Minority Report
By Ctein Amidst the discussions a few weeks back of film and digital photographic practices, it occurred to me that it's much harder for me to get numbers today on the kinds of photographs photographers are making than it used...
Vexed by fb+f
There are some issues that cause in photography enthusiasts what in the past I've called "angst." That's just the German word for "fear," and it has different connotations in English than it does in German, as far as I can...
Video: Paul Trevor
Photo by Paul Trevor Here's a nice video by the English photographer Paul Trevor about some old work of his that's just been coming into its own within the past couple of years. It's also quite pertinent to the discussion(s)...
Securing Your Film Photography Future
By Ctein Last week there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the film fans in our group over the future loss of their favored media. If what you're concerned with is B&W film photography, then I'm here to...
Film Falls Off a Cliff
It's a rather stunning graphic, there on the lower left (labeled "Fading Film")—sourced from the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). You can get the gist of it at a glance. It shows a fall in sales from a billion rolls of...
Why My Gigabyte Film Scans Might Not Be Good Enough
By Ctein Last week, in some comments to Mike's "Touch Once" post, I mentioned that I was on my fourth round scanning some of my film and that re-scanning my film seems to be something I have to do about...
The Path to Freedom: My (Former) ‘Touch-Once’ Method
The subject of working methodology continues to fascinate me, so I hope you'll forgive me if I give it a little more air. I wanted to describe the methodology that I came up with after years of photographing and used...
You Must By a Cartridge of Tape
...Richard Fee found this review of a Nikon F6 on Amazon, via R.O. Teague's twitter: Now, this could well be a joke, and probably is. But none of the guy's other reviews are ironic, sarcastic, or humorous, and just the...
New Premium Silver Paper from Ilford: Art 300
One of the distinct strangenesses of my life these days is that TOP is almost so successful that I no longer have enough time to write for it. Any more going on behind the scenes, and the blog itself will...
The Last Roll and Ara Gler Too
Steve McCurry has posted nine frames from the ceremonial last-ever roll of Kodachrome on his blog. Steve took the assignment very seriously, traveling around the world and including portraits of stars like Robert De Niro and Amitabh Bachchan (the second...
Processing Old Kodachrome
I thought it might be nice to publish instructions about how to expose and develop leftover rolls of Kodachrome as black-and-white film, but after looking in to it, I don't recommend it. The reason is that Kodachrome has rem-jet anti-halation...
A Moment of Silence
I know we've covered this to death already, but just a brief moment of silence, please—today, December 30th, is the last day that Kodachrome film will be processed anywhere in the world, ending a remarkable run that began in 1935....
