2021-06-07 15:00
Continue reading 5 Frames… Of my 22nd birthday at the Uetliberg on Fujifilm FUJICOLOR Industrial 100 film (35mm Format / EI 100 / Pentax MX + Asahi Pentax SMC 50mm f/1.7) at EMULSIVE Read More
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2021-06-06 15:30
Continue reading Taking Stock: A shootout with 3 very different color films highlights creative possibilities – Kodak Portra, Fuji C200 and Fuji Velvia 100 at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-06-05 14:00
Continue reading 5 Frames… Of my return to black and white film photography on Kodak T-MAX 100 (35mm Format / EI 100 / Nikon N90 + NIKKOR 80-200mm f/4.0) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-06-04 15:00
Continue reading 5 Frames… At Bull Island on Kodak T-MAX 100 and my Mamiya 6 (120 Format / EI 100 / Mamiya 75mm / f3.5) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-06-03 14:00
Continue reading Photography: Here’s a thought – Shot on Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS at EI 800 (35mm Format) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-06-02 13:00
Continue reading My first roll… In a Mamiya 7 on Shanghai GP3 100 (120 Format / EI 100 / Mamiya 80mm f/4 lens) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-06-01 13:00
Continue reading Photography: Out of service – Shot on Lomography Color Negative 400 at EI 400 (35mm Format) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-31 13:00
Continue reading 5 Frames… Of Reno, the Biggest Little City in the World on Kodak Portra 400 (120 Format / EI 400 / Zenza Bronica ETRSi + Zenzanon EII 75mm f/2.8) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-30 13:49
Continue reading The best of #FP4Party April 2021 at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-29 14:00
Continue reading 5 Frames… Of barely expired Fujifilm Provia 100F (35mm Format / EI 100 / Pentax K-1000 + SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2.0) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-28 13:00
Continue reading My first roll… Kodak Gold 200, Praktica LTL + Sikor-XL 80-200mm f/4.5 & Clubman 28mm f/2.8 at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-27 14:00
Continue reading Photography: No place to run – Shot on Shanghai GP3 100 at EI 200 (35mm Format) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-26 19:00
Continue reading My dream come true: Kodak Eastman Double-X film now in 120 format. Available from CineStill to photographers for the first time in medium format…! at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-26 15:30
Continue reading EMULSIVE Interview #226: I am Brian Dubois and this is why I shoot film at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-25 14:00
Continue reading Photography: Shortcut – Shot on Fujifilm NEOPAN 400 at EI 800 (35mm Format) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-24 14:00
Continue reading 5 Frames… Of a triple waterfall in Luxembourg on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (120 Format / EI 400 / Agfa Billy I 6,3) at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-23 15:00
Continue reading Analogue Wonderland: 3 Year Retrospective at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-22 16:00
Continue reading Month in review: January 2021 at EMULSIVE Read More
2021-05-21 13:00
About a year into my film photography journey, I decided that I wanted to look into medium format cameras. Being on a bit of a budget I found myself gravitating towards the cheaper TLRs, and… Read More
2021-05-20 14:00
Shot on Fujifilm FUJICOLOR C200 at EI 200Color negative film in 35mm formatNikon F100, Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 AF-D
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The transfer of knowledge across the fil… Read More
2021-05-19 16:00
Earlier this year I had the privilege of crossing paths with Maryke Musson, CEO of the Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation. Little did I know that she would become one of the most influ… Read More
2021-05-18 14:30
Part of my ongoing 35mm anamorphic tests on film…
Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 at EI 100Color negative film in 35mm formatNikon F100, Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 AF-D + ISCO Ultra Star 2.1
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2021-05-17 15:00
I think the main thing I need to state before anything else is I’m not a rangefinder man. I’ve shot them and had, for the most part, mixed feelings about them. Examples of rangef… Read More
2021-05-16 15:30
This film emerges as a direct outcome of Covid-19 related quarantine, the nectar of staying alone, indoors for 60 days, (during April & May 2020) engrossed in house chores..
