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How to Make Candid Portraits
On Film
This guide will help you choose the right gear and improve your technique for better candid portraiture on film.— Dmitri.
How to Make Candid Portraits
On Film
This printable PDF guide explains a few tried & tested techniques that should help you improve your spur-of-the-moment photographs on film.— Dmitri.
La Floraison
Book Review
About a year ago, Chi made a limited edition zine (I’m calling it a book) that got sold out within a week. I’m a happy owner of the numbered edition 21/50. Her work was published in an eighteen-page perfect-bound booklet wrapped in a folded cover. Printed in full colour on coated bright-white paper stock, weighing around 40lb; the cover is probably 60lb.— Dmitri.
8 Technical Reasons to Shoot Black and White Film
Black and white photographs can help focus viewers’ attention, emphasize shapes over colours, remove the complexities of colour management — particularly in high-contrast scenes and in skin tones, and create associative effects with a time period or genre of photography.— Dmitri.
Olympus L-10 Super
An Affordable SLR Review
Olympus L-10 Super is a 35mm film zoom lens SLR that you can find today for less than $100. Its integrated lens with aspherical elements has a motorized variable focal length of 28mm-110mm with a maximum aperture of 𝒇4. 5 (𝒇5. 6 at longer focal lengths).— Dmitri.
April ‘21 Community Letter
Polaroid Month, Fujifilm Price Hike, Bit Rot, and an Editor’s Enquiry
This month, both Polaroid and Fujifilm announced new cameras, with the former shipping a new instant format and the latter following up with a price hike on emulsions.— Dmitri.
Epson ET-M2170
The Best Printer for Making Monochrome Zines at Home
I’ve been looking for a quality laser printer for over a week, shuffling through hundreds of options in hopes of finding something that could produce sharp photographs cheaply on regular (or fancy) printer paper. Unfortunately, most options out there seemed to be expensive on the cartridges, electricity, or subpar when it came to the resolution.— Dmitri.
Auslöser
Magazine Review
I would’ve gladly paid for a magazine like that, but Sebastian was kind enough to send me a review copy of Auslöser. Having received it, I immediately fell in love. When it comes to print, design and material — choices matter; I think that Auslöser made good ones.— Dmitri.
Trafalgar Square in the Time of COVID
Are We All in This Together?
The words pursued Dr. Juvenal Urbino on the drive home: “this death trap of the poor. ” It was not a gratuitous description. For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time (… )— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Love in the Time of Cholera”, London: Penguin Books, 2014 edition, at page 22.— Danilo Leonardi.
Analog Forever
Magazine Review
Analog Forever is an annual magazine that collects works, stories, and interviews of select film photographers. It is a well-put-together, superbly designed, and meticulously curated publication that undoubtedly gives film photography a good name. The magazine is fairly priced at $30 for around 150 pages of quality colour print though the shipping, being $20 to Canada, adds a bit of a strain on the wallet.— Dmitri.
