Film Photography
Here’s how to make your own film developing “stock cubes”
In the last couple of months, the whole world it seems was on hold due to the rampages of COVID-19/ Corona Virus. In the Facebook…
Here’s how to turn your boring garden shed into a working camera obscura with a darkroom
UK-based photographer Brendan Barry has turned quite a lot of places into giant cameras obscurae. He’s now in isolation like most of us, so even…
How to make your own developer and fixer from the stuff you have in the kitchen
Last week, photographer Brendan Barry showed you how to turn your room into a camera obscura using only the stuff you can find at home….
How to turn your bedroom into a camera obscura – and take photos with it
Photographer Brendan Barry has turned some huge objects into cameras. He started with a $200 camper, then used a shipping container, and finally turned an…
How well does Fujifilm’s Acros-R film simulation compare to real 35mm Fuji Acros 100II film?
I shoot about 50% film and 50% digital these days. For digital, I shoot with the Fujifilm X series cameras and lenses. Fujifilm cameras appealed…
How to “scan” your film shots with the Nikon ES-2 digitizer and your camera
The Nikon ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter was announced way back in August 2017, along with the Nikon D850. It looks like somebody finally bought the…
Lomomod No. 1 review: a fun and frustrating DIY cardboard camera with a liquid-filled lens
When the Lomomod No. 1 was first announced, I had the honor of covering the news for DIYP and I thought to myself: “Man, would…
This tiny hotshoe mounted light meter helps you expose your old film cameras
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattbechberger/reveni-labs-light-meter-tiny-meter-for-your-old-cameras In this modern digital age, we just take for granted that our cameras contain light meters. And in mirrorless cameras, we can even see…
Airport scanners will destroy your unexposed film, says Fuji
In October 2019, it was announced that some US airports would start using new Computer Tomography (CT) scanners. After a recent warning from Kodak, Fujifilm…
Why did it take me so long to start shooting Kodak Tri-X?
I started my journey in film photography in late 2016, and have since been working my way through the various film stocks I can get…






































