Analog film photography and cameras

I'm not sure (some sculpture thing)

I'm "scanning" with a dslr and extension tube which has plenty of room for error but considering I don't line up the neg in the same place every time yet it's always in the same part of the frame I thought it's probably not that... I guess it is the camera and the other roll is coincidence/me imagining things, it looks likes it is on the negs as well.

If it's on the negs as well, with film from different cameras, it must stem from developing, no?

Have you tried flipping the neg and scanning it upside down?

could be a badly fitting lens hood - I have had that before....

I don't use hoods because I'm a rebel
(it was on an olyumpus xa so no hood)

I'm going to try rescanning it then if necessary shoot another roll and get it developed somewhere else

wow nice! I would have totally messed that up shooting out from inside such a dark place.
Where is this?

Mju did all the work to be fair! Thor's Cave, The Verve beat me

Nice shot @macready.
Don't you have options when downsizing (what program do you use)?

Cheers,

I've been using Bicupic (Smooth Gradients) in photoshop but it still doesn't seem...right

Holy fuck there are some good pics on this page...
@macready reg down sampling... not sure what method you are using but I have had the same issue... use the last option... Bilinear.

I've been using Bicupic (Smooth Gradients) in photoshop but it still doesn't seem...right

Maybe it's the in-camera JPG settings of your "camera-scanner" to begin with?
Bicubic is the proper way to go in this case (I don't think I ever had an image look "sharper" after resizing that way).
Does it really look different / better / smoother before resizing?

No. Bilinear.

Suit yourself.

This. We pay roughly £1500 for 10k copies on really thin newsprint which is about as cheap as it gets at those quantities.

How many would you want done? Would it be a freebie at galleries or just for contributors?

I would have guessed there'd definately be less than 100 people interested in this.

I beat you there too! nice place!

these were shot on my old pentax k1000, with probably agfa and some crappy developing, probably by jessops or my then local so called "professional" photography store

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My dear Pentax ME broke (light meter death out of nowhere).
Long story short: getting it repaired is not woth it, so I go a "MV".
This is one of the "cheap" Pentax bodies; it looks like a ME, just has a little more plastic on it, and fewer features: no "lock" setting, no self-timer, no dedicated exposure compensation dial, less big / awesome finder - aaaand: it doesn't say what shutter speed it's going to use; there's really just three little LED's in the finder, indicating "it's too bright", "it's too dark", or "it's all right".
Funny little thing.
So this came with a 50mm/f2 in neat condition I have absolutely no use for (as I already have the superior 1.7), all the original manuals, the bill from 1980, in the original (very nice) packaging - like the camera of an old lady who hardly used it, and took very good care of it.
I got the light meter working after removing the crud and leaked batteries, and cleaning the thing and putting in fresh ones, and was happy to see that the different shutter speeds seemed to be working.
Then I opened the back, and found a shutter that looked like somebody beat it with a hammer.
I decided to shoot ten frames of a roll with this thing, expecting the worst.
To my surprise all but one of the ten are perfect - the one you see below has that weird light-leak-like fading from one side; first I thought I shot that with a really high speed the shutter was not able to master properly, but then remembered it was 1/60 (like some others that were perfectly fine).
Any ideas?

Ps: if anybody wants that 50mm/f2, just holler..
EDIT: sold..

Haven't posted on LFGSS for about a year.
Found this thread and spurred into action again.

Some great shots on here!!! nice work.

REcently got back into film photography after watching and being inspired by my sis in our bathroom darkroom so dusted off my olympus trip which I bought at art school 14 years ago, and borrowed my dads Pentax MX with a macro lens.

Have had some great success running Fomapan 400 through the trip - especially at night and waiting to finish some Ilford Delta400 in the MX.

Never really taken digital photos other than on my Phone, so it's like i haven't been away from film (apart from the last time I actually used it 12 years ago). Glad to be back.

Don't class myself as a photographer per se and don't aspire necessarily, but always interested in creating an image for use as a visual foil to my music.

how much? £

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Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Has everyone stockpiled poundland film or are there some shops that still have it?

Got a couple of cameras I want to test but my local poundland doesn't. Have any film (and no staff knew what I was on about)

how much? £

How about a tenner?
I'm not in the UK though, so insured shipping would be about another £10.

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very nice!

PM you

this is more fun with slide film than negatives

Been switching between cameras a bit recently... defo decided the Hexar is my fave though... just need ot fix the temperamental shutter button. Snap from latest roll...

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And a bike themed one...If only I was a bit lower and further to the left...

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Snap from latest roll...

This is awesome!
Great light, colours, and 3D-ness..

Please tell more about film / pp..