Lens Culture opened up submissions for its B&W Photography Awards 2024.
The winning entries will be shown at the exhibition in London during Photo London 2025. There are also cache prizes, up to $3,500 for the first place in the Series Prize category.
Three new calls for photography submissions have landed on my desk this month, starting with one by The Sustainable Darkroom.
The Active Image: Political Ecologies & Photographic Agency Exhibition is now welcoming submissions relating to issues of social justice and political ecology, that use low-toxicity photographic methods.
The kit is rated for 12-16 Films, but you should be able to get a few more when you develop them all right after each other!”
Is it the same as the Tetenal kit?
“[I]t’s not the same, but we did do our best to rescue this lost formula.”
Powder kit?
“[F]or now only liquid, but let’s see what the future brings.”
You can preorder ADOX C-TEC 41 today from CineStill, Fotoimpex, and Freestyle Photo.
Fotoimplex has also uploaded instructions for the dev kit which include things like development times (i.e., 3’15”@38℃ + 4’ for bleach, which is very fast!):
Note! This isn’t an application to become a Magnum photographer. Polaroid × Magnum Open Call is your chance to win a Polaroid I-2 with 12 packs of Polaroid i-Type BW Film, an intro session with a Polaroid representative, and three online group critiques with Magnum-represented photographers.
The submission is free. Sounds like a good deal.
This open call is an application to get a Polaroid camera to shoot your proposed project on + 12 packs of film.
You don’t need to submit a complete project. It’s a proposal; you can illustrate it with digital photos.
I’ve been feeling exceptionally busy during the past few months so I’m not confident I can show my best effort on this application. But I encourage anyone reading to give it a try. Could be fun!
This release fixes an issue that crashed the web app for GOLD subscribers when visiting pages with tables of contents. Thank you, Liam and David, for reporting the issue, and sorry for the trouble!
I will be adding automated tests to make sure this particular problem doesn’t occur in the future.
Lomochrome Color’92 Sun Kissed is an incremental update to the original formula. The brand did not share the technical details of its films and did not elaborate on the exact improvements in the current batch. Updates to film chemistry could mean many different things, sometimes difficult to identify without running elaborate tests (like this one: analog.cafe/r/all-the-iso-…).
One thing’s for sure: it’s a fresh batch, and it looks at least as good as the first version. I’ve requested a test roll. Should it come through, I’ll take a closer look and report back.
You can get the new film today on Lomography’s website:
The leaves look pale because of the green filter. On black-and-white film, colour filters will increase the relative brightness of objects/subjects that match the filter’s colour. In the case of this photo, the green filter matched the leaves.
Pulling this film allowed me to shoot with my camera’s limited shutter speed and possibly helped retain some details in shadows/highlights. But it’s not required to get the white leaves effect.
The last 13 #website updates were focused on content and messaging around GOLD memberships. I’ve also added links to contact me in more places so it’s easier to get help in case something isn’t working.
Meanwhile, many small changes to numerous articles are being pushed this week. Some of them are typo corrections and updated links. But most notable are the new tables of contents blocks.
I’ve seen Google digest my tables of contents and display parts of them in the results. I’ve also noticed that TOC links are getting used by the readers. I’m happy that many of you find them helpful.
I am working on adding more TOCs but the process is manual so it’ll take time to complete.
I’ve got a few film-tested cameras with free shipping to the US and Canada for 20% OFF: filmbase.etsy.com
Konica Recorder — a half-frame, pocketable point-and-shoot camera with a very wide & sharp lens.
Olympus PEN FV with H.Zuiko Auto-S 1:2 lens — the only half-frame SLR ever produced with an incredibly fast lens.
Olympus XA2 RED — a classic tiny full-frame camera in a rare red colour with a matching, working A11 flash.
Mamiya U — a mint-condition camera with a very sharp lens and a very unusual design. This is THE ONLY CAMERA you’ll ever find with the original working shutter button.
Also, there is a 250mm (~375mm equivalent) super-telephoto lens for Olympus PEN and a 150mm (~210mm equivalent).
All of these cameras and lenses were tested extensively with film, they were the subjects of my reviews on Analog.Cafe. Please read the detailed descriptions for each with my notes from the real-world tests.
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