Analog film photography and cameras

Ta!

I hated this building when I first moved to New York hut I’ve become kind of obsessed with it. You can see it from everywhere. It’s mental. Tallest residential building in the world. Not for long though.

Edit: HP5 at 400 / Canon 40mm.

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lmk what you think

Welcome.
I think it's cool you picked up your granddads camera and that it still works.
Really like the third shot you posted.
Have fun!

Thanks! From the light googling ive done the Nikon FE is quite a rugged camera, my grandad knew his stuff and chose wisely. I think this camera has been about a bit. He was a keen hiker and I think it might have done a few trips around the Pyrenees and mayve even the Himalayas. I was surprised by how well some of the shots came out (when you're expecting crap nearly everything is good!).

One of the really interesting things Ive noticed about having a fixed lens and having to make each shot count is it makes you look differently at the world.

I have 2 lenses for the nikon - a 55mm and a 105mm. Both offer a totally different framing to the super wide angle that my phone gives. It forces you to look harder at the world I think, it opens the possibilities to capture details that are nearly impossible to capture on a phone.

Looking forward to maybe getting stuck into the weekly photo comp too.

From the light googling ive done the Nikon FE is quite a rugged camera

I've got a FE and minor niggles aside (the shutter speed indicator is hard to see in low light) it's almost perfect as far as manual focus SLRs go.

Nice !

Jenga.

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The first one looks great.

Always love developing the random rolls you have had lying around since summer, feels like a pic n mix.

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Really like the last two

thanks man! both shot on a battered pentax super a

are there any cheap compacts with a <35mm lens? Looking for something for parties/chucking about. Doesnt have to be fancy. Wider the better

Anyone shot medium format slide film (Provia) with a phone app for a lightmeter ?
Normally happy enough with a phone app for C41 and B&W but aware E6's room for error is much smaller.

I find phone app light meters to be a bit "two-dimensional" for want of a better description.

The sensor faces one direction only, rather than the three dimensional dome on a proper light meter, so a tiny change of angle results in widely different readings, which will throw off E6 a lot

Just did a test with my app and my light meter, making sure each was exactly straight on to 'camera' then both about 15 degrees angled left and right.

Light meter face readings within half a stop of each other. The app read nearly 4 stops difference

Well most point and shoots have a 35mm lens but I'm sure you're aware of this.
If I were you I'd search eBay for 28mm point and shoot cameras.
Or 24mm. But beware of the APS ones, haha!

Actually just get this, I bet it's awesome.
Well at least it looks awesome, like the Fuji version of the Nikon L35AW, ha!
"Heavy Duty"!
Please buy it quickly, otherwise I will have to get it.

Eesh don’t say that, just handed in a roll of E6 that was done on a phone light meter...

Thanks for doing that, interesting. How does in camera metering compare to your light meter ? Had good results with E6 on in camera (centre weighted and matrix) metering in the past, which I presume don't have the 3D effect of a dome on the light meter ?

Anyone know how the iphone (and I guess also the light meter apps) meters ? Internets brings up a blank.

Anyhoo, probably the sensible choice would be Ektar instead of Provia..

Depends on the camera, but all of them give slightly different readings to the meter. They all have different weighting and of course are all reflective readings.
Incident readings will be bang on, no matter what

I think in a pinch you can use another camera as a light meter. Either that or pick up a real old one on ebay for cheap.

Yea, if I would be shooting / splashing out the cash for slide film (and dev) I'd probably get a proper light meter as well to get the best possible exposure.
If shooting regular colour (or b&w) film I wouldn't bother even carrying it with me even if I had one readily available, as in my experience a free iPhone app combined with some common sense really does work very well for all but the most complicated lighting situations.

I'd definitely recommend the 28mm and 24mm Pentax Espio zooms, can still get them cheap, and they're tiny, metal bodies and generally nice to use. Also Minolta do some similar small metal zooms also good quality but considerably slower lenses.

What lens? Loving wide angle at the mo, that first shot is right up my street

Have two with 35mm and a 38-115 zoom pentax. Ideally want a wiiiiide prime for deep DOF flash photos. 35mm misses the focus if people are too close :(

Aps isnt available/developable at all?