2021-02-26 14:30
Most of us that have been around film photography for a long time know the Nikon Nikonos underwater camera. It was always a bit of a mysterious camera, reserved for fantastic journeys i… Read More
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2021-02-25 14:00
News just in from the folks over at Intrepid Camera: a new model of their Intrepid Enlarger that can make colour and black and white darkroom prints from 35mm and 120 format film (up to 6&ti&hell…Read More
2021-02-24 14:00
It was in the backwaters of France that I decided to do the research right here for my Master’s in anthropology. Almost every morning, the sun crept over the forested hills at seven bu… Read More
2021-02-23 14:00
Oh … well, this is more of a story of how I quit film and then went back to it again. You see, I was having some issues with the toxicity of the film community here in Vietnam and so… Read More
2021-02-22 14:00
Ever since I started shooting medium format film, I’ve been searching for a favourite film stock and I think I may have found it in Kodak’s Ektar 100 Professional
After a short w… Read More
2021-02-21 14:35
I’d been working on this project in one form or another for about 6 months, trying various methods to return the old selenium light meter on my Rolleiflex 2.8F to a functional and usab… Read More
2021-02-20 14:00
These are the 31 days and 31 articles that made EMULSIVE in October 2020. There’s no fancy countdown here, just my usual recap for those of you who missed the goings-on. You’ll f… Read More
2021-02-19 14:00
5 Perfectly Circular Fisheye Frames… On ILFORD FP4 PLUS (35mm Format / EI 125 / Minolta XD-11 + Minolta MC FishEye Rokkor-X 7.5mm f/4) - by Ryan Steven Green
Continue reading 5 Perfec… Read More
2021-02-18 14:00
Before the world stopped turning, I took a road-trip to the US Pacific Northwest with the dog while my wife and daughter visited the outlaws in the midwest. I got to go visit a bunch of nerd… Read More
2021-02-17 15:00
Bobby Troup and his wife Cynthia Hare sang the feeling of crossing one of America’s longest roads, way-way back in 1946 with the line, “Get your kicks, on Route 66.” Later… Read More
2021-02-16 14:00
The year 2020 started with a lot of expectations, after all, we had been waiting for 7 years and finally, at the end of the year, our wedding would happen. The year started with a lot of pre… Read More
2021-02-15 14:00
I began in photography shooting for The Arbiter, Boise State University’s student newspaper. My qualifications at the time? I had access to a camera (a Minolta SRT 303b) and I happened… Read More
2021-02-14 15:00
Disassembling the only 35mm film holder made for Graflex Cameras isn’t something you get to do every day. Some sixty years ago, a photographer had a distinct need to shoot 35mm on a 2… Read More
2021-02-13 14:00
These 5 Frames were all shot on an afternoon walk around my neighborhood in Midtown Detroit. It was a hot summer day and I was absolutely exhausted from being locked into my tiny apartment f… Read More
2021-02-12 15:00
My film development workflow shifted in 2020 and became almost entirely based around semi-stand methods. Previously I had used ILFORD DD-X and taken great care over timings and chemistry &nd&hell…Read More
2021-02-11 14:00
I am no photographer. Well, not in any meaningful sense of the word anyways. I have neither formal training nor professional experience in the practice. Yet despite this, film photography is… Read More
2021-02-10 14:45
On Christmas Eve I polished up my Vivitar Powershot Point and Shoot 35mm camera that I rescued from the recycle bin at work and loaded it up with a roll of Kodak ColorPlus 200. I wanted to d… Read More
2021-02-09 14:00
As a creative, making it to the end of 2020 felt like a literal Sysiphus myth — pushing a giant boulder uphill all year to stay creative, make money, stay healthy and not lose hope. It… Read More
2021-02-08 14:00
About a year ago I was feeling a bit in a rut creatively, and I always feel exercises help get my creative juices flowing. I needed to be more serendipitous with the camera, rather than phot… Read More
