Analog film photography and cameras

Try the first post of this thread. Page one, post one.

Focusing: yep make sure it's nice and bright, and focus on a spare bit of paper same thickness as what you will be printing on - with the grain focuser choose a bit of the image that has plenty of dark grain with an edge or line or something like that. It's a bit tricky to get the angle right so you can see the image through it, shift your eye around a bit or move the focuser around. Once you're peering through it and can see the fuzzy grey, adjust the focus of the enlarger very slowly, the grain will suddenly come into sharp focus.

Can anyone recommend a good place in central/east to get B+W film developed?

Also just a mention for Darkside, Helmet Row just off Old Street
http://www.darksidephoto.co.uk/

Good call. I'll add that to the others.

Picked up one of these (contax 139q) yesterday - both lens and body are very very very nice

nice - I miss my RTS - was soo nicely built and the zeiss lenses were fab too

yeah...
not sure i can afford any of the other lenses in the series at the moment - i have the 1.4 prime and a teleconverter.

but if anybody has the 28mm distagon i'd be interested!

The Contax 139 is a lovely thing, that benefited from being able to use Yashica manual lenses.

Some frames from my test roll on the new (old) M6.

M6, Voigtlander 35mm F2.5 VM Colour Skopar, Kodak BW400CN

Really liking those, casp. Number one is ace.

ta!

I like the second one best.

why thank you!

Just been scanning old negs in to the pc, here is one of my daughters smiling a few years back.
Canon AE-1 programme with the 50mm lense on kodak iso 200 film
Epson V500 at 6400dpi

this is after dedusting in PS

A friend of mine built me a portfolio website for my photography and I wanted to buy him a rangefinder as a kind of thanks...

I'd like to get a rangefinder with lens for under £100, preferably metal bodied and canon as that's what camp he's in with his other cameras.
Not knowing much about canon, can any one recommend anything?

canonets are nice.
shouldn't come in at much more than £50...

thanks very much, is that fully manual or just shutter priority?

Just been scanning old negs in to the pc, here is one of my daughters smiling a few years back.
Canon AE-1 programme with the 50mm lense on kodak iso 200 film
Epson V500 at 6400dpi

this is after dedusting in PS

Nice!

Looks like you lost a bit of that nice warm sunlight on the second version though?

Spent 10 hours in Photofusion on Thursday, just catching up on contact printing.

Had previously avoided gloss colour paper as I thought for sure I would just get it really fingerprinty but with the paper drought going on I got some and it's GREAT. The colours and detail are so much better on contacts and I didn't get them mucky at all - and it's so much easier to tell which way up the paper is. Although my colour balance skills are still shit.

Darkroom stuff makes me so happy. It's like magic!

Nice!

Looks like you lost a bit of that nice warm sunlight on the second version though?

Cheers, I thought it looked a bit too bright at first that's why I toned it down a bit, could easily go back and have another go :)

Cheers, I thought it looked a bit too bright at first that's why I toned it down a bit, could easily go back and have another go :)

perhaps take my words with a pinch of salt, i'm a sucker for warm light and glows

Think it really worked well for this one though

Any of you going to the late night at the VA for the cameraless photography thing?

http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/friday_evenings/friday_late/events/october2010/index.html

^ interesting!

Brighton

   thanks very much, is that fully manual or just shutter priority?

that's fine.
it varies by model but generally i think they were shutter priority.
yashica electro 35s are also really nice, they both tend to cost about the same price on ebay.