Reading List and Resources for Analog Photographers

Edward Weston - Ansel Adams with Contax Camera

So you're finding yourself getting intrigued with this whole analog/film photography thing and you're thinking to yourself - where can I learn more about this stuff? Well, you're in luck because this blog post is completely dedicated to helping you get up to speed with a categorized list of resources to enhance your understanding of film photography. I'll be updating this periodically as I find more/better resources.

I'm going to concentrate on the technical resources on this post and reserve another post for artistic sites.

Technical Books: 

Beginners Guides:

Ansel Adams:

The Camera 
The Negative
The Print

You will not be disappointed picking up these three books. They have changed many generations way of seeing and developing their B&W film. I'd suggest grabbing, The Negative immediately and reading through it. It's short and sweet and absolutely packed with information with an introduction to the Zone System (another topic I'll cover) method of making a good negative.



Bryan Peterson:


Bryan Peterson has a great book on understanding the fundamentals of exposure (ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed).



Steve Anchell

The Darkroom Cookbook
The Film Developing Cookbook

Steve's books give you a great technical foundation to start processing your own film,  building a darkroom and understanding what developers, stop baths and fixing baths do.  He even gives recipes to help you create your own developer. I absolutely love The Darkroom Cookbook as it has been my trusted companion for over a decade now.

Aperture Press Books 

Core Curriculum
Crisis Of The Real 
Photography After Frank
Inside The Photograph




Andreas Feininger, The Photojournalist [Dennis Stock], 1951






 Technical Web Resources

APUG - GO there right now and sign up!



iShootFilm's Guide to Exposure   - This is a great guide to all things film!

The Unblinking Eye

Luminous-Landscape

Ken Rockwell  - Ken has TONS of great information about cameras and camera equipment

Lomography - This site is awesome and 100% dedicated to film photography

Film Photography Project - Mat Marrash is awesome check his website regularly!

Digital Truth - very comprehensive site with an amazing database of film developers and development times. This is my go to site for all things dev time based.

Photo.net's film photography resources page  

Japan Camera Hunter

Not 100% dedicated to Film Photography












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