Film Photography

How we built Bertha – A large format camera that will shoot 1.1×1.1 metre slides

Dec 30, 2019 Davide Rossi

It’s called Bertha, it’s a gigantic camera built out of a desire to find out what photography can reveal beyond certain limits. From the first…



How to make your own DIY ground glass focusing screens for large format cameras

Dec 23, 2019 John Aldred

These days, if you want to shoot large format, you might have difficulty finding replacement parts. Large format cameras aren’t exactly as common as they…



Here are some gift ideas to make film photographers happy for holidays

Dec 12, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Christmas is coming, and so is buying gifts for your loved ones. In case you have film photographers among your friends and family, Noah of…



Comparing Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros II to original Acros. What’s the difference?

Dec 10, 2019 EMULSIVE

Understandably, I was very excited to hear the news of Fujifilm bringing back NEOPAN 100 ACROS in the form of ACROS II earlier this year. So, when…



Ektachrome 120 and 4×5 formats will be available in the next ten days, Kodak confirms

Dec 10, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

In early 2019, Kodak announced the comeback of Ektachrome 120 roll film and large format sheet film. After keeping us waiting for almost a year,…



It looks like Fujifilm’s new Across II might be being made by Ilford

Nov 25, 2019 John Aldred

Fujifilm’s recently released Acros II starts shipping in Japan this month, but it looks like it’s possibly being manufactured by Ilford, and not Fujifilm themselves….



Tetenal has announced its first film developing kits since coming under new ownership

Nov 25, 2019 John Aldred

It looked like it was the end for Tetenal. At the beginning of 2019, Tetenal went into liquidation but was rescued by a management buyout,…



Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100II to be launched in Japan later this month

Nov 18, 2019 John Aldred

Fujifilm Acros 100 was pronounced pretty much dead in March of last year, during what appears to have been a mass cull of their film over…



Kodak reports film business revenue is up, but overall profits are down

Nov 12, 2019 John Aldred

Kodak has reported its financial results for Q3 2019. They have announced that their film business has grown by 21% in the last quarter over…



Ilford announces 5th gen Multigrade paper and Ortho film is now available in 35mm and 120 format rolls

Oct 28, 2019 John Aldred

Designed as a technical high-resolution copy film, Ilford Ortho film has thus far only been available in sheet film formats. Now, Ilford has expanded the…