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The Film Photographer's Handbook

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Explore your analogue world with adventures in film, photography and motion: how to plan, set up and direct a shoot, then develop, process and print your work.
  • 11 August 2026
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Explore your analogue world with adventures in film, photography and motion: how to plan, set up and direct a shoot, then develop, process and print your work.

  • Covers all aspects of 35mm photography from choosing and shooting your film to processing your slides and negatives
  • Practical advice on sourcing cameras, film, lenses, and accessories
  • Detailed techniques for shooting on location and how to achieve perfect results
  • Understand how to find, restore and re-purpose vintage equipment
  • Advice on how to process and digitise your images


Whether you’re a total beginner or an experienced digital photographer looking to go on an analogue adventure, The Film Photographer’s Handbook will provide you with the tools and techniques you need to achieve expert results.

Learn new skills or explore how to mix your media: be creative, be vibrant, be original!

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Price: $24.99
Pages: 176
Publisher: David & Charles
Imprint: David & Charles
Publication Date: 11 August 2026
ISBN: 9781446317853
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / General, Photography and photographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Equipment, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, Photographic equipment and techniques: general, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles
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Chris Gatcum is a photographer, author, and editor with more than 20 years’ experience. As well as the obligatory digital camera arsenal, his camera bag bulges with myriad “old timer” film cameras: from early box cameras to TLRs; large format to pinhole. He is currently modifying an early large-format Speed Graphic to shoot paper negatives.

Chris has written more than a dozen books, across a wide range of camera-related subjects, covering film photography, digital technology, and processing. He is the author of the best-selling The Beginner’s Photography Guide, Complete Photography and Mastering Film Photography, among other titles, and continues to work behind the scenes on countless photography book projects for a number of leading publishers.

He lives in Devon, England.