Analog film photography and cameras

This thread's revived my interest in 35mm - just got my 1st roll of £land vista back from Snaps - Shot with an Electro35mc bought last month on ebay.

I won't be spamming you with all 24 frames, but after 8 years of digital-only, it's the colours that have convinced me - not necessarily realistic but always charming - I don't really enjoy software processing, so it's really nice to just do a teeny bit of cropping and leave it at that!

Nice!
Welcome back to the analog world : ]

One day I will get myself one of these old Yashicas..

I was thinking the exact same thing the other day after recently getting into 35mm (as you can see up thread). The colours aren't always 'accurate' but they always have character and somehow seem less contrived than achieving the same effect with RAW development.

Like both of your shots too @Rik_Van_Looy

Shout out to Palm Labs in Birmingham who I've been using for the past year or so as a great place for good and cheap dev, especially for B&W work.

They did 67 rolls of 35mm BW dev only for £3.82 each (bulk discount) which I thought was pretty good. One week turnaround, Xtol, cut and sleeved properly, speed changes free, lovely negs.

So yeah check it out if you need some film done.

Love the simplicity of the u-bahn composition

Not so dreckig und grau today!

Just got some b&w back from the yashica.
Loving how much light you can get away with whilst still retaining some tonal variation.

Been way too long since I posted in here or even got any film processed.

Last year I wanted to invest in a leica system but couldn't afford an m6 so I came accross a minolta CLE which nicely enough has frame lines for my 2 favourite focal lengths, 28mm for a wide and 40mm for a 'normal'.

I only just got round to picking up a lens and shooting a roll, I don't remember TriX being this contrasty or grainy when shot at 400, unfortunately my processing kit is in storage so I had to pawn it off on a lab, this is likely why it's not as I remember.

59530038 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530037 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530033 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530030 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

I also just moved house and was feeling super inspired by my new, temporary room.

Oh go on a few more from outside.

59530023 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530021 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530019 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530015 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

59530011 by Indra H-p, on Flickr

40mm Voightlander Nokton f1.4 if anyone was wondering.

..it's a "Straßenbahn" (tram), but thanks!

Yea it's really colourful round here these days.
Temperatures rising close to 40°C this weekend, good opportunity to finish both a roll of slide film I'm going to have cross processed, as well as a roll of CineStill 50D..

Yea, tones in your pic are nice!

Welcome back!

Yea, CLE seems like a smart choice, was pondering one of these as well a while back.. have fun!

Nice shots, like the portrait and the last one most.

Nice work Indra, love the light/contrast and everything in between (including grain!)
I really like the clothes hangers - making the mundane so beautiful is a gift

On the subject of grain, I found a few time-capsule 35mm films in sock drawer that I sent to snaps with my recent batch - one was a horrid iso800 Lomo thing from about 10years back - everything on it was grainy as hell - can it be software'd out with e.g. with GIMP?

and that's probably the best of a (very) bad bunch.

..this photo was from a years old 800 iso film? Does look pretty good to me; in general, and grain-wise!

Yeah you can "smooth" the grain with software, but it's difficult to retain sharpness, and make it look good and not like it's smothered in a way if you don't take a lot of time, treating different areas of the image individually and with care.

Embrace the grain! Grain is good (most of the time) !

Yes that was the best of the lot - this one's more typical, and probably pushing the limits.
Thanks for your response - it was kind of what I suspected - probably beyond my capacity in both skill and patience....
Think I'll be embracing the grain as you suggest! - a million times better than the detestable speckle you get from amplified CCD signals on high-iso digital images

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What I've found is that most people (both photographers and viewers) enjoy grain in black & white photos, but not in colour.
Same with me, basically - though there are examples where grain does not bother me at all, where I even love to see it, where I really enjoy to be able to see the chemicals at work, so to say..

Example below is 800 iso as well (CineStill 800T, shot in daylight, corrected in post).
I like it, grain and all, but it starts to get a bit washed out and "meh" in the background, which is overexposed.

I'm not an expert, but I guess it's crucial to get exposure really right to get great high iso shots.

Also there's film that gives (to my eyes) a "nice grain", Portra 800 for example,
and other film that gives grain that almost looks a bit like digital noise (Superia 1600 for example).
Just bought two rolls of the latter anyway because they were 50% off, shooting them at 3200 and having them push-developed, so that'll be a grain fest!
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that's an exquisite image, tk, would you consider doing a print of it for me?

Not a massive improvement, but removing colour noise and a tiny bit of gaussian blur helps to make the grain seem less obtrusive ... ? maybe?

(hope you don't mind me fiddling with your image?)

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..thanks man - yea, print would be possible. PM?

..by the way that cactus image was shot at a nice little exhibition of naked in baird.

Thanks so much for your tips & work, this is just the sort of softly-softly approach I was looking for.

No worries, I can set up that as a batch in Photoshop if you can't get anything sorted in GIMP