Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Taking food photos on 35mm film. In this video leading on from my food photography tips I go over my experience of using vintage film cameras to take food photography mostly on portra 400 35mm film (maybe we'll go deeper and look at medium format film in a future video).
Is it worth taking food photos on film, is the film look an advantage in food photography and how to take good 35mm film food photographs are all covered in this video.
Details on the equipment I use bellow

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Film cameras I use -
Canon a1
Yashica 124g TLR
Pnetax 67 (not used for this video - but perhaps for a future one)

Film I used for the food photography -
Mainly Kodak Portra 400
Sometimes Lomo 800 (I would probably not use this in the future for food)
Black and White - Iford HP5, Kodak Tri X

Where I get my film developed -
Come Through Lab - comethroughlab.com
Take it Easy Lab - takeiteasylab.com
I'm also not doing more home film development but that is a recent thing from after I filmed this video.

Digital / Filming Camera & Lenses -
Canon R6
Sigma Art 50mm 1.4
Sigma Art 85mm 1.4
Canon L 100mm 2.8 Macro

Video Timestamps -

00:00 Intro
00:42 Film Photography Pros
1:11 Lenses
1:45 The Film Look
3:25 The Process
4:14 Equipment
4:43 Its Fun!
5:22 FIlm Downsides
6:46 Example Images
8:31 Conclusions