New What The Film?! “🎁 Bonus” game level is up! Colour film levels coming soon.
What The Film?! is a game for film photographers. You progress by correctly guessing film names for the community-submitted samples. Extra points for guessing correctly in a shorter time span.
Hundreds of people played this game. It was featured on PetaPixel and 35mmc.
The new level will let you level up on the scoreboard of the top 100 players. And if you’re one of the people who submitted new images, you have the advantage!
P.S.: The team (Yvonne, Darren) and I are beginning our work on the colour film version of the game. I’ll let you know once the submissions open; we’ll focus on colour negative (C-41) film.
Today, Ricoh Imaging (a brand that owns Pentax) has announced that its brand-new half-frame film camera will have its lens design based on the Pentax Espio Mini cameras: youtube.com/watch?v=xqRQTO…
This new camera (more about it here: analog.cafe/r/film-photogr…) will look and work differently from Espio Mini as it’ll have a manual film crank and no autofocus (instead, relying on the zone focusing system, which I explain here: analog.cafe/r/how-to-zone-…).
CONFIRMED: Film Ferrania releases P33: an ISO 160 black and white film.
“With a sensitivity of 160 ASA, the P33 ensures a simpler and more versatile photographic experience compared to the past. Designed to overcome the processing and printing challenges faced by enthusiasts of the P30, the P33 offers distinctive features such as fine grain and defined contrast. This film not only meets the needs of professionals but also makes analog photography accessible to less experienced enthusiasts. Remaining true to the tradition of Film Ferrania, the P33 combines innovation and tradition, demonstrating the company’s ongoing evolution in the industry.”
SPOILER: Film Ferrania is teasing something new, however, they have not yet made their English announcement. This post shares info from their domestic release in Italy.
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Film Ferrania is about to release P33.
It will be a black and white film in ISO 160, according to Punto Foto, an Italian (Milan) photography store.
Here’s machine-translated (iOS) announcement from the Punto Foto website:
“There is no 30 without 33: The new Ferrania P33 in 135/36 format are on the way. This first production does not have the DX code, so you must manually set the sensitivity to ISO 160. As soon as we have the confirmation of the arrival of the films we will insert them on our website www.puntofoto.eu and you can book them. We do not receive any in large quantities, but they will soon also be available at Rollei-Ferrania Film Point.”
A poorly scanned negative won’t look good, even if the photo is good.
On Analog.Cafe film and lens reviews appear within the context of some of the highest-resolution images on the web. I’ve invested time and money to ensure that each article reveals the finest detail from any camera/emulsion combination. This includes clearly visible film grain on 35mm film scans.
I believe this additional image data can tell a better photo story, whether by describing the resolving power of a particular film or lens or by painting fine detail in a photo essay.
As of this writing, Analog.Cafe delivers 1,268px-wide photos on all large screens in various compressions, which is better than most blogs and social networks.
The GOLD members get the best experience: up to 3,000px-wide images on larger screens! Portrait-oriented edge-to-edge photos are larger than 4K in resolution or 20MP — the highest resolution of most modern film scanners. Smaller/mobile screens will also have improved resolution, which is perfect for zooming in.
I hope the recent website changes will improve everyone’s experience with the new encoding and image sizing algorithms. Let me know what you think!
Kodak has just announced a price drop of up to 30% OFF, depending on the retailer and the region.
Kodak sneaked the news for a brief second along with the slides for the competition celebration 70 years of Tri-X emulsion: instagram.com/reel/C2vYz7M…
The news follow my semiannual industry survey that showed an 8% price hike for an average roll of 35mm film across various shops in the past year: analog.cafe/r/science-back… that report revealed a 6% drop in price for Tri-X as compared to summer 2023.
If lucky, you may find Tri-X at 40% OFF compared to what you’d be paying last year.
The price reduction at your shop may not be instant. It may take weeks and it’s unclear how long this reduction will last. But I would expend to spend less on this iconic emulsion in 2024: analog.cafe/r/kodak-tri-x-…
A good way to check if you’re getting Tri-X at a discount by comparing your price to the market average using this tool (a discounted price should be lower than the average): analog.cafe/app/film-price…
Adox Color Mission Helios colour negative film sample photos and approximate release date announced?
I saw the new Electachrome video today (youtube.com/watch?v=aK0hlf…), where Molly shared an exciting update about the new colour film from the German film manufacturer.
Molly discovered that the German-language Adox website (adox.de/Photo/elementor-13…) has an announcement about the new film “coming next season” (whatever that means). The announcement is nowhere to be seen on the English-language homepage.
The sample images look orangy; the website explains that this is a simple three-layer emulsion, suggesting it’s an experiment in progress.
This film would be a follow-up to the ‘22 Adox Color Mission launch. That was the remainder of the stock that Adox bought from another (defunct) manufacturer along with some technical documentation and possibly tools. The ‘22 Color Mission is beautiful: grainy and colourful. analog.cafe/r/adox-color-m…
The Helios version appears to be Adox’ first step towards recreating the ‘22 Color Mission. And they seem to be a long way from that, given the colour shifts and usable sensitivity of ISO 1.5.
Google Translate from adox.de: “This is more practical than you might think now. During the day in the sun and with a reasonably fast lens, you take photos handheld.”
I did some research on this and you are correct. I’ve updated the article.
FYI2: there are some emulsions that are shiny on both sides. And I’ve found very little difference in scan quality between the orientation of film in your scanner: analog.cafe/r/film-scannin…
As a film photography newcomer also, I feel like shooting film gives off a TIME CAPSULE nature to my photos. Just like you said, it’s mesmerizing when you see developed and scanned photos. Personally, it takes me several months to finish a roll of film on a daily basis, and when seeing the final results, it’s like seeing the memories of the past few months, which, for some, I have already forgotten. And because I take every film shot very seriously(bcaus$), those memories are often precious, meaningful, but minuscule moments, which brings me strong emotions when recalling them through my photos.
I have little experience working with DNGs or RAW image formats. My scanner outputs TIFFs, which I invert using a piece of software I built at home. I’ll check back here if and when I decide to tackle inverting RAWs.
Yes. In simple terms the DNG is a descendent of TIF.
A DNG from a camera typically stores unrendered data. Whereas a DNG from a scanner almost always stores rendered data because a scanner only ever needs to capture a very limited reproduction of a scene. A digital camera needs to deal with an actual scene.
So when a user manipulates a DNG from a scanner in Adobe Camera Raw — the debayer stage is skipped and the ACR tools simply operate on a TIF stored inside the DNG.
I appreciate all the content on this site, it has clearly taken a lot of time and hard work. I’ve enjoyed reading it.
People quite understandably believe that the DNGs they generate by a dedicated scanner and scanning software such as a VueScan hold undebayered RAW image data — when its actually just a TIF wrapped in a DNG.
The same result as when Photoshop allows the user to wrap a JPG or TIF in a DNG…
As you say — if someone is using a DSLR to capture their negatives — is strongly recommended to archive the (real) RAW/undebayered files.
There are few if any advantages in archiving a DNG over a TIF from a dedicated film scanner unless the scanner (could provide the undebayered data).
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