Members’ Handbook

Thank you for joining the Analog.Cafe GOLD membership program! You are supporting a small, ad-free, privacy-friendly independent publisher. This handbook summarizes all the things you get in return for your patronage. In this handbook: The basics. 🎞️ Monthly exclusive articles. 🗝️ High-resolution images. 🌠 Premium apps. 📲 Monthly email updates. 💌 Help & feedback. 🙋 Support this blog & get premium features with GOLD memberships!

The basics. 🎞️

All GOLD members get access to the standard Analog.Cafe member features. They include apps, downloads, bookmarking, newsletters, comments, and access to certain articles. This is already more than what most blogs will offer, but there’s more for you to enjoy — much more!

Monthly exclusive articles. 🗝️

Everything that’s published on Analog.Cafe is thoroughly researched, edited, and decorated with high-resolution images. Yet some articles take more time, effort, and resources to make — these are saved for the GOLD members.

Some examples are: “How to Edit Film Scans,” “Home Film Camera Maintenance and Basic Repair Guide,” “How to Get Pastel Colours on Film,” “All the C-41 ISO 800 Colour Films, Compared,” “Developing Film in Cannabis,” “Master the Sunny 16 Rule!,” “The Vintage Film Camera Buying Guide,” and “Pushing Ilford HP5+ to ISO 100,000” — with more added every month.

Find more exclusive articles here.

High-resolution images. 🌠

For best performance, there are ~20 versions of each image in various sizes and formats uploaded with every article to this website. These versions are then automatically selected and distributed based on screen size and browser capabilities.

The largest sizes (up to 4,000 pixels wide) are reserved for the GOLD members. Photos this large show even the finest film grain, which helps get a clearer idea of what the scans will look like if you used the same emulsion, gear, or techniques. Plus, they look better!

Premium apps. 📲

GOLD members get access to Chem Log — an app for home lab that tracks chemical expiration and includes a dilution calculator and an extended development time calculator. This app integrates with Film Log, which helps track film across numerous film cameras with minimal effort.

Bulk Roll Calculator is an app for determining the exact amount of frames per roll and the number of rolls that any bulk amount of film would yield.

Film Price Trends is an app that graphs average film prices, tracked since 2018 across three continents, numerous stores, and various film stocks. GOLD members get a detailed breakdown of prices for each store (so that it’s easier to get the best deal) and other advanced insights.

Some apps take a lot of effort to build and are difficult to release to the public all at once. Whenever I’m building something big, GOLD members get the first look.

Monthly email updates. 💌

In addition to the public newsletters, members get monthly email updates (on the last or second-last Friday of every month), where I introduce the new exclusive content and share plans for the next month.

Help & feedback. 🙋

I am happy to help with any issue on the website and I love to hear your feedback and feature requests! Email [email protected], drop a comment on the blog, or find me on social media.

Once again, thank you! There would be no Analog.Cafe without your support.