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New Product Announcement : Instant Processor from Brooklyn Film Camera and...
The Polaroid experts at Brooklyn Film Camera have teamed up with the stunning film photography product designers at Negative Supply to create and sell a new instant film processor. This product,...
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For Aesthetic Reasons – Cameras, Cars, and Collecting
We continue to climb higher and higher up the mountain pass. I can feel gravity pull me deeper into the bucket seats, and I’m using all my core strength to stay steady enough to frame and fire off the...
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Life Lessons from Stephen Shore’s Early Work
Spoiler: Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces is a good photobook. I write this at the very start of this article, because I don’t see much point in treating this as a traditional book review. In cases...
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Shooting My First Roll of Kodak Portra 160
I’m not the most intellectual or insightful person, but on occasion (very rarely) I do like to ponder life’s great mysteries. I’ll sometimes even torture myself by asking questions like “What is the...
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Fujifilm Instax Square SQ1 Review – Simple, Square, Instant Photography
Toward the end of last year, Fujifilm released a new instant camera to use with their Instax Square format film. Called the Instax Square SQ1, it’s one of the simplest and most visually striking...
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Five Masters of Light from Japan’s Shōwa Era
The Japanese Shōwa period, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Hirohito from 1926 to 1989, is noted as one of Japan’s most tumultuous and transformative eras. Over these many decades Japan went from a...
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A Chat with Film Photographer and YouTuber Jess Hobbs
I have been following Jess’s work for almost as long as I’ve been into photography. I discovered her YouTube channel when I was first learning film, and I have been obsessed ever since. Jess has a...
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The Canon 50mm f/1.4 LTM – Don’t Call it the Japanese Summilux
The one constant in the universe is change, and the year 1957 was no exception. The USSR launched Sputnik, humanity’s first artificial satellite, ushering in the Space Age. In Europe, the European...
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My Limitless Talent, Shot On Expired Polaroid Film
The thing that I love most about shooting expired film is the way that it enhances my already considerable natural talent. No other medium, be it new film, be it digital imaging, be it paint brushes or...
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A Better Look at Konica
I spend a lot of time at thrift stores, usually in search of records, clothes or cameras. I can browse through the music department for hours, try on jacket after jacket just to put them all back, and...
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On the Relationship Between Music and Photography
What makes a trombone player pick up a camera, a photographer pick up the violin, or someone compose for both symphony orchestra and also a camera? An informal poll of Casual Photophile contributing...
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The Beautiful Alternative Processes of Amy Marie Gladding
I discovered Amy Marie Gladding and her work a few months back and I was immediately enthralled with her vision and creativity. Specializing in experimental and alternative forms in photography and...
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A Day at the Office – Photographing an Avalanche Rescue Dog in Action
Buried alive in what feels like a sub-zero coffin, I wait impatiently for Fred to come save me. I try to steady myself, my camera poised and ready for the moment when he unearths me from my tomb. Snow...
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Perspectives on Place by JAP Alexander – Landscape Photography but Not as We...
Does “I’m not into landscape photography” strike you as an odd reason to buy a book about landscape photography? Okay, I do look at landscape photographs – you can hardly avoid it, even if you want to...
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TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 Lens Review – Ultra-fast, Ultra-affordable
(First we disclaim: This is a subjective review based on real world use by an enthusiast photographer. I stand on the shoulders of giants, having learned everything I know about optics from reading...
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Purma Special – Guest Review by Mike Eckman
This is a Purma Special, an all Bakelite snapshot camera produced by Purma Camera, Ltd., England starting in 1937. The Purma Special shoots sixteen 32mm x 32mm images on 127 roll film. It is a simple...
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Minolta RF Rokkor-X 500mm F/8 Mirror Lens Review
The last time I used a mirror lens, it was an utter debacle. The Soviet-made Rubinar 1,000mm lens was so tele as to be pretty well useless. The optical quality was poor. And the lens was so old and...
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Polaroid Lab Review
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. The faintest whiff of it sends us down an incredible slide laced with the lush aromas of yesteryear, always sharp and contrasty thanks to the 20/20 f/1.2 hindsight lens...
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Five to Follow – April 2021
Every month I spotlight five female film photographers worth following. Here are my picks for April, 2021! Spring is springing and so am I for the five wonderful photographers I have lined up for you...
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A Final Salute to Nikon’s AF-D Lenses
Nikon has been going through a lot of changes over the last year, a year which had brought significant financial challenges due to the ongoing pandemic. In its effort to stay relevant in an industry...
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