ZXRob
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Apr 25, 2013 18:55:13 GMT
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ZXRob
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Cracking photos, as you know i'm a huge film fan too, here's my equipment... A mid sixties Kodak Retinette 1B, and a Zeiss Ikophot light meter of about the same vintage. I generally use old stock, out of date film, and here's the sort of photos i take with my equipment and film. I like the strange colour shifts that old film can give, i like that the image quality isn't pin sharp and perfect, i like that film photography seems to be able to capture the atmosphere of a place or event, something that i feel the sterility of digital cannot do. Having said that, i'm quite a big fan of digital too, it's just i seem to get more fun out of photographing with film.
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I just went to the local Boots store (read that as dragged by the missus, i'm not one for moisturiser) and scored 25 rolls of fujifilm c200 for £2 as the date was march 2013, happy times. Whats the crack with the slide stuff? Different processing, positive or negative types, i'm confused, can you have it proccessed and printed like normal? I'll happily give some up if you can use it, obv its all expired Slides are 'positive' as it is processed ,then the individual frames are then cut up and inserted into the plastic holders,giving us the slides we all know! 'Normal' film is negative,as you have to then photograph,( for want of better explanation) the film onto photographic paper. The colours and shading you see on a negative,are the opposites of the print. I did this for 12 yrs .... But that was 14 yrs ago ...... Having to remember!!!
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turbom
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I have an olympus 101 slr with a couple of lenses and a flash and some filters. I love using it when i can.I only found out last year that we had a photo shop in the local town that still delelopes film.Love the idea of waiting to see how it comes out,and that one or two great shots from a 24 roll or a 36!!!! Showed it to my son at the time who was 7 and he couldn"t understand where the screen was and why he couldn"t see the pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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koma
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I love film photography, and cameras. but recently had to sell off my small collection, medium format Bronica etr-c, Yashicaflex TLR (rare model C), Zorki 4, Pentax KM etc still have my Minolta x-700 slr that I started with, for such a cheap camera I've had amazing fun with it. was gutting but I'm now on the look out for some more for my collection..... would love a leica
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Jun 23, 2015 17:23:42 GMT
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I've been going through a lot of old film prints and negatives, popped a post up on my blog about it all. Expect more to come! LOTS of film shots planned! Film Negatives
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cjhillman
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Oct 21, 2015 21:41:17 GMT
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I've just started getting into 35mm film and getting great results... any good forums for film cameras like this one? and any advice on getting into medium format photography
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awoo
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Oct 22, 2015 20:28:29 GMT
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there is a group i think called 'i shoot film' on flickr which is very active. many other specific groups for film cameras and types of film as well on flickr.
tlr cameras are fun to use and can take some very high quality MF photos. i have a Yashica mat which is like a poor mans rollieflex and a pentax 6x7 which is like an slr on steroids! both are tactile to use and the view finder makes everything look other worldly, great images too
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Last Edit: Oct 22, 2015 20:30:09 GMT by awoo
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Oct 22, 2015 23:55:26 GMT
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skoze
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Loving this thread. I've got two Olympus OM-4Ti's passed down to me from Dad, with about 11/12 lenses, numerous filters, attachments, motor drives, tripods and monopods. I've just been given a load of film developing kit by a close friend of mine who's almost 90 - he's also giving me his medium and 35mm camera collection too.
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Jun 10, 2020 22:24:58 GMT
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Hell of a thread revival, but I got my first roll of film back from the developers today and RetroRides feels like the best community I am part of to share things like this in... I have shot film before, but not since I can remember. Back in April a neighbour of mine dropped a bag of old cameras around and asked me to sell them on eBay. In the bag was a lovely Pentax ME Super with three lenses. I decided, mostly because it gave me an excuse to play with it, that it would possibly sell better with a few photos in the listing to prove how it worked. Popped on Amazon and got a new battery and a couple of rolls of ILFORD HP5+ and had a go. The thing I've most enjoyed about using film is that I think so much more about what I'm photographing than with the iPhone, or even with a DSLR. Mentioned how much I was enjoying taking the film to my mom on the phone, and she said I could have her old SLR that was probably the last camera I exposed film on. This has saved me the temptation to buy the Pentax off Jim as I now have a Minolta 7000i. Didn't actually save me any money as I promptly went out and bought my self a 'bargain' (or so I'm telling my fiancée) 70-210mm Minolta AF lens to share between that and my Minolta 7d DSLR. No photos from the Minolta yet as I'm only a few shots into the film. Question for those of you who know more about film than me. In the bag which the broken 7000 and my 70-210 came in, there were two rolls of ILFORD XP2 Super which expired in 2012. Do you think there's even the slightest point in exposing film which expired 8 years ago and has ben stored in unknown conditions? I'm thinking probably not, especially since the days of £3 development seem to have passed since the last posts in this thread, but I don't have any knowledge to base that on! I'll leave you with a photogenic puppy called Henry and another of my shots documenting Filton in lockdown... Rich
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Last Edit: Jun 10, 2020 22:26:11 GMT by rich745
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Depends how it's been stored.
