Analog film photography and cameras

Thank you. It is a Christmas present for my folks so I'd like it to look good. I have access to proper plotters but a 40m reel is £££

EDIT just looked at their prices. That's a joke.
I'l get kebab printing instead...

just ask in a copyshot, they might have an idea, maybe for an alternative, too
or in a creative agency

I've had it to the back teeth with scanning negatives. I'm using a V600 and nothing I've tried results in a decent scan. Loads of digital noise, poor colours (I mean like it was shot on a 90s mobile phone bad)

I'm almost certain it's not the negatives, because I've tried negs shot last week right through to ones shot 10 years ago.

Have tried Vuescan and set exposures, locked film base colours. Tried Epson Scan without success.

Drivers are fully up to date, reinstalled. I've scanned in RAW, TIFF, JPG. No difference.

This is from a 6400dpi TIFF, using Vuescan exactly as directed by them, it's dogshit... time for a new scanner? Suggestions?

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Chap in the Tux is excellent

Ta. He was watching racist riots with great joy

I've got a epson v500 and a konica minolta elite scan 5400, but the difference between scan results isn't that big. The biggest difference is in resolution and a bit more dynamic range, which isn't noticeable anymore after edits for almost all my shots.
Maybe get some of your negatives scanned somewhere else and see if there's a big difference with your own scans?

Away to Stockholm for a week tomorrow. Any good camera shops I should visit for film goodness?

No idea about camera shops but do check out http://fotografiska.eu/en/

Go on a weekday though, it gets rammed on weekends.

probably a long shot here but does anyone have the film rewind lever for a leica M6? Mines has fell off and Ive lost it and it is a fortune to get one....

wtf? is it from Aperture?

Yeah but they said I should have paid more attention to it. Ive been to my pals and found the washers but not the fuckin rewind lever so annoyed as I called aperture and they are over £80 for the rewind lever and its not even black...

Kinda annoying as if it was a common fault I'd have checked this.

You try the Leica store in Mayfair?

Tried red dot and aperture and a place in edinburgh. Will call them now

Got a black one at leica manchester so sending it there for repair. Maybe they can have a look at the meter working on and off too at the same time.

Sitting at my computer hitting refresh, waiting for my filmdev stuff!

It looks like one of my rolls got lost in the xmas post on the way to filmdev :/
Tempted to send special delivery in future so at least I'll know where they got lost...

Oh shit!
Was it packaged individually or has a roll packed with others gone missing?

Bloody hell, it’s a lot easier scanning 120 than it is 35. bins every 35 camera I own

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Same here with a v700. To the extent that I've sent my last few films to filmdev to scan - scanning myself seems to get such lacklustre results and is ridiculously time consuming.

I used to love scanning negs with the Nikon scanners at uni, but it's a total bore with the epson, especially for such crap results.

^^That looks just like Jesus from The Walking Dead.

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He gets that a lot, but usually the OG Jesus

I only send special incase this happens, although Im waiting on my negs back that have been sent 2nd class delivery hopefully they dont go missing.

Is there anyway to unspool a roll of film to put it back in the camera? I sent my Leica away with a brand new roll of Portra 400 with 5 shots on it and wanna put it back in and shoot the rest!

Yeah, you need film leader puller.

Not really; there are a lot of "ghetto" ways of doing it; like this for example -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc00ULY7cYU