The APS Film Format
Harbor of Porsall, Britany (France). Minolta Vectis S1 135 (24x36) and APS format cartridges. The APS cartridge is more “intelligent” than the conventional 135 film container. An icon at the bottom of...
View ArticleThe Nikon FE2: one of the very best manual focus SLRs ever.
Launched in 1983, the successor of the FE had a relatively short sales career, but a long legacy. It can be argued that the Nikon FM3a, sold from 2001 to 2006, is much more a descendant of the FE2...
View ArticleAnd what about film?
Film as a mass market phenomenon is dead. And will never come back. Sales of film have stabilized to a level representing between 1 and 2% of the volumes reached at this peak, in the first years of the...
View ArticleWhy shoot film in 2017?
Last week-end, I tried a Nikon N90S that had just been delivered by UPS. The N90S does not feel very different from a conventional Nikon dSLR such as a D90 or a D7200. And instinctively, I started...
View ArticleiPhone X vs digital camera vs film
Every year, comes September, Apple presents a new iteration of the iPhone, and every year, the iPhone gets better at taking pictures. One year, the iPhone gets better with low light shots, another year...
View ArticleThe Ultimate film cameras
Ultimate: “last in a progression or series : final” (Source: Merriam-Webster) Film cameras stopped selling in any significant quantity in the first years of this century – and the production of film...
View ArticleWho still makes “amateur color film” today?
With smart phones and wireless Internet connections being cheap and ubiquitous, billions of human beings have access to an always available camera of very decent quality and can easily share the...
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