Title Change - A Journey back into film! Multiple Film Cameras.

[Derek W]

Evening all,

As some may have seen in the New Gear thread I recently bought a Canon AE-1 with 50mm 1.4 FD lens from ebay which was fully working with new seals. Once I had got new batteries and a few films I've now received some photos from the first Black and White film that I've shot for about 20yrs.

All shot on Ilford 100 B&W film with an f-stop between 5.6 and 11 and a shutter speed between 1/125th and 1/500th of a second.

EDIT

Title changed for incoming camera!

 

[Raymond Lin]

Lovely

 

[Derek W]

Lovely

Thanks.

I've been watching a number of film photography youtubers for tips on shooting film cos its been that long with digital that I'd forgotten its better to overexpose slightly than underexpose which is what I'd normally do for digital. I'm most of the way through a roll of Kodak Gold 200 so that'll be getting developed after next weekend. I've been looking on Analoguewonderland.co.uk for different film types as well and I'm intrigued by the Lomography Metropolis film so I'll probably buy a couple of rolls to try out in the streets of Dundee shortly.

 

[.one.]

I have all ways dismissed the going back trying film as a fad but must say there great looking with out the modern content I would be convinced number 2 would be worth a large print.

 

[Derek W]

I have all ways dismissed the going back trying film as a fad but must say there great looking with out the modern content I would be convinced number 2 would be worth a large print.

It possibly is a fad for me as well. I've enjoyed shooting that first roll again and I'm almost finished my first roll of colour film. Going for a walk this weekend so I'll get those shots fired off and this thread updated in due course. It's always good that the film camera and old lenses are about half the weight of my 5d2 with whichever L lens I decide to put on it so to a degree it encourages me to take a camera with me when I go out to do something.

 

[.one.]

It possibly is a fad for me as well. I've enjoyed shooting that first roll again and I'm almost finished my first roll of colour film. Going for a walk this weekend so I'll get those shots fired off and this thread updated in due course. It's always good that the film camera and old lenses are about half the weight of my 5d2 with whichever L lens I decide to put on it so to a degree it encourages me to take a camera with me when I go out to do something.

Nice make sure if there is any cars in the picture tell em to take a hike lol.

 

[Derek W]

Thought I'd best change the title since this arrived today!

Got some 120 film on order so I'll be giving it a spin shortly.

 

[Scuzi]

Where are you all getting your film developed? I keep flirting with the idea of getting back into film but the reason I stopped was the increasing cost of development and difficulty of getting good scans.

 

[Derek W]

Where are you all getting your film developed? I keep flirting with the idea of getting back into film but the reason I stopped was the increasing cost of development and difficulty of getting good scans.

For the black and white roll I went back to Ilford (harmanlab.com) and I've just sent a colour film off to analoguewonderland.co.uk so I'll need to see what like their scans are like. I went with high quality jpgs for both but there is an option for high quality tiffs as well.

 

[Derek W]

Got my Kodak Gold 200 shots scanned through to me today. I wasn't as happy with these ones as I was with the Black and White images.

The settings used were similar to the previous set with the images being slightly over exposed as film will allow for this better than under exposing. I'll see how i get on with the Yashica with the final 6 shots also on the Kodak Gold 200 film. I've had to fully meter them manually and i suspect with the light meter app I should have allowed for a shutter speed beyond the camera limits to ensure I wasn't over exposing the shots beyond the 1/300th of second limitation of the camera.

 

[Scuzi]

There’s a certain je ne ce quoi about them though. Is it the dynamic range?

I’ve been browsing Bronicas on account of your posts…

 

[Derek W]

There’s a certain je ne ce quoi about them though. Is it the dynamic range?

I’ve been browsing Bronicas on account of your posts…

I've been watching a few videos from grainydays on YouTube. He makes reference to the dynamic range of various films and he also refers to the films latitude or how well it can handle the detail / colours / noise when the film is under or over exposed. Different film stocks have different chemical mixtures to give the different looks of the final image.

Apologies for camera browsing! On that note thought if you've got Instagram take a look at flints auctions. The post they stuck up yesterday they're giving away a hasselblad 500cm so that might be worth doing just for a couple of tags and a share.

 

[.one.]

I've been watching a few videos from grainydays on YouTube. He makes reference to the dynamic range of various films and he also refers to the films latitude or how well it can handle the detail / colours / noise when the film is under or over exposed. Different film stocks have different chemical mixtures to give the different looks of the final image.

Apologies for camera browsing! On that note thought if you've got Instagram take a look at flints auctions. The post they stuck up yesterday they're giving away a hasselblad 500cm so that might be worth doing just for a couple of tags and a share.

Have you tried converting the colour pics to B/W ?

 

[Derek W]

I've not tried that one yet. Straightforward to do in lightroom I guess.

 

[.one.]

Had a play