Nick and Graham talk about the basics of making your own film, or other types of alternative photographic media. This can be done by coating a variety of surfaces, such as glass, paper, acetate, or regular film stock with ready-made emulsions, or with home-brew alternative light-sensitive solutions.
They talk a bit in a vague way about ways to make specialized film holders for plates. Making your own media means just about any format is possible, opening up the possibility of building cameras for novel, never-before-seen aspect ratios.
Speaking of alternative formats, they also discuss Ilford’s Ultra Large-Format special-order period, which is on now and runs through May 27, allowing people to put in requests for a large number of different odd and large format film sizes, available in 2 or 3 Ilford emulsions.
Graham recommends a movie on Netflix about Elsa Dorfman, who ran one of the giant polaroids for many years. http://bsidefilm.com/
Nick recommends looking at some of the many books on Alternative Processes that have been listed on past episodes, and points to the use of traditional photo re-touching oil glazes as a way to fine-tune colors on color prints, as well as to hand-color black and white photos.
The boys also mention J Lane and his dry plate side hustle that he sells through Pictographica (https://www.pictoriographica.com/about.html)
E76 Old Timey Podcast
E75 David Hancock and His Pinhole cCameras
E74 Joe Van Cleave
E73 Reimagining the Holga
E72 Ethan's Self-Developing Mystery Show
E71 Douwe Krooshof and his Cyanotype Enlarger
E70 Jason Lane and Chromatic Abberation
E69 Jeremiah Jones and his Homemade Cameras
E68 Erik Mathy makes Homemade Lenses
E67 Nicole Small and the Cyanotype Process
E66 What we are working on.
E65 Stereo Photography
E64: Matt Bechberger and his Wondrous Spot Meter
E63 2020 Year in Review
E62 Livestreamed to the world.
E61 Paper Towel Tubes and BFL
E60 Hervé Ellena
E59 Components of Interest
E58 The Mongoose
E57 Graham Burnett of Graflexparts
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