGe7n…
The article: digitalcameraworld.com/fea…
As someone who’s recently resigned from a well-paid gig to pursue a creative career, I can feel the sentiment clearly. It’s difficult to do hard things, like being an independent artist.
But,
Bruce will be broke in a year; I’ve got about six months. A person next to me on a train doing something they do not love is already broke. So what?
There are plenty of stats available online showing growth in photographic markets. Of course, this doesn’t make the pursuit any easier, but neither do sentimental writeups that rely on the words of a single person who lives a life different from most of us.
My point is that it’s always been difficult. The greats can and do fail, and the odds have not changed for anyone.
Whether it’s a hobby or a career ambition, photography is still worth a try. It’s in demand. People still want to see photographs, in fact, more than ever.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: bls.gov/ooh/media-and-comm…
Jonathan Paragas, or @KingJvpes, recently published a video about his incredible experience finding a Leica M3 at a thrift store for $30.
Jonathan is a San Francisco/Bay Area photographer who’s got over 175K subscribers on YouTube thanks to his popular film camera thrifting videos and content about analogue photography. Of course, there’s more to his fame than just the subjects he picks.
In his recent video, @KingJvpes is seen shaking with excitement after finding a Leica M3 at a thrift store for $30 — a camera that sells for over a thousand dollars on eBay. Though the video had a lot of extra content, I was most impressed with Jonathan’s honesty (he didn’t try to make himself look cool or cut his emotional reaction to such a find from the reel) and his commitment to do the right thing.
Gear theft is a big issue, particularly in the Bay Area (from what I gather online). Which is why Jonathan spent considerable effort to see if his Leica find was lost or stolen before adding it to his collection permanently. But after months of scouring the internet, he determined that it isn’t (besides, why sell it at a thrift store if it could fetch a lot more on eBay?)
Here’s the video: youtube.com/watch?v=BsMrkM… (the key part starts at around 9:30 mark).
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