Analog film photography and cameras

They're all really nice

I have to use b&w more, I’m just so used to colour. Really like HP5, haven’t used it much before.

Looking forward to shooting b&w again actually; just dropped off 2 rolls of Kodak ColorPlus yesterday for developing and thought to myself ok, well that's that then with warm-ish colour negative film until May 2020, haha.

Lomography 800 ? It's essentially 800ISO Colorplus as it's allegedly based off the same Kodacolor VR emulsions that Colorplus is.

Lovely, now I want a roll.

Thanks for the tip, yet for me it's not so much about needing higher ISO film because it's not bright enough٭, but rather I don't shoot warm-ish colour negative film much during autumn / winter / spring here in Berlin as the light usually doesn't do it any favours.

٭ and if that were the case I would definitely spend a few more Euros for Portra 400/800, personally

Fair enough. Not sure what I'm going to swop to - I shot mostly Tri-X and HP5 pushed to 1600 the past couple of winters.
Tempted to shoot colour with flash, just purely to get my head around using flash properly

Zeiss Ikon Nettar, Tri-X

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^ haha

All excellent as always, but I like this one best. Lovely reds and greens and nice light/shade

Thanks for the kind words!

Yea, must have walked by that window a hundred times already, yet that day it was eye-catching all of a sudden.

Would love to get some two cents from some peeps in the know re. the scans I've been getting.

Some artifacts can be seen I think in the two images below, as well as the blue line on the bottom which I'm guessing is a scanning artifact of some description? These are unedited and uploaded to Imgur if that makes a difference.

Whereas this one (same roll) seems okay except again for that blue line.

The place I go to for dev and scan seems to deal mostly with younger people developing disposable cameras post festival and the odd film student so I wouldn't be surprised if the attention to detail of the dev and scan process wasn't great. They offer a one hour WeTransfer turnaround that I find hard to resist most of the time.

I always pick up the negatives and I intend to get a scanner by the years end so I'm well up for ingesting them all again if it turns out the photo shop's done a bum job.

How much are you paying for the 1 hour dev and scan? If its cheap theres no hard in getting these scans done and then scanning the ones you like seperately

Are you talking about the horizontal lines on the photos ? If so I'd check the negs first to rule that out. May have been a problem during dev in the minilab - that would be my first guess rather than a scanning issue.

In work on a standard issue HP monitor the above images I posted look a bit better than on the MSI laptop I was viewing them on at home, which spurred me to make the post. The horizontal lines were more pronounced and the gradient (best way I can put it) of the tonal change in the blues looked pretty messed up, in a lossy, compressed way.

@Turkish Pay €12 for 1 hour turnaround of a 36 exp roll of 135 here in Dublin which feels about right for the convenience of the service. With a scanner I could just pay for dev ofc which would be €3.50 per roll, if I picked it up the next day.

@Ste_S Yeah the lines and what looked like compression artefacts in the tonal gradient of the blues, but on a different monitor don't look as egregious now. I was thinking that the 1 hour dev/ scan turnaround I was getting may have meant the scan was set for speed rather than quality? Good point though I will inspect the negs.

It's chemtrails.

https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/collections/all/products/fujifilm-neopan-acros-35mm-film-triple-pack

Acros for a tenner (they have 120 as well)

Sounds like some people are trying to ditch their stockpiling of Acros before it goes out of date and Acros II is released

Trawlin' through the archives.. can't remember whether I posted that one (does somebody by chance know that courier? This was Berlin in 2015..)

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Couple of shots came out of my GW690 looking like this. Any ideas? Scanning issue? Don't think it would be slow shutter speed because I never use less than 1/60th without a tripod/balancing it against something. Used filmdev and small frontier scans.

Aside from that issue lots of the scans came out looking very overexposed and flat, generally unhappy with nearly 6 rolls :( need to go through them properly when I'm not at work

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