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Reveni Labs, with Matt Bechberger

Matt Bechberger studied electronics engineering and owned fifteen or twenty old cameras with selenium meters that had slowly died over sixty years. The cameras kept worki

2025 Japan film photography research results, with Kimiyasu Morikawa, the man behind the research

Yesterday, I got into the fascinating world of film photography in Japan with Kimi, who shares insights from his recently published 2025 film usage survey. We explored th

Control your camera with your voice with this accessibility trick!

I decided to record a video for this post because it’s hard to convey all that in text form. As Marshall McLuhan used to say, the medium is the message, so a video is mor

EmberFilm: a first look at a new negative conversion app

Converting your own scans is the part of film photography nobody puts on a postcard. I scan with the film borders, so a big chunk of my time goes into cropping, rotating,

About photographing people in social disadvantage

Something that has been sitting with me since I did this shot: Here is the project I mentioned: Hope in Shadows. You can find their website here. It’s such a beautiful

Reflections about film and digital: what film asks of you that digital never did...

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Twenty minutes. Just me, close to the microphone, thinking out loud. Podcast episode on air! You can listen directly here, or f

Max Adams on shooting for work and shooting for fun

Last week I had Max Adams on the Photography Community Camera Clara livestream/podcast. He runs a YouTube channel with almost 80,000 subscribers (as April 2026, important

Developing film in traffic, in the woods, on a UHAUL! Meet Kat and Everett, the creative minds behind FridgeFilm

Kat and Everett from FridgeFilm joined the Camera Clara live stream last week, and it was one of the most fun episodes we’ve done. If you don’t know them yet: they’re tw

Video tutorial: How to un-delete photos from your SD card

I spent the afternoon on the Staten Island ferry with a full battery and high hopes. The light was perfect coming off the water, Manhattan doing its thing in the backgrou

The Ricoh GR IV HDF, reviewed by an experienced street photographer

Note 1: this is a video-article. Make sure to click on the video to play the full thing (I know, Substack is confusing sometimes). Note 2: This is not a traditional revi

Building a photography community in Hong Kong, featuring Anson (Tahusa)

I had a fantastic conversation with Anson, the man behind Tahusa. This is the second time Camera Clara features Tahusa. This time, we are talking about what we have in co

Hasselblad V-System, explained

In this live stream, I invited my friend Brian Chambers to walk us through the legendary Hasselblad V System. Brian brought his collection to the table and demonstrated w

Infrared photography: filters, full-spectrum cameras, conversions, and 12 years of experience with Michael Pacheco

Infrared photography reveals a hidden dimension of light invisible to human eyes. In this livestream, I sat down with photographer Michael Pacheco to explore what makes i

When a photograph holds everything: 20 seconds at the NYC Marathon

Note: This post derived from a live streaming. You can see the live streaming video by clicking above. I am providing both the live streaming and a long-form written text

Converting film negatives with Negative Lab Pro: a complete workflow guide

My proven Negative Lab Pro workflow for scanning film negatives. Convert RAW files to stunning positives with proper color matching, presets, and efficiency. Get full

Developing and Converting Sapporo 2 3 4 and Tokyo 9 10 11 With Negative Lab Pro

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Camera Clara at www.cameraclara.com/subscribe

Converting Medium Format with Negative Lab Pro

Converting a medium format (6x7) with Negative Lab Pro. The film is a CineStill 400D. Hope you like it! Get full access to Camera Clara at www.cameraclara.com/subscri

Kodak Old but Gold, and a Collab Film Project.

In this blogcast episode, Colin Czerwinski and I discuss a collaborative photography project, focusing on the magic of Kodak Gold, to photograph old cars, and abandoned t

From Click to File: A Factory Approach to Home Film Scanning

How I transformed the slow, often tedious process of film scanning into an efficient and enjoyable workflow. Inspired by Henry Ford’s principles of industrial efficiency,

When Chaos Wins: The Brutal Reality of Film Photography

Summary: After carefully shooting and developing three rolls of film from a special trip to Brazil, I discovered they were completely blank. The culprit? An exhausted de