Analog film photography and cameras

Snappy Snap does offer medium format, certain branches thought, dunno about how professional they are but so far I found

Marchmont Street
Leicester Square

to be pro-like, those that do 120 but not quite pro are;

Soho (big one, not on Air Street)
Putney

Other labs that's not Snappy Snaps are (but not that great);

West End Cameras off Tottenham Court Road.

that all I know so far apart from the one you've listed so far.

want professional results then use a professional lab.

but with professional cost sadly, last time I went to Metro Imaging in Soho, the result is perfect, but almost £100 quid out of pocket, but at least I do know where to go if I wanted 100% correct result than the hit or miss result of local labs, my Snappy Snap in Wimbledon somehow give Kodak Portra a bizarre light magenta tint for some strange reason (processed that is, all in the negs).

[quote=spagettihoops;237126]I will never get rid of my film equipment.
Digital has it's place in the workplace, especially news and photojournalism, obviously because of the turn around time....but it has no place in my heart.
I would never dream of taking a digital camera with me on a holiday, or any personal projects i do.
I will be taking my Nikon FG and one lens with me to The Big Chill. i will sit back and laugh at all the "pro" photographers hauling around a giant bag of battery-powered auto focus pap.

+1,000,000[/quote]

+infinity.

Ed, that is a gorgeous pic. You are jammy though; since you are top in the Flickr search for "6x6 TLR", filtered by "most interesting". Well done mate.

does anyone want to buy any 120 6x6 roll film backs for a 500 series blad?
otherwise they are going on ebay.
may sell the polaroid back too.
not used them for 5 years and they are in VGC and not been hammered

Ed, that is a gorgeous pic. You are jammy though; since you are top in the Flickr search for "6x6 TLR", flitered by "most interesting". Well done mate.

thanks mate, the irony is that i rarely use it since it's a bit inconvience to use than my film compact, even more ironic is that the two most interesting TLR shot were my first ever rolls through a really crappy cheap TLR I brought off ebay.

I love medium format, I really should take my TLR out more often, portrait of fixed gear rider methinks?;

Fuck me, that is one sexy bastard.

ARGON18, HED-3, even the H_TEL in the background has a zer0 in it. Something very fishy about that photo.

I had a re-read of my posts in this thread......and I must admit that I wasn't very nice.

Fred now believes that film is better, and I've gone and switched into the digital camp. :)

Here's a really important piece on film resolution and grain.

http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/pdf/vitale/2007-04-vitale-filmgrain_resolution.pdf

this thread is funny, i was only talking to fred last friday about buying a cheap OM10 to starting using film again, i haven't done any phtography since '88! if i can find my pinhole portraits from back then i'll post them here.

i use a 6x7 in the studio alot, i cant afford the 30k a p45 digital back costs, if my client will shell out for either the extra cost of me shooting on film, or renting the back , the results are much better. I see full frame digital as replacing film when it becomes afforadable, but it still is not for every aplication. but given the fucked up economy, and how its about how cheap, and not how good you can be at this point in the game (at least in the USA) i have been using my D3s when i should be using my RZ Pro II, as there is little operating cost on the former.

i refuse to believe you typed all of that while drunk at 4.40am :)

5:06.

it was 26 mins ago

Fred now believes that film is better, and I've gone and switched into the digital camp. :)
[URL="http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/pdf/vitale/2007-04-vitale-filmgrain_resolution.pdf"][/URL]

:-) where would the world be if we were consistent :-)

nice bump, I've just invited about a dozen people to the photographers group.

this thread is funny, i was only talking to fred last friday about buying a cheap OM10 to starting using film again, i haven't done any phtography since '88! if i can find my pinhole portraits from back then i'll post them here.

have you bought one yet? come on!

i miss film. i miss loading film. i miss velvia 100. i miss real film grain. i miss folding up blurry, sticky polaroids to find a good crop when the assistant can't find the croppers. i miss the excitement of when the metro guy arrives back with the test rolls (and i miss "anything to go back?"). i miss the perspective of 24 hours of separation you get before you edit shots. i miss everyone hunched over a lightbox. i miss digging in my bag for the schneider lupe that my first art director gave me before i went off to my first shoot. i miss ripping the paper off a chinagraph.

I miss not being able to rely too heavily on Photoshop to fix a photo, it take all fun and enjoyment of photography if you're not keen on Photoshop

For instance, here is a digital shot, the left is how the photo came out straight from the camera, the photo on the right have been use in Photoshop to get the colour just the way I like it (closer to a Kodak Portra);

this one is from a Kodak Portra 160VC film negative, no photoshop at all because the colour is exactly how I want it to be, althought admittedly it's not the best shot;

Although digital is incredibly useful in the long term especially in the business, save me time and money, I'll just have to swallow it and use digital for assignment, unless it required a medium/large format camera.

I love film!
Its just like comapring a hand-written letter to an e-mail. Digital photography will never have the natural qualities of film.
I love the grain, the exposure, the way light isnt manipulated from its natural appearance. Film photos are much more lovable and subtle. I think digital photography still has a long, long way to go to compete with the over 100 years of film development.

Film is less convinient and reliable these days because of our busy nature. Everything has to be speeded up these days because we all want to do more in our lives. But if you have time to spend on film photography it really is so worth it.

Digital never replaced anything i did before, I still shoot action shots on film.

I just love those exposures (almost forgiving in places where the white has been cropped) And this was scanned on some crappy scanner too...

I miss not being able to rely too heavily on Photoshop to fix a photo, it take all fun and enjoyment of photography if you're not keen on Photoshop

For instance, here is a digital shot, the left is how the photo came out straight from the camera, the photo on the right have been use in Photoshop to get the colour just the way I like it (closer to a Kodak Portra);

this one is from a Kodak Portra 160VC film negative, no photoshop at all because the colour is exactly how I want it to be, althought admittedly it's not the best shot;

althought digital is incredibly useful in the long term especially in the business.

ofcourse a normal 35mm film can be pretty grainy....for fashion you really want ot get smooth textures, where Photoshop is a very handy tool

sorta, I used to have a film scanner that give me an equation to a 21 megapixels photo, the grain varies on how you expose the photo and the choice of film, low ISO film such as Kodak Portra 160VC once exposed carefully can show little grain, although not easy up to 4000dpi.

Sold it because I need to get the money for a full-frame camera, wish I hasn't thought but ah.

Hah! that was just a shit shot Teddy!

btw, i have an old canon eos a2e that hasn't seen daylight for over two years. it's now up for grabs. if anyone wants a decent film camera, let me know.

Hah! that was just a shit shot Teddy!

force of habit ;)

should've seen the state of the printed (draft) version, I wonder if I still have it lying around, let me find it.