Right now, Snapchat is in the midst of launching an enormous IPO. The digital service has racked up billions of dollars in market value on the backs of photos and videos that disappear after just 24 hours. It’s a flummoxing concept to many photography enthusiasts. We’re cap

There are lots of ways to wirelessly trigger a flash at the moment, but the focus tends to be on bells and whistles like TTL and high-speed sync. The Phottix Ares syste

Paul Simon never wrote a song about Kodak Ektachrome, so you’ve probably never heard of it. But you have seen pictures shot on the film: The astronauts brought it to the moon in 1969, and National Geographic photographers have carried it around the globe. Launched in 1946, Ektachrome evolv

Developing black-and-white film is easy. It requires an up-front investment, and you have to practice loading film in the dark a few times before you get the hang of it, but once you’ve done it a few times, it’s a cakewalk. You can see a full, step-by-step guide here. Develo

Developing black and white film at home is easy—the hardest part is often getting the film of the reel in total darkness. Developing color film at home is more difficult. The chemicals have to be much hotter and just a few degrees of variation can ruin a roll of film. But a new concept p

Film photography, once thought to be a dying artform, has seen a resurgence in the last few years. Much-loved film stocks like Kodak Ektachrome is returning to producti

Lomography has a new flavor of film on the way, reconfirming what we already know, that it’s an awesome time to start shooting film. Berlin Kino is a 35mm 400 ISO black-and-white film that was extracted from old rolls of German cinema film stock. Lomography says that the film’s ISO

We’ve been big fans of the Lume Cube since its initial launch on Kickstarter in 2014, but in just a few years this product has come a long way. The Lume Cube Air is a powerful, lightweight lighting solution for photographers, videographers, and smartphone shooters. The light can b

When Fujifilm discontinued FP100-C in 2016, it was a serious blow to photographers who prefer instant film. It was the last peel-apart instant film on the market and when the news broke many devotees began hoarding the film stock in their fridges. Florian Kaps, founder of the Impossibl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwDoB0zDILg// It’s a fantastic time to be a film shooter, but purchasing your first film camera can be a little intimidating. Just a few years ago prices on the secondary market were quite low, but the recent resurgence of film photography has driven

The good news for film shooters just keeps coming! Earlier this week Kodak confirmed via Facebook that Kodak Ektachrome would be be available in 120 and sheet film formats before year’s end. Earlier this month the UK quality manager of Kodak Alaris, Andy Church, was on the Sunny

Developing film—both color and black-and-white—is easy once you get all of your supplies in place. Getting the necessary chemicals, however, can be a pain since shipping pre-mixed solutions often adds cost and extra time to the process. Cinestill just announced that it will soon offer pow

Boston-based camera store CatLABS is introducing its own brand of black and white film called CatLABS FILM 80. The new film is a slow speed, fine-grain film that has an emulsion similar to Kodak’s Panatomic-X. The daylight black-and-white film has a box speed rating of 80, but you c

Profoto’s A1X speedlite is the follow-up of the Profoto A1, that the company is billing as the world’s smallest studio light. Unlike traditional speedlites, the A1X has a round head that gives a soft and smooth falloff on your subjects. The new lighting tool has a ton of upgrad

Film photography is not dead. Although a few years ago it was hurting, with old film stocks being lost every couple of months, but in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of new film stocks hitting the market and companies bringing back once discontinued films. Although the

Fujifilm is bringing a new version of Neopan Acros 100 back to the market, roughly one year after the company discontinued its last black and white film. Although Neopan Acros 100 II shares a name with the film discontinued last fall, the two films won’t be identical matches. Fujifi

In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary of capturing the first lunar landing, Hasselblad has released the original press releases from the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. The press announcement from September 1969 was sent to a number of photographic publications (including this one) sta

On July 20th Hasselblad celebrates its fiftieth anniversary as the maker of the camera that documented the historic moon landing. NASA and Hasselblad began working together in 1962 during the Mercury Program, seven years before the moon mission, to ensure that the cameras would function pr

Lomography is back on Kickstarter raising funds for a brand new LomoChrome color film called LomoChrome Metropolis R 100-400 that will be available in early 2020. It’s the first new color negative film the company has released in more than five years and it’s based off the popu

Building cameras can be a lot of fun and with this new Lomography kit it’s now an easy project that you can knock out in an afternoon. The LomoMod No. 1 is a DIY medium format camera made of flat pack cardboard and it uses a liquid-filled lens to create unpredictable aesthetics in your im