Show us yer film shots then!

osh said:
This one's fantastic! I love the sense of motion.
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Thanks osh,

I've taken a ride on this wheel ...fortuanatley it spins much slower in "real" life.....I avoid fast fairground rides.....don't like the :puke: feeling they give me:D
 
that is flippin lovely :) almost worth getting out of bed that early to see it! glad there are togs who do it for me.
 
trevorbray said:
Gotta love Velvia. Fantastic shot, just when I'm reconciling myself to 35mm this happens. Been trying to talk myself out of a Pentax 67...b****r....
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Dooo it, embrace the dark side... it is your destiny

/vader.

mothdust said:
Cor, those colours are beautiful!
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essexash said:
that is flippin lovely :) almost worth getting out of bed that early to see it! glad there are togs who do it for me.
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Cheers guys, this was about 1730 managed to get up there just after work so no excuses :D. The early morning is on the other roll I've not started scanning yet...

Asha said:
Indeed!

Any other beautiful coloured shots like that from the roll to show us?
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Don't think so, I've got two the same, I thought I'd try at 1/5th but I suspect both 1/5 and 1/10 are more around 1/50 along with 1/25... I really need a camera with better speed control.

I've got two other rolls of velvia to scan but its hard work! I took this one in the autumn and just got it back but its taken ages to get rid of the cast from scanning. I'm starting to think I need to expose separately for scanning from projecting. This one looks much better in person but scans really dark and adds a lot of magenta.

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steveo_mcg said:
I've got two other rolls of velvia to scan but its hard work! I took this one in the autumn and just got it back but its taken ages to get rid of the cast from scanning. I'm starting to think I need to expose separately for scanning from projecting. This one looks much better in person but scans really dark and adds a lot of magenta.
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Interesting. Have you ever had Velvia scanned professionally, as opposed to doing it yourself? My problems with slide film have usually been digging anything out of shadow areas rather than color casts... Ah, but no! I've just had a look at the Velvia roll shor last July in Edinburgh and processed at the Fujifilm franchise by St Patrick's Square, and there's a slight magenta cast on many of them, I now see!
 
@ Steveo-mcg....regardless of the colour cast, I quite like the shot ...old and modern alongside each other.....I reckon you could capture a cracking shot at that location ....wider angle and a slow shutter speed to capture train movement...Go for it!

Going back to Velvia, I've got a roll almost finished in the RZ67 which I received as a freebie. Not having the chems to dev at home, I was looking to send it to lab then scan myself...( not bothered about mounting to slides!)
I knew before shooting it that the lattitude is narrow and I'm hoping that my metering has worked out.
However having now read about possible colour cast issues, I'm now wondering wether to bother with the lab and just cross dev it in C41 or b&w chems.:shrug:
 
ChrisR said:
Interesting. Have you ever had Velvia scanned professionally, as opposed to doing it yourself? My problems with slide film have usually been digging anything out of shadow areas rather than color casts... Ah, but no! I've just had a look at the Velvia roll shor last July in Edinburgh and processed at the Fujifilm franchise by St Patrick's Square, and there's a slight magenta cast on many of them, I now see!
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I'm too cheap to get some one to do it right! I should probably get a grey card in at least one frame, it sits in my wallet most of the time that would probably help. From what I understand the film tends towards magenta when underexposed and doesn't have the same latitude for error. The problem is most of these look fine on the lightbox (ipad) but scan too dark which makes me think I'd be better overexposing by a 1/2 stop or so give the scanner an easier job.
 
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Asha said:
@ Steveo-mcg....regardless of the colour cast, I quite like the shot ...old and modern alongside each other.....I reckon you could capture a cracking shot at that location ....wider angle and a slow shutter speed to capture train movement...Go for it!
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Its slightly tricky as that is shot over a wall and the trains have only just left the station so I'd need to work out something clever but you're right it has some promise, that was the end of the roll and I was just looking for something to finish it up.

Asha said:
Going back to Velvia, I've got a roll almost finished in the RZ67 which I received as a freebie. Not having the chems to dev at home, I was looking to send it to lab then scan myself...( not bothered about mounting to slides!)
I knew before shooting it that the lattitude is narrow and I'm hoping that my metering has worked out.
However having now read about possible colour cast issues, I'm now wondering wether to bother with the lab and just cross dev it in C41 or b&w chems.:shrug:
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I've managed to get by with my phone for metering and some patience when scanning, not saying they're great but I usually manage a little more than 60% hit rate at least for exposure.
 
