We explore zone focusing using the Rollei 35S. Learning to judge distance can be made easier by imagining an arm’s length and one memorized measurement. With practice it will become automatic.
Grainpress Two: Film in Practice
A closer look at the judgment, tools, materials, and repair work behind making photographs on film today.
Film photography depends on cameras that are no longer made. We asked two repair shops what decides whether one can still be fixed.
In This Issue
Minor White’s approaches to subject matter begin before the photograph is made and continue when the photographer returns to see what the picture reveals.
Making the case for half-frame and why choosing it might make a whole lot of sense.
Since 24 October its pharmacies have taken no new rolls. The company calls the pause temporary and gives no end date.
Lomography's ISO 200 color negative is now in all three of its formats, and the medium format roll costs no more than the 35mm one.
Two retailers have listed a Harman color negative film that Harman itself has not yet named. We report what the listings show, and what they do not.
New emulsions, revived formulas, contract coating and specialist finishing are bringing film to market in different ways—and keeping cameras loaded.
Part One helped you choose a way to scan film at home. Here we explain which settings to finalize and which steps to repeat every session, so each scan follows what you have already worked out.