Analog film photography and cameras

Good question, I just hacked the DX code on my film canisters to read 1600 (I hope). Seemed easy enough but as yet unproven.

Fingers crossed! I've never tried it myself.

You use cut electical tape or something?

Yesterday somebody gave me one of these.
Anybody on here using one?

I had one under different branding. I never used it much but the lens is really nice.

Just spent over £120 on agphoto lab getting 8 rolls developed...

Opted for hi res for the whole lot seeing as most of it is 6x7 and I wanna see what all the fuss is about.
Also, a couple of the rolls were E6.

Probably all badly exposed, poorly framed sunsets :)
Oh, and I left the lens cap on at least one shot on every roll.

A dozen rolls at Snaps is £40 mate. Although you'd only just get 10x8" prints from that res. You know the eye can't even see above about 200dpi right?

Talking about the cost of living ... the prices at Bayeux ? 😵 I hope they give a massage and front-element polish whilst you wait.

Tbf developing only costs a few quid. It's the scans that made it that expensive just for the sake of pixel peeping...

https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

where is the cheapest place to get colour neg film developed on a dip and dunk machine? does anyone know for sure? happy to post. rather than roller transport which always ends up scratching your negs

Depending on where you live, its worth calling up and asking? There are a few companies listed in the first post of this thread. Or drop them an email....

Nice light / colours.

First scan from my deconstructed durst enlarger, OM-D EM-1 + Olympus 45mm F1.8 on a macro tube mounted on the sliding head and light-box on the base with 35mm slide on top.

This was at F10, 1/400th and ISO 200. The image covers about 90% of the sensor.

It's a black and white conversion in Lightroom, seems like colour would be seriously difficult to get looking right!

I also realise I didn't align neg properly and have a sliver of the next image in here too.

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Been meaning to try something like this for ages, which would save a metric ton of cash with processing and hopefully better results than a lab once it's all nailed.

Yeah, getting the colour right is meant to be super fiddly. Loads of curves adjustment in photoshop. I think someone made a set of photoshop actions for various films that you can download. Will try and find it.

The slide duplicator method seems to require a pile of adaptors so the below method might be easier:

That's basically what I have done but my camera is attached to the sliding head of the enlarger and the light box is under the negative holder. Alignment is a manual and is probably the trickiest part.

Guess where I went on holiday?

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Clue, it was hot.

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I think we've found the next Tom Wood...

Great shots BRO. Second one is particularly strong.

Have to have a setup like this sooner or later - best before scanning costs are ruining me ideally.
Guess the difficulties regarding getting colours right lie in correcting the orange mask of the particular film?
Haven't tried this, but wouldn't using curve adjustements on a "scanned" blank piece of developed negative work?

This has to work perfectly if you know how -
apparently Ming Thein scans his analog work with this method, and it's impecable.
He does share most of his knowledge, for free - but that scanning technique he keeps to himself..

By the way - apart from the scanning - this is a great photo!
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Light leaks on the Rolleicord, meh.
Only on one of the 12 frames though, do not understand.

Looks deliberate :)
How was the pie?

Regarding the orange mask of film issue, you can set a custom white balance using a blank bit of film. Still lots of curve adjustment but you could make a profile of sorts for batch processing them to the point where it gives you an easy place to start.

..it was lasagna, and it was real good!
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Yea I figure one needs to make a profile or PS adjustement layer for each film type..
..curious to read what people find out works well regarding this!

Scanning color isn't so hard imo, I invert and set the white/black points on the RGB curves individually and do the rest with white balance (unless there's a really bad cast).

Maybe you all think my scans are fucking shit tho. I wish I had more skill at scanning but I think the colors are good enough at least. Of course a lot of what I shoot has messed up colors to begin with...

I enjoy your colour scans, I will be trying it but going to focus on B+W to start with!