Analog film photography and cameras

Can I be honest nefarious? You should be more selective. Less is more. This is said with love, not bile. I agree with Sorethroat, that shot ^ is fantastic.

It's weird. I cut quite a few from what I scan but can never chose from what I have in front of me thereafter.

But aye, too many, agreed.

Editing is the hardest part of the whole thing, for me. Alway has been. It's like having a bunch of kittens and being told you have to drown some of them...

I think the first five (in your first post) were by far the strongest, for what it's worth.

I think the first five (in your first post) were by far the strongest, for what it's worth.

I just have trouble leaving it after the first round. So I select and post a few but then it's sort of like "Well if I've posted those, I might as well post these too."

That and I'm an attention seeking like fuckbag, too.

I like your doorway shot.

I find editing difficult too. The two films I finished whilst away earlier in the month I whittled down to about 18/72.

Also if you use sites like Flickr as a back up there's a tendancy to post stuff that you just can't make your mind up about and should really ditch at that point in time

I used to post far too much on Flickr. Much more selective now. Less is definitely more.

Have been scanning in a roll of HP5 I shot recently, I'm regretting not just getting the shop to scan it in now (was trying to save money). The scanner I'm using at work is crap - slow and rubbish quality. I've done less than half the roll so far and it's taken ages. Where would be a good place to take them to get scanned properly?

Here's a few in their current form, for what they're worth. It's actually the first time I've shot with HP5 so any feedback would be very welcome.

absolutely love this one

Fuck, those are crisp!
What film/camera?

Mamiya c3, Fuji reala 100, 110mm lens, can't remember the settings.

Nice shots yourself nefarious, i've just got hold of an xa looking forward to seeing how they come out.

Mamiya c3, Kodak reala 100, 110mm lens, can't remember the settings...

Mamiya C3 is/was one of my two favourite cameras ever. I never used the 110mm lens though. Was your lens the silver-bodied version, or the later black-bodied one? Lovely and sharp things those TLR lenses.

I love it too. 110mm (silver body) is great for portraits, though i'd prefer something between 55mm to 80mm as well.

I have an 80mm that has a shutter that fires slow, you could have it for cheap if you knew how to fix it or somewhere to get it fixed. It's off my Mamiya C3 which doesn't wind properly that I haven't gotten round to doing anything with. Also if anyone fancies the body let me know.

Mamiya c3, Kodak reala 100, 110mm lens, can't remember the settings.

Nice shots yourself nefarious, i've just got hold of an xa looking forward to seeing how they come out.

Fuji Reala? Or maybe Kodak portra?

A shot from a test roll, that I stuck through an OM10 (which hasn't been used for years, but still has perfect light seals, and perfect shutter speeds), which I recently inherited from my Grandma. The G.Zuiko 50mm/f1.4 is super sharp, compared to my Canon FD 50mm/f1.4, really impressed with the quality of the glass and camera, having never used olympus SLRs before.

This is just in my bedroom, and was lit with an anglepoise. Sorry for the quality of the scan, it's jsut a Maplins cheapo scanner, that I use so I can archive jpgs of each frame i shoot on my laptop.
It obviously looks much sharper and more detailed in print.

http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/showcase/ Not that imaginative IMO but still nice stuff.....

edit: just saw that he has an exhibition on at LMNH so has probably been mentioned elsewhere.

Recently pocketed my Olympus XA on an afternoon around Brussels, and fell back in love with it. Such a simple, good little camera. Shame they usually break in the end - electromagnetic shutter release - and you can't pick these up for £30 anymore. Superia pushed to 200.

I have just posted this in Classifieds but thought it might be of interest to you guys. If it isnt and people feel it is not appropriate for the thread then it will be deleted like a shot and i will not come back till i have some pictures to post!

**OT: Buying a Canon 60D, looking for Lenses etc
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So the new tax year begins on Wednesday which means i am finally able to buy a new camera! I have been doing my searching around and have found some good deals but i thought i would see what you guys had at home that could be of use.....

I am going to buy a Canon 60D but if anyone has a 7D they want too get rid of for a good price then let me know (and although it aint gonna happen if you have a 5DMk2 that is gathering dust and you want to sell it for a grand then definitely let me know).

Lens wise i am looking to get started with a decent zoom or 2 until i am working more to be able to afford some nicer bits. Ideally EF rather than EF-S to future proof me a bit so all the usual favourites considered 24-105 and 17-40 T4 Canons or the Sigma T2.8 equivalents. Also looking for a nice fast (>f1.8) 35mm prime and any nice old school fast manual everything nikons which everyone wants. But please just let me know what you have and i will give it some consideration.....

Im around this week to meet up so drop me a PM.

Theo

Maybe put this in a the Classified>Wanted section.

From February-ish.

Shame they usually break in the end...

Look for a Olympic Trip 35 instead.

trip 35 isn't really comparable to the xa.. both were small i guess, but the xa is capable of taking high quality images and has a proper rangefinder and that...

not saying the trip's no good, but they're for different purposes

Fuji Reala? Or maybe Kodak portra?

Fuji, just got confused.

Nice shots olly, do you develop your own? Anyone know a decent online process/print shop or is that an oxymoron.
Few more from the race taken on an olympus xa. Kodak gold ultramax 400

I have an 80mm that has a shutter that fires slow, you could have it for cheap if you knew how to fix it or somewhere to get it fixed. It's off my Mamiya C3 which doesn't wind properly that I haven't gotten round to doing anything with. Also if anyone fancies the body let me know.

Cheers, but it'd probably take me a while to get round to sorting also.

Good advice Ed, but I've had loads of those type over the years:
Trip 35
Olympus 35RC
Yashi Electro 35
Konica C35
Petri Colour 35

All great fun, all shot some nice pictures, but not truly pocketable. The XA is the one I've kept for that.

trip 35 isn't really comparable to the xa.. both were small i guess, but the xa is capable of taking high quality images and has a proper rangefinder and that...

not saying the trip's no good, but they're for different purposes

@nefarious - I really like the first shot. Remember you need to compensate exposure for snow though, which is why it can come out blueish. Your camera is trying to render the whole average scene as an mid tone (arguments about centre-weighted metering etc aside). You (probably) want crisp white. In that case overexpose by 1 or 2 stops. Of course you will lose some shadow detail.

Fuji, just got confused.

Nice shots olly, do you develop your own? Anyone know a decent online process/print shop or is that an oxymoron.

Thanks HA. I sometimes do my own B&W dev. Usually though I send my B&W and colour to http://www.digitalab.co.uk/. They are excellent.

Absolutely swear by the XA's. I took mine around America with an SLR too, every shot people liked was from the XA2. I've dropped it hundreds of times and it's always lived. Having said that Hyper bought an XA, dropped it straight away and it died. RIP.

These are still my fave photos even though they're two years old now. Technically not the best but the stories behind them are amazing. Can't seem to take anything satisfying since!