CineStill's 400Dynamic film that it launched as a crowdfunding campaign in late March has raised nearly $680,000. It has been so successful that the company is now making the stock available in 220 format as well.
CineStill has announced a new 400 speed color film for 35mm and 120 medium format called 400Dynamic. This 400 ISO daylight-balanced color film is starting in limited supply now with plans for larger-scale production down the line.
Photographer Steven Shultz has been experimenting with the Brenizer Method on digital cameras for years, but as he has shot more film throughout 2021, decided to see if there was a way to mix that method with his Mamiya 645AFD.
I believe it would be fair to say that I am known mostly for my landscape work, from broad “grand landscapes” to abstracts in the slit canyons. But throughout most of my career, I’ve also photographed human-made settings extensively.
CineStill has announced a new limited edition medium format red scale film called RedRum. The images made with the film have a monochromatic red and yellowish tint that the company says makes for "spooky" imagery.
Everybody loves a camera with history. For me, there is one specific camera with a lot of history and sentimental value: It is a Hasselblad 500C/M that has been in my family for about forty years. It was my grandfather's camera.
Photographer Kyle McDougall says that one question he gets asked a lot is if shooting in medium format film, such as 645, is really "worth it" compared to 35mm film. In this 11-minute video, he explains why he thinks it is.
Photographer Danelle Manthey spent ten years traveling across the United States as part of her project (and now book), American Christmas. The series documents home Christmas displays and captures them from the perspective that their creations are examples of modern American folk art.
In response to the classic camera shutter sound video we shared yesterday, a reader sent over another, even more enjoyable entry into the "oddly satisfying" category. Created a few years ago by YouTube user Tywen Kelly, he describes his video as "a semi-instructional aural ode to [a] great medium format camera" the Zenza Bronica S2a.
Today we’re going to take a look at two film cameras. We have the Pentax 645nII and the Contax 645: two of the last medium format film bodies ever produced, and the two most popular go-to cameras for wedding shooters who are still shooting film.
Photographer Alastair Bird recently reviewed the Bronica RF645, a classic medium format rangefinder that he calls "one of the nicest little cameras you've never heard of."
Lomography has released a new DIY medium format cardboard camera called the LomoMod No. 1, and it comes with a really neat "accessory" up its sleeve: a liquid-filled lens module that Lomo is calling "perhaps the wildest and most innovative lens in the world."
If you go to Instagram and search #120mm or #120mmfilm right now, and you will find over 740,000 posts by budding and experienced film photographers alike. There's only one problem: there is no such thing as 120mm film. And a new movement/website is doing its best to set the record straight.
If you're just getting started with medium format film photography, NYC-based photographer and YouTuber Willem Verbeeck created a useful comparison video that may help you decide on your first 120 film purchase.
If you've been itching to step up your film photography game—be it trying 35mm for the first time, stepping up to 120 medium format, or even trying out large format film—this old video that's circulating the Interwebz again today is a great place to start.
Unless you have the dough to get a lab scanner, it is a painful process to scan your own film. Luckily one day all the photo labs dumped their Pakon F-135 to the market, and I remember you could get one for ~$250 a pop.
Direct positive photo paper is not typically the domain of 120 medium format film cameras. For those you usually use ... well ... film. But the folks at Galaxy Photography are changing the game with Galaxy Hyper Speed 120: rolls of direct positive photosensitive paper for medium format cameras.