Analog film photography and cameras

I like the first one. There’s something cool going on with the motion-blur shadows. Great subject.

Thanks for the feedback. Reading about repairing the light meter sounds like a nightmare!

Thanks, I was really liking the shadows but struggling to capture them as clearly as I had hoped.

Does expired film need longer development time? And if so, is there a rule of thumb? X minutes for every year, sort of thing.

They say to increase exposure 1 stop for every 10 years it's expired 👍

Is that for developing, as well as shooting? Getting an at-home-developer kit for Xmas, so will be doing it myself soon. Can't wait.

That's for shooting.
And (at least that's how I always understood it) that's in regards to color negative film.

Just saw this scanning system on IG, the Filmomat 135 Autocarrier.

That’s a lot of money for basically an automated version of what I do and (excluding the enlarger I’m using as a copy stand) mine cost me like £25.

..indeed! 😀

I was wondering whether this is targeted at (wealthy) individuals that use it to scan their own rolls, or rather little independent businesses that offer scanning services for others..
..I mean if you already have a proper DSLR this would probably allow you to set up a nice compact workstation that allows you to do just that 🧐

Just had a look on eBay, for what it's worth a Frontier or Noritsu station is more like 5-10K, so maybe things like the above will be more popular in the fure, who knows?

I guess it all depends very much how prices for film will develop in the coming years (and thus how much demand there will be and how much people will be willing (and able) to pay for scanning on top of that..
..speaking of - Kodak will no longer sell longer bulk rolls of film outside of motion picture productions it seems..

User @HatBeard printed this scanning mask for me for a paltry sum.

@salad, @M_V, I guess the real win of this system is speed. It scans film very fast and they also offer their own software which looks a bit like Negative Lab Pro but it's stand-alone.
The software can watch folders for new files and can auto-crop and then convert based on templates you create. If you have a camera tethered to a laptop, taking a photo with a button press and then saving it straight to your PC, getting it auto-converted, then this would be an incredibly fast way to scan a roll. Potentially even multiple if the same settings are applicable. Like scanning two or three rolls of the same film stock from the same location.

On the talk of software any recommendations on software / plug-ins to invert photographed negatives?

If you had that jigged up into a solid rig and it produces acceptably high-quality 'scans' – which it will for most enthusiast photographers – I can easily see the appeal of this versus a Noritsu for a small lab.

I don't have any first-hand experience (yet). I got a Plustek OpticFilm 7600i scanner waiting at my parents for me. I am very tempted by the mentioned SmartConvert for that batch convert feature. A lot of people seem to be using Negative Lab Pro, a plugin for Lightroom, and the results look great but honestly, it looks very tedious to me to use it.
Multiple export and import steps before you get your result(s). Just seems like a bad workflow for me.

A few weeks back I picked up a Voigtländer Vitoret DR on the flea market for next to nothing. The lens seemed super nice and it's a fully mechanical camera with a decoupled selenium light meter that was still reactive. It's at least 54 years old.
After I cleaned it inside out and roughly checked if the light meter readings made any sense I took it with me on a walk through Vienna and on a trip to my sister. I just got the scans back and I gotta say I am very positively impressed by the image quality. Amazing camera for the money.

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Lush. What film?

I use lightroom (which is easy to get for free).

It's slightly annoying that once you're inverted everything works backwards but I can live with that for free!

incredibly fast way to scan a roll.

This certainly seems like it's usp.

Just your regular Kodak Gold 200

A few weeks back I picked up a Voigtländer Vitoret DR

..nice find, and those picures look really crisp indeed!
Lovely light as well 🥰

That the selenium meter still works 50+ years later is amazing 😅

Great stuff!
I have 2x old Voigtlanders: A Perkeo I MF folder and a Vito ii 35mm which is also a folder
The build quality on both of them is incredible.
And I got them for about £20 each in great condition

I am in the process of fixing up another Voigtländer. A VF135 which is basically identical to the Rollei XF35. I've seen these Rolleis pop up a lot recently at flea markets etc. with people asking insane prices. They are quite cheaply made shutter and aperture automatic compact rangefinders. And most of them are somewhat broken. One issue I saw with almost all of them is the rangefinder being off at infinity. My VF135 is in absolute mint condition and still had that issue but I fixed it by now. It was also missing the battery cap. A replacement battery cap is 20 euros but I managed to get a broken XF35 for 10 euros, including the battery cap and now I am in a rabbit hole trying to repair that whole camera...
The VF135 is almost ready to test now. To adjust the rangefinder you have to peel back the leatherette and I need to glue it back in place.

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A few more from Chile, Olympus XA on Fuji 400.

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beautiful