Analog film photography and cameras

Here's a couple of shots

They're so nice. Bet they would look great printed!

Thanks for the kind words, guys :)

@konastab01 - next time I'm shooting Portra, I'll definitely rate it at 200

I've always had good customer support from them, even when the quality has been a bit iffy

Filmdev's customer support has been outstanding again. Refund and repeat scans on both Noritsu and Frontier without me asking for either.
I just wish they could get it right first time.

Not the filmdev scans in question, ever reliable Palm Labs.
Canon P/Canon 50mm f1.8/HP5 @1600

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These are great!

Glad you got it sorted. I used The Latent Image for my last dev and scan (some cine film and slide, which they offer) but was really disappointed in the scans and the turn around time.

HELP NEEDED
I am fresh to film photography and it all seemed to be going fineish, the film caught well and I think it's shot all fine after I found out I needed a bettery to advance the film.
I come to wind the film back as I have reached the end of the film.
I have a canon ae1 program so I click the button under the right of the camera, and begin winding, I don't feel any tension. When I open it, it seems all the film has been wound into the right hand spool and is fully out of the left hand spool. A la the picture:

What did I do and what should I do?
I figure the film is all ruined really?

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Hello, and welcome,

What did I do and what should I do?

The end of the film (the loose end, pointing upwards in your picture) is supposed to be still attached to the spool inside that catridge on the left.
Either it has come loose / was not attached properly during production, or you have kinda ripped this off while trying to advance the film with force, when you were already at the end of it (you should have noticed quite some resistance, followed by "no resistance" afterwards).
Pushing the release on the bottom right, then using the fold-out crank on the top left of the camera is the way to go to rewind your film on cameras like that, and you not feeling any tension really clarifies the film had snapped out of the catridge by then already. Gotta say I have never seen it happen like this before - I have seen ripped film somewhere outside the canister but not the whole thing come out clean like that).
Question really is did you forcefully try to advance the film at the end.

I figure the film is all ruined really?

Sorry to say but yes, it is.

Thanks for the reply. No! I really didn't. I was always aware of how many shots I had left and once the 36th one was taken I couldn't advance it anymore. It was never hard to advance the film.
And I must have done something horrible as it was further wound than the photo, it was all cleanly up at the right hand spool, with little loose.

Cri

You're welcome.

Not really sure what happened there then.
With time you'll get a pretty good feel in your hands for what's going on when you advance and rewind your film, also checking the crank on the top left is actually moving analogue to you advancing the lever on the right is good practice to establish.
Of course this won't help you now but maybe good advice for future hickups - with the main thing to take away being that you have to open the camera in a darkroom / darkbag if weird stuff happens or else the whole roll will be fucked.
Actually it might be worth to get a really cheap roll of film just to test this stuff out, to learn how it feels rewinding, advancing etc.

Let me know how you get on with this! Seems like a proper good buy, simple, cheap point and shoot that doesn’t cost the earth.

Striker.

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Thanks, yeh, did not know it had all gone pete tong this time. Yes, I need some cheap ones to spam out.
Aye, that was tragic.

A need another SLR like a hole in the head, so someone needs to buy this before I start browsing the internets after a beer.

https://www.ffordes.com/p/SOR-18-009814/collectablemisc/230af-35-70mm

Lenses dirt cheap also, £30 for the 50mm f1.8

Hi
I recently got my granddads old Nikon FE working. I rattled through 24 exposures over a couple of days just to make sure that it was working. I'm new to film so any constructive criticism would be really appreciated. I've already learnt that I should definitely be exposing for the shadows and not the highlights. Lots of my shots were taken on a quite dreary day last week on ISO 200 film so things are quite dark. lmk what you think.

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I like the content, but not sure I like what you've done with them in post if intentional ?
Colour film with the colour channels changed in post ?

I shot a roll of Delta 100 through mine and the camera is massively overexposing it. I've shot a fair bit of Delta 100 and I am having to underexpose it by three stops in post for the images to look how I think they should. @spunk_nautical 's experience may differ greatly.

Could've been my development though. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I used the same dev table that I normally do though and it's always been reliable.

Nothing changed in post (other than a bit of straightening). These were taken with standard fujicolour 200 film. What makes you think that they have been altered in post - the orangeness? Im not sure whats caused this.

Probably that they don't look that much like colour film.

hmm. It was a particularly dreary day.
This was shot on the same roll:

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What makes you think that they have been altered in post - the orangeness? Im not sure whats caused this.

Yes, pretty much. The sky has a pink tinge and looks as though other colours have been desaturated apart from Orange. The other shot looks fine though - maybe a problem at the scanning stage ?

Really like the second picture

hmm. Ive got a friend with a negative scanner so i might be able to investigate the orangeness. Thanks for the feedback!

this is great