Yesterday, UK-based film manufacturer Ilford released an official company statement regarding its handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic. And while the statement covered all of the important updates, Ilford also took the opportunity to strike a cheeky, lighthearted note.
Analog photography company escura wants to "take instant photography to a new level," so they've taken to Kickstarter to fund something called the Hasselblad Portrait: "the first fully compatible instant film back for your Hasselblad V-System camera."
Fujifilm Japan has issued a "Notice of discontinuation of some photographic film products," which states that the company will no longer sell 3-packs of Fujicolor 100 and Superia Premium 400 film as of March 2020, "due to a long-term decline in demand."
Kodak Alaris has posted a detailed warning for film photographers, explaining that the new CT scanners being installed to check carry-on bags across the United States will almost certainly ruin your film, even after a single pass.
NBC documentary unit Left Field has created an interesting deep dive on the renaissance of film photography in the digital age. In the short doc, the Left Field team try to figure out why the analog process—so time consuming and expensive—has seen such a strong resurgence in recent years.
In an early morning press release, Kodak Alaris has announced that the recently revived Kodak Ektachrome E100 film stock is now available in medium (120) and large (4x5) formats in addition to the 35mm format that launched last year.
Photographer Jon Crooks of Prime Studios put together a helpful walkthrough that shows you exactly how to use the Nishika N8000 3D film camera, and how to turn the resulting images into cool 3-dimensional GIFs.
If you're new to film photography, or you're curious about the variety of film stocks that are out there, there's a useful new website you should definitely check out. It's called Filmtypes, and it's a database of emulsions that wants to help you find your next roll of 35mm film.
Photographer Christoffer Relander collects landscapes... literally. Using medium format film, he's capturing some of his favorite landscapes inside mason jars using in-camera double exposures.
Most photographers could work their way through a few terabytes worth of memory cards during a trip to Norway. But when Tom Kluyver decided to join his buddy Chris Konig on a landscape photography adventure, he didn't pack memory cards. Instead, he brought his panoramic Hasselblad XPan and some Kodak Portra.
Here’s a nostalgia-inducing short film titled “The Sound of Film,” created by Robert Marshall of …
Film photography has been taking a lot of hits in the business world, but while major manufacturers continue to discontinue film production, one small company is doing the exact opposite. Revolog -- a small online shop founded by photography school graduates Hanna Pribitzer and Michael Krebs in 2010 -- has been finding success by selling handmade specialty film.
And while you may think that specialty film wouldn't be a very lucrative business to enter right about now, get this: yesterday the duo announced the sale of their 10,000th roll of film.
Since photography emerged in the early 1800s, the number of photographs created every year has grown exponentially. A dramatic …
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CNN made this creative video highlighting the fact that there's still a remnant vibrant community of film shooters in New York City. It's seen from the perspective of someone typing in "analog photography" into a futuristic Qwiki-esque search engine.