Analog film photography and cameras

no, if you scan and colour grade yourself you can get all the exposures back to look like the "correct" one.
you expose for the desired end result and processing pipeline.
in digital you often can not even capture the range of a natural scene in one go. correct or not.
then you have to start compensating for those problems by under or overexposing and then correct it later.
very common in motion picture shooting.

I feel like we're talking cross-purposes here... I thought you were saying that modern colour neg is difficult to learn basic photography with as it's too forgiving. plus if you get it with a standard digital minilab process and print, the auto-adjustment makes it very difficult to learn anything from the prints. so, I get that you can scan and adjust to get a desired image, I was just saying that you can still learn about simple 'correct' exposure from looking at negs...

yes, I was trying to say exactly that. But I think a beginner will have a hard time judging negatives without
a reference point.

a few new ones from the contax

For silver grain junkies.

Guy has unfortunately stopped posting recently as he's busy with work.
There definately are quite some gems in that stream.

Still puzzling how he gets that 'look' though; he shoots 400 ASA Tri-X,
and I'm rather sure the majority of pictures he posts on that blog are scanned / tweaked negs -
not scanned prints of the negs. The grain looks so 'analogue'.
It looks 'thrashy' in a really good way.

Has anyone had any experience with the controls on lenses drifting away from where they should be.

I've put four rolls through my pentax in the last few days and keep getting out of focus shots, even though I'm sure that at the time I'm getting it right.

Its got a split prism in the centre of the viewfinder, so I've been finding a high contrast point at the distance I want, lining the two halves up and going for it. I think I may have just been having an off day, but my buddy that I was shooting with thought it could be because the lens needs recalibrating, but this isn't something I've come across before.

is it an SLR? if it had a bit of a knock recently the mirror could have moved?
try getting a tape measure and focussing to known distances and the horizon (or as close to it as you can get) and seeing how it matches with the markings on the lens.

is it an SLR? if it had a bit of a knock recently the mirror could have moved?
try getting a tape measure and focussing to known distances and the horizon (or as close to it as you can get) and seeing how it matches with the markings on the lens.

Pentax ME, with a 50mm 1.7

Setting up stuff at know distances sounds like a plan!

if you have another lens too you can check whether it's the mirror or the lens that's out... or just you having a bad day!

^^ that shorpy site looks interesting...

Dunno if the ME has one and if this is teaching you to suck eggs I apologise but, diopter adjustment?

not gonna affect focusing with a split prism though.

Hello, I'm selling a couple of cameras again and thought someone on here might be interested.

Mamiya 645E - This is a great camera to get in to medium format. Has a meter and automatic exposure plus a hotshoe.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mamiya-645E-Medium-Format-SLR-Film-Camera-/280941802643?pt=UK_Film_Cameras&hash=item41696fb493#ht_500wt_1134

Polaroid 250 Land Camera - Great Polaroid camera like a big rangefinder.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Polaroid-250-Instant-Film-Camera-Land-Camera-Lomo-Flash-/280942199855?pt=UK_Film_Cameras&hash=item416975c42f#ht_500wt_1134

^Not okay. You can offer them here for a fixed price but using the forum for advertising your sale elsewhere is poor form.

Quite a few of us have done that on this thread with no issue.

Incidentally, I have a Trip and an XA2 for sale if anybody is interested.

My only frustration with the advertised Mamiya is my lack of funds to purchase. . .

Speaking of selling, i've still got loads of ektachrome 120 in my fridge if anyone's interested? Will be well priced as well!

I'll take it, if you can throw in a camera to shoot it on ;-)

Anyone have any colour 100 iso 35mm negative film for cheaps? After several rolls for my 135BC.

Tudorcolor 100 is often available for cheaps on ebay, the 200 is pretty reasonable - it's rebranded Fuji I've been told.

I did spot some of that. With your seal of approval I'll hunt some out :) (very noob when it comes to film/selection).

I'll take it, if you can throw in a camera to shoot it on ;-)

second hand, probably broken, holga ok?

I said camera not toy haha.

Just finished a polaroid land camera butchering session.

Take one old land camera. It was bought to use up some fp100c but was found to be a tad too unreliable in the shutter department. It only cost a tenner (how has the one linked to ^^^^^... got to £70???) so it was ripped apart to perform as a pinhole camera.

Take an old lens + shutter which I'm guessing came from a foldable camera. Then make a hole in the land camera and shove together. Fingers crossed that it focusses.

Then to check it works. A bit of baking parchment and some masking tape and it all looks very promising. Here a bad picture of the process. A mixture of low light plus vague image on the parchment plus no desire to take a better shot.

I've not put a new pack of film in it yet but will post results when I do.