Analog film photography and cameras

Thanks @tiki !
Film was just Ektar 100 or Fuji Superia 200... nothing but a tiny neatening crop done in post. Have a few more which I am pretty much happy with too. One more roll to get back which I feel may be best yet, which will obviously totally turn out to be the worst bunch of mis fired soft focus crap I have ever shot.
Whats everyones preferred way to remove redness from scans? Curves? Hue/Sat? Another way?

Nice portrait

Very nice indeed. Like that you held back on the aperture and didn't go full blur on background

Ektar 100 or Fuji Superia 200

I'm guessing Ektar

Whats everyones preferred way to remove redness from scans?

I just don't.
But seriously, I try to get the colours the way I want them right at the scan, and usually don't tweak colours later.
Protanopia takes care of the rest, so I just lay back and say "fuck it".

@kboy all auto settings mannnnnnnnn... but thanks.

@tiki I dont actually do the scanning my self, just local lab, yep, would make complete sense to get it right first... I spent about 5 years when working in Editorial Design trying to make scanned photos less red, never convinced I did it that well, lols.

I dont actually do the scanning my self, just local lab

..yea, I figured..
Well, the lab's scanner will do it's best via some automatic wizardry, you could try asking them if it's possible for them to switch it off, so you get the colours the particular film brings with it.
I had a hard time guessing what film your portrait is shot with - I though Ektar, but was like "it's too calm for Ektar, it all should be more vivid and colourful, and her skin does look too"natural" for Ektar" - so what I'm saying is it looks like the lab's scanner automatic calmed down / normalized the colours to a degree.
Which in this case looks good, but is a shame in general.

To make stuff "less red" I'm not really the best person to ask as I have carried out,
but how about a hue/saturation adjustment layer, reducing/tweaking the reds, maybe erasing the areas (like lips) where you're happy to keep it saturated..

I have a Olympus om 1 up for sale £45 with two lenses
see pic- not used in a while but the action is smooth. no lends cap for one of the lenses

Bargain. The bodies usually go for double that in London, but I paid that for mine in Norwich.
Fuck buying cameras in London.

yep this^ i got mine in second hand store for the same price in hastings, just want what i paid for it, just dont use it any more, lenses could do with a good clean.

Phil's Cameras by any chance?

Yeah, love that place, guy is great.

+1, got all my FD lenses from there. Still on the lookout for a fast 24 or 28

Couple more, why not... Blonde = Hexar, Brunette = Minilux.
I know everyone bangs on about GR1's but I dont really get on with mine, prefer the Hexar or Leica by far. View finder is hell on GR1.

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I like my gr1 because it's small, fast and didn't cost me much and is sharp as hell.

I don't like it because it's delicate, has a shitty finder, won't do DX code override.

Yeah, I love the size of them but I think the near unusable viewfinder and the size to an extent makes me treat it like a toy/throw away camera and just snap snap snap rather than think. More my fault than the cameras I guess, but the other two feel like cameras which I can respect and take my time with.
That prob sounds dead daft to most folk.
Might give it another go as I want to play with under/over exposing shots, on purpose.

I hear you, I've found 40mm and 28mm to be my favourite wide and normal focal lengths.

Perfect because I can get them in film compact, film SLR, nice rangefinder, DSLR and medium format equivalents :)

Also having a love affair with 400Tx.

Couple from a roll of XP2 in a MJUii (including grubby prints from the lab!)

CNV00015 by pixel_fiddler, on Flickr

CNV00013 by pixel_fiddler, on Flickr

having a love affair with 400Tx

Pics or it didn't happen!
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Vista 400 / Pentax-M 50 1.7

I haven't gotten round to scanning the good rolls yet, just this one that I had a bit of a mishap with :/

Mixed up 500ml of developer, didn't realise that after 2 rolls there would only be about 450ml left...

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Is this flipped on purpose?

Oh FFS uploaded from mobile, looks fine on iPhone.

It's a problem with how the forum reads exif making it all flipped.

@IR could you email me the original image? matt@microcosm.cc

I didn't test scanned photos (only different orientations straight out of cameras), but it should be easily fixed.