We're sorry. Last year, we issued a challenge to our readers to see if they could tell the difference between film and digital. Specifically, we asked readers to see if they could tell the difference between Kodak Tri-X and the Leica M10 Monochrom.
With digital photography, it's become more accessible for folks to make their images look like film. Presets are great for this. But it gets a lot more complicated with black and white. I've rarely heard someone say, "Dem tones," to a black and white photograph.
Many of you know that we've always had an affinity for film. It's important that we don't forget about this tool in photography. Truly, film is something that helps unite passionate photographers everywhere.
It seems almost inconceivable that the attack on the Twin Towers occurred 18 years ago, given the fact that many of us still remember everything that happened on that fateful Tuesday morning so vividly as if it had just transpired.
It started with Kodak teasing the new Kodak TMax P3200 on Instagram and Twitter--much unlike Ektachrome, Kodak TMax P3200 is actually real and you can buy it immediately. Indeed, they brought it back from the dead as the black and white film world was severely lacking in any sort of variety when it came to high ISO black and white films.
If you're a photographer that only recently got into film, you'll need to understand a number of things about Kodak. The once mighty company still makes and manufactures film but their coffers are nowhere as large as they used to be.
While I really do enjoy the look of Kodak Tri-X 400, almost nothing in black and white has made me drool like Ilford Delta 400. Ilford Delta 400 I always felt delivered those inky, beautiful black levels that I've alway been smitten with.
If you've been a fan of this website for a while, you'll know that I'm a very big fan of RNI Films. By far, they're the best film simulation option that I've seen and used; and today they've updated their styles for Capture One 11.
With Lomography Lady Grey 400 Black and White film, photographers have yet another choice for black and white film photography. Indeed, the look that it delivers is also something pretty special.
The MS Optics 28mm f2 Pancake lens offering is a lens that should be permanently glued to a Leica CL if you have one. Now, don't go doing that for real now, but more to the point this is a lens that really should be glued on.
Heads up, film photographers! If you're looking for some new and experimental films to try, KONO! has recently made their selection of films available for purchasing in single rolls. This makes sampling their funky films easier on the pocket, especially if you're more keen on variety than quantity for testing them out.
These reviews of film here on La Noir Image have always been targeted more towards the digital photographer out there. So as you're reading this and are wondering what digital simulation best compares to Kodak T-Max 400, know that you can get it from Olympus.
Today, Fujifilm officially announced that after 2019, Fujifilm Acros 100 4x5 cut sheet film will no longer be in production. This statement is currently being applied only to the 4x5 cut sheet film and it is currently unclear if it will apply to the 35mm, 120 and large format emulsion offerings, but we will confirm this in the morning.
Today, Fujifilm officially announced that after 2019, Fujifilm Acros 100 4x5 cut sheet film will no longer be in production. This statement is currently being applied only to the 4x5 cut sheet film and it is currently unclear if it will apply to the 35mm, 120 and large format emulsion offerings, but we will confirm this in the morning.
Alex Teltevskiy is a photographer whose mind works with a bit of eccentricity. He loves photography and has loved film since starting in it. But then he went digital and fell back in love with film.
Photographer Rikard Landberg has been featured on the Phoblographer before for his humor that he finds in street photography. He applied to be featured in our upcoming Analog zine and we felt his work to be good enough to feature here on the website. So here's his story.
In a turn of news that I really wish that I didn't have to report, Kodak's stock isn't doing so well at the moment. Last year around this time it was pretty low; and then it started to climb up again and remained fairly high.
There are a ton of photographers out there who started in film, then went digital, and eventually went back to film: and Jeb Inge is one of those shooters. This year he took the big leap and sold all of his digital equipment.
For a fairly long time now, I've ditched Lightroom for Capture One and I couldn't be happier. But something that I've missed is having film profiles for my images--if not because they didn't necessarily look like film, because I just genuinely liked the look of the photos.
Arguably the most famous black and white film of our time has to be Kodak Tri-x 400; it's been with photojournalists for years and years. These days though, most folks can't tell the difference between Kodak Tri-x 400 and so many other emulsions on the market.
In recent years, thanks in part to social media and the ease with which participants can share images, street photography has enjoyed unprecedented popularity. A generation of digital cameras, inspired in part by the classic tools of street shooters, has combined with the power of social networks and easy image sharing to empower a new generation of photographers to embrace street photography.
Years and years ago, there were film photographers that loved taking their lenses and cameras into labs and testing the results with charts and such. For the most part, that still happens with digital.
Good news: we've got a brand new film emulsion in the form of Bergger Pancro 400. This black and white film is a brand new emulsion--and Bergger is promising fine grain, and lots of sharpness in addition to lots of detail rendition.
It's rare when a new film hits the market--but it would make a whole lot of sense that someone like Bellamy Hunt decides to create one. Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 film is an emulsion available in 35mm and was developed to really be shot in low light situations.