Crystal Silva, 23, scans film at the Southeastern Camera. On a busy summer afternoon at 205 West Main Street in Carrboro, Crystal Silva, a photo technician, is helping usher magic into existence.

It is 14 years since the first Polaroid cameras began developing and printing their own black-and-white snapshots in a matter of seconds. Though photographers have been yearning ever since for someone ...

35 mm photo film emerges from an automated developing machine. After years of decline, photography film is again rolling off manufacturing lines, through cameras, and out of processing machines at a ...