Analog film photography and cameras

whilst sitting under the big tree in the middle of a village in lira district, uganda
drinking the local casava made beer with the village elders i snapped these

5 rolls i should say… :))

..thought so ; ]

Dicki.
Unbelievable.

haha, so anyone?

All from Kochelsee, Munich, last year. Again, I'm disappointed with the developing and scanning, this time by digitalab.co.uk. Film is Portra 400 in an Olympus OM-1.

Top one is ace.
Sorry to hear the lab didn't live up to expectations :(

yeah top one's fantastic.

Shame about the lab. Is the dev messed up too, or just the scan?

Looks like way too aggressive sharpening on the scans?

Still really good shots though.

Really like these, too.

"Agressive" sharpness maybe due to the way they / you are resizing the images?

Love the colours, Portra suits so well there..

The thing that really galls is the visible outline of the film-roll perforations on the top of the first shot. It's present on most of the roll. How does that happen?

I think the dev looks OK, all a little dark but could be due to my sunny-16 metering. I hadn't noticed the over sharpening. I didn't touch these scans, they are straight from the disc I received.

Lab results are persuading me to shoot digital.

That's how I reasoned selling my Bessa, but after seeing my mates result with a 200 quid plustek scanner, I kind of wish I didn't

Lovely shots.

You dev that black and white kboy?

I'm just about to actually!

Felt bad for not getting round to it after your generosity, but I've had a kid! Ordered some fixer yesterday and getting through a test roll at the moment with next sat pencilled in for developing it

I'd love to borrow a Plustek for a weekend.

Awesome, congratulations. Probably the best reason not to waste time developing film..

Top one is ace.
Sorry to hear the lab didn't live up to expectations :(

It's OK, it often happens. I think you reported before that it depends on who's in that day.

The thing that really galls is the visible outline of the film-roll perforations on the top of the first shot. It's present on most of the roll. How does that happen?

Is it equally visible from first to last frame, and equally visible from left to right on each frame?

Apart from that I really don't think the results are too bad by the way,
it's not a pro-lab, is it, and your sunny 16 metering might be off at times too, so..

It's visible on most frames but more visible on some. Not sure if that is a develop or scan problem. Exposure isn't a problem for me. I'll try and rescan a negative at the weekend to see if the perforations are on the neg. anyway

Is it equally visible from first to last frame, and equally visible from left to right on each frame?

ive found someone whos going to let me use their scanner woooo, i havent scanned anything in ages and this guys work is incredible too, I think most of it is shot on 120, a personal favourite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oscarjones/8465697725/

also wanted to ask if any of your guys have experience shooting with expired film, i have recently bought 2 rolls of TMAX, 1x 400 ISO and 1x 3200 ISO, im really excited to shoot with them (especially the 3200) but wanted to know how you guys would handle them? i think they're about 10 years out i've seen somewhere on the net that I should half the ISO setting so shoot at 200 and 1600 and that the grain will be stronger than when it was in date.

just signed up with a rental dark room place, £40 a year, then pay a few quid for dev'ig anything colour in an automated pattersson machine, they also have a well equipped darkroom, dry room, print + mounting room and a digi darkroom inc an Epson 100000XL and a Flextight X5.

The 'blad scanner is obviously the tits, but I've really struggled to get anything decent out of the Epson, well, I can, but ends up taking about 90 minutes per roll, and makes massive impractical files that cripple a decent power mac thing.
Anyone got experience with the Epson pro flatbeds?

Gone,
Care to share more information? I really like the effect of the second picture, the street scene. Is that slightly overexposed? Metered off the camera? How, how, how? The light is very impressive.

Cheers, it was 60 secs, f5.6, 400 Fuji.

The Chinon's metering is three small lights just under the eye piece, so I am a bit sceptical to trust it completely. Most is just guesswork from stuff I've snapped in the past.

Anyone know any reasonably cheap places to get slide film developed?