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2021-05-15 13:00
If you spend any amount of time surfing the bevy of analog photography hashtags on Instagram, you may have come across Omer Hecht and CatLABS. While he may be recognizabl… Read More
2021-05-14 16:00
Before I ditched my smartphone, four or five years back, I used to make hand-lettering composites with it. I would ink out a design in my sketchbook, snap an iPhone pic, invert it, and mash… Read More
2021-05-13 13:00
Part of my ongoing 35mm anamorphic tests on film…
Shot on Kodak Eastman Double-X (5222) at EI 800Black and white negative film in 35mm formatPush processed 3 stopsNikon F100, Nikkor 8… Read More
2021-05-12 16:00
My good friend Johan recently moved from Gothenburg, Sweden to Berlin, Germany. I wanted to give him a proper farewell and give myself the best chance to emotionally process the loss of him… Read More
2021-05-11 13:00
Part of my ongoing 35mm anamorphic tests on film…
Shot on Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS at EI 200Black and white negative film in 35mm formatPush processed a single-stopNikon F100, Nikkor… Read More
2021-05-10 15:30
A few months back, I wrote an article here about how I met some camels while on a desert shoot. They appeared out of nowhere, cresting over a dune some ways away, just as I found myself at t… Read More
2021-05-09 14:30
I am familiar with flash photography. Much of what I shoot digitally, either in the studio or in the real world, is done with flash. On camera, off-camera, one flash, 6 strobes, no problem… Read More
2021-05-08 14:35
Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 is an interesting film, with unclear origins, that shifts colours towards the purple spectrum, like a fantasy/dream. Greens become purple, blues aqua/… Read More
2021-05-07 14:00
Registration opens for EXP.21, the world’s first experimental photography summer camp
Photography festivals are back in Barcelona this summer! Between July 21st and 25th, 2021, the EXP… Read More
2021-05-06 13:00
Shot on Ultrafine eXtreme 400 at EI 400Black and white negative film in 35mm formatNikon F100, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D
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The transfer of knowledge across… Read More
2021-05-05 13:00
Say hello to Andrea Bianchi; Surfer, extreme sports photographer, photo editor and portraitist based in one of the most beautiful parts of the world.
Andrea and I have been crossing paths fo… Read More
2021-05-04 13:00
Part of my ongoing 35mm anamorphic tests…
Shot on Bergger BRF-400 at EI 400Black and white negative film in 35mm formatNikon F100, Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 AF-D + ISCO Ultra Star 2.1
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2021-05-03 13:00
I flew into Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, late in the night to be unceremoniously whisked off to spend the next 15 days in quarantine in a 3×4 meter hotel room. I was there on a work assi… Read More
2021-05-02 16:00
I love medium format cameras but sometimes I feel a bit lazy: I just want to shoot a camera that is quick and convenient to use. That is when I reach for my trusty Pentax 645NII. It is a med… Read More
2021-05-01 16:00
The Bombastic Proposal: the marriage of digital photography with social media has fundamentally altered the nature of the photograph for most Americans — to such an extent that this co… Read More
2021-04-30 13:00
I headed out to the West Australian Wheatbelt with a battery of cameras: a Polaroid SX-70, a Kodak Cresta, an Ilford disposable, and a Kodak Hawkeye, but the Franka Rolfix was the sentimenta… Read More
2021-04-29 13:00
Shot on Lomography Color Negative 100 at EI 100,Color negative film in 35mm format,CONTAX AX, Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f/2.8
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The transfer… Read More
2021-04-28 15:00
Welcome to another fresh EMULSIVE interview, this week with New York based tech journalist David Imel. Regular readers might remember David’s flagrant disregard for the sanctity of 5 F… Read More
2021-04-27 13:00
Shot on Lomography Color Negative 400 at EI 400Color negative film in 35mm format
Leica M6 TTL 0.85 and Voigtlander Color Skopar 21mm f/4
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Th… Read More
2021-04-26 13:30
I had used film from the late 1950s right up to the digital revolution when I was seduced by what the new cameras could do. As DSLR cameras improved (I now have a Nikon D850) there were few… Read More
2021-04-25 13:00
I had been meaning to get into the medium format 6×7 game for a while and I finally bought the Pentax 67 (the “middle” version before the 67II) at an auction. For a long ti… Read More
2021-04-24 13:00
Shot on ILFORD FP4 PLUS at EI 500.Black and white negative film in 35mm format.Push processed 2-stops.Nikon F6 + Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR / Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED.
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2021-04-23 13:30
My first roll… Of 35mm film shooting Street (2012, Leica M3 and Fuji Superia 200) – by Jenquest
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto… Read More
2021-04-22 13:00
Shot on ILFORD FP4 PLUS at EI 500.Black and white negative film in 35mm format.Push processed 2-stops.Nikon F6 + Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR / Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED.
