Analog film photography and cameras

And one of my boy and his best friend. Rolleicord on HP5.

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I am in the process of fixing up another Voigtländer

..so cool!
Wish I had the patience (and talent) to do stuff like that.. I remember trying to fix the shutter of one of my L35AF's once, I failed, and felt like I needed a holiday afterwards 😅

Hope all goes well with the Voigtländer, looking forward to the first pictures!

Thank you 🙏,
The Voigtländer is ready to test and I took it out yesterday. Not yet finished the roll.

I’ve always been a tinkerer and at times it's even therapeutic to me. What makes it easier is that most of the cameras I took apart so far where super cheap flea market finds and partly broken. So nothing to loose here only wins.
I recently picked up an Olympus Pen FT and the film advance is very rough but I am much more hesitant taking it apart as it works otherwise and was much more expensive. Maybe some day.

Kodak Gold 200 / SMC Pentax 30mm 2.8

Not sure if there are any Leica M6 shooters in here, but there's fantastic news for those of you that have one with a broken meter - as some guys from the Netherlands have apparently built a replacement themselves!

Check out their Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amsterdam_camera_repairs/

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West Yorkshire camera is sadly closing and has a 40% sale on a lot of film cameras and film gear:

https://wycameras.com/

Sad, but they were so consistently rude and snobby whenever I dealt with them that me and my mates all refused to buy anything from them. Lol.

My sadness was actually a presumption, I'd never heard of them before today haha.

Portra 400 / SMC 30mm 2.8

They carried lots of cameras, and were a relatively helpful shop to have around.
I shouldn’t celebrate their demise I guess.

But they were cunty.

It seems like fixing the Voigtländer VF135 worked out well. I got some really nice, sharp and well exposed photos out of it.

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Wasn’t even aware they weren’t fixable.

Is there a different process for developing slide film than normal 35mm film.?

Yes, they need different kind of chemicals to be processed - the "normal" (colour negative) film's process is called C-41, the one for slide film (colour positive) is E-6.

Most labs still do both, some only do C-41. For you it makes no difference, you just give them your exposed rolls of film and some monies, they develop it (and send you scans if you like).

Ah ha.
Unbeknown to me, I had some high quality slide film developed at 'snappy snaps'as a Christmas present.!
All the pictures look as if they have been poorly developed.
They were returned like normal 35mm film, im sure they have used the wrong chemicals or something.?

Not sure what happened (would be easier to tell if you'd post some of the photos) - but yea, probably they just developed your slide film in C-41.
Some people develop their film in the wrong chemicals deliberately, then its called "cross processing" / "x-pro" - and this usually gives very strong contrast and a shift in colours; often blues turn to cyan very much etc...

https://www.lomography.de/search/photos?order=popular&query=xpro

Thanks salad for the info
The boots should be pink not white. But most of them have this magenta flooding.
The film is about 15 years old and snappy snaps said this was why the colors are so saturated

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You're welcome 👍

The film being 15 years out of date (and probably not stored in the freezer in the meantime) definitely is a factor as well, bit hard to say but maybe they did indeed use the right chemicals (it's mostly a bit "dull" colours and severe colour shifts (typical for very old / badly stored film) from what I can see, but not the super high contrast one usually gets from developing slide film in C-41).

Okay so not conclusive, i will have to give them the benefit of doubt then.
Cheers salad.

Mamiya C330, single exposure back, Mamiya-Sekor 80mm 1:2.8 @ f4 1/15", paramender, Fujifilm UM-MA x-ray film @ ISO 64, replenished D-23 6' 20ºC.

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E6 film through C41 gives a yellow/green/blue bias with added contrast look. It’s the wrong chemicals but used to be done for the unique look it gave before photoshop was around.
Because you are getting machine prints this bias will be filtered out or at least to as close to ‘normal’ colours, no way are snappy snaps going to know this look might be desired, they probably didn’t know the film was transparencies not negative.
Film is definitely past its best and unlikely to be chemistry as that’s monitored with test film strips. (Or was when I used to dev and print)

It seems like fixing the Voigtländer VF135 worked out well. I got some really nice, sharp and well exposed photos out of it.

..sehr schön! 👏

Looking forward to seeing more from that 2.3/40mm 👍

recently got some film from a few years ago developed. these turned out pretty well! i only remember that they were taken on a canon ftb, not helpful at all.

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these looked sooo bad in color, so i learned how to use darktable and changed them to b&w. i'm pretty happy with the results, would have been nice to have the originals turn out though.

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