2021-02-07 14:30
Netflix’s Bridgerton needs no introduction. 82 million households have already seen it, and as I write this, it’s back to being #1 in the United States. It’s been an entert… Read More
2021-02-06 14:00
Growing up in the digital age, I took the leap into film photography a year ago shooting a roll of Rollei RPX 400 on a £5 Praktica. I hated how with the introduction of EVF’s and… Read More
2021-02-05 14:30
The latest photographer and YouTuber for my interview series is Borut Peterlin. Borut is a Slovenian wet plate collodion artist who lives in a small village in rural Slovenia. His photograph… Read More
2021-02-04 14:00
I have been hooked on photography ever since my father showed me how to use his basement darkroom when I was in my teens. I took my first ‘real’ camera — a Pentax Spotmatic… Read More
2021-02-03 10:00
Just arrived on Kickstarter: Lomography’s first crowdfunding campaign of the year: the Ultra-Wide 17mm f/2.8 Atoll lens for Leica M-mount (as well as a few current digital mounts, too)… Read More
2021-02-02 14:00
5 Frames… Of Chess at Vilnius University’s FTMC on Kodak Portra 160 (35mm Format / EI 200 / Nikon F3 + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI) – by Arutis
We are now encountering unpl… Read More
2021-02-01 14:00
It was around 9 o’clock in the evening when I was walking the coast of Thessaloniki in order to capture some long exposures of the ships with one of my friends. I was had my Hasselblad… Read More
2021-01-31 15:00
If you have been giving monochrome (aka black and white) film photography a go, you will have realised that film doesn’t quite see things the way your eye does. With modern, panchromat… Read More
2021-01-30 14:00
5 Frames… On the high-impact polystyrene Ami 6×6 with Arista.EDU Ultra 100 (EI ??? / 120 format) – by Brian DuBois
I love Black and White film. Historically, it is where p… Read More
2021-01-28 14:00
Paddy is a science teacher at the school where I work and a friend I’ve known for years. He likes:
Star Wars
Coffee
Astrophysics
American Football
I’m an English teacher. I like:… Read More
2021-01-27 14:00
Shot 100 years ago: Developing Kodak Premo-Pack 4×5 film from a Rochester Premo B camera ~ by Salvador Busquets
One of the most fascinating things I’ve found by collecting camera… Read More
2021-01-26 14:00
My first adventure with ILFORD HP5 PLUS ISO 400 black and white film was exactly what I hoped for — this film is great. I’m relatively new (less than 6 months) to analogue photog… Read More
2021-01-25 14:00
A fresh snow the night before set the scene for a perfect photographic outing in mid-December 2020. I grabbed my Nikon F with a 35mm lens, loaded it with ILFORD Delta 100 Professional and he… Read More
2021-01-24 14:45
Hello. My name is Aivaras and I am a bokeh junkie. I got into film photography mostly because of my ability to play with limited depth of field and I still can’t let it go. However, th… Read More
2021-01-23 12:00
I’ve been into photography since I was a student at university, it was during the time DSLRs started to become reasonably affordable and were all the rage. Long story short, I bought o… Read More
2021-01-22 14:00
Do you remember the first camera that made you fall in love or impress you? By this, I mean a time when you knew nothing or very little about photography. In my case, it happened when I was… Read More
2021-01-21 14:00
Every Torontonian or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World fan should have some familiarity with the colourful Bathurst Street. As someone who lives alongside northern Bathurst, I had always wondered… Read More
2021-01-20 14:00
Two street photographers make their case for their preferred wide-angle focal length, explaining what works to fulfill their respective vision.
Continue reading Focal Length Feud: 28mm vs 35… Read More
2021-01-19 14:00
Brand new MULTIGRADE RC PORTFOLIO darkroom paper combining the best of fibre-based and resin papers.
