Author: Nicolai Grossman

Fuji to discontinue bulk 35mm film

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Remember the saying "film is cheap"? Those days are gone—or at least going. Fuji has announced the end of production for Neopan black and white films in 100-foot (30.5 meter) bulk roll format, scheduled for March 2007. The films will continue to be available in pre-loaded cassettes, and of course other formats like 120 and sheet.

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Will future photography students bother to explore film when the cost of a roll of 35mm black and white film may approach $10?

Continue reading at The Online Photographer

Interview with pinhole photographer Edward Levinson

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Pinhole Visions‘ Gregg Kemp interviews pinhole photographer Edward Levinson about Levinson’s new book, Timescapes Japan – A Pinhole Journey [book blogged previously]:

Gregg: Has the experience of preparing this book caused you to re-examine or take a fresh look at your work, or at your life in Japan?

Edward: That is an interesting question. In selecting the images for the book, one thing I noticed is that it was often the earlier images that seemed the freshest or at least seemed to have the most impact.

Read interview at pinhole.com

Homemade flash diffusor from take-away container

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Homemade flash diffusor

Flickr member potatomato posted a photo set on how he made a flash diffusor from a plastic take-away container.

He writes:

The Gary Fong Lightsphere is a flash diffuser that is gaining popularity with wedding and portrait photograhers world wide. His product is selling at a pace that the manufacturer can’t keep up with. This Flickr photoset demonstrates the use of a to-go container to make your own.

View photo set on Flickr

Via MAKE Blog

OMFG! J and C Photo developing new film range!

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As many of our customers know we have spent the last few months looking at how to best provide as many film choices as possible. We have looked at many ways to bring new films to the market. This includes plans going forward right now to operate our own coating facility and producing high quality films in various formulations.

Over the next 18-24 months we are planning on introducing the following films to the market. All films we produce will be available in 35mm roll and sheet film formats.

Continue reading at J and C Photo

Who said film was dead?

Via the always excellent Online Photographer

JPG Magazine issue #6 now available

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Hot off the presses: JPG Magazine Issue 6: Oops!

There’s magic in mistakes. There’s something special in the spontaneous. Because it’s in those moments when photography becomes more than just a document. It becomes something real.

This issue of JPG is about your best "Oops!" photos. Whether it was faulty settings, old film, the random photo on the last frame of film, or the last photo a camera ever took, this issue features some of the finest slip-ups, freak-outs, and happy accidents ever captured on film or pixels.

We’re also joined by featured photographer Rion Nakaya, who shares some of her favorite serendipitous moments, and Ryan Gallagher, to talk about camera toss photography.

We photographers can’t help being detail-oriented. We notice things. Our eyes can’t help but frame reality. It’s what we do. But it’s always good to be reminded that control is an illusion, and sometimes the best photos are the ones that sneak up on you.

More info and order from JPGmag.com

Aerial pinhole photography!

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This one’s via Dennis at Captured Starlight, who writes:

Daniel G’s work continues to amaze and surprise me. Daniel has long been into aerial photography using RC model planes (with small digital cameras controlled from the ground with servos). More recently, Daniel has taken up pinhole photography (some of his previous projects have been posted here previously). All along I’ve secretly been hoping that Daniel would combine his two hobbies and make an aerial pinhole camera. Well, Daniel took me up on my offer of a free pinhole and used it to make exactly that. The results are astonishing!

See the results and follow his progress at Photoplane Pinhole Blog!

Blueeyes Magazine: Shen Wei portfolio update

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Blueeyes Magazine write:

I’m very happy to announce the publication of the latest installment of our Blueeyes Magazine portfolio feature with the launch of a new body of work by photographer Shen Wei. Shen’s work focuses on the exploration of emotional nakedness, and we are proud to present his terrific work and celebrate the way that his photographs push forward the documentary tradition in portraiture.

If you have missed our previous installments of the monthly portfolio series, please take the time to check our newly launched archives in order to see amazing portfolios from photographers Tomas Munita, Rich-Joseph Faun, and Ami Vitale.

Check it out at blueeyesmagazine.com