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How to Make Candid Portraits on Film
Printable PDF 📑
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
18-page perfect-bound full-colour booklet wrapped in a folded cover featuring brilliant flowers on film.— Dmitri.
8 Technical Reasons to Shoot Black and White Film
Grain, accessibility, archival properties, creative developers, film speed, scanning, formats, and specialty films.— 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
Polaroid and Fujifilm announce new cameras, plus: save your digital images from bit rot.— Dmitri.
Epson ET-M2170
The Best Printer for Making Monochrome Zines at Home
A fully monochrome inkjet with duplex printing, great resolution, edge-to-edge printing, and eco-friendly ink supply.— Dmitri.
Auslöser
Magazine Review
An Ango-German magazine with fantastic design featuring interviews of notable film photographers and their works.— 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.
Auguste Rodin on Film
The Works of the Founder of Modern Sculpture on 35mm
There are more than a hundred museums in the city of Paris. Everyone, of course, knows about the Louvre, but many smaller galleries and institutes have also preserved and protected the works of famous artists. One of my personal favourite museums in Paris is the Hôtel Biron site of Musée Rodin, dedicated to the works of the founder of modern sculpture, the great Auguste Rodin.— Abhijeet Dangat.
