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Yeah about 6 different films, 3 different labs. All my other films from other cameras are fine.

Does anyone have any experience with an Olympus 35 SP? Mine is scratching my film quite badly and I don't know where the problem is. I think the scratches are on the back of the film, the glossy side, that would face out the back of the camera.

I took it to a camera repair shop and he couldn't see any problems. I thought it might be the metal roller to the left of the pressure plate but I have put some cloth tape on it and it didn't make a difference.

I have just been cloning out the marks with photoshop but it is getting really tedious and I'm reluctant to put any decent film through it now.

Also, it doesn't appear to affect the very last frame of the film, which would mean its something happening near the take up spool?

Below is an example of the scratches (not even too bad in this pic, they're usually worse) and shots of the camera...

Not the exact same location but you get the idea.

Can I get bonus points for doing this with film?

Can do Monday.

Utrecht by furiousfisher, on Flickr Shot in Utrecht Nederlands, on a Pentax ME Super with Portra 400.

Love the colours on this. I was in Utrecht last year, very nice place.

I wanna beat you to it

Thanks. These were taken on my Olympus 35SP. Unfortunately there is something wrong with it and it's scratching the shit out film. Photoshops content aware fill tool has been invaluable. Gonna take it to the repair shop tomorrow. Hopefully just needs a clean.

The shot of the flowers=perfectly flared!

Thanks! Was near the end of the roll and I just tried overexposing a bit, didn't know if it would come out or what

First roll of Ektar, really really nice film.

Thanks. These were all around Newcastle, up the coast and Hexham

That thing looks amazing! Look forward to seeing the results.

I'm enjoying my £5 Mju II, this is my favourite of the roll... The rest of the images are here.

Been looking through some old photos I had originally discarded, this is one from a trip around Europe last year.

First roll of Portra 160, bit of a boring roll, think my scans are getting slightly better though. Olympus 35 SP

Won't clog up the thread with crap so the rest are at http://28fixed.com/tag/portra160/

I think they're pretty good

I didn't fancy paying £5 to dev some 25p film, got some Portra 160 in the 'proper' lab though, picking it up tomorrow.

Found a Mju II at a carboot for £5, found some film at a carboot for 25p, took it to get developed for £2. Few more at http://28fixed.com/category/film/

Plan changed, I stayed home.

Yes, aperture priority. I'll do a bit of research, thanks!

^ Some amazing images on there! Exactly my kind of stuff, have subscribed.

Never shot Kentford film, maybe the 100 ISO stuff isn't too forgiving regarding exposure?

Yeah could be that, I usually use it to test new cameras as its cheap. It worked well with my AE-1 though.

Am I right in thinking the OM20 has a manual dial to change the exposure by + 2 stops allowing you to expose for the highlights with the centre weighted meter?

It does have that dial yeah. I used it a couple of times but I'm not sure if it makes any difference if its displaying the same shutter speed on the meter. Unless it has more increments of hidden shutter speed?

Olympus OM20 - Cheap 35mm lens - Kentmere 100, self dev, self scan. Tried experimenting with a longer dev time to increase contrast but I don't think it worked too well as this camera seems to enjoy over-exposing a bit.

Shot so much black and white recently with mostly not-that-exciting results, got some Portra 160 to get through next.

I use photo mechanic on a mac, I like it for viewing so I can sort the better images by assigning them a colour with one key then open them all straight into camera raw. Its also useful to quickly zoom to check focus etc..

+1 for photo mechanic. Being able to view photos without importing stuff is great. Its amazing for batch saving/resizing and sorting through and rating images.

Home scan yes. I agree on the blue tint, I kinda like it on the top one but it does seem to be on nearly all the images. This is down to the program I scan with. I'm currently just using the scan straight out of Vuescan, usually pulling back on the blue slider slightly.

A better workflow is to scan it raw and run it through ColourPerfect which gives pretty awesome results, no blue tint. I only have the trial version at the minute which adds a grid to the image. When I have the cash I might end up just paying for it.