Blue Moon Camera kicks off Film Friday Film Reviews
Welcome to our Film Fridays!
What is Film Friday, you might ask? Simple! Every Friday we select a film stock from our inventory and give it a feature on our social media and website. We offer up some inspiring photos we have made with the chosen film and then discount its retail price by up 1o 15%. Every week it is a different film and it takes us roughly a year to cycle through our entire inventory.
Film Friday has been an ongoing project for us for many years now. It all started with one of our staff, Zeb Andrews, looking at the vast selection of B&W films we carry and realizing he really only ever shot 2 or 3 of those film stocks (Kodak Tri-X, Fuji Across and the occasional roll of Ilford SFX in his Holga). Natural habits kept him on well trod paths, yet whenever he found himself using XP2 or trying Rollei RPX 400 he would be freshly reminded of the possibilities available to film photographers. And so he decided he wanted to get to know each film stock and try them all out. He wanted to explore all the corners of our film cubbies. And as he learned each film he wanted to share his inspiration and motivations, as well as encourage other film photographers to be mindful of their own patterns which may or may not be leading them to only use a couple of the many varieties of film stocks we have at our disposal.
That is how Film Friday got started. Zeb would dedicate himself to shooting several rolls of a film type to both learn it and produce really good example images that showcased what a particular film was capable of. As he built up his library those experiences and images became full Film Friday reviews here on our Codex. With all that material in hand Blue Moon Camera started featuring a different film every Friday on its social media and website. The featured film combines example images, with that Codex review (for those who want more in depth info) and a decent discount off the retail price of the film (usually ranging from 10-15%).
Here is how Film Friday works. You'll see a post from us every Friday right at 9 am on social media. Keep in touch with us on both Facebook and Instagram (@BlueMoonCamera) to stay up to date. You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Loupe to have Film Friday delivered right to your e-mail inbox. For the entirety of that Friday whichever film stock we are featuring will be discounted off its normal retail price.
And we invite you to help us! Share the post with your film photographer friends so they can try a new film or get a favorite film at a bit of a discount. Or if we feature a film you already enjoy, feel free to share some of your sample images/insight in the comment section on our social media, or heck, even shoot us an e-mail. We want this to be a community endeavor and interactive!
Ultimately we hope we can introduce you to a new film and you create amazing images with it. Stay tuned every Friday as we cycle through our entire inventory and give a spotlight to a different film stock.
And here, why not have a taste of some Film Friday films!
