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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.

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.

Rollei 35AF pre-order

It’s up. If you are curious, the Rollei 35AF is available for pre-order for CA$1106 in Silver. Add CAD40 for black.

Webpage with two Rollei 35AF camera. On the left, the silver model for CA$1,106, and on the right the black model for CA$1146. Below each there is a button labelled "Choose options"

Previously: Rollei 35AF

DIY waist level shooter

Turn a point and shoot to a waist level camera.

Interesting DIY idea, including the use of the PowerShot N that is currently dirt cheap to do that (~US$130 at B&H) that seem to have been meant to be used like that.

As for the usefulness, I can tell that the way you hold your camera will change the way you see through it – this is why I have totally different results when using my TLR. This is almost like freestyle shooting. And it might bring in question from people – I have had people asking about my TLR when shooting – kind of a conversation starter.