Analog film photography and cameras

Been meaning to try Lomo 800 for a while as one of the few remaining high(er) speed colour films.
It's an older rebadged Kodak consumer film that Kodak put in disposable cameras apparently.

Shot a test roll of it around Brum's Christmas Market, and quite like it. Fairly sharp, nice amount of grain and colour saturation (reds especially)

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Might be a bit close to xmas for postage but does anyone have a cheap TLR/other MF camera for sale? Looking to pay around 50-100 max. Links to bargains on eBay would also be helpful :) thanks

Zero Image / Pan F

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Slightly over budget but worth a look (offer of free lens to suit this still stands.)

Lubitel?

What lens do you have? Is it for sale?

90mm RB67 lens, with slight fungus in one of the internal elements.

So finally got the roll developed from the GA654ZI and the picture of the stolen bike is here, better story than pic. That's it there bottom right with the white saddle

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Also got some Portra 400 120 back with this pic I took in Aldeburgh of a local fisherman, more happy with this one

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Fuji DL-500, Ilford HP5.
Quite a nice cheap (£20) compact. Has a dual focal length set up, 28mm or 45mm.
45mm setting leaks light though sadly.

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Hello dear non-digital shooters,
just catching up on things after a little hiatus..

@TooTallTim
I really like that "Expired Boots E6, Om4Ti" shot (the one on the beach), it's very calm, and simple, in a way that it feels "just right". Lovely light and colours as well; would put that up in my room, it's got a very nice vibe I think.

@mi7rennie
Please don't take this the wrong way but why are non of those "bike packing" shots (and a lot of other Rollei shots you posted) like really sharp?
It's from the Rolleicord, right? They're all shot pretty wide open, so not much depth of field of course, yet it makes me wonder if there's something wrong with the thing, as I know you are capable of focusing a manual camera
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@laurenced
..wow, nice location to test the Bronica. Nice shots as well! Do you enjoy shooting with it?

@miro_o - I’m finding focusing with my left hand up high, and having the release down by the lens really weird.
..what model is that? All the ones I used had the focusing knob on the right.
Still took me a while to operate that shutter nicely, but as has been said it's usually very smooth and very quiet..

@haveo - mju ii, can't remember what film
Love the second shot. Nice tree, nice colours (bet it's Fuji).

@platypus - c200 looks cheap however you use it
No offense, but maybe if you looked at some pictures shot with it by people who know what they are doing you'd come to a different conclusion.
Just if you took a quick look at flickr or something, you might change your mind rather quickly
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=fuji%20c200&sort=interestingness-desc

yeah .. C200 looks shit. If I was on a budget I'd just shoot Kentmere/Fomapan.

^^ It's a Rolleicord Va. Left hand focussing, like the Rolleiflex.

The weirdness: It's less that it's left handed, more that it's higher than my shutter releasing hand. It's a reversed hand-positions (but in same-hands) version of how you shoot most cameras. It's fucking me up ; )

Kentmere is good. 100 particularly. I find my shots with 400 look a bit lo-fi but I don't dislike that.

C200 is fine. It's plenty sharp and has normal latitude for a budget film. Meter for the shadows or just rate it at 100. I leave it at 200 with a flash.

Complaining about colours when scanning film? If you have LR/PS at your disposal and still can't make anything nice ... pls put your camera, scanner and laptop in the bin and buy an Instax.

/rant

This was on expired C200 'Yaris glovebox brewed' ltd edition.

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okay, thats good!

So that was metered (roughy) for the tarmac and rated at 80.

I say 'roughy' because – Nikon L35AF.

Thats almost 3 stops over

Pm me with a high-res pls?

You're just jealous as it doesn't come in 120 so you can't shoot it in your big hipster cameras.

Thanks! It's really hit and miss, that film. I've no idea how old it is, how's it's been stored, and even shots on the same roll can come out great or complete shit

If anyone is interested in prints of anything I've taken, then drop me a PM and I'll look into getting some printing done in the new year

Agree, no problem with C200. Was reading somewhere that Matt Stuart shoots with C200 and Superia 400, and the colours on his stuff look fantastic

Thats lovely. Need to remind myself that composition is more important than any other aspect (as much as new kit/fancy film is satisfying)

Got the negatives back and you are right, fuji 200 something

TBH I think they are suffering from a combination of camera shake and focusing errors. I actually do struggle to nail the focus on the ground glass without using the split prism. So for candid shots I miss the mark sometimes! Also I shared some of the better shots from before...... these are probably seconds.

Ace image.