Analog film photography and cameras

Ferries are great

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Obviously never been on the one to Lundy in choppy seas when pretty much half the passengers are lying on the floor around you being sick.

..sounds like there's some great photo opportunities 😀

Kodak Portra 400 (SMC Pentax 30mm 2.8)

Kodak Portra 400 (SMC Pentax 30mm 2.8)

Kodak Gold 200 (AF Nikkor 35mm 2.0)

Oh, I love that one. So beatiful!

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Kodak Gold 200 (AF Nikkor 35mm 2.0)

Cheers @Oddo - yeah it does look kinda magical, doesn't it (actually it's just fluff / feathers from the doves up there, still beautiful) 🙂

Yeah, but also the warm and cosy light.

Kodak Portra 400 (SMC Pentax 30mm 2.8)

On a recent photo walk, I found an open door to a "new event venue" and sneaked some photos. Despite what you see in the photos it was a very cloudy day. I waited quite some time for every shot to catch that little bit of sunshine between the clouds.

Kodak Max 400 on this Yashica MG-1

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Got a test roll used with the OM-10 plucked out of the sky - anywhere ideally out east recommended for a 24 hour turnaround with developing?

My Rollei 35AF was just delivered. First impression after taking it out of the box is that it feels a bit cheap because it is very light.
The original is smaller but heavier. Feels more solid.
I might be able to take it out on the weekend and play a bit with it. I've considered getting a double tripod mount and doing a side-by-side comparison of old and new. For "science".

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..nice! 🙂

Curious to hear what you think of it and obviously looking forward to seeing some pictures.. I think so far I've only seen the "official" shots they used on the website & for the newsletters, those looked really nice 👍

Yeah, from what I can tell from the reviews the results are very nice. For me, a camera also has to feel and sound nice though. The original Rollei 35 has a very satisfying mechanical feel and sound to it. It's one of the reasons I have such a soft spot for it and why I jumped on the preorder of this remake. I'll report back once I've used it some more.

I also have a backlog of 4 old cameras I am currently cleaning and repairing. I was thinking of documenting some of it in a (non-bike) Current Projects thread. Would people be interested in reading that?

Some lovely stuff on this page esp @mrJL that the ferry chair 😍.
Keep em comming

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So so good!

lovely

old cameras - clean and repair - yes please!

Went to London Film Lab and just developed and scanned - no obvious defects from what I can see, with some photos with awful focus work from yours truly

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Quick update on the Rollei 35AF.
Unfortunately, I have to say the user experience is really bad so I boxed it up this morning and it's already on its way back.
According to reviews the image quality is really good and I don't doubt it but using it was quite a rubbish experience for me tbh.
It feels like using a toy rather than a real camera but my main beef is this:
The shutter release is supposed to stay down after a shot and only pops up again when you advance the film. The shutter button on mine popped up all the time on its own though. When the button is up you can't advance the film. So the only way around I could find was an intentional but unwanted double exposure on the current frame...
All this double exposure business and sometimes counting a half-press to focus as a shot also meant that the digital only frame counter was completely off. I don't think I finished my roll but when I was too annoyed by all of this the counter was at 39 on a 36 exposures film.
Really sad about this. I wanted this to be good so badly. I love my old Rollei 35 and hoped for this to be similar but it's very different.

Aww man, that's disappointing 😐

Doesn't this sound as if your particular camera was just defective?