Film lovers have been pretty excited with the re-release of Kodak’s Ektachrome, and have been anxiously awaiting their shipments to give it a try. I placed an order as soon as the FIND lab started taking orders and received five rolls in the first shipment. The day job delayed shooting a bit, but work took me to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and I finished my roll of Ektar which was in the camera and then shot a roll of Ektachrome. Here are the results. Let me preface this by saying that there is no science or technical expertise in this comparison. I am not in any way an expert in comparing cameras,…
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A couple of years ago, there was a story about Kodak’s CEO, Jeff Clarke’s unique business card, a strip of film with his contact information. When my supply of promotional key chains for my Caribbean travel website, My Irie Time, ran out, it was time to find a replacement, and I chose one to reflect my dedication to film. So I turned to Kodak’s Film Strip Creator and put together my own “business card” for My Irie Time and Film Road Trip. Kodak Film Strip Creator puts your information on a genuine piece of Kodak print film. Because they are created on movie film, they are smaller than your 35mm…
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Listening to my favorite film photography podcasts, I occasionally hear of people creating zines, essentially simple magazine-style booklets of their photographs to share with others. Coming off a Labor Day trip to San Francisco, I had a good set of photographs of Chinatown, which I thought would make a nice collection, so I made my first zine! I used Blurb Books to create it. I am quite familiar with Blurb and use the Lightroom to Blurb book creator tool to create photo books of family trips. Sadly, that book creation tool in Lightroom, does not work to create magazines, so you have to use the Blurb BookWright application to lay…
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