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
CineStill 50D is a relatively slow, fine-grained/high-resolution, colour-accurate negative film that shows prominent red halos around bright highlights. In this review, I share numerous samples made with this film (along with a downloadable high-res scan), explain its origins, cover technical aspects, and give a few exposure tips.| www.analog.cafe
The inner workings of the two major shutter designs, their benefits/drawbacks, and how they may affect your photos.| www.analog.cafe
Four new Kickstarter projects, new Lomography products, and a relationship between analogue medium and creative success.| www.analog.cafe
This short guide will help you get better colours out of your tungsten-balanced film with and without the 85C filter.| www.analog.cafe
An in-depth review of the premium German folding 35mm rangefinder camera series from the mid-1950s.| www.analog.cafe
Kodak’s Ektar 100 is an exceptional emulsion. It stands apart from all other Kodak products in its colour rendition, dynamic range, and, of course, the grain.| www.analog.cafe
This film is a high-contrast, sharp, and fine-grained emulsion with a unique tonality. Made in Belgium, StreetPan is a former security camera technology brought to the world of analogue photography.| 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
Ilford HP5+ is one of the best-known films ever made. Tested: its versatility, ease of use, and image quality, wrapped in the context of the 90-year history.| www.analog.cafe
In this article, I’ll share the results from my new Sativa Cannanol film developer, along with a recipe so you can make it at home. You’ll also see how this cannabis-based extract stacks up against a commercial developer and various phenol-based solutions, like coffee, moss, fir, cedar, blood, pond water, EpiPen, and pee. You will also learn about various ways to make and improve your own organic homemade developer.| 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
I have a limited hand-rolled batch of Kodak Vision 3 film, branded with the new signature dark Cinema Shorts design, packed in threes with a signed, updated development guide. If you are a new or existing Analog.Cafe GOLD member, you’ll have a chance to win one of these boxes every month until September 2025!| 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