Analog film photography and cameras

Here's some info if you want - http://tinyurl.com/nxfhf8k

Awesome, congratulations. Probably the best reason not to waste time developing film..

Finally got a scan from my first home developed roll.

MacReady - thanks again for the kit, doing the next round of dev in a few weeks

Nice!

Kodak Ektar 5x4 shot on a Sinar F with 180m in Great Yarmouth

Lovely image.
5x4 is such a pleasing format.

Large format <3

Lovely that

Question for Silverfast 6 users - how (with which NegaFix profiles) do you scan Portra 800 and Ektar?

Been at it the last two days, with results from mediocre to pretty good.
For Ektar I'm using "Other > Ektar 100" or Portra 160 NC, for Portra 800 I'm using one of the different Portra presets (really depends on the image).
Usually start with auto-correct / [shift]-auto-correct and/or grey point, then dial it in manually.

Guys, any recommendations for 35mm film processing in london, or by postal in the uk?

Anything will be better than my local pharmacy charging £10 a roll regardless of exposures (i got charged this on an blank roll of film...)

Eye level are supposed to be good and charge about a 1/3 of what you're paying!

Rapid eye are still doing great things for me, and about half that cost

Indra do you have a link for Eye level? and Rapid eye does look good

I'm new here, but I say go for it, the t4 doesn't have the superscope and it has a slower lens and I haven't really seen much (if any) image quality difference between the t4 and the t3. Having said that my T3 broke recently, but in that respect I'd expect the t4 to be even more fragile, from what I've read. Here are a few of the photos I took w/ the T3 (not edited in any way):
http://deathtobroccoli.tumblr.com/post/78005353546
http://deathtobroccoli.tumblr.com/post/76423215792
http://deathtobroccoli.tumblr.com/post/78543898782

^ some great stuff in your tumblr

Thanks, really appreciate it!! :)

I'm keen to get a new analogue camera. Any recommendations?

I fancy a TLR or a large format one, but have no idea about them. Guessing Ebay is the best bet?

My old canon av-1 is lovely but not in the best of nick.

I fancy a TLR or a large format one, but have no idea about them.

Wouldn't usually mention those two types in the same breath. Worlds apart, in practically every way.

The film camera I miss the most was my old Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar. Check 'em out, utterly lovely cameras.

Went to an auction thing yesterday and there were quite a few of the rolli's. 3.5's went for chump change. £80 max. The 2.8's were practically fought over. One easily topped £800.

Crazy, really. The 3.5s are perfectly fine, and have an f2.8 viewing lens anyway. The build quality is identical, and there was time when a clean late 3.5F was only a couple of hundred quid behind a 2.8F.
Barely ever shot wide open with mine, so I didn't miss the extra speed.
2.8s are definitely attractive to collectors, but if you actually take photographs, just think how much film and processing £720 buys you.

No doubt! All of the 3.5's look used but cared for. Love seeing brassing on cameras. It was so tempting to raise my arm. The 2.8's had a whole row of suited men glued to phones raising arms. A gold trimmed one went for a couple of grand. Made me quite sad seeing it hauled away by gloved hand.
They're amazing cameras to use and deserve to see the light of day. budum tah

Wouldn't usually mention those two types in the same breath. Worlds apart, in practically every way.

The film camera I miss the most was my old Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar. Check 'em out, utterly lovely cameras.

Oh aye, understand that. Just they are the ones that I really would like (fancy treating myself for my 30th birthday)

cheers, have looked at rolleiflex's. saw tim hetherington using one I think on that recent storyville. took some gorgeous portraits

The big difference with the later 2.8s is the Zeiss T* coating. Adds significant contrast, a more modern look.
The older lenses have a very wide tonal range, sometimes it seems too wide. Quite hard to get pleasingly clean highlights / hard blacks from. Depends on your taste, and a million other variables.
The thing I loved the most about my Rolleiflex was how inoffensive it was. I occasionally showed up at parties with a borrowed Contax RX or Nikon F4 and many people hated having it pointed at them.
Show up with a Rollei TLR though, and everyone's your friend. Magic.

nice. thanks for the advice. that's what appealed to me about TLR cameras.

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This. Did not (want to) believe what a huge difference this can make.

it gets on my nerves! It's like all suspicion disappears from people's faces. I don't know if it's the fact that you're not hidden behind a camera so expression is plain to see, but like magic, people trust the person with the funny looking box. Flipping sorcery.

*Just looked on ebay. I should have bloody got one yesterday.