Classicolor Comes to 120 at the Price of a 35mm Roll
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.
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Find Grainpress stories by the materials, tools, workflows, and questions that shape film photography today.
Materials & Formats
Film stocks, paper, chemistry, and the formats the work is made in.
Harman Griffin 200 Reaches Shop Listings Before Harman Announces It
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.
Fujifilm Will Make More instax Film From 2027
*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
Cameras & Tools
Cameras, the tools that go with them, and keeping both working.
Shoten Remakes the Zunow 50mm f/1.1 in Screw Mount
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.
A 1923 Leica 0-Series Sells for €4.25 Million
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.
The Knokke Scanner Gets a Price and a Ship Date
Ten months after Soke Engineering first showed the dedicated 35mm scanner to the photographic press, its product page has started taking a deposit.
Technique & Workflow
From exposure to finished print — developing, scanning, printing, and the habits that hold it together.
The Knokke Scanner Gets a Price and a Ship Date
Ten months after Soke Engineering first showed the dedicated 35mm scanner to the photographic press, its product page has started taking a deposit.
Guessing distances with the Rollei 35 compact film camera
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.
Scanning at Home, Part Two: A Process You Don't Have to Rediscover
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.
Culture & Industry
The broader context: market moves, critical writing, essays, and the state of the craft.
Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation"
Sontag's 1964 case for describing a work of art before deciding what it means, in a PDF of the complete essay.
CVS Puts Film Processing on Hold
Since 24 October its pharmacies have taken no new rolls. The company calls the pause temporary and gives no end date.
Garry Winogrand at Rice University
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.