Our aim of being helpful and bring film photography education to everyone is deeply engraved in our DNA, we want to answer the question that we have heard countless times especially at the shop. “Which are the main differences between Kodak 400TX and Kodak 400T-Max?” Same 400 ISO sensitivity, almost identical packaging and similar name……
We originally started this blog to be helpful (and also to show off the incredible works of some of our clients and friends) and today, in this post, we’re hoping to clear up the difference between two very important words in the film world: metering and rating. We’ve heard and read about the confusion between…
Things we love here at our lab: cameras, films, and surprises. Surprises for us come in all shapes and forms; sometimes we get candy inside the boxes delivered to our lab and sometimes we get to feast our eyes on the best double exposures of all time. It’s really a toss up for us which…
Since Carmencita’s birth in 2012 we have carefully handled, developed, and scanned many types of black and white films. We have learned the unique qualities that each type of black and white film possess and how they can impact the emotion in a photograph. Black and white films can evoke the feeling of the scene,…
Since our doors have been open here at Carmencita Film Lab we’ve seen nearly every mishap that can occur with film and the results of those film mishaps. Now sometimes these mishaps are intentional and sometimes they’re not. Either way, today we’re going to tackle some of the most common unlucky (or lucky, depending on…
[NEW] Direct 20×30 CONTACT SHEETS are here!
It’s been 2 years since we first introduced our 10×25 and 20×30 contact sheets, it was by popular demand to both organize your negatives and to see & select the images you were more interested in. As photographers, most of us grew up either in class or online seeing some of the first contact sheets…
Why Acros100-II is the most important news for film on 2019
It’s a bright Monday morning of June, nothing seems out of the ordinary, coffee, toasts and orange juice… openning the news and why not, let’s check IG. Everything seems fine until emulsive.org drops the bomb: Acros100 is coming back from the dead It creates the expected effect: sharing, retweeting, sending PM’s to all the photographer…
INSIDE CARMENCITA FILM LAB BY CAMERAVILLE!
Our friends at Cameraville came to visit us one month ago and they have released the video of the insights of the lab! They are doing a lot of work for film community and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be part of it! This is the first time that a video illustrates what really is…
Theresa Pewal: Momente vom Freisein
Today we are thrilled to take you guys on a tour to Villach, hometown of one of our beloved clients, Theresa Pewal. “Why would we do so?” you may ask yourself. We’ve been following her work from the very beginning and have to admit that her artist and self-portraits, as well as wedding photography, has…
Traveling Light – Connect & Create
THE INTERNATIONAL GATHERING FOR FILM PHOTOGRAPHERS Oct 31st – Nov 5th 2018 Torroella de Montgrí, Girona, Spain. One of the crucial revelations we had at one point regarding film photography was how much of what we loved about it was the whole community behind it. At first glance, and from a distance, one might be…