Analog film photography and cameras

Had some fun with a little hack job myself.

http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab94/macready123/IMG_20120818_094116.jpg

Just need to find something to black out the gap with, letting a bit of light in at the minute

Groovy! I'll look forward to seeing the results. They should be very interesting.

Just need to find something to black out the gap with

You could try black Shoe Goo.

Rake, the fucker, just keeps on delivering

Horizon 202 | Kodak Tri-X 400 | Rodinal 1+50

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Fuck yeah.

Those are radical.

I just got a roll of hp5+ back from the lab, shot on my Mju II. I'm really not the best at shooting b&w I've decided.

I've got a bit of a weird one. I only got 25 or so shots out of a roll of XP2, the rest seem to have come out under exposed or not exposed at all, even though they were all shot within a few seconds of each other.

No idea if the lab has fucked up, or the camera battery is low so the metering is off, of if it was just dodgy film stock

There was no shortage of light yesterday, so I've really no idea what has gone wrong

Old camera with inaccurate shutter?
Without seeing the negs it's difficult to say

Its a pentax me (not super)

put half a dozen rolls through it recently and all the rest have been bang on

Were lighting conditions the same throughout?
Were you fully manual or on Auto? if so maybe something fooled the meter.
You have to go through a (long) list of what could go wrong and rule out possibilities

A processing fault would be chemical. It wouldn't affect the exposure on a few frames.

Could you have nudged the iso setting?

The camera is built to only work with apature priority, and they were shot is quick succession while it was overcast

battery check.
grit / sticky shutter.

I suspect the battery, any idea how to check them? It's a pair of SG13

Just as a little side thought, how long do they last? I have a sneaking suspicion that they last time they were replaced was by my dad in 2003

small voltage/resistance/current meters are useful things to have around the house.

otherwise, from http://www.kenrockwell.com/pentax/35mm/cameras/me.htm:

Battery Check

The viewfinder LEDs should stay on for a while when you tap the shutter and the film advance lever is pulled out.

If they turn off immediately when you take your finger off the shutter with the lever out, the batteries are low.

Now that's a great trick!

Just bought new batteries, as I've got half a roll in there at the moment, so can't check the shutter, and it's worth chucking £5 at

Did a comparison between the two, and the exposure light flickered before and is now steady!

Does any one have one of these they'd be willing to sell me?

Money and love would be sent to you!

At last I've developed some film. Since packing all my gear up when we decorated the house(last summer) I have had a backlog and the thought of processing one roll at a time was too much!

So this week I bought a 5reel tank and some more spirals and now I have 5 rolls to scan.

Here are a couple from the most recent roll. It's pan F+ developed in d76, scanned on Epson v500
Camera was my M6 with nokton 35mm

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Does anyone know of a UK distributor for DIAGNL straps?

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Cheap film that was 9 years out of date and had been kept in my dad's wardrobe...

Came out really well

Ive just got hold of an old camera I found in our house (a Zenit TTL) and id really like to get to grips with using it. Im a complete novice, so does anyone have a good guide for a newbie starting out in terms of all these things like exposure, f number etc?

You missed out the other important dial...See this and note 17 FILM SPEED selector dial.
There are many reasons why you would pick a slower or faster film...google ISO film and you will find lots of sites that may help...and many opinions)

The big difference between digital and film is you can't change the ISO on a film camera as such (not getting into force developing)

Nice to see people still using film cameras....FYI there are a lot of good universities that teach photography and still consider more can be learnt from film...so they still teach students "wet" photography.

Some ancient Velvia 50 through my Mju II
http://imdabestmayne.tumblr.com/post/30384321168/simple-living
http://imdabestmayne.tumblr.com/post/30384960434/newrick-wallride-sunderland-it-was-fucking
http://imdabestmayne.tumblr.com/post/30384898494/old-industries-die-hard