Continue reading Brand new from ILFORD: MULTIGRADE RC PORTFOLIO darkroom paper at EMULSIV… Read More
2021-01-18 14:00
These are the 30 days and 33 articles that made EMULSIVE in September 2020 – it feels so long ago now. As usual, you’ll find a recap of all the articles published, starting with… Read More
2021-01-17 14:45
The ability to frame in the mind and see a photo before it's even taken is a key skill, and one that only comes with practice and patience. An equally important factor, though, is the equipm… Read More
2021-01-16 16:00
5 Frames… Of pre-US election day 2020 on ILFORD FP4 PLUS (Nikon FE / 35mm Format) – by Todd Shorack
When I develop a roll of film, I always look forward to seeing the faces of p… Read More
2021-01-16 12:00
Join the Analog Photography Fireside Chat Episode 3 with SilvergrainClassics on Saturday Jan 23rd
Hi everyone, it’s Charys here from Silvergrain Classics again! As we put our feet up b… Read More
2021-01-15 16:00
The bulk loader was a deal and came with mystery film. It had a label that said ‘Plus X 125’ so I loaded a small test roll, shot it and developed it in Kodak D-76. The results we… Read More
2021-01-14 15:30
5 Frames… Of Polaroid Originals on an old Burke & James Orbit 4×5 camera and Ilex Paragon Anastigmat lens – by Nathan Acevedo
April 2020. I purchased my first 4×… Read More
2021-01-13 14:00
Instant Pinhole photos are almost an oxymoron. The film process with the fastest feedback loop coupled with the film process with the longest exposure times. Does it make sense?&nb&hell…Read More
2021-01-12 15:00
Since 2019 I’ve been photographing the remaining symbols of the German Democratic Republic using a stash of (non-PLUS) ILFORD HP5 medium format film that expired in 1990 — the sa… Read More
2021-01-11 14:45
Autumn is always a great time of the year up there in the mountains. You can be pretty sure to find great colors and different atmosphere. Since last year when I started to get into film pho… Read More
2021-01-10 15:00
Agfa Scala 200X is a black and white transparency film, well known in its day for being the only option for generating slides in monochrome. Even back when it was readily available it was st… Read More
2021-01-09 14:00
According to Cameraquest, The Konica Auto-reflex is a full- and half-frame 35mm SLR camera made in 1966. It was the world’s first focal plane shutter 35mm SLR with automatic expos… Read More
2021-01-08 14:30
At the beginning of 2020 I got my hands on the then newly released 35mm ILFORD Ortho PLUS. It was the first low speed black and white that I had shot, as I’d previously been shooting H… Read More
2021-01-07 14:00
Mid-November 2020 — 8 month months into the pandemic. We have to distance, but the one freedom we still can experience is a walk in the woods. Luckily, there’s a path near my hom… Read More
2021-01-06 17:00
On an early grey wet and gloomy Friday morning I walk through Cape Town’s Thibault Square in search of Riviera Salon. With the weather hanging heavy and dark over the city and over mys… Read More
2021-01-06 12:25
Hi everyone, it’s Charys here from Silvergrain Classics. EM was kind enough to give us some space here to talk about our upcoming Analog Photography Fireside Chat Episode 2 this Saturd… Read More
2021-01-05 14:00
5 Frames… Near Seattle’s Pike Place Market on a Hasselblad 500CM and ILFORD HP5 PLUS (120 Format / EI 400 / Carl Zeiss Distagon CF 60mm f/3.5)
When talk turns to street photogra… Read More
2021-01-04 14:00
This ‘five frames’ might more properly be called ‘eight frames’ because it was inspired by an idea in the autumn of 2019 to dig out my very first camera, an old hand… Read More
2021-01-03 14:00
Leica is known for its legendary craftsmanship of cameras, but I don’t need to tell you that. Why do you think we all clamour at the idea of finding one amongst our grandfather’s… Read More
2021-01-02 14:00
May 2020. With COVID in full swing, I decided to leave the city and make the hour-long trip to the desert to capture some landscapes. Still getting used to the new (to me) Leica M4, I brough… Read More
2021-01-01 17:00
It’s been 5 years since I launched EMULSIVE – half a decade — during that time, the landscape of the film photography community has changed IMMEASURABLY. For the first time… Read More
2020-12-31 16:00
And here it is, the final listicle of 2020. The most popular articles of the year as decided by you for the year we all want to forget. I don’t really have anything more to add other t… Read More
