Silvergrain Classics

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Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaIs Digital Photography Really Free We tend to compare the price of a roll of film with the price of pressing the shutter on a digital camera. Film costs money, the digital exposure doesn't.

10.03

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaSusan Burnstine: Building Cameras to Photograph Dreams What do you do when the camera is too perfect for the pictures you want to make? Susan Burnstine built her own.

09.26

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaForever Young: Mick Rock and the Photos We Grew Up With Remembering Mick Rock and the iconic photographs of Tim Curry, Queen, David Bowie, and the 1970s that became part of our music, memories, and lives.

08.28

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaIf Print Disappears, We Lose More Than Paper The recent financial troubles at Steidl are more than publishing-industry news.

08.20

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaThe Big Picture Europe may be seeing the first signs of a genuine revival in photographic film manufacturing. Optik Oldschool has acquired InovisCoat and Filmotec, bringing emulsion development, coating technology…

07.22

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaWideluxX Presale Launch The long-awaited WideluxX camera is now available for preorder at WideluxX.com. Guest author and star YouTuber Peter McKinnon gives us his take on this exciting news!

04.28

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaThe Best Drum Scanning Services in North America and Europe for Your Analog Images The best drum scanning service in North America for your analog image

04.27

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaOptik Oldschool OptiColour 200 The new OptiColour 200 film for 35mm and 120 is made in Germany by Optik Oldschool together with InovisCoat. Compared to earlier Wolfen-based films, this feels like a big step forward.

04.01

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaPlustek OpticFilm 135i Plustek Technology has long recognized the signs of the times: We are currently witnessing a renaissance in analog photography.

03.27

Silvergrain ClassicsCinemaThe Sekonic Studio Deluxe III L-398A Sekonic manufactures a handheld light meter that is essentially a direct descendant of a light meter from the 1930s.

03.16

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