Analog film photography and cameras

Love these Margate is just very nice town to have a wander and take photos in that mix of old forgotten, working town and holiday chintz. I like Margate.

These are amazing, do you remember what you were shooting on?/with?

Thank you for your internet validation @liam-h - cute doggo photos btw!

The only camera I've used for three years now is a Canon EOS 300 that I paid a fiver for, along with a Canon 50mm f1.8. Yes, it's not as pocketable as a point and shoot but my god is it so much cheaper - and really quite capable. Far more capable than I am as a photographer - ha.

Anyway.

1 Delta 100
2 HP5
3 Portra 400
4 Superia 400 (was really surprised to get those colours out of Superia, tbh. I only used it as I'd run out of other film)
5 Portra 400

:-)

@platypus Is your Canon still up for grabs? My daughter has started a photography course at college and this would be ideal for her.

Lovely. What's the maoutain range??

It was taken from the top of Wheeler Peak which is the highest point in New Mexico at 4013m. It's in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains which is the furthest south subrange of the Rockies. Colorado. Here's a plaque for you :-) And one where Colorado is visible in the background.

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Amazing looks utterly stunning. Thought it was taken from a plane. Did you cycle up 🤔

Yeah, New Mexico was probably the most beautiful place I've ever been. And no, hiked from Taos Ski Resort. Wasn't actually that arduous as the base of the hike is so high up. 14.02km, 890m of elev. The air was thin and the entire hike was through snow so that was the most challenging part.

The only camera I've used for three years now is a Canon EOS 300 that I paid a fiver for, along with a Canon 50mm f1.8. Yes, it's not as pocketable as a point and shoot but my god is it so much cheaper - and really quite capable. Far more capable than I am as a photographer

If you ever want to try more lenses out you can get PK - EOS lens adapters with an AF confirm chip for a little over £10 and it opens up a world of cheap pentax lenses you can use. Yeah, you have to manually turn the focus ring but you get the AF beep when it's in focus as you would an automatic lens.

Thank you for this, to be honest, I use it entirely like a Point and Shoot and I think that's just how I enjoy using a camera nowadays. I used to have a K1000, then an MX, then moved onto Nikon's in the form of some FE2's and in the end, all I actually wanted was autofocus, hence the move away from manual focus cameras.

I think if I wanted manual focus again I'd just jump back into the world of Pentax. I took some of my favourite ever photos on the MX. Loved it's huge viewfinder, small body size and cheap, but lovely, lenses.

67 with wooden grip is VERY LA

Margate street photography

I like these.. are there some more you'd like to share?

Thanks! Yeah we really enjoyed it, it feels very familiar as we've got places like Great Yarmouth near us that have a similar vibe. Margate is just that little bit 'nicer' in that there's places to get good food, coffee, lots of independent stores etc.

@salad thank you yeah I took a few others, will post some in a bit. I think I took about 6 rolls of film on the trip and didn't even finish one!

Some views out to sea from Margate, hoping to do something similar a bit closer to home as a bit of a project.

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2nd one down for me. Love it.

These are really cool, you might like John Myers photos, similar vibe. Boring in a good way 👍✌️

http://www.johnmyersphotographs.com/galleries-boring.php

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Some views out to sea

Nice!
I like how calm they are. Also enjoy the colours / light (what film is this?)
They look a bit like paintings..

Thanks all :) Enjoyed looking through that stuff by John Myers, all about that boringness!

@salad thanks it was fortunate the sea was fairly calm. Portra 400, a nice change from colorplus but so spendy..!

Loving all the selection of abandoned stuff in the first one

just off Q1!

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contax g2 and either ultramax or colorplus

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so good! had a g1 until it broke. still sad.

Fuck yes, love the first and last one.

Ps: I bet it's ColorPlus

That last one is larrrvely