Analog film photography and cameras

Yea, wipe (maybe with anti-static cloth) or try to avoid dust in the first place of course,
there will always be some specks no matter what you do, I just accept this and edit them out in Photoshop later, it's usually not much of a hassle..

Had a dream last week that i got a Leica M silly-cheap with the old dual focus 50/2 'cron like I used to own. Woke up wanting one again.

Last night I watched the painfully obvious and somewhat pedestrian film Kodachrome. Kinda enjoyable all the same. Made we want a Leica M again...

Suppose I should get a Leica M again...

If you kill the magenta these will really clean up nice.

You are probably right, yet I am tired fighting against my scanner, who just adds some color cast sometimes.
Also I'm apparently not capable to remove this in post without messing up the whole image.

Pretty easy in photoshop, under hue/saturation

Just got this in the post - loaded a roll and off to the beach

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Fuck yeah! Love those things.

Beaches?

Yeah!

Developed some 5x4. First shots with 90mm Fujinon.

Foma 100 film, DDX dev.

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Nice nice nice.
Wish I had time and funds to shoot large format.

Those skies look like a yellow filter filter would have been a good idea though to me.

Fuck yeah! Love those things.

Love those as well, have been shooting these (the "regular" L35AF) a lot the last years.
I think it's awesome, the only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the mushy shutter button.

I agree. New lens needs a filter but I haven't had a chance to grab one yet.

Really like the shadows on the second one, nice pics!

Just looking through scans of all my parents photos and found this cracker.

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Magical

I’d watch that movie!

Scene from True Detective, the seventies UK version intro sequence.

Don't kill it, its what makes it!

I love it when my scanner does an overcast on magenta albeit lighter than yours, but its lovely filter especially over portra!

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Don't kill it, its what makes it!

Ha, actually been thinking about this quite a bit the last days.

Basically the issue of scanning film for me always boils down to the realisation that it's just a fucking hassle and you never get the colours really right (just spend a bit of time looking at images scanned with a proper scanner like a Frontier or Noritsu and you'll see how they are really supposed to look like & how great even cheap emulsions like Kodak Gold can look.
Unfortunately I really can't afford having my rolls scanned in high res at the lab as this is hideously expensive over here (like €20+ per roll).

Then there's the harsh but simple truth that I oftentimes may just not see reddish colour casts as I have a bit of a color vision deficiency..
..so apart from the fact that using Silver Fast still makes me want to throw all the things out of the window I even struggle in post oftentimes to be honest - as @pdlouche mentioned it's easy to remove casts in PS basically, but you know I just sometimes don't see the difference when I move saturation sliders over half way, so..
I do see a magenta-ish cast in those car pics though. Maybe I'll try to edit them.

I love it when my scanner does an overcast on magenta albeit lighter than yours, but its lovely filter especially over portra!

Like I said I can never say how it "really" looks like / how "normal" people see it -
but I'm quite fed up that my Portra scans (from scanning at home) never quite look like "proper" Portra scans from others, it just looks wrong / cheap / not-as-great-as-Portra-can-look -
(no offense intended, but) your picture above looks like a good example of that to me.

It really made me stop paying almost a tenner for a roll of Portra 400 as I'm basically certain I won't get what I'm looking for in the end (if I'm about to scan it myself after dev)..

To me/anyone who has been bludgeoned with years of university/professional-level training, magenta cast like that just looks like a bad scan.

A colour cast, yea, when stylistic. But that's an orange glow, or cold blues, or bleach bypassed high-contrast. Magenta is home scanner user.

It can work, but often doesn't. Without the magenta you can really bring out the warmth or whatever you want. Grey is grey, red is red, blue is blue. If the white balance is on-point, then you can have the colours really pop.

Anyone who says a magenta cast is good is in denial.

Yeah your right, to certain extents. Like I'm not a professional so I don't really care, I like how these images came out, sure I can correct them and make them look "normal" but I think it goes well with the colours on that day. I must say this doesn't happen anymore with my scans but it did at that stage around two years ago.

Sorry I Don't understand what the denial bit is about but I think people should be allowed to make there image look like however they like, if there able through bad scanning get the look they require I don't really see the what's wrong with it! Photos can look like however they want.

I don't understand why you mean either about a colour cast, I think that's just the same no? Like if it's blue overcast then they need to make it warmer?.. how's that anymore stylistic?

But yeah I'm sure if edited mine to make it look Normal it would look better but when I scanned those in at the wrong settings that's what I got and really liked it!

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