Analog.Cafe Podcast

Yvonne works in Vancouver (Canada) and internationally, making portraits and producing event coverage — a good part of it is shot on film. Daren and I sat down with Yvonne at her studio to listen to her travel stories (like that time with the bomb-detection alarm), learn why she — and her clients — prefer film, her favourite camera tattoo, and how she plans photoshoots. Find Yvonne’s work at: - We...

Analog. Cafe Podcast `s2/e6` “How to Talk About Addiction Through Art: Mia Glanz on ‘Becky’s Purse’”. Mia is an artist and photographer with deep roots in Vancouver. She recently published a unique, thought-provoking book about Becky, a painter and an old friend who had succumbed to addiction. In today’s podcast episode, we sit down with her on my warm, flowery balcony to chat about how she approa...

Analog. Cafe Podcast takes a trip to C41 Coffee in Kitsilano to chat about coffee and cameras with its owner, Andy. Andy talks about his business, his relationship with photography, specifically film photography, and his life before Vancouver in Kenya, where he found his love of cameras and the brew. Interviewed by your hosts Daren (https://www.youtube.com/@LearnFilmPhotography) and Dmitri (⁠https...

Adam James is the creator of the Shitty Camera Challenge — an informal, welcoming community and an annual event for photographers who like to use subpar cameras. In today's episode of the Analog. Cafe Podcast (a first on video!), we play "Shitty or Not," where Adam rates Dmitri's cameras, including one made entirely out of gingerbrad. We also discuss creative problem-solving, inc...

Daren and I get nerdy about film scanning and negative inversions. We talk about the current options (Silverfast, VueScan, NLP, and others) and why they didn’t work for me. Then, I did a live demo of an app that fixes those problems (film Q). But what is a live demo without a moment of embarrassing technical difficulties? The app, which was still in development, broke during the podcast, so I had...

Daren and I are back after a short hiatus. We discuss the new films and cameras, examining their histories, origins, prices, and whether they are worth it. We also chat about the business side of film production and Kodak’s new products (not all of which are film). I’m attaching sample photos of Harman Azure film boxes to the show notes on Analog. Cafe (here, https://www.analog.cafe/comments/tag/p...

This is a two-part podcast. PART ONE) Daren and I kick off Season 2 with a few thoughts and predictions for 2026, followed by [29:15] PART TWO) a chat with Sissi Lu, a prominent New York photographer with a disarming approach to street portraiture on film. You can read more about the contents of this episode in the 82nd monthly Analog. Cafe Newsletter (https://www.analog.cafe/account/submission/fi...

In this episode, you’ll hear me accidentally open my loaded film camera and ruin a few frames (gasp!). But more importantly, Daren and I shoot, develop, scan, and share our first impressions with the new RETO/Kodak film camera. We are impressed. Kodak Snapic A1 is a $100 film camera with a 𝒇9.5 25mm coated glass lens, motorized film transport, 2-zone focusing, 1/100s fixed shutter, built-in flash,...

In this episode, Daren and I sit down (remotely¹) with Blaž Semprimožnik — a Slovenian engineer who invented a new way to shoot movies on regular 35mm film — the kind we buy for our still cameras! ¹ — Please note that this is our first podcast interview — expect some echoes and a few hops around the topic 😅. We’re still learning. That said, the episode delves deep into the inner workings of the c...

In this episode, Daren reviews Kodak’s financial statements, explains why its stock price recently tanked, and discusses how the business is doing. We chat about money, a factory explosion, toxic chemicals, the future of film photography, and film prices. Kodak’s recent decisions, including the upcoming liquidation of its pension plan interests to pay off a maturing loan (a move that has sparked a...

Analog. Cafe Podcast `s1/e2` “Kodak Removes Remjet” In this episode, we chat about the recent update to Kodak Vision 3 films, which was eight years in the making! As you may or may not know, Kodak sells a huge amount of film to cinema studios. This footage is branded Vision 3, which is different from all other Kodak emulsions we put in still cameras. The main difference, until now, has been the re...

This is a pilot episode of the new film photography podcast where Daren and I discuss the Polaroid Flip camera and other Polaroid-related things. Daren runs a YouTube channel, @LearnFilmPhotography, and the https://learnfilm.photography blog. We live in the same city and did a lot of collabs in the past. You can find some of them here: https://www.analog.cafe/@daren.zomerman.2mcu. In this episode,...