A Development In My Hobby - The Film Journey

Shaun Palmer said:
So my first colour roll of medium format didn't go too well. These two shots we're the better of 7, as I ruined half the roll trying to load it. Shot on 2007 expired Fuji NPS 160

I think I only like them because my son is in them lol

BarnesMFC5(1) by Shaun Palmer, on Flickr

BarnesMFC7 by Shaun Palmer, on Flickr
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TBH Shaun - I really like the first one! (both are good). You will get used to loading 120 film - some spirals are easier to load than others (Kaiser 4298 reel) and may be worth looking into.
 
Thanks Fraser, yeah there’s just something about it isn’t there, I can’t tell you what but there’s someothing lol

I will check those reels out thanks

Fraser Euan White said:
TBH Shaun - I really like the first one! (both are good). You will get used to loading 120 film - some spirals are easier to load than others (Kaiser 4298 reel) and may be worth looking into.
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Evening everyone. I don’t know if you remember a while back I had a roll of 35mm where half the frames were blank. I’ve had the same camera out today, and the same has happened again :( it’s the shots where the shutter speed should have been higher that haven’t worked.

The shots yous can see we’re when the light was lower and I was using lower shutter speeds

I think the camera is knackered. Would anyone happen to have a camera similar to the canon 500 for sale? I have a few lenses for it and like the metering and autofocus etc for general shooting compared to my Yashica’s

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Sorry, I your post too late. If you could have run to the price (between £60 and £80 for a mint-ish one seems to be about the current going rate from a dealer/shop with some warranty) then I'd have recommended the EOS 30. It's smallish; quiet; has 35 zone evaluative metering; shutter speeds from 30 sec to 1/4000 in 1/3 stop increments; eye controlled 7 point focus; single-shot focus, AI focus and AI-servo focus; and built-in 4 frames per second motor drive (if you get bored half way through a roll of film!). It's one of the last film camera models Canon made, and in my opinion it's a little peach of a camera if you can find one from a reputable dealer at the right price with a 6 or 12 months warranty.

The only thing I can say to beware of about the EOS 30 is that the rubberised leatherette grip parts can become sticky with age, so look for one that doesn't have that issue. I've been very happy with the one I bought earlier this year and I think it's got to be about the best £59 I've spend on an 35mm SLR camera body 'bang for buck wise', ever!
 
Mr Badger said:
Sorry, I your post too late. If you could have run to the price (between £60 and £80 for a mint-ish one seems to be about the current going rate from a dealer/shop with some warranty) then I'd have recommended the EOS 30. It's smallish; quiet; has 35 zone evaluative metering; shutter speeds from 30 sec to 1/4000 in 1/3 stop increments; eye controlled 7 point focus; single-shot focus, AI focus and AI-servo focus; and built-in 4 frames per second motor drive (if you get bored half way through a roll of film!). It's one of the last film camera models Canon made, and in my opinion it's a little peach of a camera if you can find one from a reputable dealer at the right price with a 6 or 12 months warranty.

The only thing I can say to beware of about the EOS 30 is that the rubberised leatherette grip parts can become sticky with age, so look for one that doesn't have that issue. I've been very happy with the one I bought earlier this year and I think it's got to be about the best £59 I've spend on an 35mm SLR camera body 'bang for buck wise', ever!
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I think if I stretched any more I’d snap haha. I’ll probably be using the Yashica more now, but the 35mm is handy just for out and about so just needed something similar to what I had for cheap for now.

Come the summer I’ll probably look at getting a higher end model once our holiday and everything is out the way.
 
Shaun Palmer said:
I think if I stretched any more I’d snap haha. I’ll probably be using the Yashica more now, but the 35mm is handy just for out and about so just needed something similar to what I had for cheap for now.

Come the summer I’ll probably look at getting a higher end model once our holiday and everything is out the way.
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Calm down Shaun if GAS takes hold you could end like some guys here with about fifty cameras...I've calmed down with about twenty five :eek:
 
excalibur2 said:
Calm down Shaun if GAS takes hold you could end like some guys here with about fifty cameras...I've calmed down with about twenty five :eek:
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GAS :LOL::LOL:

I saw someone mention that on here the other day and I thought what the hell is that, then read a bit more and made me laugh lol. 25 though! No the wonder the prices are rising you lot have them all haha
 
One from my half baked roll of Kodak ColorPlus 200, some of them turned out ok, there was a few however that just look awful, I don’t get how there can be such a difference from the same roll.

I’m at work at the minute but I’ll pop an example on tonight when I’m home and see what you guys think.


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Shaun Palmer said:
GAS :LOL::LOL:

I saw someone mention that on here the other day and I thought what the hell is that, then read a bit more and made me laugh lol.
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There's also FAS - once you work out what film you like, and you realise it's not getting any cheaper, it makes perfect sense to stock up. I have about 50 rolls of Tri-X in my freezer that cost half of what it does currently - that's 175 quid I'm not spending on Tri-X now, which is the same as saying I got several boxes of 5x4 Fomapan 100 for free. There are also little bonuses - my film inventory spreadsheet said I had 30 rolls of Acros in 120, but I just checked and found there were 35. That's like 5 free rolls.


25 though! No the wonder the prices are rising you lot have them all haha
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Lots of them can be cheap, though. I suspect most here have some that they'd consider their main or 'serious' kit, and several cameras that were bought more from curiosity and are used occasionally for fun stuff, like 6x6 and 6x9 folders, box brownies, 35mm 70s rangefinders, etc.
 
