Frequent analog photographers likely know that flying with film can be a risky endeavor. But beyond anecdotal experience and what airport scanning companies say, the impacts of flying with film haven't been very thoroughly examined.
By combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays. [Read More]
Fujifilm is following Kodak’s lead and warning photographers about the new CT scanners being used at many US Airports starting this year. In a notice posted to the Fujifilm website, the company says the new scanners “may provide more damaging to unprocessed film and Instax film than previous generations.” If you’ve been following film news, […]
Kodak Alaris has posted a detailed warning for film photographers, explaining that the new CT scanners being installed to check carry-on bags across the United States will almost certainly ruin your film, even after a single pass.
Over the past few years, I've decided to give film a shot--not just domestically here in NYC, but also with international travel. Most photographers haven't done this in years, but with film photography back on the rise, there are great reasons to travel with it.
A friend recently posted an X-ray of his ankle replacement on Facebook, which led me to wonder “who owns the copyright” to that image? In the U.S., HIPAA (Health Insurance portability and Accountability Act of 1996) typically confers the ownership of medical records to the healthcare provider that created it, but The Privacy Rule gives […]
In case life isn't hard enough for photographers who shoot film, when traveling through an airport they have to worry about the X-ray scanners ruining their unprocessed film. [Read More]
X-ray data from NASA's Chandra Observatory has been combined with the infrared data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to create new composites that make the most of each's data gathering capabilities. [Read More]
A new report from the World Silver Survey found that demand for silver increased 19% last year achieving its highest levels since 2015. Part of this increase is being attributed to the rising demand and surging popularity of film. [Read More]
Fossils can tell us a lot about the history of living things. Photographer Kent Krugh is creating a “fossil record” of sorts for cameras. His project Speciation is a series of X-ray photos of cameras that provides a brief history of photography, as told through the evolution of the camera. “This work uses x-rays to […]
My wife and kids have standardized joking about how long it takes dad to get through airport and other security checks when traveling and visiting museums. No, I'm not a supervillain with an evil laugh, I'm just a film photographer! [Read More]
Artificial intelligence (AI) can use a person's brainwaves to see around corners and create images of objects the human eye can not directly see. [Read More]
There’s a new photo recovery technique that may help humanity recover some of the world’s oldest photographs that were previously considered to be damaged beyond repair. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada led by Madalena Kozachuk employed synchrotron X-rays and fluorescence imaging to analyze old 19th-century daguerreotype plates, which used iodine-sensitized silver-coated […]
Photographer Nick Veasey has made a name for himself by photographing large objects using X-Rays instead of visible light. The 6-minute video above is a look at how Veasey creates his art. “I’d like to leave behind a collection of images where people look at them and say, ‘Wow, I didn’t realize you could do […]