Analog film photography and cameras

Noice!!!!!

loving the kitsch 70's browns on colourplus...

..ha, me as well!

Also just realised the other day that Foto Impex in Berlin sells it, for two fifty a roll, and bought some.
It's no use without sun though so gotta wait until conditions become a bit nicer again outside..

@mi7rennie just picked up that roll of bw scala,
(wasnt my intention to get the second one unsharp, somehow the camera just couldnt focus)

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What level of automated "improvement" occurs in modern-day film processing?
Back in the 90's when I used to send my films off to Jessop (GB) or HL Markt (D) I'd expect about 20% failure rate . nowadays everything I send to Snaps photo services is bang-on.
I'm a bit more sober these days but even so, the majority is still sunny 16-guesswork on battered old cameras so I can't be that much improved over my 15 year digital hiatus (2000-15), particularly in view of my deteriorating eyesight...
I'm assuming that modern day machinery automatically pushes underexposed images to make them nice - is that likely or would you need to push the entire film?
Maybe it's just the scanners that improve everything - the metadata tells me it's a Fuji SP-3000, presumably that's where the magic takes place....

My experience has actually been the other way around. The shots i took 10 years ago seem to be a lot more contrasty and had better colors then what i get lately. But that might just be because these days film sits forever in my camera's.

And three from a roll my girlfriend shot. Its the first roll of film she's ever shot.
Handsome chap in the middle is me

I'm assuming that modern day machinery automatically pushes underexposed images to make them nice - is that likely or would you need to push the entire film?

You can't push a single frame in development - the whole roll goes in the chemicals for the same length of time and temperature. In the last 20 years there have been some "improvements" in film composition/chemistry, so if you are using different films that might make a difference. 20 years ago there were also a lot of somewhat mediocrely run minilabs in the back of chemists, with chemicals not changed enough etc. But I imagine the improvements in scanning process with automatic adjusting probably make the most difference.

Portra and Ektar appeared in their current form from about 2010 ish.

They were optimised for scanning. This probably makes a difference.

Scanning makes me sad though. I’d happily donate a testicle to science for access to a full, old school colour darkroom.

Yashica electro35mc / vista

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@Rik_Van_Looy That's brilliant, I love that

demise of vista

..only the demise of Vista sold cheap as chips at Poundland though, it's still around, both in 200 and 400 (or as "Fuji C200" if you prefer)..

Sicily no?
Love them, colours are great and the hazy nothingness of the sky sets them off nicely. I recognise that church, taormina or cefalu ?

I know, it was just that the effortless availability of decent quality film made it so easy to return to analogue so I felt rather bereft when it disappeared from the high street...

Impressive! Taormina yes. Lovely area

Taormina

It's great round there. Inland from Taormina you've got the villages on the north side (freakish growing conditions for various fruit/foods). It's pretty amazing for cycling, there's the climb up from Linguaglossa (spelling?) on which Nibali trained as a sprog.

Indeed, happy memories...

• minox 35al / ferrania
  

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Anyone want this stuff? Untested and sat in loft for years so ‘as spares’

A mix of Pentax and some Nikon bits. Bodies are P50 and P30 one with Pentax SMC 50mm 1.7 the other is Chinon 135mm 2.8

£20 posted (i’m up North)

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Nice! I’d take it if nobody else has first

I'd love the Nikon bits, want to spilt it @PhilDAS?

Sure, I was only really wondering if the Pentax cameras work

I have a Jessops light box (6x9) and a cheap loupe for freebies if anyone is interested? Missing one of the battery doors and needs a tap when you turn it on to go from dim to brighter, but it’s free and does the job. Moving at the end of the month so pickup in a week or two as I’m away this week and will use if once more when I’m back.

Not my pic but this is what it looks like.

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Old roll of Fuji pro 400h - age unknown, by probably pretty old/badly stored. Over expose by a stop?
Putting it through the Halina a1 I was given.

Yeah, you can't go wrong with that.

Even when fresh, I overexposed the shit out of 400h - it suits it. Maybe shoot it as 160.

PhilDAS - since you were first with the dibs - let me have your address via PM and i’ll send it down for you to split as you see fit.. just stick a donation into forum rather than paying me.