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20 years of straight 8 – The incredible edit-in-camera super 8 film competition!

Features 10/08/2019 0Comments

20 years of straight 8 Founder Ed Sayers chats with the FPP about the origin and evolution of his incredible annual edit-in-camera-super-8 film competition (and gives FPP’ers a 20% discount on entry fee – read on!) For those not…

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Super 8 Profile – Gloriously Gothic Short “Rhapsody in Blood”

Content, Features 08/07/2019 0Comments

Celebrating Super 8! An Interview with Director Tommy Gillard and Cinematographer Boris Hallvig on their Gloriously Gothic Short Rhapsody in Blood Rhapsody in Blood – a straight8 film from Tommy Gillard on Vimeo. Tommy Gillard and Boris Hallvig are…

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Happy Birthday George Eastman!

Features 07/12/2019 0Comments

Happy Birthday to George Eastman, the Father of Film! It’s no secret that the FPP is a big fan of Kodak Film. As much as we love seeking out and testing new & experimental film stocks or adapting industrial…

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Beware of Expired Ektachrome Type A and Type G Super 8 Film!

Features 05/01/2019 0Comments

Introduction I asked home movie enthusiast and shooter Owen McCafferty to pen this blog after receiving many e-mails from Super 8 shooters about how to get their Type A or Type G Ektachrome processed. It seems that unknowing Super…

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Should I Shoot Expired Kodak Film?

Features 04/10/2019 0Comments

Should I Shoot Expired Kodak Film? That film in the familiar little yellow box? Look on the side of it and you’ll see printed there a date; an expiration date to be exact. Just about every large-scale film manufacturer…

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The Mystery of the Missing Fukkatsu 110 Film!

Features 04/02/2019 0Comments

Like the Phoenix, Fukkatsu Film from Film Reborn Rises Again! (Sort Of) Or, The Mystery of the Missing Fukkatsu. Fukkatsu – Japanese word meaning revival Back in 2012, the internet was abuzz with curiosity about the new Fukkatsu BW…

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Project Your Slides! Vintage Kodak Slide Projector History / Advice

Features 04/01/2019 0Comments

It’s baaack………Ektachrome Color Slide Film – Project Your Beautiful Slides Let’s face it, there’s nothing like seeing your slides projected on the big screen. Big screen? Yes, an actual folding screen that you set up in your living room…

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126 Instamatic Film – History and Status

Features 01/25/2019 0Comments

If you were a child of the late 1960’s, chances are many of your childhood memories were captured by your family on a trusty Kodak Instamatic camera equipped with 126 film. The 126 format, introduced by Kodak in 1963,…

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Lost Negatives Found!

Features 08/23/2018 0Comments

It seems that history is right under our noses. We find history preserved in museums, books, plaques, and historic sites (forts, battlefields, the such), and sometimes we see it preserved in story, song, or on century-old pieces of acetate.…

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FPP Super Monobath One-Step BW Developer!

Features 05/03/2018 0Comments

Blog by Leslie Lazenby On April 26, 2018 the Film Photography Project introduced an amazing new product – the FPP Super Monobath One-Step BW Developer. It’s currently available (in the FPP On-Line Store) for you to try at home.…

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