Category: Links

January 2026 links

Film cameras

‘Marty Supreme’ Star Brings a Contax G2 Camera Along on Promo Tour — Petapixel tells us that hollywood stars now use Contax G2. The prices are gonna sky-rocket.

They also remind us that Sabrina Carpenter Spotted Using a Gorgeous Contax G2 Camera — and back in October another star using Contax G2. At least she doesn’t seem to go on talk shows with it.

In 2017 Kendall Jenner Shares Her Passion for Photography on The Tonight Show ruining the Contax T-series for everyone with its sky-rocketing prices.

Printing slides

1980s F1 Photographer Sees His Work Printed for the First Time Thanks to His YouTuber Son — a bit click bait. The Toronto based car enthusiast son of the photographer just showed us how he could get the images printed. Nothing ground breaking, but these are slides, and even mini-lab could handle these (not mentioned). He end up with DSLR scanning and pro-lab large format printing. Great pictures. And this should encourage you to print your work.

Film recipes

A Movie-Like Look for Your Images – The Fujifilm “Movie Recipe” — Another film recipe.

Instax

Zinstax — The home of Zinstax and Binstax, Instax Square backs for Mamiya RZ67 and RB67. Made in Germany it seems. Not the only option.

Misc

“Throwing my camera was the right thing to do”: The photographers behind the viral protest photos — a story of photojournalism covering current events in Minneapolis.

December 2025 Links

Fujifilm

Shall We Talk About the Fujifilm X-Pro4? — Kevin Mullins talk about his expectations for the Fujifilm X-Pro4. In 2024. End of 2025 and we haven’t heard of anything.

Ross’s Fujifilm Recipes — Ross and his JPEGs has a bunch of Fujifilm recipes.

Winter Chrome — Just another film recipe.

X-E5 x FS RECIPE: Ben Savage — Fujifilm X story giving 3 film recipes.

X-E5 x FS RECIPE: Davide Gazzotti — Another Fujifilm X story with file recipe.

Panasonic

Digital Kodacolor 200 is Here. And It’s Beautiful — Lumix LUTs are Panasonic answer to Fujifilm film simulations / recipes. This one is for Kodacolor 200.

Kodacolor 200 — The original link for the one above from Ross and his JPEGs. Ross has many other recipes for Lumix, including conversion of other Fujifilm recipes (from the community). And the Fujifilm ones above.

DIY

This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You — 3D printing has a great potential.

Misc

What Bruce Davidson Taught Me About Street Photography — Frederik Trovatten talks about Bruce Davidson, New York based photographer know for his colour scenes from the New York subway in the 80s.

A couple of years with the Minolta P’s — A review of the Minolta P, and “panoramic” format 35mm film point and shoot, from someone who shoot the TX-1 or X-Pan regularly.

November 2025 Links

Film news

DPReview just confirmed that Eastman Kodak has resumed direct sales of consumer film after more than a decade — This following the release of Kodacolor and the repackaing of both Gold 200 and Ultramax 400.

Trying Aerocolor — Erica Fustero tries Kodak Aerocolor that is sold only by the brand respooling it, even though most of them don’t say it. It’s a 100 ISO colour negative.

Fujifilm

The Complete History of Fujifilm X and GFX Cameras — An almost up to date timeline of the Fujifilm X and GFX line.

Leica

Pope Francis’ One-of-a-Kind Leica Sold for Nearly 100x Its Estimated Value — It’s not a camera that will shoot a lot if at all. It should be noted it’s a film Leica M, not a digital one. It’s serial number 5000000 (five million) so is the Noctilux 50mm f/1.2. It sold for €6,500,000 (instead of the €60,000 estimated)

Pope Francis’s Leica M-A set sells for 100 times its estimate at Leitz Photographica Auction — Same thing but this article also mention the bsck-up Leica M3 of the one gifted in 1958 to Queen Elizabeth II by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. It sold for only €156,000.

A closer look at some of Queen Elizabeth II’s favorite cameras — The Queen used many cameras. Including one similar to the M3 mentioned above.

Other

Digicams: The Cameras of the Modern Digital Rebellion — About that trend of using old digicams…

Link: First impressions: Lomography LOMO MC-A

I mentioned the Lomography LOMO MC-A recently. Kosmo Foto has had the privilege to shoot with one for a while and now have their first impressions of the Lomography LOMO MC-A.

Lomography is know for cheap plastic cameras that define the style of what people call “Lomography”, a sort of lo-fi photography.

