Analog film photography and cameras

Looking pretty good!
Cheers for posting some non-flash as well.

Click through one more time and you get to the order form itself, including the prices -
http://www.filmdev.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Colour-Processing-order-form.pdf

Olympus XA - very expired Kodak Ektachrome 100 (over exposed by about 1/3 stop to try and compensate).

Mamiya RB67 - Kodak Portra 160NC

Also just spent the last few days getting an Epson f-3200 neg scanner to work. A total faff on getting drivers and things sorted, but scans so far seem really good! Above scans are lab ones which aren't that inspiring but they're fine for blog/forum fodder!

Ended up randomly shooting a wedding the other day. They hadn't got a photographer and I was there with MF kit so figured I'd do what I could. 2 or 3 of the rolls through the RB67 were 50% blanks as my 90mm is misfiring again. The old wind and shoot about 20 times with no film in seems to have stopped it misfiring again, but still a total ballache!

3rd XA shot is ace, really cool

Cafe and Snog shots look great. Kodachrome blacks in the water ... oof.

All those shots seem to lack a bit of highlight detail – all the more reason to home-scan I guess.

So, I've been long term loaned a Leica M4. I feel an expensive habit is about to get more so, it's lovely.

Argh! Lucky bastard! Do you have lenses to play with too? Really looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

Yeah, 50mm and 90mm, just stuck a roll of 400TX in it and already in love with the finder patch compared to the XA and the viewfinder in general. The fact you can see what you're not including in the frame is really nice for working on composition.

I'll take a picture of the kit tomorrow. Think there is a macro attachment too.

So this is the Leica, what is the little add on lens thing for and what is the viewfinder contraption?

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The viewfinder Magnifier to replicate a longer focal length no?

I thought I would need it for the 90mm, but it doesn't seem right.

Also seems likes it's missing a part to fit it, is has a female hot shoe slot, similar to the camera's own.

Not a big leica nerd but I'm pretty the big periscope looking thing is lens mount adapter with a mirror that basically makes it an slr, and the thing that sticks on the front is an adapter/corrector for your close focusing 50mm lens (I definitely can't recognise leica lenses tho so that might be wrong)

You usually find those goggles on 35mm lenses (or wider) for attatching to earlier models (m3) as it had 50mm famelines and longer, this converts the viewfinder to 35mm, but as you have an M4(?) i presume its to do the opposite and magnify. These are usually attatched to the lens that they are for via a ring that it slots into and is then mounted to the camera.

The big chunky thing is as stated an adapter to turn it into an SLR. Dont really see to many of them about so may be quite rare!

Poundland are restocking Agfavista 200 24 exp

Sorry to lower the tone...

Ok, thanks for the info!

I've already shot 2 rolls of film since I was given the camera on Saturday!

I heard this too from a friend, need to get down there and buy a load..

Just finished scanning two rolls of Vista 400.
Much disappoint.
Have to wrap my head around the fact that it's only good for certain things / certain light.

Got back some TMax 400 from the Rollei. 12 out of 12 frames correctly exposed and in perfect focus! Happy with that :)

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Lovely. I'm assuming those aren't greyscale... there's some colour in there. Or I'm tripping.

Hmmmm I guess they are colour scans of B+W film, I see it too but didn't really think about it.

Do people usually do a B+W conversion of their scans?

Usually but not always. It's actually nice to see the colour of b&w film.

I just downloaded one of them to look at in ACR and there's a fair amount of blue in there. Most likely its the light from the scanner.
XP2, which is a c41 b&w film can get some funny colours from development depending on the state of the labs chemicals.

This was Kodak TMax 400, if I do a B+W conversion it looks a bit more generic.

It was a super bright sunny day, I'm thinking either a yellow or red filter would have helped make the sky a bit more dramatic.

Yeah, they look perfect as-is. The down side of using a red filter is the skin tones would be a bit dodgy.

A few more from a 2nd roll

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3rd shot looks painful.

When I worked for a pro he'd insist on converting to greyscale, then back. I can't quite remember why rgb was better - probably in case it got printed.