Analog film photography and cameras

Bottom one is LURVELY.

cant go wrong with the Canonet QL17.

fully manual (think it can be semi auto too) f.17 lens, around £100 if you're lucky on ebay, i have its little brother the canonet 28 and its amazingly sharp, also extremely compact, and known as "the poor mans leica".

it turns out that cycling in pouring rain with a notoriously unreliable camera in your jersey pocket is not a good idea, and shit shops in the japanese countryside don't tend to stock much b&w film, so i experimented with the cheapest colour film available

fortunately i love ugly photos

experimented with the cheapest colour film available

..so these are shot on c41, then converted to black & white ?

I meant I developed them as black and white (stand developed in Rodinal b/c I had no clue how long to develop for normally), I failed to make that clear

unless that's what you meant

I was clearing through my cupboards yesterday and found a developed film from 3-yrs ago.. the dying moments of a yashica electro35 - light meter was long gone so it was sunny16 all the way, but sadly the intermittent shutter fault went from chronic to terminal. Such a shame as rangefinders have so much charm.
Excuse the pisspoor neg-scanner (turn of the century technology).

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Oh and the other thing I found was an M42 screw fit Pentax Super Takumar 55mm lens (f2.0) from the 60's in pretty decent condition. I already have one on my EOS, so it's surplus to my requirements - £25 anyone?

It's one of these and has a original pentax 49mm lens cap but nothing over the M42.

^ nice lens, would if I did not already have a M42 / 55mm !

I developed them as black and white

..i kinda like the noise (does indeed look more like "noise" to me than "grain") !

Soo after all that chat about a rangefinder, I was in Burnham-on-Crouch this weekend, and digging through a charity box found this Pentax SP 500 SLR, two super takumar lenses (50mm 1.4 and 105mm 2.8) and some leather cases.
Little bit of fungus on a filter but otherwise seems to be in great nick (famous last words)

Was supposed to go searching for some film today (well_is_it recommended I try Kodak Portra) but didn't get around to it.

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How much? Bet those lenses are amazing. Should probably clean the filter or bin it so it doesn't spread.

You should try Silverprint if you want real film without ordering online too

£35, and cheers, I did want to pick some up tomorrow so I'll probably cycle down there.

And for developing, do you guys find a noticeable difference in results from going to a specialist shop like that rather than Boots etc? I have only developed about 2/3 disposables in my life...

£35

Fuck, the lenses alone are worth £200 if in good shape !!
Nice!

Definately clean filter well or bin it.

Have fun!

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PS: See, now you have the 'tank' you wanted.. :-P

anyone able to help me - I am trying to remember the name of a photographer (I believe they were a duo) who appropriated space/nasa images. They are b/w - around the 50/60's. Thanks in advance.

Yup! >.<
Think I might just bin the filter, just a standard UV one..

£35, that's ace

jel

Appropriated them in what way/what for wblati?

macready - they just got the photos from an archive that would have just been forgotten/ destroyed. They claimed the photos as their own.

Does anyone want 2 boxes of Kodak RA4 12x16? They're old stock so will not have a clear base by far but could be nice if you like base fogging. Not sure how many sheets left. One box is heavier than the other so I estimate about 50 between the two. Can be picked up Upper Holloway

Dibs for @IR?

Boxes of paper gone. Nice to meet you BigH :)

Thanks Mike!

Got all those films back from AG. Really disappointed :( They're mostly out of focus, even though I had been using the distance selector correctly on the XA-2 but some of them will have been from an slr too. Generally boring, blurry photos from nights out or just random, crap - not even the good kind.
Fifty fucking quid pissed away.
These are the only ones I don't utterly hate but am still meh about.

@well_is_it

They're mostly out of focus, even though I had been using the distance selector correctly on the XA-2

Were the blurry shots night time/long exposure shots? i've found/read that these need to be shot with the distance selector set on 'Mountain' otherwise they do come out blurred

Yeah, lots of low light stuff. To be honest, they would have been crap even if they were in focus so it doesn't really matter.