Analog film photography and cameras

The Darkroom in Cheltenham have lots of rolls of 120 film for £2.30 a pop. It's out-of-date Fujicolor 100.

If anyone goes for this tell 'em Joe gave you the heads-up. They might do me a deal on processing or something.

so I want to build a pinhole that fires 12 frames of 35mm film at once, I have a good idea of what its going to look like, I'm just not sure how the fuck I'm going to load it with out exposing the frames, ideas?

The camera will have all 12 frames in a horizontal line, they will fire on one release, it will be loaded with 24 exposure 35mm film after the first 12 frames I will wind out the seccond 12 and take another exposure, so it will need to wind.

Options I have thought of are: use a 36 shot roll and throw away the first 12, or load it in a dark room, which could be a bit finicky, or build a compartment that the film passes through to keep most of the light off it but I don't know how I would get the film through such a place to the reel.

Sounds interesting Chris Crash. You going for a MATRIX BULLET TIME effect, but with a difference?

Back in the early days of photography, there were plenty of cameras with many lenses, that took one image, and produced multiple one-off's. Normally the photographer shot actresses of stage and screen, paid the actress for the sitting, then sold the printed images as mementos to fans and collectors.

EDIT: I've quickly checked my facts, and those photographs were called CDV'c, or Carte de Visite. They were from 1859 approximately.

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Sounds interesting Chris Crash. You going for a MATRIX BULLET TIME effect, but with a difference?

Back in the early days of photography, there were plenty of cameras with many lenses, that took one image, and produced multiple one-off's. Normally the photographer shot actresses of stage and screen, paid the actress for the sitting, then sold the printed images as mementos to fans and collectors.

EDIT: I've quickly checked my facts, and those photographs were called CDV'c, or Carte de Visite. They were from 1859 approximately.

well do to the spacing each frame will be a slightly different version of the same image... the exposures will be long (measured in hours not seconds or days).

took this at Herne Hill training last saturday..... i really like it, but cant really decide why.

Ilford FP4 125 ISO, Nikon FG & 28mm lens.

Maybe you like it because its just a really nice image? Only would have been helped by an orange or red filter at the time.

ebay... you can have some crazy deals on slightly expired stock. don't waste money in the shop

try 7 day shop

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=1&type=1180&man=0&filterwords=&go=SEARCH&comp=

they have cut the bulk buy deals but they are cheap, been using them for years

there's an ebay seller i buy most b&w ilford film in bulk from - http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/j-r-crafts/

ca. £26 for 10 rolls of FP4 125 if you don't want expired stock or want to be sure it was properly stored (you know, when you need consistent results for some reason)

A few multiple exposure from Brick to Brix.

Got back late last night from cycling fixed to Dartmoor and back with a bit of climbing in between and am looking for an image that basically kept me going on those hills.
I always assumed it was an old Cartier-Bresson photograph or maybe another Magnum image but I might be wrong. It's of a coal-man cycling back after a day in the mines looking absolutely wrecked but completely stalwart and resolute.
He may or may not be carrying sacks of coal! Any leads?
Ta.

Coal makes me think of Robert Frank and his photographs from Wales. Tried searching internet but couldn't find anything, so maybe completely wrong.

My Vivitar ultra wide and slim died on me recently, does anyone know of a similar camera that is as cheap as the vivs?
I'm currently looking at the olympus mju as I've heard it picks up colour well in a variety of conditions and is strong and durable, anyone have any experience with this camera?

I'm looking at getting the same camera for my redscale, best bet is to look at results people have got from it off Flickr and judge for yourself. The camera features seem quite good for the price and what it is.

I converted my Vivi UW&S to a pinhole camera not long before the prices shot up, so I got myself a Vivitar Mariner - Pretty much the same camera as the UW&S but considerably cheaper AND comes with a waterproof casing to shoot underwater! It has the same 28mm lens.

man the prices literally went from £1.99 to £30+ it's crazy!

Vivitar Mariner sounds like the ticket, does it still get the vignetting that the UW&S gets?
If it's the same lens then I would imagine it must do right?

also what does this mean?

I'm looking at getting the same camera for my redscale, .

any compact film camera should be fine, just find the one that seemed pretty cheap and that a wide angle lens.

man the prices literally went from £1.99 to £30+ it's crazy!

Vivitar Mariner sounds like the ticket, does it still get the vignetting that the UW&S gets?
If it's the same lens then I would imagine it must do right?

also what does this mean?

Yeah, you will get the vignetting with the Mariner, but as with the UW&S it depends mostly on the lighting that will give you from no vignetting to a more pronounced shadow.

As for redscale, I make a lot of home-made redscale film where you respool the film backwards into the canister and shoot your pictures through the back of the film, giving a red cast to the film. Not like a red filter though, there's a fair difference as depending on how far you push or pull the film you get different effects (My favourite is shooting 400 speed at 50/25). Here is a link to some of the redscale I've done:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/polygonwindow/sets/72157613332842463/

any compact film camera should be fine, just find the one that seemed pretty cheap and that a wide angle lens.

All of the cameras I've been looking at and reading about are larger than the vivs, and I'm struggling to find any compact 35mm that have a wide angle lens (not a necessity, just makes quite intersting shots sometimes).
However, I'm gonna search for the mariner now, hopefully that'll do the job

If I could suggest any compact 35mm it would be the XA2 (or if you're lucky to find a good price, the XA). Brilliant camera, if it wern't for the XA2 I would be moving completely into medium and large format!

A few multiple exposure from Brick to Brix.

I really like the way your first picture came out. It would look great printed as A2

If I could suggest any compact 35mm it would be the XA2 (or if you're lucky to find a good price, the XA). Brilliant camera, if it wern't for the XA2 I would be moving completely into medium and large format!

or Yashica T4

Got back late last night from cycling fixed to Dartmoor and back with a bit of climbing in between and am looking for an image that basically kept me going on those hills.
I always assumed it was an old Cartier-Bresson photograph or maybe another Magnum image but I might be wrong. It's of a coal-man cycling back after a day in the mines looking absolutely wrecked but completely stalwart and resolute.
He may or may not be carrying sacks of coal! Any leads?
Ta.

David Hurn perhaps - did a lot of photography around the welsh mining villages

or Yashica T4

They all go for crazy money though.

@ concrete island, your redscale photos are brilliant, look sepia.
What's the advantage of the XA2 over the MJU, if any?
Sorry for all the questions, I'll research this myself properly in a minute

i have a yashica T4, only put a couple of rolls through it how much are they worth?

So perhaps some old Minotla Hi-Matic F or G (38mm)? But they're viewfinders.