The Impossible Project—the people behind NOS Polaroid film resellers Polapremium and Polaroid photo sharing site Polanoid—bought the equipment necessary to make Polaroid 8×10 instant film, and hopes to start production in 2010. New successful prototypes of black and white integral film for SX-70 and 600 Polaroid cameras have also been completed. Awesome. More details in [...]

Here are nefotografas‘s instructions for adapting the very cheap Kodak Instamatic 100 camera to use 35mm film. There’s also a bigger version here. This looks very easy to do, no major camera surgery required. Nice!

If you ever wondered what film looks like when abused with aftershave, hot sauce, lemon juice, gin, swimming pool water, or a wide variety of household cleaners, check out Thomas Anderson‘s amazing Experiments and Mistakes gallery on Flickr. You can see more of Anderson’s work and experiments here on Flickr and at his blog, photodu.de. [...]

This 16-clip clothes hanger from Ikea is great for hanging film up to dry. It has built-in clips that don’t slide, is heavy enough to stay balanced, and is flippin’ cheap. Jabba clothes hanger, $4.99 USD.   And it kind of looks like the Nanerpus:

Kodak announced Ektar 100, a new fine-grained, high-contrast, high-saturation, "world’s sharpest" color negative film. It’s 35mm-only, and will replace the almost cartoonishly-saturated Portra Professional Ultra Color 100UC. Availability: October 2008 in the US, beginning of November in Europe, ?? rest of the word. More info on Kodak’s Ektar 100 Q&A and in the film data [...]

According to this Q&A page about their new Ektar 100 film, Kodak will discontinue their Portra Professional Ultra Color 400UC film by the end of 2008. I don’t shoot much 35mm these days, but I thought it really sucked when they discontinued it in 120 last year, it was great in 6×6 toy cameras.

The Fujifilm Professional Newsletter says: Process 10 rolls of any brand of 120 colour negative film at London-based pro lab Genesis Imaging and receive a free 5 roll pack of either Fujicolor PRO160S, PRO160C or PRO400H 120 colour negative film. The Fujicolor PRO Series offers an exceptional range of professional colour negative films to suit [...]

This article in Amateur Photographer says: Polaroid is in fresh talks over the survival of its professional instant sheet film following its failure to reach agreement with UK firm Ilford Photo. Polaroid bosses have confirmed that they are in discussions with a ‘third party’ over the continued production of 20x24in large format professional b&w sheet [...]

Flickr member Dark Orange says: Can’t buy the film you want any more? Just make the stuff! In this set you will find random photos and information on a project a friend has undertaken – a machine to make his own camera film. Plastic and goop go in one end, and camera film comes out [...]

Excerpt from a Fujifilm UK press release: FUJIFILM UK Ltd. (Managing Director Hiroshi Saigusa) has announced that it is to increase prices on its range of photographic papers and films in the United Kingdom. The price changes are being implemented on a worldwide basis. [emphasis added] Prices will be increased from July 2008 and will [...]