Analog film photography and cameras

Kodak Gold 200 (SMC Pentax 30mm)

Some great shots, really like the first one and the canada goose!

I remember enjoying Ultramax a lot for pictures with water / relfections etc. - haven't shot any in a while myself though, don't know why exactly, I kinda want to settle on using just one or two films now and that's basically Portra 400 and 800 I guess.

Thanks. Ultramax is the yearly roll my mother in law gets me for Xmas and birthdays! That's what's accesible at the local photo store.

Ha, that's basically the one colour film a lot of drugstores etc. still carry here as well - for a good price, alas only the 24exp version 😐

Recently I read somewhere Ultramax is the middle ground between Ektar and Portra, and I thought that's kinda true..

Here's my favourite Ultramax shot, from the mattress days way back when..

I.ve been carrying this little Nikon AF220 with me when riding a lot. I've opened it up and cut the wires going to the flash so it never fires and was a bit worried that it'd just underexpose but it seems to be alright.

Lens is obviously total crap so it flares like a good un.

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Great combo, love those colours!

That last pic is amazing.

Bloke just chilling by the side of the road watching the chaos

He'd banged up his leg in the crash actually (but was ok).

Damn. How the hell did they crash?

It's a left bend, I assume the vintage car understeered or brakes failed and ended up in oncoming traffic. Mercedes looked a lot more smashed up, but the passengers came out better.

Fuji Superia Premium 400 (SMC Pentax 30mm)

XA, Gold

love the tree 🥰

What’s up with Germany and weird trucks?

Yes, love all the truck pics. I'd buy that grey fella in a heartbeat

I don't know about Germany as a whole, but Berlin is a rather big hub when it comes to these kind of vehicles / vans / buses / conversions -
there's a few big garages / repair shops (mostly specialised in conversions of the former police and ambulance type of vans) - and apart from that I guess Berlin is one of not many cities that sort-of tolerate people living in these vehicles on the side of the road, at least for a while - so this attracts many, especially in the summer months).

That grey one looks super cool I agree, pretty "wtf" though.. 😅

Ah, so it’s like the Mad Max canal boat breakaway society that London has 😂

Mad Max canal boat breakaway society

..this sounds amazing, care to shoot / post some pictures?

Sure! It’s basically my commute but the nature of the canal paths is that they’re narrow so I can never get a nicely square-on image unless it’s on the opposite bank so never bothered, because framing 😂

Only just made that connection…

Fuji Superia Premium 400 (SMC Pentax 30mm)

nature of the canal paths is that they’re narrow so I can never get a nicely square-on image

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somebody asked for boats?

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Canal boat culture is definitely a bit more Rosie and Jim to the German mad max trucks.

What camera/film is this?

People that develop their own film, how you judging when your stop and fix are past it?

For a long time I’ve shot so little film that I’d make some up, use it a couple times then just chuck it but I’m shouting more film now so it’s more likely I exhaust it now I guess.

Also, show me your film drying solutions?

I’ve been hanging films off hangers which I put up on a curtain rail between our kitchen and living/dining room. I can put one film at each end of the hanger and it kinda balances but when you try to look at negs as they dry you take the weight of one end and the hanger tips and half dry film collides…eurgh!

I guess just a load of s hooks that I could put over the curtain rail and hang a single film on.

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