Analog film photography and cameras

How much did you get it for?

and now i'm away to buy gw690...

The scanner or the camera? I think I paid £120 for the scanner, and about £180 for the camera, I think.

It's certainly my favourite.

I'm going to scan some film I shot on a recent Scottish winter climbing trip, this evening- Watch this space!

Getting to grips with this scanning thing. Definitely not perfect, but hopefully can improve with practise. Scanned a selection of recent shots last night, some from a trip to Scotland, some others from a trip to Prague. Colour is all Ektachrome, B+W is all 400TX.

img011 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

img019 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

img026 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

img009 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

A load more on flickr, here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/76541430@N04/

I just bought a cheap Epson v500 on ebay, so I could mae some digital contact sheets/convenience.

I think it's pretty much alright for that purpose, and stuff you posted looks good.
Surely that Fuji, and a 6x9 negative can deliver more than this, but I doubt you'll get much better with the V500.

any tips on decent/cheap or free scanning software and scanning techniques?

You could download a trial of VueScan and see if it's better than the Epson software for you.

Check if your software can do multi-pass scanning.
Scan at highest resolutions / basically crank settings up and see if it improves things.

Love the 1st two shots above @Sam_Doman. Excellent.

I'm loving the Exa by the way, a few shots I took with it up thread.

Really good scans actually. Much better than the over-sharpened shite I usually get back from certain places...

More importantly, the photos are damn excellent.

Ektar and batteries acquired for the XA2... Just need to find something to point it at now.

Anyone know where to get Cinestill in the uk/europe?
Also, my last batch got a bit messed up but then they kicked about in the bottom of my bag for 9 months and went through a dozen airport scanners...
Shooting a lot of flesh in the sun so a bit worried about using Ektar 100 in the Hexar.

Photographers gallery has some.

Spot on. Cheers bro.

West end cameras how cinestill. Also, see previous discussions and the Internet for use in sun light.

Silverprint also have it.
http://shop.silverprint.co.uk/CineStill-Colour-Film/products/937/

Didn't see previous mention on here, but they've closed the shop and gone online only, kinda sad about it.

Great pics!

I like this one too:

I thought I would post this here first before making an ad in the classifieds. I have a Computrol bulk film loader with original box and instruction manual, along with four cassettes if any one is interested. Looking for £10. I can take pics and send by pm if anyone is interested. Cheers

portra pushes ok but I'm not convinced it makes much difference compared to just underexposing it and developing regularly

Really like the colours & grain in the bottom one!

Developed yourself again?

Now this isn't exactly news, still I thought I'd share this link to a pretty good tutorial on
scanning film with a digital camera.

Did not try this yet myself as I have a dedicated 35mm scanner that is alright (and I only shoot 35mm), but I guess for a lot of people on here this method would be a good way to get proper "scans".
If you already have a suitable digital camera the setup isn't expensive, and it adapts to all sorts of film formats, which is pretty cool.

Fucking fantastic, that's some bladerunner shit right there.

Yeah developed myself, push processing color is something I've wanted to try for a while. Pleased with the result but it does mess up the colors a bit and underexposed negs don't take much more work to make usable (at least with portra, which is what I'm mainly interested in pushing).

I also want to try pushing Ektar to 400 tho, I've seen some really nice results from that.

Thanks man, I'm not unhappy with them but it was supposed to be for Stanley Kubrick theme... I channled the wrong director

These are amazing. It looks like it could be from a comic or something.

Also interested in pushing ektar. It gets very punchy from what I've seen.

Is it a huge faff developing c41 at home?

Apologies for the recent deluge of posts, but I have scanned another batch of film: some more 6x9 Ektachrome this time.

img041 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

img042 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

img043 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

img037 by Samuel Doman, on Flickr

some more here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/76541430@N04/

These are fantastic. You must be very happy with them.

I have some Q's:

• are any of these hand-held?
  
• any tips for metering snowy landscapes?