Ilford presents Split Grade Printing with Rachel Brewster-Wright of Little Vintage Photography. In this video, concept of split grade printing is introduced and demonstrated with a print. The advantage of this technique is that it gives a broad range of contrast in the same print. See Ilford's other videos for other techniques such as dodging and burning to help change the contrast within a print.
See the video for details!
The Phoblographer gives a favourable review of the Atlanta Film Company 250D film. The film is respooled cinema ISO 250 daylight balanced colour film. If you like to shoot colour and find colour film just a bit pricey, maybe the AFC cinema films are for you!
The caveat is that the film is process ECN-2 and has remjet on it. It is not possible to send it to a lab that processes C41 or E6, since the remjet will ruin the chemistry at such a lab. AFC will process and scan the film for you, for a fee. The Phoblographer does not disclose the processing fee, but the Atlanta Film Company website lists $9.99 for ECN-2 processing at time of writing. Film, if it were available, was listed at $9.99 by The Phoblographer site.
Read the review and see if this film is for you! When supply returns, grab at roll at the Atlanta Film Company.
PetaPixel writes about Kodak's recent designation by the American Chemical Society as a National Historic Chemical Landmark. The ACS is a pillar organization for chemists and chemistry around the world.
ACS President Angela Wilson said that the award “honors George Eastman, Eastman Kodak, and the many generations of Kodak chemists, scientists, and engineers who made photography an everyday part of our lives before the advent of smartphones and digital cameras.”
Kodak continues to supply film and chemistry for photographers to this day. The company has invested millions in protecting the environment and produces materials within the environmental regulations of today.
Ben Horne gives a walk through of the new Intrepid 8x10 Mk III large format camera. He goes over the new features and the workings of the movements and rotating back. He gives the solid focus mechanism a tug to demo its sturdiness. Check it out.
Matt Murray at the fstoppers photography site writes, Is CineStill 400D Film the New Natura? Like CineStill 800T, the new CineStill 400D stock comes with a cassette labelled for push processing. So, as a dusk time shooter, Matt likes a fast film, around EI 1600. Much like Fujifilm Natura was, when Fujifilm manufactured it. Sure, you can still buy it as new old stock (NOS).
But, CineStill 400D can be pushed two stops to EI 1600 and Matt feels it does so quite well. It is also fresh, when available and offers a high dynamic range (the D in 400D stands for dynamic, not daylight).
Read on for the details and find out: Is CineStill 400D Film the New Natura?
Should You Shake Instax Film?
No, you should not shake your Instax film because you could ruin the image. You may think that shaking your Instax film may speed of the development process but according to Fujifilm, the manufacturer of Instax film, shaking Instax film while it is developing could damage the development chemicals on the image, causing it not to spread evenly over the image and prevents the photo from developing correctly.In my experience, shaking the image after it comes out of the camera also may make the image blurry and/or cause feather-like patterns on the film. In addition, if you touch the image area while shaking it, you will cause spots on the image.
The Film Photography Project has introduced a new Halloween themed film, so yes, Halloween already. The film, called The Mummy, is on sale until August 15th for $7.99 a roll from the online FPP shop.
Rated at ISO 400 and based on the FPP Cine16 stock, the film is a medium grain, medium contrast film. It is available in 35mm, 120, 620, 4x5 and 8x10 formats.
The Mummy joins other Halloween themed films, such as Dracula 64, The WolfMan 100 and Frankenstein 200.
It feels like this blog has arisen from the dead, but not because there is any lack of news to report in still film photography. The industry is alive and well, producing more films, more cameras and more options than ever.
Get out and shoot film!