If it's been in a black canister away from sunlight, it's might be ok, however it might be prone to snapping.
The ME Super is high on my want list. I have a couple of Pentax P30 that I love using, but all my other gear including film cameras is Canon.
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MiataMark
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Film Photography.MiataMark
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Jun 11, 2020 11:45:13 GMT
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I've always been a Canon person and I've still got all my old cameras, AE1-P, A1 and 500N with a few lenses including the Tamron 80-210 that was very common at the time.
I've ended up with 4 Canon digital bodies as well which is probably a bit excessive as I only use one of them.
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gryphon
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Film Photography.gryphon
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Jun 11, 2020 12:28:51 GMT
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Not seen this thread before, some lovely photos. Film does give a very nice feel to photos. I've got a lovely Pentax KM that I haven't used in ages. I should get back into the habit, but even my DSLR has been pretty neglected lately as the phone camera is too convenient :/
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Depends how it's been stored. If it's been in a black canister away from sunlight, it's might be ok, however it might be prone to snapping. The ME Super is high on my want list. I have a couple of Pentax P30 that I love using, but all my other gear including film cameras is Canon. The film is still in its canister in a sealed box but I would guess it’s been in a camera bag somewhere in a cupboard or a loft all it’s life so not sure about temperature. The ME Super really was lovely. Light, compact and yet still robust feeling with all the controls feeling quality and being really simple to understand. I think it would probably actually make an easier camera to carry around and take places than my Minolta but the Minolta has the bonus of auto focus and a program exposure mode incase someone less camera savvy wants to have a go. I really liked the split prism in the Pentax though, it’s a shame they don’t seem to be available as an optional focus screen for the Minolta. Rich
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I've always been a Canon person and I've still got all my old cameras, AE1-P, A1 and 500N with a few lenses including the Tamron 80-210 that was very common at the time. I've ended up with 4 Canon digital bodies as well which is probably a bit excessive as I only use one of them. I think it tends to work that way with always sticking to one brand? We've always had Minoltas in my family, probably because my uncle used to be a Minolta dealer in South Africa. I now have a Minolta 7000i which was bought by my mother after borrowing a 7000AF on safari in Africa in the late 80s. I also have a Konica Minolta Dynax 7d and there are a couple of Sony Alphas in the family as well. Lenses are interchangeable between them all so swapping between us is fairly regular. Here are a couple of pictures taken with the 7000i on Codachrome 64 before I was born. I must have seen these as slides countless times as a child, and lots of others taken on the same film, which might have had an effect on how I think colours should look in photos! Rich
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Dec 16, 2021 20:03:09 GMT
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Had a couple of rolls back recently. Here's some I'm fairly chuffed The spire sticking out from the roof of the Alvis has been pointed out elsewhere as an advantage of digital - it would be easier to remove than on the negative. Personally I hadn't even noticed it was there. Suppose I should learn the lesson of spending a few moments thinking about the subject and many more about the background. Those last three were on the expired film that I mentioned in this thread before. Exposed and developed normally with no adjustments and I can't see anything wrong with any of them. Rich
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The spire sticking out from the roof of the Alvis has been pointed out elsewhere as an advantage of digital - it would be easier to remove than on the negative. That's one of the good things about using film instead of digital - it forces you to think about getting the shot composed just as you want it, which is one of the main things that differentiates a photograph from a snapshot whether it's taken on film or digitally. I see many photos of cars that look great, except there's a skip in the background or something similar that just draws the eye away from the main subject. I started taking photographs on film cameras, first with a little Kodak Instamatic, then used the school's Zenit-E, then on to my own Pentax MV-1, then an ME Super and some lenses, all of which I still have but don't use. I have the developing tank, enlarger, trays and paraphernalia because I used to develop and print my own black and white stuff. When I bought a digital SLR, I stuck with Pentax partly for brand loyalty but mainly because I could use the lenses I already had though, of course, the first thing I did was replace most of them with auto-focussing versions so I could really have picked any brand. One of these days I might drag the film cameras out of the cupboard and have another go.
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