Analog film photography and cameras

@philgresty That first Mustang shot is great. What film and where was it processed/scanned?

Really sad about René Burri. Nice video of him taking a Magnum group photo here: https://vimeo.com/25880183

yes!

What an awesome thread! Just spend a good 45 mins going through it, some really fantastic stuff on here which makes me want to grab my old Minolta SRT and put some rolls through it! I haven't shot film in a while but I used to use everything from Portra NC to Boots 200:

Welcome to the thread.

Great shots, please post more (and share lens & film if you like) !

It's for a job in a gallery.
Had it today, it was intense but good - fingers crossed!

@chrisbmx116 i really like your images taken with hexar. good work and good camera imo.
if you decide to take hexar for the trip you can easily manage with strong light using 2x or 4x ND filter on the lens and adjusting ISO - that is not an issue. for me the most annoying problem with hexar is the minimum focusing distance which is ca. 0,7m making e.g. very close portraiture difficult/not possible.
generally, any of the above cameras would be fine. it's the photographer, not the camera bla, bla, bla....
think about the clumsy looking T3 (same focal lenght) - might be a good choice when one's among people who are not that fond of pro/press photographers - Tina said it all.

Chris bmx I wrote a long reply but it doesn't seem to have posted.
Take a basic SLR with a split prism focusing system - its pretty fail proof for focusing.
Pair that with a decent point and shoot.
Always shoot on slide when shooting things rather than people - especially places of geographic wonder.

/this version is a lot drunker than the one I wrote before.,

That's what I was getting at too, may as well have something tough, reliable and cheaper in the mix too.

I <3 my pentax MX because it's small, has some great small lenses available and never skips a beat.

new pentax q10 i bought for £125

Thanks for the kind words. I don't think I can cope with ND filters and all that lark, I will defo forget to change the iso and ruin a lot of shots... I'm sending the Hexar off for service today so hopefully I will get it back in time and it'll be perfect!

I need glasses but never wear any so cant focus on things more than a meter or two away... so a manual focus SLR is useless for me. I'm semi tempted to wear glasses but I had a look at my OM10 today and I can't even remember how to use it...

Why shoot on slide? I used to about a decade ago but I only did that because people told me to and I could do emotional slideshows on the walls of my flat. I'm quite keen on having prints but can slides be scanned like negs so I could get slides and a CD of digi scans back? Totes noob question...

Why shoot on slide?

• you could do slideshows in amazing quality
  
• slide film has a different "punch" and is crisp / fine a different way than negative film is
  
  

I'm quite keen on having prints but can slides be scanned like negs so I could get slides and a CD of digi scans back?

Yes.

Had it today, it was intense but good

Good luck !!

Ok cool. Thanks again Tina. COuld you share some links to some slide film you would recommend? Prob looking for some crazy ISO 50 or something... Use the Hexar for beauty shots and have a GR1 loaded with 400 for quick and dirty shots.

hey man, it was shot on a olympus om10 with kodak bw400cn, processed at max spielmans onto a disc.

You're welcome.

I like Agfa's "CT Precisa" slide film. It's colours are rather "cool" (read: blue-ish), not overly saturated, rather neutral.
It's cheap where I live (sold in 2-packs for little over 8 Euros), which makes it attractive of course.

Then there's Velvia of course, which is more saturated; a lot of people like it for landscape stuff.
Actually there's different Velvias nowadays, maybe you like to try the ISO 50 one.

Use the Hexar for beauty shots and have a GR1 loaded with 400 for quick and dirty shots.

Sounds like a good idea!

Thanks again Tina!

I think I will give Velvia a miss as I hate overly red skin tones, think its a hangover from my magazine days where every time you scanned a pic it would look like it was taken in the depths of hell and I imagine I will always have a person in my pics, landscapes bore me a bit but that might be because I don't have a clue how to take a photo and make them look good.

Expired slide too much of a risk?

A bunch of this for the GR1 looks a wise move to me?
http://www.ffordes.com/product/13021212555681

Sorry for the spam.

A bunch of this for the GR1 looks a wise move to me?

..that's 120 roll film..

;)

@tina.kinoa Fuck me I am daft. I meant the 35mm version.
http://www.ffordes.com/product/13021212392281

I'm not a huge fan of Superia.
This is useless info for you though as tastes differ, and maybe it's the perfect film for where you go and what you want.
Have to dig up one of the few shot on Superia this year I was happy with...

Superia 200 - Pentax ESPIO mini

Velvia 50 is loads of fun but also pretty
Expensive, I like Provia 100 and 400 because they're more relaxed.

Velvia definitely has it's place, I douht there's anything better for colour landscapes.