Collaborate Disseminate
If film photography’s your thing, the chances are you may have developed a roll or two yourself, and if you’ve read around on the subject it’s likely you’ll have read …read more Continue reading Spuds Lend a Hand In The Darkroom
There’s a good reason that the go-to format for most film photographers is 35 mm, in that it provides a mix of convenience and cost. Shooting huge large-format negatives in …read more Continue reading Large Format Photos Without The Large Price Tag
Something that haunts film photographers is the prospect of a film shortage. This won’t replace film in that event, but [Applied Science] demonstrates photography using leaves. That’s right, a plant …read more Continue reading Photography Goes Leaf Green
We’re used to time-lapse photography being merely a feature of our smartphone camera app, but of course it has its origins in film. A movie camera would be triggered frame …read more Continue reading A Time-Lapse Film, Not A Time-Lapse Video
For those who didn’t experience it, it’s difficult to overstate the cultural impact of the Polaroid camera. In an era where instant gratification is ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that …read more Continue reading Polaroid Develops Its Pictures Remotely
Today, it’s easy to take realistic visual effects in film and TV for granted. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has all but done away with the traditional camera tricks and miniatures used …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Revolutionary Visual Effects of King Kong
For a large part of the 20th century, motion pictures were distributed on nitrate film. Although cheaper for the studios, this film was highly flammable and prone to decay. On …read more Continue reading 35mm Film Restoration Process Explained
Sometimes we stumble upon a hack that’s not entirely new but which is still pretty exceptional. So it is with [Hèrm Hofmeyer]’s guide to recreating a film cartridge for the …read more Continue reading A Dead Photographic Format Rises From The Ashes
We love hacks that give new life to old gadgets, and [edwardianpug]’s YouTube Terminal certainly fits the bill by putting new hardware inside a Super 8 film editor. [edwardianpug] could …read more Continue reading Super 8 Film Editor Reborn as a YouTube Terminal
Anybody born before the mid 1990s will likely remember film cameras being used to document their early years. Although the convenience of digital cameras took over and were then themselves …read more Continue reading Kodak Film Factory Revealed