Articles
Discover techniques, and historical notes that celebrate the art of contact sheets.
From Edison's 1892 rectangular perforations to IMAX 15/70, every film format is defined as much by its unexposed margins as by its picture. A millimeter-level history of the borders that built photography.
Capture One added a Contact Sheets tool in version 16.7. Here's how it works, and when you might want something faster.
How I built the Contact Sheet website with Next.js, markdown files, and a few custom components. No jargon, just the decisions and trade-offs.
A walk through the photographers who kept arguing with New York and changing what it looked like on paper.
How Fujifilm Frontier and Noritsu scanners actually differ in look, output, and workflow, based on what labs and photographers report.
Ten NYC film labs that still make real contact sheets, who uses them, what they charge, and which one fits the way you actually shoot.
Contact sheets are still one of the best ways to see your work honestly, learn faster, and communicate with clients. Here’s why I keep making them.
How to get the same honest, all-at-once view of a shoot that darkroom proof prints gave us, using the desktop and mobile tools available in 2025.
From 19th-century printing frames to Lightroom grids, the contact sheet shaped how photographers edit, how editors tell stories, and how archives remember.
How to expose, process, and annotate a darkroom contact sheet, plus color RA-4 workflows.
A new magazine about contact sheets, film history, and the workflows around them.
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