Welcome to the wild, wonderful, and occasionally frustrating world of analog photography. If you are just starting out, let me tell you a little secret: every single person who shoots film has made ridiculous mistakes. Seriously, all of us. I still mess things up from time to time. When I first picked up an...

We have all had that frustrating moment. You are out on a hike and suddenly spot a fox across a field, or maybe you are at a race track trying to get a tight shot of a car coming around the bend. You lift your camera to your eye, look through your trusty standard...

We have all seen those phone apps and digital filters trying to mimic the look of vintage home movies. They throw some fake dust on the screen, add a heavy orange tint, and wobble the frame a bit. But if you have ever actually held a real piece of Super 8 film, or heard...

There is a very specific kind of thrill that comes from loading an expired roll of 35mm film into your camera. You peel off the paper wrapper, check the date on the box—maybe it says 2004, maybe it says 1992—and you realize you are essentially shooting a little time capsule. Digital photography gives us...

Let's be completely honest for a second. When the sky turns a dark shade of gray and those first thick drops of rain start hitting the pavement, the natural instinct for most of us is to shove our vintage cameras deep into our coats and run for the nearest coffee shop. And I totally...