I’d like to share a unique and serendipitous image my film camera created this Earth Day.
British Columbia had a record number of forest fires last year (cbc.ca/news/canada/british…); the 2024 burning season is close.
The fire that appears to consume the Vancouver Island beach forest in this image is a spontaneous and unintended effect of the photographic film’s physical properties.
I won’t stretch the symbolism here (instead, I’ll share a couple of tips on how…
I’ve got emails from Dupli Ltd and CineStill announcing the resumption of the Kodak Professional Photo Chemicals series, which was in limbo for about a year after its previous manufacturer (Sino Promise) stopped making them. XTOL, T-MAX, and D-76 will be made and sold again.
I was meaning to write about this earlier, but the task escaped me. 35mmc has announced the news today (and PetaPixel did so a little earlier), which I’d like to acknowledge as a helpful reminder…
This film was long gone from the shelves in the US & Canada (+presumably the EU), yet it was still sold in Japan (see analog.cafe/comments/nfg3 #video🍿)
Fujifilm is famously secretive about its film production lines, at least in the anglophone world (Kosmo Foto’s Stephen Dowling often has to…
The inaccurate light metering may be due to the fact that most LR44 batteries available now have a voltage of 1.5v. Using batteries with a voltage of 1.45v may yield better results. I hope this information can help others.
Crown + Flint is an iOS and Android app for generating EXIF data and keeping detailed notes while making exposures on film.
If you’d like to store the camera, film/ISO, lens, shutter speed, aperture, date, location data, and photos, this app can help you get there. This is comparable to the kind of data that digital cameras will embed for you automatically (something that film generally can not do).
Crown + Flint uses automation to help you pre-fill well-known cameras, films, lenses, and date/location data…
Unfortunately, FilmBase (a five-star-rated Etsy shop that sells much of the gear tested on Analog.Cafe) will no longer offer shipping outside the US and Canada.
Here’s why:
Sometime last year, I noticed that Canada Post began to blanket-reject all shipments to the EU that included film cameras. Their reason had always been the same: “There’s a battery in a package.”
I’m well aware of the postal service’s rules. It’s not difficult for me to comply: nearly half of the cameras I use don’t need a battery, and the…
Flash photography can be indispensable and has a variety of creative applications. I took the time to learn how to use it with all my cameras and wrote a well-received guide on it here: analog.cafe/r/a-simple-gui….
I typically avoid it (flash) because it introduces more gear, a look that isn’t always personally desirable, and a bright burst of light that can be startling/distracting.
Do I detect a certain snobishness about your comments about flash photography? The MG-1, like a lot of budget rangefinders, has leaf shutter in the lens so you have flash sync at all speeds. You can find the manual for this camera, here:- butkus.org/chinon/yashica/…
It appears that Lomography has discontinued their Diana Mini camera. Their Monday morning (PST) email says there’s still some stock left, but they won’t be making it again (as I understood the message; I’ve contacted Lomography for clarification and will update this comment once I hear back).
Diana Mini is a plastic toy camera that can switch between a square and half-frame aspect ratios on 35mm film. It uses a 24mm lens with two apertures (f/8 and f/11) with a single shutter speed of 1/60s. It uses zone…
I understand. Could you tell me what may’ve gone wrong and have you developed this exact film using the recipe? The results were confirmed for P3200 specifically, I’ve certainly seen better results with slower emulsions.
I have been meaning to respond to your original post. I was saddened to see how badly your negatives came out, and even more sad to see that you believed and others “confirmed” that this is normal! It is not! Proper Caffenol recipes produce negatives of the HIGHEST quality, indistinguishable from negatives developed in Kodak D76 or similar. Not grainy, not dark and murky. Clear, fine grain, great tonality and contrast. It makes me cringe to see all the people online saying you get poor quality negatives from…
FYI: This month’s Community Letter will be published on Thursday instead of the usual Tuesday. I’m off to the islands for a mini vacation where I’ll be testing some cameras and not thinking about work.
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