Analog film photography and cameras

From a 30 grand lens to my £1.20 ebay find.

Pretty impressed with this, f4 too.

http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab94/macready123/4180418.jpg

"I'm gonna put this ball behind you, but it's going through you to get there."

Thought someone in this thread might be interested in my Ricoh GR1S. Great camera, would for love it to go to someone on the forum.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280868689493#ht_500wt_1156

Ahhhh if I had the money, this would be coming home with me! Really want a GR1S!

i paid less than that for my NOS gr1s, if you hunt about you can find 'em cheap as chips. Not held in as high regard as the T4 or contax t2 so cheaper despite being just as good

^^^ those 4.5mm (?) nikon fish's get about a bit. One comes up for sale every year or so.

Never actually seen a recognisable photo from them as I think they were designed for pipe & tank inspections.
There is an olympus lens that is almost as wide too (190-210degree IIRC).

Well I go to the one in Aberdeen. they recently just opened it...:D

wow, would love to see some snaps taken with that

we did some 360 degree movies with that lens a few years ago for a VW
dome cinema.
this is the best i could find from that job:
http://www.kosmad.com/comp.htm

loads on flickr anyway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bachodchirmof/5883876966/in/photostream/

^^ top!
Bet that church shot took a fair bit of setting up ;)

Did you use a film or digi body on that? Guess with nikon mount you can fit it onto practically anything or does it require a body with a pelicol (right term? ones with non moving mirror).

Brickman: it was done over 10 years ago on a Vistavision movie camera.
I think they made a special mount for it.

The movie camera has no mirror box like a SLR so the distance between the
film plane and the lens mount is less and you have spare space
for an adapter.
And I think you don't need to focus because of the extreme short
focal lenght.
http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/dome

http://www.glassworks.co.uk/node/2400&search-type=all&term=all

The waitress girl looks like my friend, ridiculously so, infact having to text her to check it wasn't her as she does occasional background acting stuff, but I thought mostly in germany/france.

Just found this via itsnicethat.com

http://www.mustafahabdulaziz.com/memory-loss

Could be digital for all I know, but it's kind of in the same vein as what's been discussed upthread

Some items for sale.

Did someone post a link in here to a place that had loads of large format lenses for sale? Had a look back quite a bit but can't see it, sure it was here though.

don't know what the effect is called, but i've achieved a similar, albeit more exaggerated one using an enlarger without a negative carrier - i.e. different parts of the negative are different distances away from the bulb/lens rendering the edges of the photo with this circular blur kind of thing!

Like this photo from a fellow forumenger?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27302326@N08/3570000003/in/set-72157616507813195/

I've had that happen too, but of course only with older lenses. I was surprised to have it happen to me when using my Mamiya C3 with 80mm f2.8 black lens. I'd been unconcerned when it was from pre-war lenses (either of the World Wars), but didn't think it would happen to the coated Mamiya lenses.

In portraits, its quite beautiful, though a bit disconcerting, as you can't plan for it with any exactitude.

That's the one, must be something to do with using the lens opened up.

Really obvious in this picture, not mine.

Mine was very severe. and looked liked potato chopping, but it wasn't. I also had realised that its a product from being wide open.

It's a form of bokeh no? I realise it's not the exact same thing because it's not individual circles around points of light but it is a lens artefact created by the aperture...

+1

From my understanding, that is what it is. Essentially its Bokeh on your Bokeh ;)

Large & medium format lenses often suffer from it, pretty much all plastic jobs do. I guess just stop down 1 or 2 notch's to avoid, though part of the glory of them is shooting wide open O_o

What was the place in shoreditch that did the really cheap processing and scanning? I have such a back clog of films i need to get my act together and get them developed.

Thats 'ba cklog'

eye culture, on fashion st. not to be confused with rapid eye, on leonard st.
still not managed to get there myself!

also recently found out that you can ask for high res scans for a little extra at eye culture, usually the images are pretty small

I've got mine back 2000px ish (@ 72dpi) on the long side, so bigger than some other places. Is it possible to get even bigger?

yep thats the standard size, ask for a high res, think its a few quid more but still nothing on snappy snaps

awesome, good to know

has anyone ever made a scanner camera before? any tips to share? i can't get it to stay in focus...

strictly speaking this should be in digital but i thought there was more chance of people in this thread responding.