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  • Film Q: High-Performance Colour-Negative Film Inverter
  • Rollei Retro 400S Is a Film for Making Loud, Brash, Dramatic Statements
  • CineStill 50D Is a Perfect Slow Speed Film for Bright Summer Days

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analog.cafe /1 month ago

Film Q: High-Performance Colour-Negative Film Inverter

Batch-invert entire rolls of high-resolution RAW & 16-bit TIFF film scans with one click. Works on any device (iOS/Mac/Win/Linux). Drop-to-invert folders with Dropbox integrati...

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petapixel.com /1 week ago

Rollei Retro 400S Is a Film for Making Loud, Brash, Dramatic Statements

Welcome to another Film Friday review, where we like to dig into a particular film emulsion, lay out a bit of its history, share our personal experiences with it and provide some i...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

CineStill 50D Is a Perfect Slow Speed Film for Bright Summer Days

Cinestill 50D is the less popular sibling to Cinestill’s 800T and 400D emulsions. Because 50D often gets passed over in favor of those other two, we figured it would be a great fil...

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nofilmschool.com /1 month ago

What Cinema Really Lost When Film Went Digital

Given the option, most of us would probably jump at the opportunity to shoot something on film stock. There's just something about the color, the depth, the grain, the jitter that...

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petapixel.com /4 weeks ago

Harman’s Phoenix Color Film Rises From the Ashes With a New ISO

Back in 2023, Harman Photo, the company behind Ilford-brand photo film, launched an all-new color film, Phoenix 200. Last year, the company followed it up with Phoenix II. Now ther...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

Lomochrome Color ‘92 Sun-Kissed Is a Fun Film With Character All Its Own

Toward the end of the summer of 2024, Lomography struck again, bringing a new (sort of) addition to its Lomochrome line of experimental films. The company introduced Lomochrome Col...

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redsharknews.com /1 month ago

In-camera film looks: what's changed since 2017

In 2017 we asked cameras for selectable looks and a reliable path into post. Can we say we have it now?

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petapixel.com /3 weeks ago

Kodak Verita 200: No Consumer Version of This Film Exists But I Shot It Anyway

A friend of mine works in the film industry. He bought a full roll of Kodak Verita 200D, the stock Kodak built for Euphoria season three, and respooled part of it into 35mm caniste...

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analog.cafe /1 month ago

film Q `v1.0.1` sets colour correction ON by default.

After several passes through my library of test scans and enhancements to the algorithm, I realized that the process is faster and easier with the colour correction setting turned...

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analog.cafe /1 month ago

Harman rebrands its Phoenix colour-negative film, adds tweaks, and resets ISO to 125.

When the film was first released, the manufacturer shared their calculated rating of the emulsion: ISO 123.5¹. However, their community testers suggested rating it at ISO 200 inste...

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cined.com /1 week ago

Phantom LUTs for Nikon ZR Released – ARRI Alexa Emulation for RED Log3G10

Joel Famularo has released his long-awaited Phantom LUTs for the Nikon ZR, bringing the ARRI Alexa emulation his packs are known for to Nikon’s compact cinema camera. The Gen 1 rel...

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petapixel.com /2 weeks ago

Kodak Ektapan 100 Is a Smooth, Sharp, and Beautifully Detailed Film

This week we are taking a look at Kodak TMax 100 black and white film (also now known as Kodak Ektapan 100). TMax 100 is part of a family of films that includes both TMax 400 and T...

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analog.cafe /1 month ago

film Q `v1.0.0` introduces improved RAW file processing, several bugfixes, and experimental colour correction.

The latest update significantly improves colours for high-contrast films scanned with digital cameras. And you can further improve the images with the new colour correction algorit...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

Fränk Automatically Develops Your Motion Picture Film at Home

Developing motion picture film at home has long required either manual processing tanks or expensive commercial equipment, particularly for color film stocks that demand precise te...

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analog.cafe /1 week ago

How to Fix Lucky C400 Film Scans: Turn Those Piss-Yellow Frames Into Something Beautiful

When this highly anticipated film finally became available, some photographers noticed an odd green-yellow tint that made scanning particularly difficult. In this short guide, I’ll...

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cined.com /5 days ago

Chasing the Glow – Understanding Halation and Why Filmmakers Keep Coming Back to It

There’s a very specific kind of red-orange glow you’ve probably seen a hundred times. A photographic effect where bright light bleeds past its edges – off a neon sign, or a street...

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cined.com /3 weeks ago

Fränk Film Processor – Develop Super 8, Double 8, and 16mm at Home

Home cine development has been running on Soviet-era tanks and a stopwatch for about forty years, and Estonian manufacturer Vintage Visual wants to end that. Its Fränk film process...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

What Happens When You Ask a Chemist to Build Your Dream Film

Custom film built to one photographer's exact wishes, coated by hand sounds like a dream, and this version is wildly unusual. Film that behaves this way rejects almost every rule c...

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dpreview.com /1 month ago

More film options are worth celebrating, even if they aren’t entirely new

A recent film announcement from Flic Film sparked a wave of discourse about what it takes to be a truly new film stock.

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

The Fujifilm Eterna 55 Is Getting Automatic Electronic ND Support

Fujifilm has published a firmware roadmap for the Fujifilm Eterna 55 cinema camera, the contents of which it says are designed to further expand its capabilities and applications a...

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alexluyckx.com /1 week ago

Extreme Film Review No.10 – Ilford Delta 100

After seeing the results I got out of Kodak TMax 100, I had high hopes for Delta 100. Delta 100, being a modern emulsion, is a good film stock: sharp, lots of contrast, and some de...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Netflix Faked VHS, Nolan Shot Real Film: Digital Perfection Is Losing Its Appeal

Netflix just spent real engineering time making its biggest show look worse, on purpose. It's not the only surprising analog bet this summer — Christopher Nolan shot a $250 million...

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alexluyckx.com /3 weeks ago

Classic Film Review Blog – Efke 25

I was starting to worry that I wouldn’t be able to complete this trinity of the original Efke films. Still, a fellow film photographer came through and sent me not one, not four, b...

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cined.com /2 weeks ago

AtomOS Adds EL Zone and FLog2-C Support for the FUJIFILM GFX ETERNA 55

Atomos has added dedicated FUJIFILM GFX ETERNA 55 exposure tools to its recorders: AtomOS 12.7.3 introduces a new FLog2-C Eterna gamma option with an EL Zone false color table cali...

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