My First Film Shot

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Just sittin' and thinkin' and lookin' at Flickr during lunch and I found the first shot I took since I went back to fillum.

Nikon f301 with (I think) a Nikon 18-135mm lens which vignetted terribly on some Ilford XP2 film.
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Anyone else remember their first time? I know some of the shots might be daguerrotypes (Brian, ChrisR ?) :D

Andy
 
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ooh... interesting idea.

I'll go have a rummage in the big box of old photo's and fire up the scanner
 
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Here we go then... 8 years old, shot on 120 on some long-gone cheap nasty camera, a photo of my Mother sat in Peasholme Park, Scarborough.

(even then i'd realised, if I was taking the pictures, I didn't have to be in them. I really didn't enjoy having my photo taken, as the next shot on the roll shows...)




If we're talking about shots from going back to Film after shooting digital for a while, then it'd probably be this one...

Old Boots by The Big Yin, on Flickr
 
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Blimey, thats a bit good. ^^^^

Course, now I look like I'm pointing at Mark's shot (which is also good, especially for the age/camera combo) but I meant Simon's shot.
 
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Thanks Andy. A combination of beginner's luck and a Nikon 35mm f1.8.

It's a DX lens so had to crop a bit to get rid of vignette, but it's an incredible lens.
 
Good thread idea Andy. Looking at Flickr, I think this was my first film shot (excluding some dodgy disc films when I was a lot younger and tended to chop heads off!)

http://flic.kr/p/6sUE8v

Olympus Trip 35, probably Fuji C200 then converted in lightroom.

Cheers
Steve
 
Very interesting idea Andy, I will have to go hunting in the box marked 'the 1970's', wherever that is;)
 
Simon's shot is a bit spesh, and I like Mark's old boots, but why Andy took a pic of a mangy old pipe is beyond me! :)

This is the second shot taken with my Werra 1, and the first one I took (the first shot, for some reason, being of me holding the camera box, dressed in jacket and tie, student uniform in 1967!). This was taken in one of the halls of residence at Imperial, of one of my fellow students there, pretty much zone focus and exposure from the guide on the film box:

 
It's called urban grime man..... you old dudes aren't down with the kids like me.:D
 
My first film shots were taken around 1976, but this is from the first film I still have. Taken in 1981, this is on a hill called Windy Gyle in the Cheviots, and the chap facing into Scotland taking a picture is my brother. Canon AE-1 and Kodachrome 64.

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Since I never left film for digital, I don't have a "back-to-film" date.
 
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Obviously not including the countless films I ran off as a kid!

This is a great idea for a thread...
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What should be added is "with your first own camera" as I'm sure most of us as kids have been asked to take mum and dad or whoever using their camera.
 
excalibur2 said:
What should be added is "with your first own camera" as I'm sure most of us as kids have been asked to take mum and dad or whoever using their camera.
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No, doesn't really matter, its just a bit of fun and a chance to see how it started... or re-started.
 
Andysnap said:
No, doesn't really matter, its just a bit of fun and a chance to see how it started... or re-started.
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Well I know what photos were definitely taken by me as my first own camera was when I was about 12 and think it was either a Bencini comet or the ugliest camera in the world:- :eek:


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Now that Brian actually makes the T70 look handsome. :D
 
Mr Snap, I think this could just run and run. Great idea for a thread.

I am sure this was with my Canon AT1 in 1968, I have other earlier shots with a Zorki 4,but,not scanned yet,going into the loft tomorrow. I hope I return.:)

 
On my return to film? For some reason, I didn't scan them. Anita's father let us borrow his Zenit 122 for a few days in early May 2012. It hadn't been used for years. I did though take this digital image of them:

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Shortly after that I bought a Pentax ME Super, and I was hooked.
 
Well if you take shots like these don't bother with a Rollei as a Coronet would do :D

Looks like the viewing lens is different from the taking lens, can't believe it was my fault :eek: a shot of my sister


Another camera fault with a shot of my parents...I wonder if the 3D was the price for hiring the deck chair


I think this was Portsmouth town hall and had not been rebuilt yet from war damage.


