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Developing your own film is an unabashedly analog process, which is one of the reasons people still gravitate towards it. After spending all day pushing buttons and looking at digital …read more Continue reading ESP32 Powers Custom Darkroom Timer
[packetandy] had a problem. He was still into classic analog photography, but local options for development were few and far between. After some frustration, he decided to take on the …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed Automated Development Tank For Classic Photo Films
In the same way that a doctor often needs to take a non-destructive look inside a patient to diagnose a problem, those who seek to reverse engineer electronic systems can …read more Continue reading Reviving a Sensorless X-Ray Cabinet with Analog Film
Anyone who has ever processed real analog film in a darkroom probably remembers two things: the awkward fumbling in absolute darkness while trying to get the film loaded into the …read more Continue reading Darkroom Robot Automates Away the Tedium of Film Developing
This week on Hackaday, we featured a project that tickled my nostalgia bone, and proved that there are cool opportunities when bringing new tech to old problems. Let me explain. …read more Continue reading New Tech and the Old Ways
As the world becomes more and more digital, there are still a few holdouts from the analog world we’ve left behind. Vinyl records are making quite the comeback, and film …read more Continue reading Digital to Analog in the Darkroom
Chemical-based photography can seem like a dark art at times, but it needn’t be so. [Dan K] developed the Simple Enlarger to help spread the idea that classical photographic darkroom …read more Continue reading Simple Photo Enlarger Makes Great Addition To Any Darkroom
Years ago, doing your own darkroom work was the only way to really control what your pictures looked like. In those days, coffee was what kept you going while you …read more Continue reading Hacking Film Processing with Coffee
For the vast majority of readers, the act of taking a photograph will mean reaching for a mobile phone, or for a subset of you picking up a digital camera. A very small number of you will still use chemical film for its versatility and resolution, and we’re guessing that …read more
In a time when cameras have been reduced to microchips, it’s ironic that the old view camera, with its bellows and black cloth draped over the viewscreen for focusing, endures as an icon for photography. Such technology appears dated and with no application in the modern world, but as [Ben …read more
Continue reading [Ben Krasnow] Rolls Old School Camera Out for Photolithography