http://www.adorama.com/alc/category/147 Film photography lives! <p><span style="font-size: small;">Selecting the all-time best of anything is always a daunting task, and that&rsquo;s especially true of cameras, which have undergone a seismic paradigm shift in moving from film to digital. It&rsquo;s also a great way to start arguments, generate irate letters and e-mails, and tick off your buddies at various camera companies. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/13241 <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">When Polaroid announced they were shutting down production of their instant film lines in February of 2008, it looked like an era was coming to an end.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/13174 <p><span style="font-size: small;">There are many ways to turn your treasure-trove of slides, negatives and prints into digital image files. Here&rsquo;s a scanner that can do it all. For $80, can it deliver the quality you need?</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12822 <p><span style="font-size: small;">In this episode, Mark talks with Harrison Hurwitz. Harrison has shot fashion, editorial and weddings. He even talks about his passion for taking black and white prints.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12784 <p>With digital cameras of all varieties dominating the market, now is a great time to buy a film camera. Yes...a <em>film</em> camera! Updated for Summer 2010.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8092 <p><span style="font-size: small;">If you love capturing images on film, you have precious few choices among new cameras. Used cameras, however, offer a much wider variety of choices in the film universe.<br /></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8485 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Tired of the cold world of pixels and image-editing programs? Wake up and smell the Dektol!</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12238 <p><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Fujifilm brings its instant camera to the US to fill the void left by Polaroid&rsquo;s disappearing act. Should you care?</em></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11656 <p><span style="font-size: small;">When Kodak unveiled <span><a href="../../KKEK10036U.html">Ektar 100 in the 35mm size</a></span> nearly two years ago they proudly proclaimed it to be The World&rsquo;s Finest Grain Color Negative Film.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11561 <p><span style="font-size: small;">With a handful of big-city exceptions, the mom-and-pop 1-hour film processing lab is dead.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8548 <p><span style="font-size: small;">There are two big myths about making great scans: The first is that the process is so difficult that it&rsquo;s beyond the capabilities of the average person. The second is that it is really easy to make a great scan. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8486 <p><span style="font-size: small;">This is a very personal and subjective list of my favorite color and black-and-white print films. Each has a distinctive character. <br /></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8484 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Recent studies show that while most pro photographers have added digital cameras to their arsenal, the majority of them also continue to shoot film. Why? </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8483 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Named in honor of Asahi Optical Company's 60th Anniversary (LX is 60 in Roman numerals), the Pentax LX debuted in 1980 as a world-class professional K-mount Pentax, designed to challenge such well-established archrivals as the Nikon F3, Canon New F-1, Olympus OM-1n and OM-2n, and the Contax RTS.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8068 <p>If 35mm SLRs were cars, the Pentax K1000 would be a Volkswagen Beetle--a simple, practical, economical, lovable classic--unpretentious but with its own distinctive character.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8069 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Why use a traditional film camera in the midst of the brave new digital age? There are many good reasons for doing so, some practical, some emotional or even (dare I say it?) philosophical. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8115 <p><em>A classic prosumer 35mm SLR</em></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8121 <p>Is this exquisite, ingenious, and (alas) recently discontinued 6x4.5cm SLR a user collectible or a classic collectible? Answer: Without the shadow of a doubt, it is both. Its outstanding picture-taking performance is still unsurpassed by any medium-format camera in current production.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8122 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8147 <p><span style="font-size: small;">When you consider that this rugged 35mm SLR, beloved by advanced amateurs and pros, arrived on the scene back in November 1992, its feature set is amazing.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8148 <p>If you've ever wanted to own a pro-caliber 35mm Nikon SLR with the ultra-solid construction, unsurpassed features, stellar performance, and sheer presence of, say, a Nikon F5 or F6 but were put off by the hefty price, here's your chance to do so for a fraction of the cost: The Nikon F100.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8170 <p><span style="font-size: small;">What can you say about the Leica M3? That more than 50 years after its introduction in 1954 it is still the camera by which all 35mm rangefinder cameras are judged!</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8171 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Photographers have a love-hate relationship with slides.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8174