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These 1920s Film Photos Sat Undeveloped for 100 Years, Until Now https://petapixel.com/2026/02/25/these-1920s-film-photos-sat-undeveloped-for-100-years-until-now/ #foldingkodakpocket #blackandwhitefilm #photorestoration #undevelopedfilm #filmprocessing #undeveloped #forgotten #oldphotos #Features #filmlab #mystery #oldfilm #Analog

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Searching for what this endearingly amateurish analysis reminds me of, and I finally found it: it's like 19th century discussions of photo technique before Hurter and Driffield discovered the characteristic curve in 1890.

Oh what a wealth of knowledge we had from the experts at Kodak and Ilford and Agfa and Ansco. Oh the labs at Pop Photo and Modern. Will film ever be big enough to fund one of them again?

https://petapixel.com/2025/08/08/leica-monopan-50-review-is-it-just-re-boxed-adox-hr-50/

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A bonus shot before we get back into the Riverside time machine. This utterly mundane photo from a brief 1992 visit to Tompkins County, taken on 120 Agfa Vario-XL (an XP2 competitor), illustrates a technical point: how do you correct the verticals without Photoshop when you're using a camera without a rising front (in this case, a Mamiya C33 TLR)?

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One: I continue to have fun exploring the use of D-23. My wife requested a photo of her white heirloom roses in bloom, so I jumped at the chance to test highlight separation in very flat lighting. The gamma was turned way up here, but the gradation came along very nicely -- it's all there. The performance of the old Mamiya 135mm lens (a tessar design) was also gratifying.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Wat-Air Roll Film Washer.

You know how if you wash your film in running water, it gets covered with tiny bubbles unless you take it out of the wash and put it back in every few minutes? (You knew that, right?)

This baby sends up a continuously agitated stream of large bubbles through the reels that prevent that. I've added an adapter here to the original garden hose thread to fit it to my kitchen faucet.

Why isn't someone making these?

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In mastering film photography, the first rule is: never change more than one variable at a time. So when a brand new film (Kentmere 200) came my way, of course I had to try it with a developer (D-23) that I'd never used as well. I'd been meaning to try out D-23 for a while and had the chems, so now was the time. This would also be the first time I'd made a dev from scratch since 1985. So I ordered a $15 0.05x500g scale and shot a test roll at EI 160.

Giddy

Look at the nerd boy being all giddy.

The film lab sent him an email saying the received my latest film order. We’re going to have new film shots to play with at some point over the next couple of business days.

Squee, bro… squee.

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Congrats on Sinners returning to IMAX Thursday, May 15 to Wednesday, May 21. Tickets available now. End-to-end services by FotoKem including 65mm 15-perf negative shot here, film processing, nextLAB dailies, color finishing and 70mm prints.

Senior Finishing Colorist: Kostas Theodosiou @kostas.color
Additional colorist: Claire Iannelli @iannelliclaire

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Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore https://petapixel.com/2024/06/07/photographers-dont-want-their-negatives-back-from-the-lab-anymore/ #filmnegatives #negatives #photolab #filmlab #Analog