Harman Phoenix II officially announced
HarmanPhoto officially released their newest colour negative film — Harman Phoenix II. It’s already available in both 35mm and medium format.
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Harman Phoenix II woes
As we’ve already announced, new colour negative film, Harman Phoenix II, should arrive today. Harman’s announcement says 12:00 UTC, but it appears the website is not working — it shows Service Temporarily Unavailable.
New film: Harman Phoenix II
After starting a campaign all over the social media, it looks someone found a leak, apparently Harman is releasing a new version of theirs Phoenix colour-negative film, aptly named Phoenix. It’s arriving on 16th of July 2025.
The bad, the ugly and my roll of Kodak HIE
Kodak High-speed Infrared film, also known as HIE, is a black-and-white film with extended sensitivity in the infrared zone. It was discontinued in 2007, and all that’s available for the last decade has expired a long time ago.
The first roll of Original Wolfen Color NC500
I finally managed to test the newly available colour film from ORWO – the Color NC500.
12 Months of film – April: April Everlasting
Of all of the possible excuses for being extremely late with writing a monthly post (it’s July, for fuck’s sake!), the “everything went well and I don’t know how to put it into words” must be the most insane one. Not that it matters one …
Another new film camera gets announced
Yes!Star, a Chinese company making new films for Fujifilm, announced a new simple, reusable point-and-shoot film camera.
Pentax 17 is here!
The first brand-new film camera since the early 2000s is finally here, with just a few hours of waiting, Pentax is about to officially release its half-frame film camera at 22:00h CET. Update: release video below.
12 Months of film – March: A Clockwork Turquoise
This blog post took way too long to be written and published, as life–and writers block–got in the way but here it is finally. I’m currently too tired to write a witty intro, possibly due to being far too excited about finally being able to …
12 months of film – February, part 2: Return of the Zenit
This one will be short and sweet because, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, literally nothing went wrong…
110 lives on!
Quite unexpectedly, Lomography has announced a brand-spanking-new camera that uses 110 format film – Lomomatic 110. Despite the low quality usually tied with the film format, the new camera looks like it’s a well-thought-out one.
12 months of film – February, part 1: One flew over the cuckoo’s bulb
You know that old saying “if you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans”? WELL…
New film: Ferrania P33
Film Ferrania has announced a new 160 ASA black & white film in 35mm format – the Ferrania P33. It is a “fine grain and defined contrast” film developed on feedback from Ferrania P30 users.
Live film development thread
From time to time, it’s fun to jump into live-action film development, writing about the process in real time.
Adox announces new color film
Adox has quietly announced the next step of their colour film mission – Color Mission Helios film, a C41 colour film with a usable sensitivity of ISO 1.5.
Kodak announces a film price reduction
Kodak announced a price reduction on Tri-X 400 black and white film, up to 30%.
Shooting infrared – a tripodless journey
Overconfidence of a lazy person or “nah, I don’t need a tripod, how hard can shooting the same frame twice even be?”, a cautionary tale.
Twelve months of film – January: The Cat Returns
First film in this project was shot in a span of just two days (even though it’s a monthly film), but the developing process robbed me of at least a month of my life in terms of stress and annoyance, so it all balances out.
Twelve months of film
I’ve started the project “Twelve months of film” in 2024, and decided to write about my experience. So..let’s start from the top.
Trouble in the East… German Camera
I’ve got an East German camera to test, and the results are going to surprise you! Well, not really, what would you expect from a camera that’s been sitting on a shelf for who-knows-how-long!?
New film: Harman Phoenix 200
After some waiting and a lot of speculation, a completely new film has been announced. Harman Phenix 200, a 200 ASA colour-negative film in 35mm format.
Over the bridge, October 2023.
It’s been ages since I visited the biggest Croatian island, island Krk, so I couldn’t miss an opportunity to drive there and explore a bit.
Unraveling the instant confusion, part one
Instant photography never lost its appeal, holding a “real”, physical photo immediately after it was taken is a magical experience, let’s find out what’s going on with those Instaxes and Polaroids!
High-end Polaroid I-2 camera launched
Polaroid just launched a new camera, a high-end model named I-2. It comes with LiDAR autofocus, full manual mode, a sharp lens, and can use all standard Polaroid film packs. It can connect to a smartphone using a Bluetooth connection, but it doesn’t come cheap.