No one had any decent money in the early fifties so there weren't many cars around, and no rubbish in the streets. Note the trolley bus wires.
 
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May 1976
First frame from 1st roll of colour in my new Spotmatic, my first camera.
Kodacolour 2

This was my company transport, I worked for a Motorcycle dealership in Fulham.
Excuse the colour cast, I can't be arsed to play around with it any longer.

400-4 by Captures...Moments....Forever, on Flickr

Now the 1st frame after returning to film. Easter 2012 Voigtlander Baby Bessa 645 HP5

Guildford Castle on HP5 by Captures...Moments....Forever, on Flickr
 
Lovely bike... was the motorcycle dealer the one that is still there in the New Kings rd (Urban rider) ?
 
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Back during the 1980s, I worked as a motorcycle breaker. The 400 Four was clearly going to be a classic. Their owners so often took such care of them.
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My father was friendly with a large car breaker in the early 1960s and all the lovely old motorbikes just dumped, and I wished I'd had a warehouse to keep them all h'mm as well as the old cars.
 
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May 1976
First frame from 1st roll of colour in my new Spotmatic, my first camera.
Kodacolour 2

This was my company transport, I worked for a Motorcycle dealership in Fulham.
Excuse the colour cast, I can't be arsed to play around with it any longer.

400-4 by Captures...Moments....Forever, on Flickr
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What colour cast? That's how all my pictures looked in 1976:)
 
First one with the fuji compact I had for either Christmas or a Birthday. I turned the light off to see how powerful the flash was!



First one with my Dad's pentacon slr thing. It was weird and there were loads of multi exposures. The meter didn't work and I think the shutter stuck so there were lots of over exposures and blurs and serious colour shifts.



First slr I bought - Centon DF300:



There isn't really a back to film moment as I usually had a camera with some film in it knocking about that would be shot over months and months in between using a digital. Always fun to find out what was on a roll.
 
wickerman said:
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What colour cast? That's how all my pictures looked in 1976:)
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Thanks, I've got the original print. The petrol tank should be (and was) a bright red.
 
My first roll of 135 wasn't very eventful (just photos of lenses on my bed), but I at least managed to leave the flat at some point during my first roll of 120 format film with a Lomo Lubitel and Fuji Provia 400X. Looking back at it now, I'm surprised there's even anything on the film given how little I knew about exposure, cameras, slide film... and the list goes on. If you can get past the vignetting and less than user-friendly controls, the Lubitel and its little lens actually perform... acceptably...

This roll basically signalled the end of my brief affair with 135 format:


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Nice sharp shots Andy and the girl is a hottie
 
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I'd still be there now, grinding my teeth and obsessing about lining up the verticals. :D

I don't have many of my early films, they were lost during a house move following an acrimonious break-up. Still, I've found a few older ones, apologies if I've posted them before.



A couple from Sydney, circa 1999, taken on my T90, the second experimenting with a polariser. I remember being extremely pleased with the Opera House as I'd taken loads of pictures of it but the roof was over-exposed every time. This was the first that captured the colour I was seeing.


Sydney Opera House by Dean Varney, on Flickr


Aussie Road Sign (modified) by Dean Varney, on Flickr

One from New Zealand, 1999 on the T90 again. Not a great photo, admittedly, but the first time I remember making a conscious effort to line up the scene in the view-finder so that the lines of the road and the rail track came down to the corners of the frame.


New Zealand View by Dean Varney, on Flickr

My first bike (c.2002), Canon IXUS APS camera, I think.

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And finally, one of my first MF shots, taken on an Agfa Isolette II which I think was my first purchase from the classifieds on here :)


Tree at Fritton Lake by Dean Varney, on Flickr
 
Love this thread! I'll have to dig out my first shots from college when I get home. Colour AND black and white, if I remember correctly.
 
From my first two rolls through the trusty Praktica MTL3 (I think) ... I even printed the b/w one.

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