emulsive rss (unofficial)May 1, 2022

Repurposing orphaned instant cameras: Creating the Polaroid “SX-450”

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Repurposing orphaned instant cameras: Creating the Polaroid "SX-450"

2016 hit me hard. 100-Series pack film for Polaroid cameras would no longer be produced and it was only a matter of time before all of my packfilm cameras

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Jan 15, 2022

Restoring the moldiest, most rusty camera lens I’ve ever seen: How bad (or good) could it be?

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Restoring the moldiest, most rusty camera lens I've ever seen: How bad (or good) could it be?

I think we've all been here, buying a camera and lens rated by a seller as "very good" and not realizing all the photos had the lens caps on. When the

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Nov 28, 2021

Elevating the humble cyanotype…with a UV-enlarger!

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Elevating the humble cyanotype…with a UV-enlarger!

I've been shooting black and white film for over 18 years, and since a few years ago, I have had my own darkroom set up in the basement. I love to do some

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Nov 20, 2021

My Quest to make art for the living room wall – Part 1: Iterating contact prints

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My Quest to make art for the living room wall - Part 1: Iterating contact prints

In this article, I talk about my progress so far on my quest to make art for the living room wall. In this, part 1, I cover making an initial contact

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Oct 23, 2021

Shooting 35mm panoramic photographs with the Pentax 67

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Shooting 35mm panoramic photographs with the Pentax 67

I first heard about the 24x65mm panoramic format when I bought my Fujifilm GFX50S a few years back. The digital medium format camera is able to shoot in

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Oct 3, 2021

Shooting 35mm panoramic photographs with the Pentax 67

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Shooting 35mm panoramic photographs with the Pentax 67

I first heard about the 24x65mm panoramic format when I bought my Fujifilm GFX50S a few years back. The digital medium format camera is able to shoot in

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Sep 19, 2021

Pricing your work: Economies of print, or “assigning worth when value is subjective”

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Pricing your work: Economies of print, or "assigning worth when value is subjective"

When looking back on my photographs, even as "recently" far as 2019, I feel an abstraction in what my role in these images ought to be. In the moment of pressing the shutter, I feel I am the photographer, I have taken this picture.

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Aug 29, 2021

How-To: Push-metering for simple cameras

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How-To: Push-metering for simple cameras

This is probably old news to most folks, but I thought I would pop a quick notebook entry up for posterity. I’ve published a review of the lovely Zeiss

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emulsive rss (unofficial)Jul 25, 2021

Start at the Stop: How to respooling 35mm film into 127 (and 120) backing paper

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Start at the Stop: How to respooling 35mm film into 127 (and 120) backing paper

127 format film is reasonably rare these days, and fairly expensive. In this article, I outline my process (and examples) of respooling normal 35mm film

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