Product News Category

Experimental photographer and camera builder Chris Keeney (whom I recently had the pleasure of interviewing) is now offering custom, hand-made MintyCams, which are pinhole cameras made from Altoids mint tins.
Keeney writes:

For those of you that are interested in the mintycam, but aren’t sure you want to go to all the trouble of painting, cutting, etc., […]

DNP Photo Marketing are introducing a new range of colour negative film. 24- and 36-exposure rolls of 35mm will be available in ISO 100, 200, and 400 speeds, from the end of May, 2007.
From the press release:

CENTURIA 100 – Excellent performance for portrait or landscape photography
This fine-grained ISO100 film provides sharp reproduction of even the […]

UK photo retailer Silverprint reports in their newsletter that Kodak are discontinuing both of their infrared emulsions, the black and white HIE and the false-colour Ektachrome Infrared. Kodak will stop accepting orders from stockists for the films in May 2007, so start hoarding now. (Kodak’s web site doesn’t note the discontinuation, but that isn’t unusual, […]

Ken Wronkiewicz has just posted some test shots with Efke’s new IR820c infrared black and white film.
Check them out at his site, Wirehead Arts.

holgamods don’t quit! They’ve added the Sony Aplha/Minolta SLR mount to their existing range of pinhole body caps, which now includes Canon EOS, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Mamiya 645, and Kiev 60 & 88/Pentacon 6/Exakta 66. Check them out at holgamods!

Kodak press release:

New KODAK GOLD 200 Speed Film Offers Consumers Brighter Colours
London, March 9, 2007 – With consumers worldwide continuing to use film, Eastman Kodak Company has introduced a new consumer film, KODAK GOLD 200, designed to give consumers high-quality picture-taking choices. Kodak has improved the emulsion to provide brighter colour, while maintaining the […]

Continuing the flurry of new Holga and pinhole stuff from holgamods is the 35mm Holga. It’s a standard Holga 120S (not the manufactured 35mm versions) with an added rewind knob, so you can expose the entire height of the 35mm film, including around the sprocket holes, as pictured above. (Of course you can also crop […]

Check it out at holgamods!

holgamods have added the Mamiya 645 mount to their existing range of pinhole body caps, which now includes Canon EOS, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, and Kiev 60 & 88/Pentacon 6/Exakta 66. Check them out at holgamods!

Freestyle Photographic has the new Holgaroid back! Here’s their product description:

Turn your Holga into the most unique instant camera you’ve ever seen with the new Instant Film Back! It’s custom-built to fit both all Holga and Woca cameras, installing easily onto each of them within seconds. It comes with a Polaroid type film back, a […]