I think Nomad Z has probably summed up the camera number thing quite well for a lot of us. To be honest, I don't know how many cameras I've got! It's probably around the mid 20s, but most of them are 'cheap as chips' type box cameras, old folding things or point and shoot type jobs, a few of which don't work or take film that's no longer available. So I don't think I'll be getting it touch with Christies or Bonhams if I ever decide to dispose of them!

That reminds me, I must sell my Dad's old Olympus OM10, it's been sitting on my desk for the last couple of weeks to remind me! So if anyone wants to add a virtually mint OM10 with new light-seals and silver oxide batteries, manual adaptor, ever-ready case, instruction booklet and original box to their collection, then let me know and I can list it in the sales section of the forum. That will be one less to gather dust! (y)
 
Quick question. I’ve just loaded a film into my new EOS 10, it was literally winding for one second, is it really that quick at loading a film? No error messages or anything and the frame number is at 1 like it should be. It just seems an incredibly quick load time
 
Shaun Palmer said:
Quick question. I’ve just loaded a film into my new EOS 10, it was literally winding for one second, is it really that quick at loading a film? No error messages or anything and the frame number is at 1 like it should be. It just seems an incredibly quick load time
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Sounds believable. If it has a continuous shooting mode, how many frames per second does it do at a fast shutter speed? Each frame is about 38mm of linear film length being wound on.
 
Nomad Z said:
Sounds believable. If it has a continuous shooting mode, how many frames per second does it do at a fast shutter speed? Each frame is about 38mm of linear film length being wound on.
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I think I read somewhere it’s 4/5 frames a second. Took a few shots and it seems to work and wind on and is counting the frames correctly. Not used to one been so quick lol
 
Shaun Palmer said:
I think I read somewhere it’s 4/5 frames a second. Took a few shots and it seems to work and wind on and is counting the frames correctly. Not used to one been so quick lol
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You need to be making use of the butkus camera manual site...

http://www.cameramanuals.org/canon_pdf/canon_eos_10s.pdf

5fps in the specs near the end - 190mm of film in 1 sec, with 5 shutter actuations on the way, so 1 second to load at the start should be perfectly normal (probably no more than 3 shots worth of film to get unexposed film over the frame).
 
Nomad Z said:
You need to be making use of the butkus camera manual site...

http://www.cameramanuals.org/canon_pdf/canon_eos_10s.pdf

5fps in the specs near the end - 190mm of film in 1 sec, with 5 shutter actuations on the way, so 1 second to load at the start should be perfectly normal (probably no more than 3 shots worth of film to get unexposed film over the frame).
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Thanks nomad. I looked as far as loading the film and it didn’t say on that section so I closed it and asked here, didn’t think to look all the way, lazy I know lol
 
If my EOS 300 is similar to other\your models there is something different in that it winds the film fully on and winds downwards.....as I quite often swap the same film to different cameras it takes some working out.
 
excalibur2 said:
If my EOS 300 is similar to other\your models there is something different in that it winds the film fully on and winds downwards.....as I quite often swap the same film to different cameras it takes some working out.
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My 3 DIGIT EOS cameras did that - it means your shots are secure in the cassette if the camera back opens. But my EOS 5 and EOS 50 did not and started the film at the start.
 
excalibur2 said:
So it seems weird with cameras that fully wind the film on at start and work backwards...must be a reason why Canon did this.:rolleyes:
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To secure the shots in the cassettes. Canon only did this on the amateur cameras, presumably because they did not trust the users to not open the back by mistake. The camera had no need to count the frames as this is encoded in the DX bar code on the cassette.
 
Canon will have assumed that you were using commercially available film - ie DX coded.
 
Give the EOS 10 a test on Easter Sunday, no duff frames, so much better than the 500

Quick edit on one from the roll, Fuji X-TRA 400 dev'd at 38 degrees. Scanned on Epson software as Vuescan was acting itself for some reason

I've done a bit off smoothing on the skin and brought out his eyes a bit, I've noticed the epson software doesn't process highlights too well compared to vuescan, it just didn't look right. Too much do you think?

JoshuaEaster by Shaun Palmer, on Flickr
 
Shaun Palmer said:
Give the EOS 10 a test on Easter Sunday, no duff frames, so much better than the 500

Quick edit on one from the roll, Fuji X-TRA 400 dev'd at 38 degrees. Scanned on Epson software as Vuescan was acting itself for some reason

I've done a bit off smoothing on the skin and brought out his eyes a bit, I've noticed the epson software doesn't process highlights too well compared to vuescan, it just didn't look right. Too much do you think?

JoshuaEaster by Shaun Palmer, on Flickr
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VG shot but nit picking and IMO would turn the brightness down a tiny bit...if you going to have a print done there are a few white spots and a hair outline that need removing. In Photoshop I sharpened slightly and it took it well.
 
excalibur2 said:
VG shot but nit picking and IMO would turn the brightness down a tiny bit...if you going to have a print done there are a few white spots and a hair outline that need removing. In Photoshop I sharpened slightly and it took it well.
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Thanks :)

gazmorton2000 said:
Yes, way too much, in my opinion of course. Does a small human of this age really need skin smoothing?
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No he doesn't lol, it just didn't seemed to have scanned well on the highlights, I can't describe it. I'll post the original two minutes.......
 
Well slight adjustments of your first picture and to me this looks the best:-

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