Analog film photography and cameras

Shot a roll of portra 400 yesterday, originally wasn't happy with much on it, looked over it in a better mood today and pulled 3 shots out that I'm pleased with.

hat by 40 skid patches, on Flickr
door by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Biffa by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Nikon 35Ti

Wow, nice!

Like all three, first and third the most.

Very nice colour in all of them, and 35Ti is looking definately very "high res".

Keep them coming!

Thanks Tina
The 35Ti is a fantastic camera for sure. I've got 2 rolls of Velvia and one roll of Provia that I shot last week, I really should send them off for processing.

Currently got some portra 160 in there.

Are the colours of the shots above straight from the scanner, or tweaked a bit in post?
Bit surprised how some things "pop", considering it's Portra..

Really sharp images off that 35ti... impressed.

Are the colours of the shots above straight from the scanner, or tweaked a bit in post?
Bit surprised how some things "pop", considering it's Portra..

I added some* saturation to the hat in the first one and very slightly brought down the contrast in the other two.
*now that I'm on a different monitor I may have overdone this.

Really sharp images off that 35ti... impressed.

It has a fantastic lens, you still looking at one?

I added some* saturation to the hat in the first one

..thought so

;)

IndraRipper, Great shots there!

I added some* saturation to the hat in the first one and very slightly brought down the contrast in the other two.
*now that I'm on a different monitor I may have overdone this.

It has a fantastic lens, you still looking at one?

Nah.. i think I'm all sorted now... my GR1 came back to life! Would still like one one day though...

Great shots. Stop hanging around soho so much, it'll rot your mind.

IndraRipper, Great shots there!

Thanks!

Nah.. i think I'm all sorted now... my GR1 came back to life! Would still like one one day though...

Cool, I've not really used my gr1 much since Canada.

Great shots. Stop hanging around soho so much, it'll rot your mind.

Cheers Chak, they're really just lunch break shots.

Some of my favourite shots are from lunch breaks. Something about having a finite amount of time seems to help.

Exactly! Great thing about being in central london is that I can buy film in the morning, shoot at breaks/lunch then drop off to be processed in 1 hour and pick it up before going home.

In other news I've tweaked my coffee process

Caffenol by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Agfa APX 100 shot as 100 iso/pentax MX/50mm 1.7

8 tsp instant coffee/5 tsp baking powder/ 1tsp vitamine C for 1 hour at 30 degrees.

Soon I'll be confident enough to develop film I've shot for purposes other than testing this in it, hopefully some portraits.

Still gotta clean the flatbed scanner and refine my scanning skills.

^^You prefer your 35ti to your GR1* that *much?

Kinda, my gr1 has a fucked view finder but I like that I can have flash permenantly deselected rather than having to hold the small and spongey cancel button on the nikon so it doesn't pop the flash in some unsuspecting subject's face. The nikon is better built and more fun to use despite this.

However my biggest gripe with both cameras is the lack of DX code override/manual film speed entry.

Oh and the 35ti lens flares like fuck :/

Great shots Indra. I have been experimenting with Caffenol recently too.
However I have been using washing soda, not baking soda, in fact I read baking soda doesn't work, but you have proved that wrong.

Thanks, the first time I tried it, it was just a complete spur of the movement freestyle, came up with a recipe myself because I had no internet but had heard of it before. Only found out people were saying baking soda didn't work after I'd used it. I do leave it to developed for about and hour though with lots more baking powder than you'd use washing soda.

I think you have proved it does work! I have been using around 24g of washing soda per 500ml of water, based on Reinholds recipe from here: http://m.caffenol-cookbook.com/chapter2.html also chucking in a bit of Kbr for good measure.
Next on my list is to try and make a developer out of Buckfast.

Not sure if anyone cares but it turns out my local proper lab actually offers 24 hour e6 processing+6x4 prints+CD scans for just £13.

http://blazeimage.co.uk/page/e6_pro_digital_minilab

I want a Mamiya 7.

Anybody interested in a mamiya 645 1000s with an 80mm?

How much? Probably out of my price range.

Comparing the six compacts is more of a hassle than I thought,
especially given that they're all loaded with the same 100 ASA (slide) film, and the weather is capricious as shit lately.
So I often bring a tripod, but the fact that they all have their threads in different places, and lens is on different levels in relation to base plate does not help.

So far I've just found that the Pentax Espio Mini has the most dim finder* (and no framelines),
the Yashica T3 Super has the biggest and brightest of them all, albeit with a cool colour cast.

• though it's pretty funky it diplays dark bars of LCD-pixels if you get into close range (or use the daft "panorama" mode)
  
  

Really looking forward to seeing the pictures of course (rolls about half full on all of them by now),
but I guess I'll definately keep the Nikon L35AF, just because it's the most versatile of them all.