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Dmitri

Estimate and Understand Your Next Film Purchase

35mm Film Price Guide

This interactive guide will help you find and budget your next 35mm film. Search by brand or browse all sample images and mini-reviews. Compare market prices and trends in six currencies.

Joy Celine Asto

Take Kayo 嘉陽宗丈

Betty

2020 Edition

A Beginner’s Guide to Film Photography

Shooting analogue cameras is not difficult, as long as you have a solid idea of how to do it right, which this guide should aptly provide. If you’ve already got your film and camera, scroll down to “Photography 101,” a four-part sub-series about key photographic concepts.

Dan K

The Unsung Heroes of 35mm Photography

An Extensive Catalogue of Affordable Analogue SLRs, Rangefinders and Lenses

Note from the editor. This article first appeared as the 2013-‘14 three-part series on the Japan Camera Hunter website: I, II, III. Republished on Analog. Cafe with the author’s permission. Dan K, the author, is a prominent camera collector and is a keen supporter of photographic traditions.

Kent

Developing Kodak Tri-X With Monobath Chemicals

Field Notes for CineStill Df96

Developing Kodak Tri-X With CineStill Df96

I watched countless hours of film development videos on YouTube to prepare for when the time comes to do my own. I’ve learned a lot and felt ready to dunk my first roll into chemicals with hopes of seeing the images come out. Coincidentally, CineStill announced their B&W Monobath Df96 developer.

The Monobath Experience

scott

Know in Advance Your Approximate Expenditures on 35mm, Medium, and Large Format Film, Tools, and Cameras

Guide: Estimating Film Photography Expenses

Development, Scanning and Printing; From 35mm to Large Format

This guide should help you understand whether film photography is expensive, how you can save or splurge on it, and whether it’s worth the price as compared to digital. This guide examines the costs of 35mm, instant, and large format film media. Once popular throughout the 20th century, film reached its peak in 2003, immediately falling into a deep decline.

Film Photography Costs and Prices

Instant SLR. USA 1972.

Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1

Camera Overview, History, and Proper Exposure Instructions

Guide: Polaroid SX-70 Film and Camera

The Most Comprehensive Instant Camera and Film Guide Online

SX-70 is a stunning camera. Along with film, it is one of the most technologically advanced products ever created. This is Polaroid’s finest offering; world’s one and only foldable instant SLR. ✹ Update: In this guide, I refer to the company that produces film for SX-70 cameras, Polaroid Originals — formerly named Impossible Project.

Polaroid Land SX-70

Achieve Greater Control Over Your Artificially-Lit Photographs

Guide: Using Flash with Manual Film Cameras

No light meter, no exposure guesstimates — just zone focus, look up your 𝒇-value, and click. Operating flashguns with no sync at all, like in the photograph above, can be done with any camera that has a “bulb” setting and provides control over the aperture.

A Simple Guide to Using Flash on Manual Film Cameras

35mm rangefinder. Germany 1954.

Voigtländer Vitessa L3

Camera Overview, Shooting, and Repairs

Guide: Voigtländer Vitessa L3

German Precision Optics in a Foldable Rangefinder Camera

Voigtländer Vitessa is a German 35mm film rangefinder camera, manufactured in the mid-1950s. At the top of its line, it boasts a highly-regarded fixed 50mm foldable Ultron lens with an aperture range of 𝑓2-22. Its quiet, vibration-free leaf shutter fires between 1 and 1/500th of a second.

Voigtländer Vitessa L With Ultron 2.0

In a Chocolate Tin

How to Build an Instax Pinhole Camera

My wife’s Instax Mini 90 is a fairly complicated machine that makes shooting instant film easy and fun. Today, I decided to see for myself how hard would it be to build my own shanty instant film camera. Not having the tooling or the expertise of a top Japanese manufacturer, I decided to take a few shortcuts.

Building an Instax Pinhole Camera

Adjust Your Film Camera’s Infinity Focus With Better Ease and Percision

How to Calibrate Your Lens With a Cheap Microscope and Sticky Tape

This guide provides specific instructions on how to preview lens rendering on a film plane in real-time, making film camera calibration much more practical/simple than most other methods suggest. This approach is compatible with virtually any film camera.

Sharper Lens With a Cheap Microscope and Sticky Tape

Film, cameras, and chemistry. Techniques, tips, guides, and references. This list includes material for creative individuals and photographers of all levels, with a fitting mix of modern and age-old advice.

Photography Guides

Film camera reviews and guides, illustrated by Betty and Dmitri. Sorted by brand then model. Listings include focusing mechanism and lens information. Primary shooting modes shown: [A]perture/[S]hutter priority, [M]anual, or auto.

Drawn Film Cameras

Photo essays, written about travel, a place, or a destination. Sorted by continent then country. This collection does not include gear-centric articles — just the stories about being or going somewhere.

Travel Essays

Essays and stories on the topics of social and environmental justice around the world.

Health, Environment, and Humanity

A collection of all the portrait photography on Analog.Cafe. Includes photo essays with human focus and/or prominent stories about the subjects. Street or event photography isn’t generally a part of this collection, unless the person(s) are at the heart of the narrative.

Portraits

For Film Photographers

COVID-19 Prevention Advice and Resources

This guide is my attempt to provide relevant information and updates for Analog. Cafe readers in light of the global pandemic. Below, you will find an overview of the latest scientific research on pathogen safety, financial aid resources for artists, help with quarantine boredom, as well as updates from film manufacturers and small businesses.

Discounts, Downloads, Bookmarks, Submissions, Newsletter, and Magic Links

On Analog. Cafe, you can do a little more than with a typical art-inclined blog. Here you get to own an account that comes with a few perks. Discounts. If you’re interested in getting deals on film, printed publications, cameras, and more, there’s always something special waiting for you at the shop.

Your Analog.Cafe Account

Rules, Ideas, Suggestions

How to Get Your Article Featured on Analog.Cafe

Get Your Article or Essay Featured on Analog.Cafe

Analog. Cafe “A Film Photography Magazine” is a group effort. There certainly is no office; most of us never met. ↬ Shortcut: write/submit your photo essay or article. I’ve had an author send me submission while waiting for a delayed flight at an airport.

Bookmarks

Photography Guides

Drawn Film Cameras

Travel Essays

Health, Environment, and Humanity

Portraits

Film Photography

Photo Essays

Letters and Editorials

Apps and Downloads

“COVID-19 Prevention Advice and Resources”

“Your Analog.Cafe Account”

“Open Call”