2020-12-30 14:00
Time for this year’s penultimate listicle, and it’s one for the gear heads out there, this year’s most popular camera reviews on EMULSIVE. Thanks to everyone who submitted… Read More
2020-12-29 16:00
There are a few days left for 2020 (well, 2 at the time of publication) and like 2019, we didn’t see any film stocks being discontinued. A small blessing, given everything else that&rs&hell…Read More
2020-12-28 14:00
Here’s listicle #2 for this year, and it’s 100% focused on darkroom alchemy. From bringing back Kodachrome (development, that is!), to RA-4 color printing, to monobath developers… Read More
2020-12-27 14:30
If you’re celebrating, Merry Christmas! If you’re not, welcome to the end of a year which, well, that’s enough about that. I made a promise to myself early in 2020 that I&r&hell…Read More
2020-12-25 14:00
“It’s Christmas Theo, it’s the time of miracles”
Hans Gruber, Beloved Christmas Terrorist
Christmas is a piece of family-orientated theatre, rich with idiosyncratic t… Read More
2020-12-24 14:00
The Peter Pan Cup is a yearly 100m race, a swim across the icy-cold Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park. Swimmers have met in the park every Christmas morning since 1864, and the titular “Pet… Read More
2020-12-23 14:00
In order to reduce the number of folks that are visiting Yosemite National Park due to Covid-19, only a handful of park passes were being released at 7am each day through the Yosemite Nation… Read More
2020-12-22 14:00
5 Frames… Of Bradford on a Voigtlander Bessa 66 (ILFORD XP2 Super / 120 Format / EI 400) – by Mike Avison
It was time to try out one of my 120 format film cameras and the first… Read More
2020-12-21 14:00
What an amazing way to visualise the world. I have pursued the joys and wonders of film photography and darkroom work for some decades now and within this journey find it not only therapeuti… Read More
2020-12-20 15:00
The Leica M3 is a camera I have lustered over since the beginning of my photography career almost eleven years ago now. Obviously, it looks absolutely beautiful as far as mechanical design a… Read More
2020-12-19 14:00
5 Frames of Kodak VISION3 500T 5219 developed in RA-4 chemistry (35mm Format / EI 500 / Lomography Sprocket Rocket) – by Steve Jones
Like many analogue fans the Coronavirus lockdowns a… Read More
2020-12-18 14:15
I’ve been wary of expired film in the past. The possibility of spending time and money buying, shooting and developing film with no guarantee of any results put me off. Buying expired… Read More
2020-12-17 14:15
When it comes to double exposure photography, I’ve never really seemed to get it quite right. Whether that is by not underexposing enough or just a lack of composition, the exposures n… Read More
2020-12-16 14:00
My Father was a forensic photographer and I first took a picture in about 1968 using his Pentax Spotmatic. When I was a teenager my Father bought a Mamiya C330 Professional F, which I though… Read More
2020-12-15 11:30
2020 is a different year in every way. So how about using a technical ISO 50 film and doing a reverse process to get a B&W SLIDE? It all started with an old roll of the famous Kodak Tech… Read More
2020-12-14 15:00
5 Frames… Of Edinburgh Castle on ILFORD XP2 Super (120 Format / EI 400 / Rolleicord) – by Jake Williams
ILFORD XP2 Super is a long time favourite of mine. I’ve been using… Read More
2020-12-13 15:30
I’ve waited long enough to speak. We’ve broken up, it’s over. The romance was hot and quick. A flash in the pan. It’s time to do a review on the Contax G2. If I could… Read More
2020-12-12 14:00
Since the 1980’s Kodak Gold has survived the test of time and is still a staple film for many film photographers worldwide. Gold 200 has been (sorry for the terrible pun) the Gold stan… Read More
2020-12-11 11:01
We are the Brothers Wright, the photographers and creators behind CineStill. Ever since the beta tests of CineStill 800T processed in C-41 chemistry, and especially once we began designing s… Read More
2020-12-11 11:00
Following several years of research and development, CineStill have launched one of their most long-awaited products — no, not another film stock — a simplified ECN-2 kit for dev… Read More
2020-12-10 12:00
5 Frames… Of Portraits on ILFORD HP5 400 (35mm Format / EI 400 / Canon AE-1 Program + Canon FD 50mm f/1.8) – Tashdique Mehtaj
