How to Make Polaroid Emulsion Lifts & Transparencies
A complete set of instructions (with a PDF checklist) on how to create your beautiful emulsion lifts with Polaroid film.| www.analog.cafe
A complete set of instructions (with a PDF checklist) on how to create your beautiful emulsion lifts with Polaroid film.| www.analog.cafe
How I made a tiny pocketable pinhole camera that uses Fujifilm Instax film and how you can make your own.| www.analog.cafe
Learn everything about this iconic film camera design. Definitions, types, features, mechanics, shooting, repair, and purchase advice.| www.analog.cafe
A list of 10 smallest full-frame 35mm film cameras by volume. Other specs and review links included.| www.analog.cafe
An in-depth review of the new colour-negative film from Lomography, including exposure, scene selection, and post-processing tips.| www.analog.cafe
If you’re just starting your film photography journey — whether a seasoned digital shooter or a newbie to the camera world — this short guide will help you hit the ground running.| www.analog.cafe
Hasselblad XPan is a true panoramic rangefinder that makes the most of 35mm film.| www.analog.cafe
This is the only colour film for unmodified Polaroid SX-70 cameras. It’s tricky, but I love it.| www.analog.cafe
A compact 35mm point-in-shoot with the best ergonomics in class. But does it hold up to its legendary status?| www.analog.cafe
A complete camera and film review, including user guide, buying guide, and comparison to iPhone and Polaroid.| www.analog.cafe
An in-depth review of the premium German folding 35mm rangefinder camera series from the mid-1950s.| www.analog.cafe
Fujifilm’s Fujichrome Provia 100F features accurate colour reproduction, ultra-fine grain, and a true-to-life contrast curve.| www.analog.cafe
Take advantage of the great wealth of affordable, working, creatively liberating film cameras by mastering exposure and manual focus.| www.analog.cafe
Free yourself of fiddly devices and phone apps. This short online course spells out the method, provides examples, and suggests exercises for reading exposure without a light meter.| www.analog.cafe
A guide to perfecting exposures. It covers advice for both manual and point-and-shoot film cameras.| www.analog.cafe
Understand your film’s dynamic range, improve your images and master the contrast. Learn about film characteristic curves, film density and more.| www.analog.cafe
Acros is a lovely medium-speed black-and-white emulsion. It features silky-smooth gradients with high-contrast shadows and expansive over-exposure latitude.| www.analog.cafe
You can have a lot, a little, or no bokeh. It can be gimmicky or beautiful, have a cat-eye or onion-skin effect, be swirly or not, make soap bubbles, or appear diffused. Bokeh is easy to replicate! This article explains how it works.| www.analog.cafe
A complete guide to aperture's effects on exposure, calculating f-stops, bokeh, aberrations, diffractions, and more.| www.analog.cafe
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.| www.analog.cafe
If you are looking for a cheap quality lens with a body that fits in a pocket, this list is for you.| www.analog.cafe
This short article will help you understand two key concepts in photography: stops and EVs. You will also learn how to apply them.| www.analog.cafe
Ilford HP5+ is a ninety-year-old¹ black-and-white film known for its versatility, sharpness, and controlled response to various development methods. Many photographers love to push-process it and occasionally pull-process. Yet, to my knowledge, no one has pull-processed it to this extreme; thus, this may be the first time anyone has ever shared the technique and the results with the HP5+ shot as if it’s an ISO 3 film.| www.analog.cafe
It’s easy to develop black-and-white film at home. The choice of chemicals, timings, and formulations may seem daunting at first, but once you understand how it works, you’ll find it to be a simple, forgiving process with lots of opportunities to excel and advance the quality of your images.| www.analog.cafe
Developing colour-negative film has a lot of steps, but it’s surprisingly easy to get good results, especially when you got the right tools.| www.analog.cafe
Use this app to convert the Soviet ГОСТ or the German DIN values to modern ISO/ASA film speeds.| www.analog.cafe
10 principles for selecting black-and-white film. Some of which may contribute to your final results in unexpected ways.| www.analog.cafe
Mamiya RZ67 Professional II is a medium format SLR that shoots large 6x7 frames on 120 film with some of the best lenses in class.| www.analog.cafe
A panoramic point-and-shoot film camera with motorized film transport, autofocus, autoexposure, flash, and a 24mm 𝒇4.5 coated lens.| www.analog.cafe
How to save or splurge on film: real advice (no sugar-coating) on using your money smartly. Every penny accounted for.| www.analog.cafe
A high-speed, ultra-fine-grained tungsten-balanced colour film. This in-depth review includes loads of samples, detailed specifications (including pushing and pulling), advanced shooting tips, and the disambiguation of the recent controversy.| www.analog.cafe
In this short guide, you’ll learn about box speed and ISO, what it means to push or pull film, and how to do it at home.| www.analog.cafe
This is a beautiful, immensely capable instant film camera. This guide covers everything you need to know about it.| www.analog.cafe
