For anyone wondering what the inside of the Kodak film factory looks like Bill Manning’s video tour of parts of the plant might offer a bit of an insight. Bill, from film-enthusiast website Studio C-41, was invited to see the film manufacturing process at the company’s Rochester headquarters and made a video that combines a little history of the Yellow Giant as well as some behind the scenes…
Behind the Scenes of How Kodak Film is Made
January 7, 2021
Curious how Kodak manufactures its film? In this 8-minute video, Studio C-41 shows the process from making the original giant rolls of plastic that eventually becomes film, to the finished product found on store shelves around the world.
Despite the demand for film falling…
Kodak’s modern business strategy is as weird to read as it is to write about. The company has jumped from one strategy to the next in an attempt to stay afloat. This 15-minute video delves into how Kodak went from near film monopoly, to near financial ruin, to…
Field review: Sigma 35mm F2 DG DN
January 7, 2021
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The Sigma 35mm F2 DG DN is a fairly compact, weather-sealed medium-wide prime lens for L-mount and Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras. It’s designed as a more compact, reasonably priced alternative to ultrafast prime lenses already available in these systems, but that doesn’t mean Sigma has compromised on build or optical quality.
For…
Looking Glass Factory, the company that brought you the extremely successful Kickstarter for the hologram photo frame back in December, has announced a new cloud-based service that can turn any 2D image into a 3D hologram in seconds, no programming knowledge required.
The…
BCN+R has published its final sales numbers of interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras sold in Japan in 2020, and the winner is likely to surprise: the Olympus E-M10 Mark III outsold all others last year.
BCN+R (also called BCN Retail) is a major national consumer…
CIPA has published its global camera shipment and value numbers for November 2020 and the recovery seen in October appears to be stabilizing. Though volume has decreased year over year, the value of shipments is nearly in line.
Below are the charts that CIPA has published showing all 2020 shipment and sales numbers compared to the same periods from 2018 and 2019, with more detailed statistics…
Magnum Photos has continued to come under fire for its response to allegations of the treatment of women by one of its photographers, David Alan Harvey. Today the organization published a letter, promising to reveal its Code of Conduct and perform further investigation into…
OmniVision reveals new 32MP OV32B selfie image sensor with 0.7 micron pixels, 1080p180 video capture and more
January 6, 2021
OmniVision Technologies has revealed the details of the OV32B, a new 32MP 1/3” image sensor for front-facing cameras in smartphones.
The OV32B is built on OmniVision’s PureCel Plus stacked die technology and its pixels measure 0.7 microns across. The sensor integrates a…
Photography has been with me for as long as I can remember. In my childhood, my father had an old Zorki camera, the Russian Leica II clone, and he had a habit of developing films from our trips in the darkroom. That place with unfamiliar smells and substances had a unique charm for me.
I always asked to be there and learn myself the process of film development, as seeing the blank paper turn into…
