Unboxing ‘The Film Photography Handbook’

Chris Marquardt and Monica Andrae’s The Film Photography Handbook is an English translation of 2015’s Absolut analog. The translation is good and, from what I’ve read, a bit of German-ness shines through in some of the phrasing and aphorisms. It’s written mostly for newbies and the curious digital shooter, and because it’s Chris, it’s primarily a …

Unboxing JCH Street Pan

After a bit of hemming and hawing, and after Fuji announced it was discontinuing some multipacks of its professional and consumer films (it may or may not be true…), and after writing a rather passionate comment in support of all film manufacturers on the Japan Camera Hunter site (see the comments here), I pulled the trigger …

Nate Matos’s “Serif & Silver Compendium”

Serif & Silver was a quarterly journal Nate Matos  wrote and published between June 2015 and March 2016. I was completely unaware of it at the time—as I’m largely unaware of many things—and I would’ve remained unaware, if not for The Shoot with Matt Day (iTunes). The interview with Matos inspired me quite a bit and got me wanting …