Analog film photography and cameras

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Calling all film users in London, where would be the best place to get a Konica Hexar serviced/had a look at kinda thing? I have just been made aware by the person I sold the camera to that the shutter blades are stuck, they wont close fully when aperture is changed on the settings. @chrisbmx116 etc. Is this something you heard or know of as a common problem for hexars?? Internet search is only finding sticky button problems

Hmmm. Has the buyer actually used the camera or is he just looking through the lens while playing with it? I go mine services at ffordes in Scotland, anywhere in London will charge you literally twice the price to do half as much work.

..looking good!
Curious to see more.

Wish I had access to a Flextight; that's really another level in scanning negatives...

Probably a bit of a long shot, but try Aperture in Rathbone place. They're mostly a Leica/Nikon house, but should know a little about the Hexar.

Hope this helps.

@chrisbmx116 - we both had a go, the last time I used it I dont remember having any issues but who knows, it might have just got stuck with the cold weather and not using it for a month or two? It makes a jammed noise and the aperture wont close past maybe half a stop down which is wierd. It doesnt move when set on all manual either :-

@Franz Beckenbauer - Thanks! Gonna up a couple more in a bit ;-)

@juiceb0x - Thank you, have sent them an email about a quote.

Anyone used this place http://www.camerarepairworkshop.co.uk/ ?
They just gave me a quote for 45+post which sounds to good to be true maybe?

A question to the people using a 35mm scanner - given it takes a while to scan a single frame, how do you proof your negs prior to scanning? Do you use a loupe and a lightbox, or ask the developer to do a contact sheet?

I'm debating whether to buy a scanner (and a printer, FWIW) and I like the 35mm ones for compactness and resolution, but I don't want to spend hours and hours scanning... So trying to figure out a workflow.

A few i got dev & scanned today from Eyeculture B. Green

74970015 by Michael Ogunleye, on Flickr

74970012 by Michael Ogunleye, on Flickr

74970016 by Michael Ogunleye, on Flickr

I scan with a Konica Minolta elite 5400 and vuescan. I do decide after prescans if i'm going to do a full scan. Scanning negatives is really a tedious task and for me it takes a lot of the fun out of photographing with film. Often i wonder why i still shoot 35mm film and not just buy a sony a7 or a 6x7 medium format camera.

I use a loupe / light table when picking up slide film from the lab. Love it.

At home I do preview scans that take a couple seconds; these are good enough to decide whether to scan it high-res / multi-pass, or a bit quicker, or not at all.

Like @Föhn said it takes out the fun a bit for me as it's tedious sometimes,
but on the other hand you do get a really great high-res file of your photo for really cheap (assuming you have a scanner - and are then just paying for film developement).

When I have enough rolls backlogged, I go rent a colour darkroom slot for a few hours, then make contact sheets of everything as fast as possible. Then after a while I pick my favourites and scan or print them properly.

in theory I do the same as platypus but in reality I haven't booked the darkroom for a couple of years and have stacks of unseen negs :(

@platypus - where do you do colour darkroom stuff? Photofusion is the only one I know.

Rapid Eye! The best (slightly better than Four Corners). Go and see Lee and he'll sort you out with something sharpish

Hi,
I have picked up my Pentax Super A and started shooting again. I haven't had film developed in London yet, so I am looking for some advice. Yesterday I went to Calumet near Euston, to buy some new rolls of Ektar 100 and get my old rolls developed. They don't develop and suggested I went to Silverprint instead. Silverprint doesn't develop either and I am now without a lead.
Who can you suggest for 35mm color film? I'd like it to be either close to N22 where I live or Euston where I work.

I have been looking into C41 process for a year now, and I have a lot of equipment back in Denmark already, I might bring back with me after xmas. If getting stuff developed seems like a hassle I might just buy a developing kit and do it my self (I have a bath tub yay).
If I decide getting the equipment my self I also need a scanner for 35mm (probably medium format in the future as I want a Mamiya 7 one day)... Which one can you recommend? My after-process would be done in Lightroom.

And some old TLR photos for you:

And some 35mm Pentax ME:

ta, good to know!

Nice shots! If you want pro level service then there's Aperture on Rathbone Place, cheaper and not much different in quality is West End Cameras on Tottenham Court Road.

Aperture is perfect. I can make it easy in my lunch break. Thank you!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32504823@N04/

few photos taken on various 35mm film cameras only

..some nice flicks in there!

Posted this in the wanted section too but:

Looking to get my hands on a cheap fixed lens compact film camera for a trip I have coming up. Want to shoot film, dont want to take the Leica. Not too bothered what it is; anyone selling?

What ya fancy? I have quite a few. Various prices.

Just got 4 rolls back from the developers, felt like Christmas! Here are some from the Canon AF35M.

And then some on the MJU II. Unfortunately a lot of the shots I thought would end up good ended up out of focus. Maybe I wasn't giving it enough time to focus? The ones that are in focus though are tack sharp.

Like the 1st and 4th one.

Nice colours, what film is this?

And then some on the MJU II

Also great colours in these, really enjoy those.
Which unsharp ones you mean? The bike one?
Guess that's camera shake (iirc the mju-II only fires when obtained focus)..