Cinestill 400Dynamic Color Film for Large Format By Charys Schuler Cinestill is bringing its 400Dynamic color film for 4×5-inch large format cameras to its standard lineup! After a successful Kickstarter in 2022 and an initial production run, Cinestill has responded to the positive feedback and will continue to produce the film. The 400Dynamic is cinefilm balanced for daylight (as opposed to Tungsten) with an ISO/ASA rating of 400. There are many variations of this film available from various companies around the world for 35mm. Some leave the remjet layer intact and should be processe ..read more

Issue 22 of SGC brings you more great film photography printed beautifully! By SilvergrainClassics A foreigner’s view of a culture can be particularly insightful. Issue 22 features several portfolios of images by photographers who have come to know an area that is not their home intimately. Both Ash Page and Kenro Izu take the viewer seemingly not only to another place, but also back in time. Other portfolios explore unusual formats, both wide and long. Claude Le Gall has gone in search of regional flavors and captured them in panoramic form with a Widelux. Bennet Pimpinella’s hand-scratc ..read more

PENTAX camera coming summer ’24 will be half-frame! By Marwan El Mozayen I have known since December of 2023 (but was not allowed to disclose) that the new Ricoh PENTAX film camera will be a half-frame format — I saw the prototype! And now we can come out with some details: the latest PENTAX update. TKO (Takeo Suzuki) in RICOH IMAGING’s press release video ©RICOH IMAGING (For our native German speakers: Eine wortwörtliche Übersetzung der PENTAX-Pressemitteilung finden Sie am Ende dieses Textes.) We have been as antsy as a kid waiting for the bathroom, impatient to share the news that t ..read more

News From Pentax: Our Meeting With TKO By Marwan El Mozayen An In-Person Meeting With Ricoh Imaging / Pentax Left to right: Ricoh Imaging’s camera designer TKO (Takeo Suzuki), SGC team members Marwan El Mozayen and Doug Richardson, and Ricoh Pentax’s Ryota Shimamoto Where We Met Shortly before Christmas, we received an invitation from our good friends at Khrome in Hamburg. Together with a few others from the analog scene, we were invited to a personal and informal meeting with representatives from Ricoh Imaging for a discussion about the new PENTAX Film camera. My colleague, Doug Richard ..read more

FX55 Film Developer – our experience Are you looking to try a different film developer? If, so FX55 has been described as “the last of the great film developers”. By Christopher Osborne.   This shot of the Rosenmontagszug Carnaval in Rheinboellen, Germany was processed with FX55 film developer. ​ Are you looking to try a different film developer? If, so here’s something that could change your film photography in 2024. FX55 film developer  is worth a try. FX55 has been described as “the last of the great film developers”. It was developed by Geoffrey Crawley in 1982 towards t ..read more

Camera Eccentrica – Handmade Large Format Cameras by Pete Swann “I became obsessed with larger and larger formats. I started thinking about building an 8×10 camera. Then Lockdown happened, and I thought why not?..” Pete Swann. By Christopher Osborne.    A Handmade Large Format Camera in the style of a Greek Temple. One of  Pete Swann’s Camera Eccentrica. ​ “I started shooting on film in about 1979”, explains Pete. “I shot on a Pentax MX for about twenty years. I even had a little darkroom. I wanted to be a photographer when I was at school. My parents did not see that a ..read more

HARMAN Phoenix, a New Color Film Tested! By Marwan El Mozayen I was one of the lucky people who recently received a small package from Harman Technology/Ilford Photo, a package which contained two precious pre-release rolls of HARMAN Phoenix 200. This, according to head of marketing Matt Parry, is the very first color emulsion ever produced at the Ilford factory in Mobberley, England. (For those who remember 1960’s Ilfocolor, this was not coated on their premises.) The term “branching out” can hardly be applied to the leap which must be made to go from coating black and white film to col ..read more

SilverFast ExpressScan: Turbocharging Your Flatbed Scanner By Herman Groeneveld A scanner can never be fast enough. The less time it takes to capture a single image, the faster large quantities of analog image material can be transferred into the digital world. When purchasing a scanner, operating speed, in addition to the resolution and the density range, are main criteria. But imagine being able to help even older flatbed scanners to set speed records! LaserSoft Imaging can now provide an almost unbelievable ‘turboboost’ — without having to disassemble and tune the hardware of the flatb ..read more

KODAK’s New Super8 Camera It is coming soon! By SilvergrainClassics We had Holger Schwärzel on our pod cast and told the world — the KODAK Super8 camera has not been scrapped, it’s coming soon! And now it’s official. Yes, it’s “just” a pre-order signup — but the information now available looks amazing! Here’s what KODAK is offering: Pelican Case KODAK Super 8 Camera Wide Angle 6 mm Lens 1:1.2 C-Mount Cap, Lens Cap and Lens Hood Pistol Grip with trigger KODAK Super 8 Camera Battery Micro USB Charging Cable(s) KODAK Super 8 Camera USB Power Adapter Cleaning Cloth KODAK TRI-X Black & ..read more

Noblex Vs Widelux. A Widelux photographer’s review of the Noblex. When I saw the Noblex 135S panoramic swing lens camera at the Matsuya Ginza camera fair in Tokyo a few months ago, I couldn’t  resist comparing it to my beloved Widelux. By Ahsan Ali.   Panoramic image taken on the Noblex. ​  Is the world flat or round? If I trust my eyes it is flat but if I were to believe what a swing lens panoramic camera tells me, the world is round. It sees the world as my eyes cannot see, and therein lies my fascination with swing lens panoramic cameras such as the Widelux and the N ..read more