Step One: The Shopping List

Where do you buy vintage equipment anyway? This is a common question among the everyday person. Film was not a foreign concept to anyone in the 20th century. However, today film has become much more niche and obscure thanks to the explosion of digital and smartphone photographic technology. If you can imagine it, film photography was just as popular among the everyday person around the 80s-2000, as it still is in general today.

So here is a list of items that you can not go without broken down into categories that correspond with these tutorials.

The Camera:

• Camera- 4x5 inch camera

• Large format Lens

• Lens board for you camera

• Film holder

• 4x5 sheet film

• Magnification Loupe

• Tripod with head

• Shutter release cable

• Film of choice: foma100

• Film Developer: Kodak D76

• Paper Developer: Ilford multigrade devoloper

• Stop: Ilford ilfostop

• Fixer: Ilford Rapid Fix

• Rinse: Ilford Ilfotol

• Paper: ilford mgrc

• Develop: 4x5 daylight development tank

• 5x7 paterson trays

• 8x10 washer