Film Photography Archives

How to quickly and easily “scan” negative film with your digital camera and a copy stand

Feb 23, 2019 John Aldred

Scanning film is one of the biggest issues with shooting film today. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult, it’s just a pain because most of us…

Maya is “the only darkroom timer you’ll ever need”

Feb 21, 2019 John Aldred

One of the biggest issues in the darkroom is keeping track of time. Whether it’s for developing your rolls of film or exposing negatives onto…

Shooting film vs. digital in music photography

Feb 4, 2019 Owen Humphreys

Film is very rarely used in music photography anymore. Primarily the reason for this is because of social media and instant news. There’s no time…

Tetenal, one of the world’s largest photographic chemical manufacturers is shutting down after 172 years

Jan 30, 2019 John Aldred

Towards the end of last year, Tetenal Europe GmbH, one of the largest and possibly oldest manufacturers of photographic chemicals in the world announced that…

Drum Scanned – A Review of 35mm Kodak E100

Jan 17, 2019 Michael Strickland

To those who follow my work closely, you may know that I consider myself a large format photographer. I will photograph with a medium format…

This DIY medium format camera shoots both 110mm and pinhole lenses

Jan 17, 2019 John Aldred

Sometimes, you come across a DIY film camera that’s just beautiful in its simplicity. The LIMES 120 is one such camera. Made from an old…

35mm film vs. medium format vs. full frame digital: is shooting film really worth it?

Jan 14, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Although it has been a while since digital cameras took over the market, some photographers still prefer shooting film. But is shooting film really worth…