Analog film photography and cameras

very nice

Can anyone recomend me a place to get film developed & scanned? I used to use filmdev but haven't for a few years. Recently got a new camera and have been shooting a lot, probably have 15+ films to get done or there abouts (not all new, some 5+ years old or so!).

Any reccomendations would be very much appreciated!

(sorry if this is the wrong thread, couldn't find anything more recent & applicable)

Random set from a Chinon Bellami and an olympus XA.

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like the image taken from inside a car reminds me of this body of work

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/lee-friedlander

Friedlander is the GOAT imo.

As others have said, these are great! Do you mind me asking which lens you have on the Zeiss? And what sort of apertures do you think these are shot at? They look nicely sharp across the frame

lens is probably decentered.

I think this is what happened to one of my MjuIIs. It has spent a lot of time in a jersey pocket tbf.

Does anyone here have a good Olympus OM4 that they could part with?

Analogue films in Shoreditch or Kirklees Photographic (by post) are both cheap (the latter 4.50 a roll for Dev and tiff scans). Guessing you are after cheapish for a big bag of rolls.

Thank you very much. It’s very much a base model. I would have shot these between f11 and f22, using the sunny 16 rule, and overexposing by a stop to compensate for the age of the film.

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I found an old hard drive with some random scans I think I never processed. Had pretty much forgotten about them.

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some at night

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pew pew

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really lovely, large format?

Thanks! Yes, except for the first 3 which are 6x9

Really nice @stevep

@sohi Impressive!

These are taken with a Leica IIIf with Ilford Delta 100 and developed in PMK:

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Chan Photographic in Shoreditch are brilliant. I’ve used them for proper work and been happy with their processing and scans

https://chanphotographic.com/

Does anyone on here do cyanotypes?

I've just seen some really neat examples of using a reversed digital image to create a mask and then use that to create the cyanotype.

Now I want to know more!

I did, way back in the day.

You will find the stuff (chemicals) you need and the recipes online.
It's not hard to do, no need to buy expensive "kits".

It's good to have a strong UV lamp (otherwise you depend on the sun, basically) 👍

Love this set. And that portrait is stunning

Nice, have a bit of Crewdson about them.

So I don't really know very much at all about photography full stop, but I've recently acquired my dad's old Pentax MX camera, some lenses, and a Durst M305 enlarger.

Understanding the enlarger was ironically pretty easy, and I've managed to get that clean(ish) and in decent shape.

I don't really know where to start with the camera. There's three lenses and I don't even know which ones are for taking photos close, far away, or anything! A fun journey awaits.

I've got a wedding this weekend so I'm taking my old Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 and two rolls of film (£13 EACH!!!!) and seeing what I can get from a point-and-shoot type thing before I venture into whatever the MX can do. I do at least know how to load the film and so on, as I'm old enough to have done that as a teenager. Developing and printing looks like something I could tackle.

If anyone has an idiots guide to using the MX or similar, please point me in the right direction!!

Youtube is generally your friend here. Guides to most cameras available. As well basics for shooting film. Not sure if the light meter on your camera works but if not you can download a light meter app on iphone that is useful.

Thank you. I was in a bookshop today and saw a book about retro cameras (and how to use them) but it didn't feature either of mine.

I've read that the MX is great for photography students to learn with because it's all mechanical (so doesn't make any choices for you?). That'll be fun.

Incidentally, I'll take my reasonably nice digital camera (Sony RX100) to the wedding and see how the shots compare.