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Revue 35XE/Blada CA35/Voigtländer Vito C

1983 German 35mm Viewfinder

A Tiny Plastic Wonder

Weighing a mere 175g with film + batteries and measuring 4x2½x1”, Revue 35XE is about the smallest and lightest 35mm film camera on the planet. It has a sharp wide-ish 𝒇2. 8 38mm lens and a beautiful viewfinder with bright lines. The Revue is a zone-focus camera, meaning that you’d have to guestimate the distance to your subject and dial that in — both feet and metres are marked on the lens barrel.

Simon Ridell’s Wet Plate Collodion

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Human Profile

Healing and Self-Discovery Through the 19th Century Photographic Process

Simon Ridell is a fire, health and safety risk assessor who lives and works in the Scottish Highlands. The man is driven by the spirit of adventure, which in his case means trips and climbs across the local rugged terrain and coastal cliffs. Simon owes his love for the physical escapades to his father.

Gavin Lyons

Plus, Why Did Zeiss’ Cameras Stop Selling

In this article, I talk about my father-in-law’s Contaflex camera and how looking for a wider-angle lens led me to discover the Contarex. I also talk about the reason why I think Zeiss lost its top market position in the 1960s. I’ve recorded my dialogue on this topic while riding bikes and taking pictures in Vienna in-between the lockdowns.

The Incredible Contarex and Contaflex Film Cameras

Scanning With PrimeFilm XA and VueScan

Intermediate — Scanning Film

Review, Workflows, and Tips

Pacific Image PrimeFilm XA SE might be your best choice for a dedicated 35mm film scanner in 2021. I found it to have a better value than most labs, flatbeds, other dedicated scanners, and DSLRs. PrimeFilm isn’t fault-free, of course, and the process of scanning film optimally isn’t straight-forward.

Scanning Film With PrimeFilm XA

Bob St-Cyr

Lumen Lumination

Intermediate — Lumen Prints With Ilford Photographic Paper

Making Lumen Prints With Ilford Gelatin-Silver Photographic Paper

To help deter the feelings of restlessness, as the world is dealing with the pandemic, I decided to take on a creative project and share my experience along the way. This is just one out of a plethora of possible activities, particularly fun if you happen to have some gelatin-silver photographic paper laying around.

FED-2 II/b With Industar-10

1950s Soviet 35mm Rangefinder

A Review of an Irresistible Piece of Soviet Photographic Technology

FED-2 (pictured: variant II) is a beautiful camera with its share of flaws and imperfections. A Soviet copy of the Leica II that I could not resist at $50. The model I got came with the foldable 50mm 𝒇3. 5 Industar-10 lens that has patinaed to reveal its brass barrel.

FED-2 With Industar-10

Quarantine Zine

Project Overview

The Pandemic

A Project Overview

Quarantine Zine’s purpose is to be a boredom breaker for the film community who may be in lockdown or unable to fully enjoy their life due to COVID-19. The idea is to be deliberately low-tech and low quality, much like an art zine that students would put together using school resources, like scissors, glue and photocopiers and a stapler.

Moments in Between Madness

Book Review

Moments in Between Madness — Book Review

Human Rights

✪ Note: The book being reviewed here is the first 5x8” edition. It has since been republished as an 8x10” with a higher page count. Moments in Between Madness presents a series of photographs from the George Floyd protests in New York City between May 29ᵗʰ and June 3ʳᵈ 2020, by Joseph Rovegno.

Expired Emulsion Review

E-6 — Provia 400F

Provia 400F is the second generation of the Provia 400 fast slide film series with a finer grain — an RMS granularity of 13, compared to 15 for the original. It is the second-to-last Fujifilm innovation in this line. The final iteration in the series is FujiChrome Provia 400X, which has been discontinued in 2013, along with dozens of other stocks the company axed semi-recently.

Fujifilm FujiChrome Provia 400F 35mm Slide Film

Make Full-Size Books and Zines at Home W/O Book Clamps

Intermediate — DIY Perfect Binding

Perfect binding is a method of fastening pages without folding paper, staples, stitches, or coils. Paperbacks, photobooks, and most well-made magazines are perfect-bound. Early in 2020, I set out to print a community magazine with the high-quality construction of a professionally printed publication but with a one-of-a-kind hand-made feel.

DIY Perfect Binding

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. Sorted by date then country they were designed in.

Film Cameras

Film, developer, and all photochemistry reviews, samples, guides, and tools.

Film and Chemistry

Film, photography, and art-themed printed book and magazine reviews, overviews, how-to’s and recommendations.

Books and Magazines

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

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

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

Health, Environment, and Humanity

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Everyone — How to Get Featured on Analog.Cafe

Get Featured on Analog.Cafe

Pleased to announce an open call for stories, essays, opinions, articles, and reviews on Analog. Cafe! Analog. Cafe website is built around community support and participation. Over half of the articles published here are submissions from the authors willing to share their knowledge, experience, or creative expression using this platform.

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