SilvergrainClassics Magazine

SilvergrainClassics is a quarterly international print journal on all aspects of analog photography and cinematography.

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Important Announcement!

We are happy to announce that we are rebranding!

Our newest issue will ship in a few days under our new brand name SilvergrainClassics!

SilvergrainClassics is the same great print journal as you're used to, just with a new name!

[Dmitri ☕️ @analog_cafe]

Hey friends,

I've got a book on sale:

It is the story of an identity crisis I experienced as I returned to Moscow after living 20 years away from my birthplace. This vertigo-inducing feeling is unlike anything else I've ever experienced; it can not be described in a tweet.

[Hamish Gill @HamishGill]

The Film Community has a Math Problem. Not a Film Price or Kodak Problem – By Matt Wright / @Themattw

Good read this one. The comments have been really interesting too!

https://t.co/q6Dg3lJ0aC

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@UNofPhoto Guess what, film is not cheap. It can be a perfectly viable option though, depending on the needs and budget of your project.

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@ClickErik @sedno1d In 1952, printing 36 pictures to postcard size, including film and development, from Agfacolor slides, cost 17 GBP... Corrected for inflation that's quite a sum. I suggest you Google it yourself for the extra jawdrop effect.

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From a current article research: 1980 Ektachrome 64. Retail-price: 9.50 German Marks. In today's money that would be around 12 to 13 Euros, or about 15 USD a roll, corrected for inflation. Ektachrome 64, in comparison, was not the most expensive slide film. #filmphotography #film

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@billhicks6 Yes, living costs have dramatically risen since the 80s, but that doesn't change the comparative pricing of commodities like film. Film has been and still is an expensive product that has been taken for granted as sort of cheap for a time.

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@sedno1d 4 This led to an unsustainably low price level, that only now is recovering because investment costs have become so necessary that without them production would stop altogether. Prices are reaching a lower volume, sustainable level again, that some confuse as price gauging.

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@sedno1d 3 but Agfa for example didn't. Shortly before the collapse, they produced at an insane loss, only covering manufacturing costs with every 100rd or so film, selling the rest at a loss only to sell at all, beaches Kodak and Fuji were pressing hard, too. (4)

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@eatfrog Actually we have been in touch with TSA and a manufacturer since the day they installed one at LAX. But it's super hard to get to the right people because it's very much security sensitive...

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@jeremynorth @Warboyssnapper Highly appreciated feedback!

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@nic_sco He still is a pretty talented photographer. Sadly, the issue with Jeff's images is completely sold out. If you really want one, drop us a dm and we'll look if we still have a copy to spare at the office.

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@coffeepyros @EMULSIVEfilm We actually do have a couple rolls 16mm PlusX for Starfighter gun cameras in our lab.

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Announcing the 2021 @SilvergrainClas Analog Photography Bootcamp

Read on at: https://t.co/cjYVLPO3wI

#shootfilmbenice, #filmphotography, #believeinfilm

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@_JasonAvery @moragperkins @ZDP189 @ILFORDPhoto We certainly had! At times I honestly contemplated that a darkroom event in one of the bunkers might be an actually feasible event idea.

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@_JasonAvery @moragperkins @ZDP189 @ILFORDPhoto It's April 1st. I don't believe anything today.

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@eatfrog Yes it was! You're the first of our readers to point it out though.