Sontag's 1964 case for describing a work of art before deciding what it means, in a PDF of the complete essay.
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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.
A 1977 classroom recording, nearly two hours long, of Garry Winogrand answering students' questions in Houston. Two stretches of it caught our attention: Walker Evans and transparency, and what an SLR viewfinder does to a picture.
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 lines at Fujifilm's Ashigara plant will add about a fifth to its instax film output. Fujifilm is building new instax film production lines at its Ashigara Site in Minami-Ashigara, Kanagawa Prefecture. The company announced the work on 20 October and put the cost at about ¥3
A Japanese adapter maker's first Tribute lens couples to a rangefinder down to 0.7 meters. We worked out what that leaves you at f/1.1.
One of the trial cameras Leitz built before the Leica went on sale has sold in Wetzlar for more than twice its estimate. We note that it is still well short of the record.