Camera Day Sale at KEH Camera

There are many good places to buy used film cameras, eBay, B&H Photo and, of course, KEH Camera. KEH is offering 25% off used film camera gear to celebrate Camera Day, which always falls on June 29th. It is a day to take pictures to celebrate the invention of photography.
Just enter the code CAMERADAY when purchasing eligible used film camera gear at KEH for 25% off. Offer limited to the first one hundred customers and expires on June 29th, 2016 at 11:00pm Eastern time. Time to pick up that special camera or lens while the offer lasts.

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Impossible: Project 8, the World's Biggest Photo Swap

The Impossible Project is featuring Project 8, a celebration for the new Impossible I-1 instant camera. The first new Polaroid-compatible camera in over 20 years. The project concept is simple, mail in a photo taken with an I-1 camera (instructions found on a card in the box with the camera), your photo will be exhibited with all the others, and at the end, you will receive a photo from the exhibition in return, possibly from an artist you already know. Visit this Youtube video for details - the follow on videos give a good explanation on the use and features of the I-1 camera, so keep watching after the video ends!

TundraWare Archives

Avid film photographer, Tim Daneliuk, has amassed a collection of documentation, manuals and data sheets for film photography, the TundraWare Archives. Browse over six categories of material, including tips on split grade printing (Zip file), alternative processes (Zip file), Ansco Darkroom Formulas, etc., etc.

Darkroom Tip: Making the Door Light-tight

Tim Daneliuk, of author of the TundraWare site, has a tip to make any darkroom door light tight. If you are a medium format photographer (think Holga), the leftover backing paper can be used to seal the door. Lacking backing paper, black construction paper can be taped in place as illustrated.

Get Into RSS

For those of you who are not already reading this blog via RSS, check marketing guru, Seth Godin, on getting hooked up to one of the great free resources still available on the Web. Note that this blog does not subscribe to Google's ads, to be independent, to be free from unnecessary clutter and to be free from ads for non-film camera products. Seth is worth reading on his own, even if you are not working in a marketing department.

News to Come

There is no shortage of news in the film world, some of it not so good and some of it great. While Fuji Instax instant film is a hit, Fuji is discontinuing instant pack film for Polaroid cameras. The great news is that Cat Labs of JP has declared that they will be embarking on a project to make pack film! They will be working with Bergger to produce presumably B&W pack film compatible with FP-100B-type packs. It would be great if they could also create FP-3000B-type packs for those cameras that used this high speed film.

Film Ferrania is still working on the rewards for its Kickstarter. Hopefully, they will start delivering colour reversal film soon. We all await the production of their film line, which includes 35mm still film, 120 format film, 16mm movie film and Super8 movie film. While Kodak has revived its Super8 film production and introduced a new Super8 camera, having choice is always a good thing.

There are plenty of choices out there for analogue photography and lots of support coming from hard working companies that produce the film we love. Whether it is for effect, nostalgia or using great equipment that just keeps working, there is something for everyone.

Ilford Blog

If you like this blog, you will love to see Ilford's blog. Harman Technology Ltd., the maker of Ilford films, papers and chemistry, hosts a graphic blog with photos made on Ilford film. See other photographers' work, Ilford products in action and news around B&W photography.

Ilford's Wednesday Wisdom, June 1st, 2016

 

'Sharpness is a bourgeois concept' - Henri Cartier Bresson