Analog film photography and cameras

Love the first picture.

nice but I'm confused about the lines... the ones that you made in photoshop - I understand scanning full frames at a time and not the whole strip, but don't you at least have the edges, even if you have to construct the width? ie. can you scan (slightly beyond) full frame without cropping? if you ever print it would make a bid difference... otherwise I'd be tempted to fake a little softness on the harsh edges.

is there a hole in your shutter? not uncommon, easily caused by sun (camera on back, lens cap off).
not too difficult to repair small holes, or just keep lens cap on apart from taking the picture, to minimise fogging the film. of course, that may lead to some "forgot to take the lens cap off" blanks...

Ah cool! How much were you looking for?

I'll check that. Most of the photos are alright, there's just a few dodgy ones.

lovely!
easy enough to check when changing film, just hold it up to a light with the lens cap off.
if it's only a pinprick, it's only enough to show if you happen to have had the lens cap off for a long time between shots, or it gets some direct light.

The negative holder is bang on the size of the 35mm frame, I just take 4 35mm frames and equally space them on a black background layer, I then fill the background layer with the colour sampled from in between the scanned frames. I could soften the edges a touch I guess..... have a look at the big version here, this is the only one I've re-done, will do the others tonight.

Struggled with photo shop for a couple of hours last night but can't find a way to blend the edge of the scanned frames with the black background as you suggest. Any ideas on a way that would work?

Use the rectangular selection tool to make new layers out of each frame, select all the layers then go to Edit > Auto-Align layers.
Then Edit > Auto-Blend layers.

Boom.

Wait, that's not what you were trying to do. Ignore me.

Get a selection with a corner radius going.

Fk this shit tho. This is the analogue thread. :-P

You want the black frames to "bleed" a bit into the photos so there's no hard edge?
I don't get why you'd want to do this, but you could have the black backround (without the images) as a selection, give a bit of feather to it (select > modify > feather), and fill it black via paint bucket?

Apologies for I have sullied this thread with digital photography questions. I'm trying to make the frame spacing that I created digitally to look the same as the spacing on between each scanned half frame.

What currently is the difference between the two types of frame?

Basically I scan them as two half frames in a 35mm holder and then chuck them all on a black background to make the panorama. The gaps between half frame 2 and 3 are really sharp because it's added digitally whereas the gap between half frame 1 and 2 is a bit soft as it's done with a in camera mask.

10% off film in Calumet again, not much in stock tho

Merge all the sharp bars onto a layer* and soften it with a small amount of gaussian blur?

*or select areas with the marquee tool if it's already flattened.

Tmax 100 for £3.60 is good.

I bought a 24exp Agfa film roll two weeks ago, loaded it in my Fujuca ST605 and went to take pictures in London. Over the last two weeks I went to various places, took pictures of buildings, people and animals. I liked most of my compositions. Then, when the film finished, I began to rewind it, just after I wound back two frames I heard the film snap into the roll and the lever became loose.

It turns out that I have not been taking pictures at all. I have not secured the film onto the roller properly. Gutted.

Been there, done that. Grief of lost pictures is real.

!!! Congratulations !!!

Progress to:

Shooting a roll on a rangefinder before finding the lens cap ... was never removed.

(i've done ^ this, it was on a dusk shoot with a model, once the light was gone that was it. Luckily it wasn't the only camera I was using but ... ffs!!!)

Next time check the rewind nubbin is rotating as you wind each frame.

Aberdeen Beach, Rolleicord VB on Ektar 100.

4 Attachments

final stage: shooting a roll, feeling pretty good about it, then pouring in fix first instead of developer...