Analog film photography and cameras

Depends what the fault is.
If ran over by truck or set on fire, no.

What's faulty with it?

Done, and also added to the Film Processing thread. Many thanks. Very useful.

A Goat

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More home developed and scanned HP5, shot on MJU II in Berlin.

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More.

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Balloon one is 5/7.

The one with the balloon is awesome

taken with a lenticular camera, Vincent Price explains - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOFSDsa-14

More home developed and scanned HP5, shot on MJU II in Berlin.

These are well nice!
Great tones in that batch.. your "scanning" skills have improved!

Thanks @Well_is_it, @danslecarton and @q2f436g56hij7224wr5ßl´6ö such a satisfying process doing it myself :)

................such a satisfying process doing it myself :)

grins broadly

Does anyone want an old Pentax Espio 120Mi? Anyone interested can have it free, the battery's flat so I can't check if it works, but there's no reason it shouldn't, it's just been sat in a box collecting dust since the last time I used it on a trip to India. Takes a Lithium CR2 battery. Collection from Brixton.

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Mate, I have five month old, self service is the only option currently.

currently scanning 250+ images of 1960's africa from slides that my dad took
seeing a young mum and dad appearing out of the pixels is lovely

tried uploading the tiff images to flickr but they aren't looking all that good

am i right in scanning to tiff ? or should i have done jpeg or some other format ?

Uploading tiffs to Flickr is fine as they just convert it all to jpeg anyway but it will take longer because of the bigger size.

In what way do they look odd?

this image doesn't look anywhere near as clear as the scanned images on my pc, seems pixelated and almost slightly out of focus

would that be the conversion to jpeg by flickr do you think ?

Question for the board — I'm off to Thailand in a month for my honeymoon. I'm taking my Canon 550D with me but also want to travel light and take my Pentax Espio Mini with me.

Currently I'm using Poundland's famous Vista 200 for shooting day to day stuff and overall I'm pretty happy with the quality. Is there any other film that anyone could and would recommend for for bright and low light shooting?

Portra 160 and 800.

Cheers — I've never used the Portra, is it worth the price tag?

That depends! Some would argue it is. It's a modern (in terms of colour palette) film with boat-loads of latitude and very little grain and it scans really well.

the iso 400 one might be a good middle ground for you as it'll be less affected by all the x-rays than 800 and you can shoot it happily at 200 during the day and can push it when the sun goes down.

ymmv but there are a lot of people that say portra 800 isn't worth it now, I like it but portra 400 is a better all rounder (and cheaper)

Portra 400 @ 800 has less grain, it probably has less shadow detail too but it's workable, and that's without pushing

The palette is quite different, actually I like 800 a lot but 400 handles artificial/mixed light better imo and it's more true to life

Problem is that the Espio Mini sets the film speed automatically and to my knowledge that can't be overwritten, but perhaps I'll get a couple of rolls of the 400 and see what happens...

Can't go wrong with 400 tbh.