Kodak's datasheet promises latitude that lets you overexpose two stops and keep shooting into the shade — here is what the documentation says, and when cheaper film beats it.
Pushing the classic black-and-white stock to 1600 is documented territory — Kodak's own datasheet and the development charts carry the numbers you need.
Kodak's own numbers for shooting Tri-X 400 at EI 1600, what changes in the tank, and where a two-stop push turns into a mistake.
Kodak's own datasheet has a development time for EI 1600 built in. Here's the recipe, the metering logic, and the mistakes that turn a push into a wasted roll.
Kodak Vision3 500T lets stills shooters buy cinema stock by the foot — if they can handle rem-jet, ECN-2, and a tungsten worldview.
Fujifilm Superia 400 returned from the dead in 2024 as a newly designed consumer color film — and it still reads like summer.
Fomapan 100 is old-world emulsion chemistry at the friendliest price in the film fridge — if you meter for the film it is, not the box it ships in.
Ricoh's half-frame comeback camera skips autofocus by design, doubles your roll, and still costs the same $499.95 it launched at two years ago.
Your first medium format camera should match how you shoot, not just your budget, because format choice decides weight, cost per frame and pace.
The Contax T2 pairs a Zeiss 38mm lens with true pocket size, and two decades of hype have done interesting things to its price.
The Nikonos V is the amphibious 35mm camera divers still trust at depth, as long as its seals have been serviced rather than assumed.
From Kodachrome's announced end in June 2009 to new cameras and new emulsions shipping in 2026, the film revival was not a mood — it was a sequence of datable bets by companies everyone assumed had given up.
Editions, print dates and provenance — not the picture alone — decide whether a photographic print sells for five hundred dollars or twelve million.
A short rinse feels done long before the fixer is actually gone. Here's how the wash step actually works, and how to tell when a roll is clean enough to last.
Fiber vs resin printing paper is one decision with consequences across the whole print run: washing, drying, toning, and how long prints live.
Loading film in a changing bag is a blind skill anyone can learn: fixed layout, practiced fingers, and one junk roll before the first real one.
Film drying decides whether negatives stay clean: one wetting-agent dip, one still room, and absolutely no touching until dry.
DSLR scanning turns a camera, a macro lens, and a light pad into a film scanner that out-resolves most flatbeds.
Another round of increases across the Fujifilm lineup landed in 2025, the latest in a three-year run of rises — here is what it means for the film budget.
The expired film trade runs on three variables — storage, emulsion chemistry and whether anyone can still process the roll — and most asking prices quietly ignore all three.
A new survey of Japanese film shooters puts Kodak ahead of Fujifilm for the first time on record, as steep Fujifilm price increases push photographers toward cheaper, fewer stocks.
The George Eastman Museum's 900-work announcement anchors a season in which institutions kept collecting silver-era photographers, from Diane Arbus to Wayne Miller.
April 2026's New York photograph sales raised about $12.7 million across three houses, with Phillips' Salgado session out front and a Helmut Newton trophy passing at Sotheby's.
Two to four dollars a roll in chemistry versus twelve to eighteen at the lab: the honest break-even math for developing black-and-white, color negative and slide film at home, as of 2025.