After my first portrait session with Kodak Portra… Read More
2020-12-09 15:30
The decision as to which camera, which lens, how much can I fit in my bag, which bag shall I use, and can I carry it all day comfortably, will be familiar, I am sure, to a lot of photographe… Read More
2020-12-08 15:00
This shoot was based on the Ao Dai – a traditional dress of Vietnam. The Ao Dai has always been something I wanted to shoot but the thing is, they are readily available everywhere here… Read More
2020-12-07 15:30
Many of EMULSIVE’s readers know David Hancock and his self-titled David Hancock Channel on YouTube. David got in touch with me a little while ago asking if I’d be able to help hi… Read More
2020-12-06 16:00
When choosing to use a certain camera one must come to terms with the limits inherent. Speaking in respect of my Rolleiflex MX, there are things one can do very well with a TLR. There are al… Read More
2020-12-05 08:12
News coming in from across the web tells us that the Nikon F6, Nikon’s last flagship film camera, which was first released back in 2004 has finally been discontinued, bringing a formal… Read More
2020-12-04 16:00
When I started shooting analog, I mostly shot on Polaroid film and basically still do so today. Compared to 35mm film, shooting Polaroids is very straightforward, as the cameras only offer l… Read More
2020-12-03 16:00
If you’ve never had the misfortune of experiencing a California “fire season”, you are blessed. This was my 39th, and it has been the worst I can remember thanks in large p… Read More
2020-12-02 15:00
I’m fairly new to the world of film photography, so I’ve been doing quite a bit of experimentation lately. In order to better understand the medium (and to curtail some pandemic… Read More
2020-12-01 14:00
“Happy birthday!!! I hope you’re doing well these (often strange) days. If you’re ever interested or up for some more photos let me know. I’ve got a new lens that cou… Read More
2020-11-30 15:15
This is by way of being a plea to @fujifilmeu to bring this magical film stock back into production! I now only have one or two rolls left, I can’t think of another film I’d more… Read More
2020-11-29 13:00
Let me tell you about my adventures with my new Baby Rolleiflex 4×4 (technically speaking, the “Automatic Rolleiflex 4×4”) and Rollei Nightbird, ReraPan (and ReraChro… Read More
2020-11-28 16:00
Hi, I’m Prabhahar Raja from India. I see myself as a passionate photographer although my profession is nowhere related to that passion. I have been into portrait photography for a few… Read More
2020-11-27 14:00
The weather is getting colder so any temperate day is a good excuse to go for a walk. With the pandemic worsening, the only crowds I felt safe visiting were those interred in Philadelphia&rs&hell…Read More
2020-11-26 14:00
During the confinement period in France earlier this year, I have decided to get back to film photography. I found this Nikon FG in excellent condition with a Nikkor 50mm Series E f/1.8 lens… Read More
2020-11-25 14:00
I decided to shoot downtown Chandler, AZ. It has been a place I have shot with digitally many times on paid shoots as well as just banging around. The Leica R film cameras have always intere… Read More
2020-11-24 14:00
This Kodak Duaflex IV has sat on my shelf for 20 years. It has been a family relic for as long as I can remember. Surrounded by a dozen other cameras, it never occurred to me to try it. Afte… Read More
2020-11-23 11:00
At this point in my film career, I own my fair share of cameras. I’ve bought a Mamiya RB67 and some lenses. I splurged on a Plaubel Makina 67. I even found a Mamiya 7 II for half stree… Read More
2020-11-22 14:00
Being partial to shooting some slide film where financially possible has always left me with a big frustration when it comes to viewing my precious slide film photos. I own a slide projector… Read More
2020-11-21 12:45
Before we begin, I just wanted to mention a couple of things. In the interest of the flow of the article, links to websites, Instagram pages, and YouTube videos will all be found at th… Read More
2020-11-20 14:40
In the Summer of 2021 something special is coming to the Scottish Highlands (and hopefully elsewhere), courtesy of Simon Riddell, a van, a large camera, and a lot of chemicals!
No, it… Read More
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