Analog film photography and cameras

In other news, just picked up some 120 rolls of 400H and Provia from Aperture.

Just need something interesting to point it at which, you know, isn't going to happen.

#fences4life

More from the XA, some Ektar 100, some Superia 200

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Landscape is beautiful, where was it taken?

Newport on tay, on the south of the River Tay. Taken 10 minutes before sunset.

So what the fucking hell do you do whe you finish a roll of medium format?

proper lol at that :D

take me there

and yeah nos. 1 and 2 really great here.

(sorry I tend to binge catch-up this thread - don't like to look at the nice big images on my phone...)

Dropped off the roll of film that was in the L35AF when I found it at Snappy Snaps. A tenner later they tell me it was blank.

A.R.S.E.

that's pretty shit. they should've just charged you a few quid for developing, it's not like they actually ran a load of blank photos off or scanned it... is it?

I know. Should have just been patient and sent it to ag.

with a Konica recorder i bought a little while ago, the only camera I've bought for some time at a non-bargain price and of course the only one I've decided I don't like

Very nice.. like the mood in these.
What film / dev?

Thanks
Portra 400, maybe underdeveloped a bit as the chems were already past their limit

Nice set @shinkuu_kiss, how come you don't like the camera?

Feature on 35mmc.com about me.

http://www.35mmc.com/22/07/2016/35mm-compact-shooter-20-michael-rennie/

..nice!

nice :)

Which Snappy Snaps was it? Had some dubious service from them over the years (and not stepped foot in one for years either) but still annoying. Did you challenge them charging you full price?

It was the one on Charlotte street. They make you pay full whack first and you just have to risk it.

Never again.

Sorry if I have asked this before, but how do you go about scanning these?

Still struggling to get good scans from Portra negs, there's no punch and the colours are off.

Tried to find useful info on this and heard that it may indeed be the case that Plustec / QUATO scanners don't handle this particular film well, while things are totally fine with Epson.
Doesn't make sense to me but hey.. trawling through the archives right now, and finding the only Portra I have scanned at home with great (and Portra typical) colours is the 800.

Just didn't get along with it somehow.

In terms of bad points the lens isn't as good as I hoped and what you see in the viewfinder is pretty different to the picture you get, but really it's just I don't enjoy shooting it for whatever reason.

I put the negs on a lightbox with some card taped to it to keep them flat, and shoot them almost filling the frame with a dslr + old macro lens on a tripod.

Then I invert the curves in lightroom, sharpen them a bit, generally boost the contrast, and fine tune the color balance (manually or with the eye dropper on something grey). I like to take a break between choosing what to keep and finishing them up so I sometimes export them as tiffs after inverting the curves so that all the sliders and everything aren't backwards...

On these I boosted the saturation a bit too but I didn't do much else. I edit the shit out of some things tho.

..ah, cheers.

Will try the lightbox method when I have access to a nice macro and a DSLR with more pixels..
Definitely fed up with scanning by now!

I do it with a 6 year old (so an ancient relic in camera terms) dslr and an m42 lens from the 70s.

If you want more pixels you can shoot smaller parts of the neg and stitch them together. That's one of the benefits of dslr scans. I don't do it atm but I plan to for 120 from now on.

Thank you a lot, I keep forgetting that this is an option!
Especially as I will be shooting 120 as well in near future; was already worrying about expensive scanning, but definitely will check this out (my DSLR is even older though, haha).