Bulb: Film Exposure Log

You shoot film and then, six weeks later, a folder of scans arrives with nothing in it. No aperture, no shutter speed, no date, no place. Just pixels. Bulb is the notebook that fixes that. It is made for slow photography: medium format, large format, and any film shot deliberately enough to be worth a sentence a frame. You say each frame out loud as you shoot it, in ordinary words, and Bulb turns the sentence into readings and a note. "f 5.6, two seconds, minus one, the bathing box before the mist lifted" Tap the key and it settles once you stop talking. Hold it down and it listens for as long as your thumb is there. If there is nothing to say, tap SKIP and the frame still counts, so the numbers stay lined up with the lab. WHILE YOU SHOOT Pulls shutter, aperture and compensation out of the sentence and keeps the rest as the note. Marks the words each reading came from, so a mishearing…