Lomography’s new 35mm compact camera is a world away from simpler cameras like the LomoApparat or the Fisheye No. 2.

As it stands the LOMO MC-A is already on a different trajectory of more premium, with a build quality that feel solid with metal parts, exposure system, autofocus with manual options.

The test rolls seems to show good results. At ₤450 (CA$699) it’s definitely not cheap, but the result seems to be on par. This show the commitment of Lomography to film photography in general, as they also release a new film. Kosmo Foto expects to publish a more thorough review in 2026.

October 2025 Links

Kodak Colour Negative Film and Colour Print Making Materials & Processes – researched by Michael Talbert — A collection of material about early Kodak film processes. We learn that Kodachrome initially cost US$3.50 a roll in 1936 (this included processing) which is US$54 in 2009… and learn how complicated its development process was. And from there many other links. A rabbit hole.

The Leica M EV1 Just Entered a Spec War It Can’t Win and Destroyed Its Own Value Proposition — The headline itself is what I thought of this camera.

Flashes and Strobes

Photo Strobe Trigger Voltages — A list of flash strobes and their trigger voltage. It’s important to match it with your camera as some might have more than 100V.

Sam’s Strobe FAQ — Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Electronic Flash Units and Strobe Lights (Archived) — Tips on repairing electronic flash units.

September 2025 Links

Polaroid Versus Fujifilm – How a Court Case Could Change Instant Photography Forever — Seems like a repeat of Polaroid vs Kodak. Just because of the square shape…

From Emulsive, How-to: Make DIY your own black and white transparencies (slides) — Apparently Ilford has an official process with Ilford FP4 Plus, and this article revise it by using a chemical inversion instead of a re-exposure. I always wanted to shoot Agfa Scala. And Adox Scala, its successor, doesn’t seem so easy to find here.

What is a color space? by Dan Hollick. — A clear explanation of what a colour space is. Despite this being part of a tutorial on writing software, it is really not specific to this craft.

August 2025 links

Insider: Fujifilm X-T5 Disassembly and Teardown — Don’t try this at home. IRRecams do modify cameras for IR photography, and this is them looking at the X-T5. But useful if you need a guide to repair.

Kolari Canon EOS R50V Teardown and Disassembly — Another teardown by IR conversion specialists. This time the EOS R 50V.

DPReview Fujifilm X-E5 in-depth review.

Kosmofoto reports that 10Art.CC announces reimagined version of the Polaroid SX-70 — Another interesting take on reviving vintage camera with specific format.

July 2025 Links

Michael Nguyen from Japan Camera Hunter writes about the Plaubel Makina 67, an uncommon medium format 6×7 rangefinder of Japanese-German design from the late 70s, with its specially designed Nikkor lens.

From the colour-film-dept

Kosmofoto reports KONO! announces KONO Color 200 colour negative film, a made-in-Germany colour negative, rumoured to be ORWO NC200.

Also as a follow-up from a previous post, Kosmofoto tells us that China Lucky Film’s new colour film ‘launched in July at Chinese trade show’. Price will be around US$7 and a first batch of 10000 rolls will be produced initially.

Black and white slide

Kosmofoto tell Euston 400 is a black-and-white slide film from London film lab Aperture Printing. If you are in London this is a higher sensitivity film than the Adox Scala with the corresponding chemistry, and they develop it for you. It’s in limited quantity.

Sony RX1R III

Imaging resource: Sony RX1R III Review: A $5,000 Letdown in a Familiar Shell. Lack of IBIS, still the older lens, the lack of tilting screen that the previous iteration had, and the battery life. Because the camera is US$5000.

June 2025 links

Fujifilm

Some Fujifilm reviews around.

DPReview on the GFX100 RF: their comprehensive review of the camera we talked about previously.

Photographyblog got their hands on the Fujifilm X-E5 and the 23mm pancake: Fujifilm X-E5 Review, Fujifilm XF 23mm F2.8 R WR Review, and then they compare the X-E5 with the X-E4.

Misc

WIRED on How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for F1. The short version is that the on board camera for F1 car are not suited for a movie, while they are great for broadcast. So Apple who produce the movie did modify iPhone cameras. They don’t broadcast but the footage they record is much more suited for editing into the rest of the film. The technical achievement at the service of the art. Not the first time, nor the last.

Kosmophoto gives a First look at China Lucky Film’s forthcoming new colour film. I’ll follow-up on this later, but it’s promising to see the development of a new colour film.