Category: Analogue

Galaxy Hyper Speed 12 for medium format film cameras is a roll of direct positive photosensitive paper goodness

John Aldred

Shooting directly onto positive paper has so far typically existed almost exclusively in the world of large format photography.  Galaxy are no stranger to this type of product, having successfully ran a Kickstarter project last year to produce large format direct positive paper. Galaxy have now announced they’re entering into the world of medium format photography with […]

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This incredible YouTube channel tells the history of and reviews old film cameras

Gannon Burgett

Like many photographers, I’m a connoisseur of old, analogue cameras. Sure, many of them don’t work and others can’t be shot due to the film stock no longer being produced, but there are a dozen or so that I continually cycle through when I go on a random film spree. Something I haven’t yet done […]

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Lab2Cam turns Impossible Project’s Instant Lab into a manual SX-70 instant camera

Gannon Burgett

In 2012, the Impossible Project launched the Instant Lab, a contraption that turns your iPhone snapshots into Impossible instant prints. While awesome on its own, analog aficionados SUPERSENSE decided to further improve the usefulness of the Impossible Instant Lab by creating the Lab2Cam Conversion Kit, a manual Polaroid SX–70 lens lens attached to a mounting […]

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Fujifilm says it will raise film prices 10%, making it the 5th price increase in 3 years

Gannon Burgett

Film might not be dead, but it’s about to get a whole lot more expensive for Fujifilm fans. The Japanese multinational photography and imaging company has announced it will be raising prices for all of its film, again. If you remember, last July, Fujifilm announced it was increasing the price of its film stocks by 20% and […]

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Still not dead—Kodak shows off brand new Super 8 film camera at CES

Gannon Burgett

CES is all about the latest and greatest technology. Sometimes though, the greatest tech isn’t anything new at all. No one knows this better than Kodak, who’s revealed a Super 8 camera capable of, you guessed it, capturing video on good ol’ gelatin-based film. To celebrate 50 years of the creation of Super 8 film, […]

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The SP-445 is a 4×5 film developing system that can fit in your backpack

Gannon Burgett

It’s safe now to say that film is anything but dead. More so now than ever, it seems photographers young and old are looking to get back to the days of darkrooms. Recently, we shared with you the Filmomat, a completely automated film processing machine created from scratch. Today, we have for you a less […]

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Hold On Hipsters, Holga Cameras Will No Longer Be Produced

Gannon Burgett

Freestyle Photographic Supplies, the distributor of Holga cameras in the United States, has announced it will no longer produce or sell Holga cameras and accessories. In the press release, Freestyle Photographic Supplies seems almost passive aggressive towards other manufacturers who created ‘tens of thousands of cameras were sold in twenty different countries with almost no […]

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