Category:Photography & Film
My Super8 8mm Experiment – 8mm film resolution
With affordable 4K displays around the corner a higher resolution than the offered 2K frame-by-frame scanning would be nice for my 8mm film, since products like ARRISCAN provide up 6K/4K....
Impossible Instant Lab – instant photos made with my iPhone
I recently tried The Impossible Instant Lab at the Apple store in Hamburg during their creative workshop tour around Europe (recently being February 2014, but I...
Impossible Instant Lab – instant photos from digital images
In 2012 the kickstarter project for the instant lab got funded. It let’s you create instant photos from digital images on smartphones and was...
Happy Birthday Edwin Land
Don’t do anything that someone else can do. Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. “The Vindication of Edwin...
POLAROID sonar focussing
With sonar focussing, Polaroid introduced an instant auto focus system for their SX-70 instant film cameras. It is described in the user manual as...
POLAROID SX-70 LAND CAMERA SONAR AutoFocus
I started testing a Polaroid SX-70 instant film camera with sonar focusing, which Polaroid advertised as the ultimate in one-step photography. Polaroid implemented an active autofocus...
Leica T System
Leica introduced a new camera system with interchangeable lenses and a new Leica T mount, the Leica T. It is supposed to be positioned...
My Super8 8mm Experiment – Digital Intermediate
As explained before, I have to choose between various options to digitize my 8mm film. There are some things I can do myself. I...
My Super8 8mm Experiment – Telecine and motion picture film scanners
After shooting and developing 8mm motion picture film, one might want to transfer it to a digital format. This is quite complicated actually, since...
My Super8 8mm Experiment – Getting film material
Unfortunately the variety of 8mm film material still available has decreased over the past years. The popular Kodachrome was discontinued in 2009 and even its processing...
