This morning Fujifilm announced that its highly anticipated Neopan 100 Acros II film will be hitting stores in Japan on November 22. Fujifilm says they expect the film to arrive in the U.S. by early 2020. Fujifilm announced the new product over the summer, and although it shares a name w

Over the summer Lomography announced they were Kickstarting their first new color film in more than five years, called LomoChrome Metropolis R 100-400. Like LomoChrome Purple and LomoChrome Turquoise, the goal of Metropolis isn’t trying to achieve accurate color. According to Lomography th

We’ve known about the return of Kodak Ektachrome for nearly three years and we even got a chance to tour the Rochester factory where its made. Although the film has been available in 35mm rolls for some time now, the company has been promising 4×5 sheets and 120 medium format film s

Organizing a chaotic pile has a way of sinking to the bottom of any to-do list. Digitizing your photos, ancestral documents, or other ephemera is one of those projects that’s probably been on your “someday when I have the time” list for longer than you care to admit. If you need to save sp

Lomography has a new moody black and white film in the works. Fantôme Kino B&W ISO 8 35mm film is available for pre-order five packs of the film through the Lomography website starting today for $35.60. Ordering early will get you 20 percent of the film, which Lomography says will cost

Right now is a fantastic time to shoot film. We’re more than 15 years out from the event of the digital camera age and analog seems to have finally found its place as a relatively small, but extremely devoted part of the photographic community. Right now there are new films to try, t

There’s a lot of lighting gear out there, ranging from curiously cheap to extravagantly expensive, but don’t let that scare you off. If you’re ready to learn to light, there are plenty of affordable and user-friendly speedlights and monolights on the market. Whether you prioritize savings,

Black-and-white film is incredible stuff because of its willingness to let you screw up. Oh, you accidentally overexposed your film two full stops because you forgot to change your camera’s meter settings? No problem. Or what if you need to shoot 400-speed film at 3200 because it’s too dar

Flekt is a new Kickstarter which promises to radically improve the way your pop-up flash behaves, by virtue of an interesting reflection setup. Usually, a pop-up flash modifier will serve simply to diffuse the flash, or maybe bounce it upwards to soften its harsh light. The Flekt instead

Think you need thousands of dollars for a great lighting setup? You don’t. Get that gaffer tape ready, it’s time to create your own DIY photo studio. Make a snoot out of a Pringles can and straws Much like a theatrical spotlight, a grid spot can draw attention to a small, signifi

Night photography in big cities has a very specific look. The ugly color cast by your standard sodium streetlight has become so common, that it many cities it’s hard to imagine everything not looking dipped in orange after the sun sets. But with both LA and New York moving towards mo

What Is It: The Ray Flash 2 is a light-modifer that affixes to most speedlights and mimics the traditional ring light-look; it was designed by by Dalibor Zyka and is manufactured in the Czech Republic . It’s an update to the original Ray Flash, which has been on the market for severa

A small soft box can be an extremely handy tool for an on-location light kit and Flashpoint made the Hexapop as easy as possible to set up and tear down. What is it? As the name suggests, the Hexapop has six edges giving it a hexagonal lighting surface. It’s available in 20- and 24-

The Travelwide is a new large format film camera that costs just $149, but shoots on 4×5 film. If you’ve ever wanted to experiment with analog writ large, this is probably one of the most affordable ways you’ll be able to do it—and in a package that’s small enough to

The Polaroid Spectra (the Image in other markets) isn’t quite as well known as many other instant cameras, and relied on a different format of film than most of the competition. With a 3.5×2.9-inch image area, shooting Spectra is a bit different from your usual square Polaroid f

The Shoulderpod S1 is a new smartphone grip out of Europe that will not only let you mount your phone on a tripod, but will also work as a stand and video grip, and thanks to its adjustable rubber grips, will work with almost any smartphone, even while in a case. The shoulderpod is compri

Yongnuo has long had a reputation of creating camera flashes on the cheap that still boast a surprising suite of features. Now the company has unveiled a larger light than we’re used to seeing from them, the YN300W studio strobe. This 300W studio strobe has a guide number of 56 as I

The Lightblades are a series of acrylic modifiers, designed to attach onto the front of obscenely powerful flashlight (like these two), and change the way you shoot light paintings in order to give the images a significantly more martial bent. The seven different blades each retail for ar

German manufacturer Metz has unveiled its newest flash unit, the previously rumored Mecablitz 64 AF-1 digital. It features not just an impressive guide number of 64, but also a 24-200mm zoom capability, as well as a USB port for firmware updates. Perhaps most interesting for most photograp

Back before the days of Raw files and adjustable ISO, you had to buy film according to the light in which you’d be shooting. Most film was made for daylight, but when you were shooting indoors, you needed something that would render tungsten light bulbs white, rather than grimy orang