Analog film photography and cameras

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13127236272/1/tumblr_lv177qAm0h1r6mucb

Took this from Queens a few years back.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv177qAm0h1r6mucbo1_1280.jpg

Took this from Queens a few years back.

Camera? Film type? Dev details? Anything?

C'mon on, throw us a bone here!

It is most lovely BTW.

Thank you ;o)

It was on my old Canon EOS 3000 with Kodak Gold.

Stock lens, 3 shots, just stitched together (badly) in potatoshop.

Some shots from my Hexar that I printed recently.

a great small camera for street photography. but why don't you come closer with it?

anyone using this kind of film? is it still available in the UK? where?

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a great small camera for street photography. but why don't you come closer with it?

Yeah, I love the camera.

Re. getting closer, I dunno, I'm certainly no Gilden! I've noticed recently that I like shooting single people like the guy infront of the big building, things with scale or people walking past things and either reacting or not, I think shooting single people gives an idea of isloation which I like, if I was closer then the subject wouldn't be so isolated, coz I'd be close to them.

I need to do more shooting with the camera for sure though and might try some more close up stuff. I've been a bit distracted by my other new purchase, a Fuji x100 so the Hexar hasn't had as much use as it should.

Yeah, I love the camera.

Re. getting closer, I dunno, I'm certainly no Gilden! I've noticed recently that I like shooting single people like the guy infront of the big building, things with scale or people walking past things and either reacting or not, I think shooting single people gives an idea of isloation which I like, if I was closer then the subject wouldn't be so isolated, coz I'd be close to them.

I need to do more shooting with the camera for sure though and might try some more close up stuff. I've been a bit distracted by my other new purchase, a Fuji x100 so the Hexar hasn't had as much use as it should.

Nothing wrong about these shots. I am just a portrait photographer and I'd love to see more hand-held shots of faces in the street. I often use a Hexar AF, the lens is excellent though I often miss shorter minimum focussing distance (something e.g. Contax T3 offers). Good luck with you work, man.
BTW you've got a very nice distraction.

Selling my Bessa R set-up if anyone's interested...

Nothing wrong about these shots. I am just a portrait photographer and I'd love to see more hand-held shots of faces in the street. I often use a Hexar AF, the lens is excellent though I often miss shorter minimum focussing distance (something e.g. Contax T3 offers). Good luck with you work, man.
BTW you've got a very nice distraction.

Cheers.

I've just posted a few from my x100 on the digital thread.

clearing out a cupboard at home, found a load of old paper and chemicals, most of it around 30 years old. some of my earliest memories are hanging out with my dad printing photos in the bathroom and showing me the exposure tests :)

anyway, is there any point me going through it and listing the unopened chemistry - might anyone be interested in experimenting with it or should I just chuck it? it has probably spent the first 10 years in the freezer, then the last 20 years in an outside cupboard so subject to external weather temps but fairly protected.

mostly Photocolor stuff: Photocolor II, Chrome Six and Photocolor RT
some info here: http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Photo_Technology_Ltd.html

some papers too which I might mess around with

this is well worth a look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017svd6/America_in_Pictures_The_Story_of_Life_Magazine/

Thanks for that, very good.

Burk Uzzle is the man!

this is well worth a look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017svd6/America_in_Pictures_The_Story_of_Life_Magazine/

Nice one. A fair few heroes in that program.

clearing out a cupboard at home, found a load of old paper and chemicals, most of it around 30 years old. some of my earliest memories are hanging out with my dad printing photos in the bathroom and showing me the exposure tests :)

anyway, is there any point me going through it and listing the unopened chemistry - might anyone be interested in experimenting with it or should I just chuck it? it has probably spent the first 10 years in the freezer, then the last 20 years in an outside cupboard so subject to external weather temps but fairly protected.

Hoefla, yeah its probably still useful in some way. Depends how its been stored, as long as it hasn't been propped up against a radiator or had sunlight on the packets you'll still get something from it.
Most of my papers are salvaged from house clearances, between 10 and 30years out of date.
What I've found is the older it gets (but still well stored) is the paper becomes slightly less sensitive to light, but more noticable it is MUCH less forgiving, the ideal 'window' of development & exposure reduces drastically. I.E. normal paper 60secs and you can go +/-15sec's and still get something usable, OLD knackered paper, 75secs +/- 3secs if your lucky!

Makes good pinhole /experimental paper though. And old chemicals, so long as its not been opened, or opened but the air gap reduced they will be fine.

Few shots from Lubitell with some Relia100. Pretty crap scans until I get in to uni tomorrow.

My twin brother has recently been extolling the wonder of the Nikon L35AF to me. I never thought it particularly special, but in the hands of the right people, it can do marvellous things. These 2 images are from a selection he linked to me from Flickr. There're not his, nor anyone we know, but the first IMO, is special. The second is a good discussion piece, as some will like it, and others may loathe it. Good work by the photographers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39501593@N08/4168755717/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/everybodyinnewwestminster/4883327527/

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11 rolls sent to get developed (6 e6, 3 c41, 2 b&w), also planning a stop by my old studio to use their scanner - an epic 2/3 days of scanning are likely to follow.

Rather excited!

Does anyone know anything about modern 35mm slide scanners available on the market atm?

Plustek 7600i AI Optic Film: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
Plustek 7600i SE Optic Film Scanner: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
Reflecta ProScan 7200 - Film/Slide Scanner: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

After realizing I'm going to need to long term slide scanning solution I figured I best invest.

Anyone got any pointers?

^ i'm curious too. If I understand it correctly a lot of cheap neg scanners aren't scanners but a camera+lamp in a box?

^ i'm curious too. If I understand it correctly a lot of cheap neg scanners aren't scanners but a camera+lamp in a box?

There plenty of dogshit neg scanners in the £40-100 range, these at least seem to have a reasonable spec and review ok. But if someone else has done any research/actually has any experience with them I'd be interesting to see what they say.

nefarious, what I remember about the Plusteks is that they do scan sharp images, but their DMAX levels were lower than the good flatbed photoscanners. Therefore less detail would be recorded in very bright or dark areas of the image. Hope that helps a bit.

nefarious, what I remember about the Plusteks is that they do scan sharp images, but their DMAX levels were lower than the good flatbed photoscanners. Therefore less detail would be recorded in very bright or dark areas of the image. Hope that helps a bit.

Yeah I seem to remember reading about someone recommending multi scanning, which is time intensive but at this price range that's to be expected I guess.

Those cheap scanners as you hbalready know are an absolute mine field, best avoided if at all possible. If you are outside london its worth a few weeks on free cycle and gun tree. inside london you have no chance.
I narrowly missed out on a sick drum scanner (free!) because of pap slow internet :s

I should have done more research when I bought mine but I ended up with a flatbed, a decent one mind but it is still such a massive ballache.

Waste of money really, I only use black and white film which I can print myself in the darkroom. Basically means I've got a very time consuming way of getting images on flickr...

Live and learn...