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Valoi Film Holder, SALE, SolarCan Colours, Kodak Prices, Silberra, and More

☞ Get “Community Letters” via email: a monthly overview of the latest news, events, and stories from the film photography community. What’s new? 2020’s second-to-last month brings a new film holder from Valoi, a limited-time sale on Monochrome magazine, new SolarCan cameras, and lots of great reads.

November ‘20 Community Letter

FED-2 II/b With Industar-10

1950s Soviet 35mm Rangefinder

An Irresistible Piece of Soviet Photographic Technology

FED-2 variant II is a beautiful camera with its share of flaws and imperfections. A Soviet copy of the Leica II that I could not resist at $50. FED is an acronym for Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, in Russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский. His legacy is Soviet secret police and the children’s labour commune which eventually got transformed into the factory that made this camera.

Sa-eh Kim

N-Po Generation

Human Profile

Asia — South Korea

Film and Vintage Clothes for Digital Natives in South Korea

Digital natives, millennials, or the N-po generation in South Korea aren’t as comfortable with modern gadgetry as one may think. We like old stuff and wistfully wonder about the days before the internet-enabled toasters. Some say we’re pretentious. And we may look the part with our baggy pants, plaid shirts, and film cameras.

Quarantine Zine

Project Overview

The Pandemic

A Project Overview

Quarantine Zine’s purpose is to be a boredom breaker for the film community who may be in lockdown or unable to fully enjoy their life due to COVID-19. The idea is to be deliberately low-tech and low quality, much like an art zine that students would put together using school resources, like scissors, glue and photocopiers and a stapler.

Moments in Between Madness

Book Review

Moments in Between Madness — Book Review

Human Rights

✪ Note: The book being reviewed here is the first 5x8” edition. It has since been republished as an 8x10” with a higher page count. Moments in Between Madness presents a series of photographs from the George Floyd protests in New York City between May 29ᵗʰ and June 3ʳᵈ 2020, by Joseph Rovegno.

Ben Liu

Heinrik Staff

Lomography

1 New +1 Dead Camera, New Light Meter, and the Rising Film Prices

☞ Get Community Letters (articles like this) monthly, via email. This month’s letter covers the new 35mm pano camera from Lomography with their Sutton’s liquid lens design and prepares to say farewell to Nikon’s last line of 35mm film SLRs. Also, read about a compact new light meter and the rising film prices.

October ‘20 Community Letter

lorenzo.stolfi

COndiVIDere, From the 2020 Lockdowns in Italy

Monochrome — HP5+, Printed on Foma Speed RC Multigrade

Sharing Time, Spaces, Food, and Emotions During the 2020 Lockdowns in Italy

Condividere, v. : to share/divide amongst others (Italian). When a word is repeated too often, it loses its meaning — as noted by the famous Italian filmmaker, Federico Fellini. In the context of social networks, sharing takes on the meaning of an obsessive broadcasting of daily routines.

COndiVIDere

Expired Emulsion Review

E-6 — Provia 400F

Provia 400F is the second generation of the Provia 400 fast slide film series with a finer grain — an RMS granularity of 13, compared to 15 for the original. It is the second-to-last Fujifilm innovation in this line. The final iteration in the series is FujiChrome Provia 400X, which has been discontinued in 2013, along with dozens of other stocks the company axed semi-recently.

Fujifilm FujiChrome Provia 400F 35mm Slide Film

A Printing and Binding Method for Full-Size Magazines

Home Publishing Tips

More Creative Freedom, Less Impact on the Environment, Cheaper ‘Zines

Intermediate — Printing and Binding for Home Publishing

Printing Monochrome Magazine, Pandemic Edition

More Creative Freedom, Less Impact on the Environment, Cheaper Mag✬Zines

Monochrome is a hand-made community magazine. Its inaugural issue, 1. 20, features fourteen photographers’ works across 50 8½x11” pages in black and white. Printed, assembled, and packaged at home. In this article, I describe the perfect binding method, printer, paper, tools, and materials that went into creating this magazine, as well as the circumstances under which it was fabricated.

My Printing and Binding Method for Home Publishing

Chinon Bellami

1980 Japanese 35mm Viewfinder

A Tiny 35mm “Barn Door” Point-and-Shoot

Chinon was a Japanese camera manufacturer, bought by Kodak in 2004 during its “painful shift toward digital products. ” Though not nearly as famous as Kodak, Chinon has been in business since 1948, building discount K-Mount cameras. This particular camera, Chinon Bellami, can also be found as Revue 35CC with a slightly-altered design and precisely the same construction.

Film, cameras, and chemistry. Techniques, tips, guides, and references. This list includes material for creative individuals and photographers of all levels, with a fitting mix of modern and age-old advice.

Photography Guides

Film camera reviews and guides. Sorted by date then country they were designed in.

Film Cameras

Film, developer, and all photochemistry reviews, samples, guides, and tools.

Film and Chemistry

Film, photography, and art-themed printed book and magazine reviews, overviews, how-to’s and recommendations.

Books and Magazines

Photo essays, written about travel, a place, or a destination. Sorted by continent then country. This collection does not include gear-centric articles — just the stories about being or going somewhere.

Travel Essays

A collection of all the portrait photography on Analog.Cafe. Includes photo essays with human focus and/or prominent stories about the subjects. Street or event photography isn’t generally a part of this collection, unless the person(s) are at the heart of the narrative.

Portraits

Essays and stories on the topics of social and environmental justice around the world.

Health, Environment, and Humanity

Downloads, Subscriptions, Bookmarks, Submissions

You can open your Analog. Cafe account with just one click. It’s free and it gives you access to a few special member priveledges:Downloads. Certain guides, like this one, could take an hour to read. Some references require printing to be useful. Analog.

About Analog.Cafe Accounts

Rules, Ideas, Suggestions

Everyone — How to Get Featured on Analog.Cafe

Get Your Article or Essay Featured on Analog.Cafe

Analog. Cafe, A Film Photography Blog, is a group effort. There certainly is no office; most of us never met. ↬ Shortcut: write/submit your photo essay or article. I’ve had an author send me a submission while waiting for a delayed flight at an airport.

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