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Nikon F3 Film SLR Camera Review

July 29, 2016 By Dan Finnen

The Nikon F3 is a tank. If you need to buy a camera that will double as a bludgeon, the Nikon F3 is for you. This camera was a professional photographer’s go-to camera for nearly a decade, and is built to take an enormous amount of abuse while lasting an eternity on little more than […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: 35mm, Film, Nikon

Impossible Project I-1 Instant Film Camera Review

May 15, 2016 By Dan Finnen

Update September 2017: The Impossible Project has renamed itself ‘Polaroid Originals’ as part of a major rebranding effort. The film itself is still the same, so for our purposes in this article the Impossible Project and Polaroid Originals are the same. To clarify, ‘Polaroid Originals’ are the films and cameras developed by the Impossible Project, […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Impossible Project, Instant film, Polaroid

Nikon F100 Film SLR Camera Review

May 4, 2016 By Dan Finnen

You can purchase the Nikon F100 used on eBay and Amazon. The landscape of 35mm photography has changed rapidly over the past ten years. Back in 2006, the last round of professional 35mm cameras were making their debut, pockets of consumers still held on to their film cameras, and 1-hour photo development was as close […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: 35mm, camera

Lomo Instant Wide Camera Review

December 6, 2015 By Dan Finnen

New: Lomo Instant Wide vs Fuji Instax Wide 300 Image Quality Comparison Fuji Instax Wide has always been an awesome film format in need of a great camera. Fuji’s wide cameras are nowhere near as good as the ones they build for the Mini format, and Lomography has a unique opportunity to fill in a […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: fuji instax wide, Instant film, lomography

Polaroid Onestep Flash Camera Review

May 15, 2015 By Dan Finnen

You can find the Polaroid Onestep Flash camera used on eBay or refurbished from the Impossible Project. During the 1980s and 1990s, Polaroid cranked out all kinds of cheap plastic box-type 600 cameras. They came in a wide variety of names and colors, but the fundamental camera underneath was almost exactly the same. The Polaroid […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: box type, camera, Instant film, Polaroid

Impossible Project Black and White for 600 Generation 2.0 Instant Film Review

April 20, 2015 By Dan Finnen

The best place to purchase Impossible Project film is directly from their online store. Get IP Black and White film for 600 Gen 2.0 from these links and help support this site. Impossible Project’s line of black and white instant film hasn’t been updated since 2013, because honestly, it really didn’t need to be. IP’s […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: black and white, Instant film, monochrome, Polaroid, the impossible project

Fuji Instax Wide Instant Film Review

April 8, 2015 By Dan Finnen

Fuji Instax Wide instant film is the big brother of the more common Fuji Instax Mini instant film. Almost double in size, it’s frame size is much closer to classic Polaroid than the diminutive Instax Mini. Fuji Instax Wide is a reliable, high quality instant film that can be had for a great price. However, […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: fuji, Fujifilm, Instant film, Instax, Wide

Impossible Project Magenta Monochrome for 600 Instant Film Review

March 30, 2015 By Dan Finnen

Recently it seems that the Impossible Project has been dipping its toe into the waters of new, unique instant films. Beyond color and black and white, there are now two different color monochrome films to play with. I’ve already covered Cyan for 600 from the times when it was still called Cyanograph, so when I […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Film, Instant film, magenta, pink, Polaroid, the impossible project

Fuji Instax Wide 300 Camera Review

March 28, 2015 By Dan Finnen

I have been waiting for the Fuji Instax Wide 300 for a long time. The Fuji Instax Wide 210 was and continues to be a… mediocre camera, to put it nicely. However, if you wanted to shoot Fuji Instax Wide film, one of the best and most affordable instant films made today, it was the […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: fuji, instant photography, Instax, instax wide

Fuji Instax 90 Neo Classic Instant Film Camera Review

September 12, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Update Spring 2017: Fuji has released Instax Mini Monochrome film, which is the perfect film to use with the Neo 90. The Fuji Instax 90 Neo Classic is Fujifilm’s newest instant film camera, and one of the most interesting instant film cameras to be released in the past decade. Unlike the other plastic blobs that […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Fujifilm, Instant film, Instax

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