Friday Focus – Jed Bacason
Friday Focus: Jed Bacason and "The lives of fish" By Christopher Osborne This week's Friday Focus looks at the conceptual photography of Filipino photographer Jed Bacason. Photography has always been a part of Jed Bacason’s life. “My family are prolific takers of...
Friday focus: Ahsan Ali
Friday focus: Ahsan Ali by Christopher Osborne "Heartbreak precedes Love". This week Friday Focus looks at Pakistani photographer Ahsan Ali's experience with the Widelux camera.Ahsan Ali - self portraitAhsan Ali’s interest in photography was piqued in 2018 when a...
Cairo Camera – cutting metal on a new 4×5 field camera
Cairo Camera: 1st metal cut By Christopher Osborne The objective is straightforward. To make a field camera which has all of the advantages of a monorail. A front standard column on the computer and in the flesh.Abdallah Kroosh is a man with a dream. This softly...
Friday focus: Susan Koruth
Friday focus: Susan Koruth by Christopher Osborne “I always knew when I was in the zone because I could feel my skin tingling, butterflies in my tummy and my heart beating rapidly it was euphoric” says Dubai based photographer Susan Karouth. “I am a photographer,...
My Hour With “The Dude”
My Hour With “The Dude” by Charys Schuler. Every time the box with the next issue of SilvergrainClassics arrives at my door, it’s a thrill. I will have already seen all the individual articles, and also checked all the .pdf documents that are sent over by our...
Time Capsule
Time Capsule by Christopher Osborne. It has taken sixteen and a half hours of flying, crossing nine time zones to see my parents. I’ve just woken from a post flight quick two hour nap, and I am presented with a stack of photography magazines dated 1980-4. “What do you...
World Photography Day
by Christopher Osborne World Photography Day pays homage to the date the French government released the daguerreotype patent making that photographic process "free to the world". Today, it has evolved into an opportunity to encourage and promote photography across the...
How To: Shooting Expired Film
How To: Shooting Expired Film by Ludwig HagelsteinGetting Started While some photographers would not shoot expired, perhaps even badly stored decades old film in their wildest dreams, others indulge in exactly that. Shooting expired film can be an interesting...
Heiland Splitgrade Controller
Heiland Splitgrade Controller by Christopher Osborne The world of analogue photography has a mismatch. The introduction to the 2019 Ilford Photo Darkroom Printing Survey could not put it better. “We have seen sustained and continuous growth in film for a...
Kodak Paper Business sold to Hong Kong based Sinopromise Holdings
Kodak Paper Business sold to Hong Kong based Sinopromise Holdings According to a report published by Inside Imaging, and confirmed by anonymous industry insiders who spoke to SilvergrainClassics on the condition of remaining anonymous, Kodak Alaris has sold its...
Electro-Magic for Non Wizards: How to Scan whole rolls with your Nikon Coolscan 5000ED
Electro-Magic for Non Wizards:How to Scan whole rolls with your Nikon Coolscan 5000ED by Ludwig HagelsteinNot too far in the past, I acquired a new in box Nikon Super Coolscan 5000ED. Immediately after trying it out for the first time on my Windows 10 PC with the...
Introducing the PhotoPlug – Easy Shutter Speed Testing for Your Smartphone
Introducing the PhotoPlug – Easy Shutter Speed Testing for Your Smartphone by Lukas FritzAs analog photographer, one frequently works with old mechanical cameras and lenses. Often though, these cameras lack accurate shutter speeds, because over the years, mechanical...