Just Finished My First Roll of Film in around 25 years now to get it developed.....

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So today I finished my first roll of film in something like 25 years.

I used my Nikon F80 with 24-100 Lens and a roll of Poundland Agfa Colour 200 Vista

So place your guesses of how many out of the 24 exposures will some out anywhere near acceptable.

Next thing I need to decide is where to get them developed I'm thinking of having them developed and scanned but not printed.....
 
I'll bet you had fun, and constantly chimped..keep it up.
 
Downton Mini said:
So place your guesses of how many out of the 24 exposures will some out anywhere near acceptable.
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I would hope they would, the film is excellent film and the camera should also be.
 
If you had it on "P", I'd expect 24 out of 24 to be properly exposed and focussed on something! :)

When I bought an Eos 500 for £10 last year, with a 28-80mm lens, I was happy to see that every shot came out at the right exposure and focus. This was shot number 3 on the first film...

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I used appature priority for most of the shots
 
Jus been reading the Film Developing in the UK thread to get an idea of who to send the film off too. Think I'm going to use Photo Express Hull.

I also have a film that I believe has been finished that was in my granddads camera, is it worth sending off I would guess the film is our 30 years old
 
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You might be better getting someone on here to give it some rodinal treatment. Stand developed probably has a better chance of getting an image, I'm not sure the labs will be able to help with that.
 
steveo_mcg said:
You might be better getting someone on here to give it some rodinal treatment. Stand developed probably has a better chance of getting an image, I'm not sure the labs will be able to help with that.
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Thanks but i'm embarrassed to say I have no idea what you've just said!
 
Downton Mini said:
Thanks but i'm embarrassed to say I have no idea what you've just said!
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:)

Stand developing is a technique for developing film it's usually reserved for lowering contrast but it's handy for developing films of unknown providence or when you've messed up and shot frames at different speeds.
 
Stand development is what I used for the picture above. You put the film in a slightly more diluted solution, agitate it just enough to get it wet, then leave it for 30 to 60 minutes. The theory is that the emulsion develops just as much as it needs then, as the developer over a particular part of the emulsion becomes exhausted, the development stops, so you get a usable image. It's only for conventional monochrome films like FP4, not for colour films or chromogenic monochrome films like XP2.
 
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steveo_mcg said:
:)

Stand developing is a technique for developing film it's usually reserved for lowering contrast but it's handy for developing films of unknown providence or when you've messed up and shot frames at different speeds.
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Thanks for explaining that I have a lot to learn
 
Sejanus Aelianus said:
Stand development is what I used for the picture above. You put the film in a slightly more diluted solution, agitate it just enough to get it wet, then leave it for 30 to 60 minutes. The theory is that the emulsion develops just as much as it needs then, as the developer over a particular part of the emulsion becomes exhausted, the development stops, so you get a usable image. It's only for conventional monochrome films like FP4, not for colour films.
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Thanks both the films I have are Colour C41
 
[QUOTE="Downton Mini, post: 7349691, member: 61963"................ Think I'm going to use Photo Express Hull...........[/QUOTE]

just finished my first roll in 4 years to check for light leaks in an older Canaon AV-1 ..:)....sent to Photo Express......:plus1:

excellent - very fast turnaround - develop and scan to a CD with a small 'contact' sheet in the cover of the CD

post 'em UP..!
 
I also have an Agfamatic 2000 film (well there a cartridge in the camera and there no film that I can see so I assume its been used and rewound) Is there anywhere that develops these films
 
asda develops c41 films for £2 per roll and will scan up to 3 of them on a cd for £1.
so you can buy three films from poundland, get them developed and put on a cd for £10.

edit: it took them about 45 minutes to process the films
 
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regfinch said:
asda develops c41 films for £2 per roll and will scan up to 3 of them on a cd for £1.
so you can buy three films from poundland, get them developed and put on a cd for £10.

edit: it took them about 45 minutes to process the films
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That's interesting did they do a good job as I've now found another film this time from my dads camera
 
if i had 2 valuable [ie historic] films, i would be happier to pay the extra and have a 'pro' lab handle them.....IMO
 
TBH reading some of the reviews I think this is what I will do. I think Photo Express in hull will the people
I use just need to find out if they do 110 film
 
Ok so photo express can process the 110 film but not scan them.

How easy is it to scan them if I had a scanner (I have lots of slides etc to scan in the future?

Alternatively I could use The Photo Hippo

What format do you guys usually have your scans as and what size too?
 
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Well the films will be winging their way off to Photo Express Hull later today! I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas!
 
Downton Mini said:
TBH reading some of the reviews I think this is what I will do. I think Photo Express in hull will the people
I use just need to find out if they do 110 film
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Photo Hippo (Don't ask about the name, they used to just be called Fuji Digital!) can develop your 110 and scan/print them, they're very reasonable for the cost and have a somewhat quick turnaround time considering very few places do 110 these days. They charge £10.00 + postage for dev and scan, or £12.50 if you want prints as well.

http://www.photofilmprocessing.co.uk/110FilmProcessing.html

EDIT: just saw you'd already mentioned Photo Hippo, I use them for my 110 and do a very good job in my opinion.
 
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Well Photo Express have just called me to say my films will be posted out tonight!!!:cool: They only got them this morning!!:clap:

Now just got to wait for the postman to bring the post to work!
 
Downton Mini said:
Well Photo Express have just called me to say my films will be posted out tonight!!!:cool: They only got them this morning!!:clap:

Now just got to wait for the postman to bring the post to work!
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Blimey !! That's swift.
 
Downton Mini said:
Well Photo Express have just called me to say my films will be posted out tonight!!!:cool: They only got them this morning!!:clap:
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Yes, they normally post them back the same day. The only reason my average postbox-doormat time for them is 2.9 days is the return mail can be slow, plus the effects of weekends.
 
They've arrived I'll stick a few up in a new thread an post a link here :banana:
 
The PaX or the Kodak (Retinette?) Give the Vest Pocket Kodak a good check before you put film through.

In fact check them all with a sacrificial roll to check the mechanisms are all working before you put film in any of them.
 
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RaglanSurf said:
The PaX or the Kodak (Retinette?) Give the Vest Pocket Kodak a good check before you put film through.

In fact check them all with a sacrificial roll to check the mechanisms are all working before you put film in any of them.
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...and use one roll of film for at least two cameras...as mentioned in another thread. Of course if not worried about money (or don't want the bother) then one film per camera.
 
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This is something I was hoping to do I assume a test film is one you put trough without developing? Sorry if it sounds like a silly question! (I'm usually good at silly questions)

And yes it's a Kodak Retinette it was my granddad's
 
Downton Mini said:
This is something I was hoping to do I assume a test film is one you put trough without developing? Sorry if it sounds like a silly question! (I'm usually good at silly questions)

And yes it's a Kodak Retinette it was my granddad's
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You still get it dev with a CD only....the idea is to test the camera for light leaks etc and if a fault with a camera it seems a waste to have a whole film ruined, it's less wasteful to use one film for up to three cameras.
Anyway I do this all the time i.e. use one film for several cameras as I like to use different lenses and unfortunately the lenses have different mounts so need different cameras.
 
Ok I understand now so shoot at a few different appatures on each camera.

How do you go about changing the films over halfway through (sorry there may be a thread on this)
 
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