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Analog.cafeFilmFlash ⚡️ Exposure Calculator: Web App 📱 Flash exposures can be difficult to guess on a manual or a toy/disposable film camera. This tool offers an easy way to get it right.

Analog.cafeFilmNew Resources for Affordable Creative Photography: A Monthly Newsletter for GOLD Members Though photography is a privilege, it doesn’t have to be a luxury.This month I explored several ways to save money on film, film development chemicals, film scanning, and film cameras.

Analog.cafeFilmHow to Save Money on Film: 25+ Practical Ideas to Save Without Sacrificing Fun or Image Quality If you want to shoot more and pay less, this extensive guide will give you plenty of options to choose from, along with guidance on when each may be the most appropriate.

Analog.cafeFilmBecky’s Purse: Book Review Becky’s Purse is a book about Mia Glanz’ childhood friend, Becky, told in Becky’s own words through a collection of handwritten notes and items. Read in full on Analog.Cafe .

Analog.cafeFilmIlford Delta 3200 Review: A Long-Term Review With Tons of Samples, and Developer Tests This film can look very different, depending on how or what you develop it with. I spent six years and countless rolls with this emulsion as a go-to.

Analog.cafeFilmAnalog.Cafe is human-made. Analog.Cafe was built to serve a community of photographers, many of whom choose film as their creative medium to take a break from screens or to find a tactile connection with the images they…

Analog.cafeFilmHow to Develop C-41 at Room Temperature: A Tested “Stand” Development Recipe for Colour-Negative Film Usually, colour-negative film and all the chemicals involved in its development have to be heated up to 39℃/102℉ and then agitated every thirty seconds.

Analog.cafeFilmCamera shutters in slow motion. The Slow Mo Guys’ Gav updated an earlier video where he filmed shutters travelling at a very high frame rate.

Analog.cafeFilmLucky C400 Colour-Negative Film Review: Read This to Avoid Immense Disappointment Lucky C400 is a highly anticipated follow-up to the successful launch of China’s first colour-negative film in over a decade.

Analog.cafeFilmThe Risks and Rewards of Experimental Photography: On the Edge of Loosing Memories and Finding a New Look With Provia 100F A short photo essay on the experimental nature of film photography with examples from my latest near-failure with Fujifilm Provia 100F, (improperly) developed via the C-41 reversal process.

Analog.cafeFilmA more powerful C-41 development time calculator. Chem Log, an app for tracking development chemicals, now features a tool that calculates exact C-41 times based on usage, temperature, and push/pull preferences.

Analog.cafeFilmHow to Fix Lucky C400 Film Scans: Turn Those Piss-Yellow Frames Into Something Beautiful When this highly anticipated film finally became available, some photographers noticed an odd green-yellow tint that made scanning particularly difficult.

Analog.cafeFilmFujifilm Fujicolor 100 (Japan Only) Colour-Negative Film Review: Outstanding Grain & Colour Stability Fujifilm Fujicolor 100 is made in Japan — but this film is not available anywhere else in the world, unless you’re willing to import it.

Analog.cafeFilmFilm Photography News — August 2026 Recap: Shitty Camera Challenge, Polaroid Pikachu, Phoenix 125 🎞, Comparing Films+ Shitty Camera Challenge with Adam James (interview), Polaroid + Pokémon collaboration, Becky’s Purse (book), updates to Harman Phoenix colour-negative film, Kodak film distribution in the UK, your…

Analog.cafeFilmWhy Are Film Comparisons So Hard? A Monthly Newsletter for GOLD Members Most comparison tests fail to identify and illustrate the actual differences between colour-negative stocks.

Analog.cafeFilmPolaroid releases Pokémon-edition instant film cameras (Pikachu, yes) — plus limited-edition frames and more in… The limited-edition Polaroid Go cameras feature Pikachu and Sylveon characters (same-spec cameras reviewed here: https://www.analog.cafe/r/polaroid-go-generation-2-2023-2024-camera-review-qksg) plus…

Analog.cafeFilmThis month’s member newsletter will be a little late. I typically send these every last or second-to-last Friday of the month; however, I will be away from town on the 21st. Expect it sometime over the weekend. Read in full on Analog.Cafe .

Analog.cafeFilmComparing All (7) ISO 100 Colour-Negative Films: Aerocolor, Fuji (JP), Ektacolor Pro, Ektar, Kodacolor, Pro Image, Lomo This article systematically compares seven ISO 100 colour-negative films, which should cover all fresh film manufactured today. Did you know that Fujifilm still makes Fujicolor 100 in Japan?

Analog.cafeFilmKodak High-Speed Infrared Film User Guide & Review: It’s Grainy, It’s Expired, and It’s EXTREMELY SENSITIVE ⚠️ Kodak High-Speed Infrared Film (HIE) is a discontinued & expired film known for its extreme infrared sensitivity — up to 900nm!

Analog.cafeFilmHow to Reuse a Disposable Camera: Tools, Loading, Unloading, Exposure, Film Selection, and Home Development Disposable cameras can be a lot of fun, but they can be limiting in the types of films you can shoot and their lifespan.

Analog.cafeFilmAnalog.Cafe Podcast `s2/e4` “Shitty Camera Challenge with Adam James.” Adam James is the creator of the Shitty Camera Challenge — an informal, welcoming community and an annual event for photographers who like to use subpar cameras. Read in full on Analog.Cafe .

Analog.cafeFilmHarman rebrands its Phoenix colour-negative film, adds tweaks, and resets ISO to 125. When the film was first released, the manufacturer shared their calculated rating of the emulsion: ISO 123.5¹.

Analog.cafeFilm38 Things I Learned From a Roll of Rollei Infrared: Discovery Through Self-Critique Join me as I examine this roll in its entirety and discuss my mistakes and successes within each frame (along with a few new things I’ve learned about the nuances of shooting infrared film)!

Analog.cafeFilmFilm Photography News — July 2026 Recap: The Mystery of 🇪🇺 EU’s Only Colour-Negative Film Factory, 2 New Cameras, Film Prices, and Better Film Scanning 🎞️ Optik Oldschool bought ORWO (and what that really means for colour film manufacturing in Europe); Kodak EC35 is a new $35 clamshell camera; Lomography releases a Simple Reloadable Half-frame camera…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo