Analog film photography and cameras

daido moriyama?

Jim Goldberg’s Raised By Wolves and his collages might be considered chaotic and maybe some of William Klein painted contacts series?

boris mikhailov for a bit of post soviet chaos.

Great suggestions, all on point. Thanks chaps

Joel-Peter Witkin and David Nebreda might be fun too.

Also enjoy works of Akshay Mahajan

Maybe its the ageing skateboarder in me but big fan of Ed Templetons work https://www.setantabooks.com/collections/edtempleton-photography-books?srsltid=AfmBOorWkLLmxBkNnKgExl4Y41HII3KqZMqB5vvIoGF2eYOnzETYDOa5

I’m passing on thanks from the student, she’s loving all the suggestions. Thanks all

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The Photographers' Gallery off Oxford Street has a great range of books and magazines - good for a nose through and to get some inspiration.
I saw a handmade zine/book made by Alyssa Warren called The Lake which is stunning but it is £300....
https://www.alyssa-warren.com/

Thanks @salad for the hint on those Portra 160 5er packs. Not as cheap anymore with shipping to Austria but still the best price I could find. Shot my first roll and I really like that film stock 💸

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All three are great

You're welcome @Oddo ✌️

Portra 160 is really good stuff - if you have the chance shoot some portraits with it, ideally in gentle light, with your best lenses!

Some 'cheap' Ultramax from the clearance shelf at Boots.

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Thanks!

Love the tree.

Not sure if best asked here or the digital photo thread however… Hasselblad 501c / cm medium format cameras. Has anyone used this in addition to their digital back (CFV 50 or CFV100)? I foolishly walked past a shop and asked about them and it’s made the mind wander…

Haven't used the new backs myself yet, would love to though.

I read a review the other day that pointed out the great image quality - but apparently the electronic shutter is pretty shit, which is a shame - also there's no IBIS, so the guy's conclusion basically was it's such a nice walkaround (medium format) camera because of the small size and weight and great usability (nice, flip-able screen, great handling, great menu system etc.) - and at the same time you're quite limited in terms of shutter speeds and you'd really need a tripod to get more out of it (meaning it isn't a great walkaround camera) 💁‍♂️

Figured this might be the place to ask - I have a bunch of my mum's old photos that I want to scan and backup.

Can you recommend a scanner, ideally that's reasonably quick in terms of work flow?

@gillies are the photos slides/ negatives or printed photos. For negs / slides have found one of these a good trade off of costs/quality time than most affordable scanners.https://www.nikon.co.uk/en_GB/product/accessories/lenses/film-digitising-adapter-es-2-VWD304AW

Can you recommend a scanner, ideally that's reasonably quick in terms of work flow?

Nope! But I can recommend using a digital camera to photograph them. It will likely be much, much faster than scanning.

Always think these were designed with studio tripod use in mind and find them quite cumbersome IRL. Not used with a digi back but assuming it would add an extra layer of awkwardness out and about.

@Benzo prints

Oh good tip @M_V. Wouldn't that necessitate a lot of post capture cropping though?

You could set up a tripod such that the print fills the frame. Mark out on some sort of base board so that positioning the print is easily repeatable.

You can get copy stands pretty cheap but they do look a bit flimsy.

For doing negs I’m actually getting the best results from my little rx100 compact camera, it’s able to focus a lot closer than even the pucker macro lens I have for my 5d.

That's interesting @M_V do you put the negs on a light box or similar to back light them?

Yeah, I bought a lightbox off ebay.

I tried a new fancy led one but it had like a patterned surface which I think was for aligning things to trace and that pattern showed up on the images so then I bought an old Jessops one.

When I was using the 5D I was finiding it more stable shooting pretty much horizontally so had the light box propped up and stuff but now I'm using my enlarger as a copy stand and shooting vertically.

I'll see if I can find some photos of my set up.