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Kevan Wilkinson

Kevin Kethcart

Lee Webb

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Will Barnes

Paulo Monteiro

Jackie Jack

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Lela Gruen

Estimate and Understand Your Next Film Purchase

35mm Film Price Guide

This interactive guide will give you a solid idea on what a roll of 35mm film should cost and what the results may look like. Instantly search for your film brand and make or browse all listings for prices in six currencies, sample images, and mini-reviews.

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 three-part section about key photographic concepts.

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

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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. We’ll also compare the costs of film to digital photography. Once popular throughout the 20th century, film reached its peak in 2003, immediately falling into a deep decline.

Film Photography Costs and Prices

Instant 3⅛²” SLR, fixed 116mm f/8, auto, 1972 USA, $$$

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. The company that built it occupied a position of respect and commercial success similar to what Apple is enjoying today.

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, fixed 50mm f/2.0, M, 1954 Germany, $$$

Voigtländer Vitessa L3

Camera Overview, Shooting, and Repairs

Guide: Voigtländer Vitessa L3

German Precision Optics in a Foldable Rangefinder Camera

A brief history of the Voigtländer Vitessa series. 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.

Voigtländer Vitessa L

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

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. I’ve had an author send me submission while waiting for a delayed flight at an airport. Another came from an expat documenting his peculiar discoveries while living abroad.

Open Call

And Not Screw It Up

How to Make Polaroid Emulsion Lifts and Transparencies

How to Make Your Own and Not Screw It Up

Emulsion lifts result in beautiful, fragile, stretchy little “cloths”, floating in the water like jellyfish. Until arranged into a piece of delicate photographic craft. Aside from the distortion effects, emulsion lifts produce enlargements, which can yield about fifteen per cent bigger photographs.

Polaroid Emulsion Lifts and Transparencies

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

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

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

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

Teresa Zgoda

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Keep Your Film and Cameras Safe On Your Next Trip

How to Travel With Photographic Film

Packing, Airport Security Checkpoints, and Other Trip Considerations

Depending on your means of transportation and destination, travelling with analogue photography gear may pose some risks. Its weight may turn a fun adventure into a laborious affair; your film and camera may get damaged, stolen, or confiscated. I’ve been fortunate enough to travel extensively over the past decade, visiting close to twenty countries by land and by air.

Air Travel With Photographic Film

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 on Your Account page.

Your Analog.Cafe Account

Photographing Beverly Hills, California With a Yashica T5

When November arrives, the weather gets cooler, the leaves change color, the football season reaches the half-way mark, and holiday decorations start going up. I have looked forward to this time of year for as long as I can remember. It instills memories of family, friends, and holiday gatherings.

Holiday Lights With CineStill 800T

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In solitude, I am still. The harmony of life wills me into reflection, mindfulness, creativity. The warm embrace of being alone frees the thoughts to follow no patterns defined by peers. Solitude is my refuge from despair and anxiety. Stubborn, dark feelings fade with the buzz of communal life, easing their grip on my meandering mind.

The Gift of Solitude

Ash Bennison

My Favourite Island

Europe — Ireland

Little Skellig, From Afar

There is an island on the west coast of Ireland. I have never set foot on it. And yet it remains my favourite place in the world. I work as a seabird ecologist and because of this I get to spend a lot of time island-hopping around the Irish coastline in search of seabirds.

JlFeixa

Hexie Hao

Asia – China

Hexie Hao, literally harmony, is the graphic story of a journey across China to the soundtrack of the constant, crazy rhythm of eponymous trains. By the window, daydreaming for hours, I saw the miles of countryside rolling by, speckled by thousands of inhabited blocks.

Ruben van Luijk

Rens Horn

Printed Film Magic From Nadorst Publishing

Ruben van Luijk started giving photography serious attention at the beginning of our century with his Pentax KM. Back then, digital cameras gave sub-par results; his idea of a good machine was a mid-century workhorse used by documentary pros. It still is.

Leporello Series

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