Digitizing your film negatives is debatably one of the most tedious and time-consuming steps when it comes to analog photography. Whether you are using a flatbed scanner, a professional drum scanner, a handheld scanner, or even a sheet-fed scanner, it is always a gradual process. Earlier this week, news had surfaced that a new product
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Cinestill has launched their newest product – Df96, a ready-to-use, reusable, monobath processor for black and white film. The company has informed the public that it is the world’s fastest process for B&W film – one that can develop your film in only 3 minutes. See Examples and Results of Developing with CineStill’s DF96 Monobath,
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What is a Daguerreotype? A daguerreotype, in short, is a photographic process in which a sheet of silver-plated copper is used to create a positive or negative image depending on a few variables. This process, also known as daguerreotypy, was the first commercially and publicly successful photographic process and was created in 1839 by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre,
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Before photographers had the ability to take a photograph as we know it, they had to first find a way to make a photograph. One of the ways that people created images in the 1800’s and throughout the 1900’s was by creating a positive image on a tin plate. This is what became known as
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Many people, whether photographers or not, have not heard of an ambrotype in a long time, or ever for that matter. Whether it be the digital age that’s taken the ambrotype away or simply the tedious process that it requires, they definitely seem to have disappeared in the past decade or so, but that still
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Today we’re going to be looking at developing film, specifically C-41 film. Most color films and some black and white films are C-41 film, so this process will apply to a lot of different kinds of film. Learning the process of developing film is not too hard and it can save you a lot of
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Shooting black and white film is completely different from shooting color film, in my eyes at least, I know many photographers that shoot either film whenever, and to extent I will shoot either film whenever too. However, after shooting black and white film for a little while now, I realized that if you shoot black
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Shooting film can be a tedious and long process especially if you are developing and scanning your own photos, but the results are always incomparable. You may notice the difference more-so if you are shooting 120mm or larger, but regardless, film will always have that slight difference in quality, which is why many photographers still
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Although film photography is seen as a dying field, it is quite the opposite and there are still tons of film stocks available for the photographers and hobbyists still looking for the best 35mm film out there. As a photographer and film enthusiast myself, I’m always trying to find new film stocks, old film stocks,
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When you first learn to develop film, you’ll most likely make some mistakes. Making these mistakes is how you learn. From experience, I can tell you that once you mess up a few times, you’ll learn the right way to develop film, especially when the film you mess up is lost forever. With this being
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