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2021-04-21 13:30
Welcome to today’s fresh EMULSIVE interview. We have a bit of a treat this week in the form of polymath Ellen Rogers. Ellen is a photographer, colourist, lecturer, PhD student and fant… Read More
2021-04-20 13:00
Shot on ILFORD FP4 PLUS at EI 500.Black and white negative film in 35mm format.Push processed 2-stops.Nikon F6 + Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR / Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED
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2021-04-19 15:00
The pandemic really threw a wrench in my shooting habits back in March of 2020. For a long time, I was used to driving around town to practice my photography, but obviously, once the pandemi… Read More
2021-04-18 15:00
It was the Christmas of 2013, I had been expanding my photographic horizons and acquiring new cameras to try out. In the photo world this is known as GAS, short for Gear Acquisition Syndrome… Read More
2021-04-17 16:00
Finnish sauna tradition is strong and living heritage. It was in fact added to Unesco’s list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity a few months ago. Smoke sauna is the most t… Read More
2021-04-16 12:00
I get easily excited about the little things. Whether it’s a new film stock, a film stock revived from the dead (come on Agfa Vista 400!), a new camera, a newly discovered old camera… Read More
2021-04-15 13:00
Christmas 2019 a discreet messenger informed me I was to receive a “Secret Santa” gift, and asked what I might suggest. I was curious to try Kodak TMAX P3200, so I suggested this… Read More
2021-04-13 14:00
One straight line
Shot on Kodak EKTACHROME E100 at EI 100Color reversal (slide) film in 120 format shot as 6×9Fuji GW690III Professional
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2021-04-12 13:00
A few months ago on my Sunday routine at car boot sales looking for old and vintage film cameras I stumbled upon 2 (yes 2) cameras, lovely and in good looking condition Olympus MJU 35mm poin… Read More
2021-04-11 13:45
I stand at the edge of the forest, my dilapidated Canon in hand. Mist rises from the trees, as two pigeons snap their wings in hasty exit. A path snakes ahead, deep into the wooded dark. Rai… Read More
2021-04-10 13:00
As a film photographer, I am always drawn to some of the more timeworn parts of town, so to speak, and that propensity for the foregone cannot be more satisfied than in the old part of Main… Read More
2021-04-09 14:00
For a photographer, there is nothing quite like the experience of looking onto the focus screen of a TLR or other medium format, primarily waist-level viewfinder cameras such as Hasselblads… Read More
2021-04-08 14:00
In autumn 1993 it was time again. The annual Blues Night in the neighboring town of Idar-Oberstein was coming up. This time I also wanted to take pictures there. My first time in a dark hall… Read More
2021-04-07 16:00
After an 8-month hiatus, I’d like to welcome you all back to the EMULSIVE interview. Yes, yes, 2020 be damned, etc. Last year was a challenging one for me and I took a bit more of a hi… Read More
2021-04-07 13:00
If you’re looking for a cheap point-and-shoot upgrade from Fuji’s last cheap point-and-shoot Instax camera, the company will gladly cover you as of just a few hours ago with the… Read More
2021-04-06 16:00
The Werra I is an east german jewel of a camera, produced from 1954 until 1967 by Cal Zeiss Jena. Love at first glance is how it started for me; the camera looked like the brainchild of a te… Read More
2021-04-05 16:00
Last year’s lockdown left me simultaneously busy with work and also with lots of time stuck at home I would not have normally had. The up and downsides of the new lockdown lifestyle. O… Read More
2021-04-04 14:00
I started writing this article in 2019 and left it as a draft for EM here for quite a while. The reason for this is that while I enjoy writing, I don’t often think that my “revie… Read More
2021-04-03 16:00
Late last year, my wife and I wanted to combine my love of photography with our shared love of travel, exploring, and just getting into adventures together. We decided to work on a personal… Read More
2021-04-02 16:00
I have been looking for this historical artwork for some years – a useable Dallmeyer 3B Portrait Petzval 290mm f/3 lens made during the 70s — the1870s. Finally, I got it (with so… Read More
2021-04-01 08:00
SIlvergrainClassics and the state of Rheinland-Palatinate are pleased to announce an agreement for a new training center for analog photographers and filmmakers.
