Analog film photography and cameras

These are great. Would love to see more.

Hope it's OK to link this. I'm running the Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive. There's thousands of original slides and medium format negatives, which I'm slowly sifting through and scanning.
Thought some of you might find them of interest.

https://www.instagram.com/rsfarchive/

Definitely! Thanks for sharing.

Central Park

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Have been following and enjoying. Top stuff.

Canon A1 and Ilford FP4. Tried Colourstream in Brighton for the first time. These are 'medium res' scans apparently. Not sure I'll use them again as a couple of the negs had scratches, something Ive never had from filmdev. Will probably send my 800t to Palm when its finished

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new A1

How are you getting on with it?

Also been following, I cycled past Warton Hall last weekend and was tempted to try and detour to find where the photo you posted had been taken.

Nice. Hop its proving to be nice to work with.
Would you like some feedback on the pictures?

It is! I'm still getting used to it of course, this is only the 3rd roll I've had in it. Very big jump from auto compacts but I'm loving it. Biggest challenge has been focusing at 1.8 at close distances (I might need glasses) which reflects in some of my pics
And would love some! Exactly the reason I post stuff here :)

Great so glad it all worked out and you are enjoying it!
So my first observation look at the background more when composing. Especially where the frame ends and what intersects with it. The Third works well but it’s loose around where his arms exit the frame. Think about how you’d crop the picture now to make it better and try take it like that.
I’ve has d to da

A probably very crude first development. Not sure if they're properly developed as I'm yet to buy a scanner, but conceptually that wasn't hard.

I wanted it to be as cheap as possible, so I bought some D76 as it was $6 and makes up 3.8 litres of developer. I was impatient though. The water had to be 55 degrees to disolve the developer and it was taking aaaages to cool down, so I think I developed at 25 instead of the advised 20, and adjusted the time according to a table I found online. All in all though - very easy and straight forward. I forgot to buy fixer though - not needed for this test roll but the necessities were only $65 which I thought was good. I didn't need a change bag as my bathroom goes completely pitch black. Thanks for the answers up thread anyone who helped.

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Welcome to the club!
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Your test roll is looking good from here.

I didn't need a change bag as my bathroom goes completely pitch black.

Are you like really really sure about this?
(if you stay in there for a couple of minutes can't you still see a darn thing?)

Honestly, literally not a thing. Not a damn thing. It was really strange at first. My apartment is already very dark if all of the lights are off and as the bathroom has no windows, if I close the door, it is pitch black and stays that way too.

Nice!

I had a bathroom like that once.
It was like 3m² and I started developing A4 sheets in there, trays on the floor, haha.

Will probably send my 800t to Palm when its finished

I'd give them a ring before you send C41 to Palm, one of their machines broke and they've been sending their stuff to AG. Replacement machine is in and they're hoping it'll be up and running next week.
Not affected B&W, that's all running as normal

Nice set of photos !

Tri-X @ 1600

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Contax RX + Wittner Chrome

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Cheers will do. Will probably take a good couple weeks to finish it anyhow

Been a lot of talk about scans lately. Id like to be able to afford better scans than filmdevs small scans. Would it be worth investing in a home scanner?

Ive has d to da? I'll def think about that when im shooting cheers!

I’ve had to dash*
Sorry labour ward was calling!
I’ll add more when I get a chance

Seems really good for a first development! Bravo.

I am honored :-)

I used the new Yashica Lynx 14e I got to shoot the test roll. It's big, it's heavy but my oh my is that 1.4 lens nice to look into. Not sure I'll keep it as the all-on-the-lens control system is a bit sensitive - the aperture ring has no clicks so it's very easy to nudge by accident, as is the shutter speed ring... but I like the rangefinder concept. It's very easy to focus quickly vs an SLR in my opinion.

It needs time to scan and some photoshop skills but you will have better results in short times with scan like Epson V700/V750/V800 or Nikon Coolscan 4000 (more expensive, more high-end).

I need to buy a scanner - was considering the V600. No love for it @mrboulard ?