Analog film photography and cameras

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Great thanks. I'd ordered 2 and both had that annoying honeycomb effect meaning they are useless with negs.

I'll order than one!

arrr that pesky honeycomb effect

Long time lurker, finally took some pics I was moderately proud of. I'm still getting my scanning setup worked out, so feedback on scan quality would be greatly appreciated.

Pentax MX
50mm 1.7
Fomapan 400
DSLR Scan

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feedback on scan quality would be greatly appreciated

looks great!

Big fan of these!

Love it, your scans look better than mine! What is your setup?

Great stuff.

It's a complete pain!

I made what is effectively a slide copier from a cardboard box and jammed it onto a lens hood so I can screw it on a lens. I use this with an aging pentax k-m and a 50mm macro lens exposing at f8 and .7s with a 2 second shutter delay to hopefully prevent any camera shake. I use a tablet showing a white image for a light source at some distance so the pixels don't show. My main concern is that I only have 10MP to play with, and the lens doesn't focus close enough to fill the frame (you can see the raw file here) so my resulting crop is around 2750x1850 pixels. I've tried using a 2x teleconverter and stitching the image, but that introduced some distortion and didn't noticably improve the detail (at least on a 1080p screen). So I'm guessing that as long as I don't want to make big prints or show them on a 4k screen it is probably sufficient.

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Love the 2nd one. I highly recommend the 40mm f2.8 pancake for Pentax K mount if you're getting a bit of GAS, I use it on my MX and it's crazy how small the setup is. Not entirely sure what Pentax were smoking to be able to get lenses so small and still keep the quality high but they definitely were doing something right

Yea, I like that setup as well, nice and compact!
Though that 40mm is definitely a step down quality wise compared to, say, the 50/1.7 - still good though..

Need to magic brush the dog out.

While you're at it maybe the fourth tree also?

Ordered a canon FD lens for my Fuji so I can do scans. Doenst seem to focus anywhere near close enough despite being 'macro'. Anythjng I'm doing stupidly wrong?

Thanks. I’ve got my eye out for a 40mm. I’ve already got the 35mm 2.8 so it’s a bit difficult to justify unless it’s a bit of a bargain.

Sell the 35 2.8 and get the 40 instead. Its literally half the size and the same speed

Size comparison!

Yes I have both for some reason

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You should post a comparison of image quality as well to be fair
#sizeisntallthatmatters

I'll try and find some similar images this eve, if I can even tell what lens the photos were taken on haha

I would rather have a slightly lower quality pic than no pic at all because my camera is too big to take out

Oh yeah, definitely!
Though to me it wouldn't matter much which of those two lenses was on the body, in terms of taking the camera out with me or not.
It's not going to fit in my pocket so I need a camera bag or put it in a rucksack anyway 🤷‍♀️

Pancakes are usually simple ‘tessar’ type lenses I think. So one less correcting element?

What this means in practice is they’re pretty sharp in the centre but maybe you’re going to see some vignetting and less-sharp edges. And they can flare a lot if you shoot into the light.

All of which can be quite nice tbh.

I much prefer choad lenses.

I don’t really enjoy a camera being front heavy.

Some December shots from the Contax G1 and Ultramax

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Contax G1 + Fuji Xtra 400

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