The former army facility, wh… Read More
2021-03-31 15:30
Way back in 1963, in the early years of my photojournalism career, a German friend of mine who was about to emigrate to the US persuaded me to join him on a visit to his homeland in early Fe… Read More
2021-03-30 15:00
In this article I am going to talk about the journey that led me to build the Mongoose automated negative carrier, and my newest device, the BoopBoop Trigger for digitizing mounted slides.&n&hell…Read More
2021-03-29 16:00
After twenty years hiatus from film photography, I sold all my digital gear and got back to my roots, and what better film than two fifteen-year-old expired rolls of Agfa Scala, to play with… Read More
2021-03-28 16:00
Back in the day, the “stock” Nikon F3 was so popular amongst Japanese photojournalists that Nikon decided to make a “Press” or “Professional” version to t… Read More
2021-03-27 15:00
When I first bought a 5 pack of Lomography’s Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 I wondered if the novelty might wear off after a roll or two and I fully expected to resell the rest. After a… Read More
2021-03-26 15:05
It’s mid-December 2020 and a bearded, touqued figure stands silently on the side of a frozen lake looking off towards the rising peak of a distant mountain as the sun begins to rise. A… Read More
2021-03-25 16:00
The story began around 5 years ago. In March 2016, my friend sent a message telling me she had discovered a film camera while spring cleaning her office. I went down to see her and have a lo… Read More
2021-03-24 13:00
I recently wrote an article for 35mmc reacting to my inability to obtain one of my favorite films, Foma’s Retropan 320 Soft in 35mm format .In it, I touched briefly on why I shoot… Read More
2021-03-23 13:00
5 Frames… Of Santa RAE 1000 at Christmas in Berlin (35mm Format / EI 1000 / Nikon F3HP + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S) – by Oleg Popelyaev
December… The magical time in G… Read More
2021-03-22 13:00
In between covid lockdowns, my girlfriend and I had the chance to visit Iceland. We went lightweight and camped everywhere. Lightweight except that I had brought my digital Pentax SLR in con… Read More
2021-03-21 13:00
I cannot believe that it was 2018 when I wrote the first two parts [1][2] of this series of articles documenting my conversion of a 1940s-era Agfa Agifold 6×6 medium format camera to s… Read More
2021-03-20 14:30
Last December I went on a trip to the area where my mother was born and where parts of my family still live. It’s an area close to Cologne which is marked by the brown coal industry. T… Read More
2021-03-18 13:00
I have been using a 50mm lens almost exclusively for around two years, and I recently wanted to switch it up. The 35mm focal length has been on my radar for a few months, so when a good pric… Read More
2021-03-17 13:00
I remember hearing about the (now 20+ year) straight 8 competition when I was in film school and thinking “who are those maverick, brave, but especially crazy filmmakers?… Read More
2021-03-16 13:00
I’m from Seattle, WA, US yet I have been overseas for the last 13 years, working, exploring, and experiencing what you see in travel vlogs. I’m now in Hai Phong, Vietnam, around… Read More
2021-03-15 13:00
With winter bearing down upon us, my family and I visited the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence, RI USA for a little weather respite. My family brought sketch pads and water… Read More
2021-03-14 13:45
Did you ever hear the tragedy of the Nishika N8000? If you haven’t you’re going to learn all about the seemingly seedy history of this camera; from fake LCD screens to telemarket… Read More
2021-03-13 14:30
These are the 31 days and 30 articles that made EMULSIVE in December 2020. There’s no fancy countdown here, just my usual recap for those of you who missed the goings-on. You’ll… Read More
2021-03-12 14:00
I for the longest time fancied owning a completely mechanical rangefinder camera, but I always thought that they were out of my budget. That was until I, by utter chance, stumbled into the w… Read More
2021-03-11 14:00
“Miss Kozun, you look fantastic! Love the outfit” … “Thanks! It was either this or I was going to be wearing a giraffe onesie all day!”
Oh, 2020, what a strang… Read More
2021-03-10 14:05
During the never-ending cycle of lockdowns here in the UK, I’ve set myself a little project wandering about on my permitted ‘one-exercise-a-day’ time, documenting my hometo… Read More
2021-03-09 14:00
I’ve spent over a decade of my life living and breathing photography. Like many, I started with digital but quickly realized that I wanted a more physical process. I was, and still am… Read More
2021-03-08 14:00
Monochrome waterfalls. Inspired by how my results with Lomography Potsdam Kino 100 came out, I decided to try out Lomography Babylon Kino ISO 13 film. ISO 13?! I have never shot with anythin… Read More
2021-03-07 14:00
The Nikonos V — with its striking orange exterior — is one of the most legendary 35mm film cameras ever made. Created for scuba diving, the Nikonos can go as deep as 50 meters un… Read More
2021-03-06 14:00
5 Frames… On Fujifilm Pro 400H on a Zeiss Ikon Nettar II 518/16 (EI 400 / 120 Format / Novar-anastigmat 75mm f/6.3) – by Dylan Smith
I got into photography back in the film days… Read More
2021-03-04 14:00
As a subject, payphones are not new to me. For over three years I have been documenting them on my smartphone for my IG account @payphonesoflosangeles. About seven months into the project, I… Read More
2021-03-03 14:00
I started taking pictures in Berkeley, CA. during the summer of 1980, with a Nikomat FT2 and a 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor given by my father (I still have both). He had the habit of systematically… Read More
2021-03-02 14:45
I have a habit of browsing for cheap films on eBay. At the time I was impressed by the results I got by shooting my first slide films, namely Provia, Velvia, and even Fujichrome 50 expired i… Read More
2021-03-01 14:00
These are the 30 days and 30 articles that made EMULSIVE in November 2020. There’s no fancy countdown here, just my usual recap for those of you who missed the goings-on. You’ll… Read More
2021-02-28 14:15
I made my first experiences as a street photographer in New York in the 1990s. During this time I learned a lot about New York and photography. The conclusions I drew for myself about photog… Read More
2021-02-27 14:00
It’s the beginning of 2021 and COVID is still running full force. I am a freelance corporate photographer and COVID-19 has decimated my business. So this was a rare instance in which a… Read More
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