Asha said:
@ Steveo-mcg....regardless of the colour cast, I quite like the shot ...old and modern alongside each other.....I reckon you could capture a cracking shot at that location ....wider angle and a slow shutter speed to capture train movement...Go for it!

Going back to Velvia, I've got a roll almost finished in the RZ67 which I received as a freebie. Not having the chems to dev at home, I was looking to send it to lab then scan myself...( not bothered about mounting to slides!)
I knew before shooting it that the lattitude is narrow and I'm hoping that my metering has worked out.
However having now read about possible colour cast issues, I'm now wondering wether to bother with the lab and just cross dev it in C41 or b&w chems.:shrug:
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Send it to a lab Asha. Get the 'Velvia look'...you know it makes sense..
 
Here's a couple of re-scans from my trip to bonnie Scotland last August.

Both on Kodak Ektar and taken on the sadly deceased YashMat.


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I have to admit I'm struggling with scanning colour. Doesn't help that I'm colour-blind I suppose but they never look right to me so any comments on their 'colour-rightness' would be appreciated.

Cheers

Andy
 
steveo_mcg said:
I've got two other rolls of velvia to scan but its hard work! I took this one in the autumn and just got it back but its taken ages to get rid of the cast from scanning. I'm starting to think I need to expose separately for scanning from projecting. This one looks much better in person but scans really dark and adds a lot of magenta.
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Get an IT8.7 calibration target from Wolf Faust for about £20 and save yourself a lot of bother, that calibrates the scanner to the colours it is supposed to output (similar to monitor profiling), you can get an individual one for every slide film type but generally just the one is all you'll need, they make a fantastic difference, you will need a compatible scanning software like Vuescan to do the profiling though. Look up IT8.7 Profiling in the search box and you should find a thread by me about it showing before and after examples, both straight as scanned just with levels and perhaps sharpening.

The one that I got was from here: http://www.targets.coloraid.de/ Their of very high quality and cheaper than the ones offered by Kodak and Fuji.

Velvia itself is notoriously difficult to scan as most consumer scanners (especially flatbeds) don't have a sufficient Dmax to be able to get the detail out of the shadows; multiexposure can be a great help but is not too useful on a flatbed as usually it results in softening due to very slight movements when the passes are combined.
 
trevorbray said:
Send it to a lab Asha. Get the 'Velvia look'...you know it makes sense..
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I probably will tbh Trevor....I don't need slides so presumably film dev and scan to disc will be an option:shrug: ......excuse my ignorance but I've never dealt with slide film before.....come to think of it it's been years since I dealt with a lab too
 
Andy. Hard to truly subjective about the colour without being there when the shutter was fired. However, they look very realistic to my eye. (Great camera the Yash).
 
Asha said:
I probably will tbh Trevor....I don't need slides so presumably film dev and scan to disc will be an option:shrug: ......excuse my ignorance but I've never dealt with slide film before.....come to think of it it's been years since I dealt with a lab too
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Seems Peak Imaging are the favourite, gonna try them for my next lot.
 
s162216 said:
Get an IT8.7 calibration target from Wolf Faust for about £20 and save yourself a lot of bother.
The one that I got was from here: http://www.targets.coloraid.de/ Their of very high quality and cheaper than the ones offered by Kodak and Fuji.

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I'll take a look.

Edit: Just ordered one, they've gone up to about £30 now but it should save me some time though I'll need to go buy some better scanning software too. Its not cheap this...

Edit two: Ouch, just noticed that the $40 version of vuescan doesn't do profiling and the basic version of Silverfast is even dearer! Its not cheap this slide stuff, should've stuck to black and white.
 
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My continuing strange obsession with benches! Nikon F100, seriously out of date Kodacolor 100 and an LR mono preset
 
steveo_mcg said:
I'll take a look.

Edit: Just ordered one, they've gone up to about £30 now but it should save me some time though I'll need to go buy some better scanning software too. Its not cheap this...

Edit two: Ouch, just noticed that the $40 version of vuescan doesn't do profiling and the basic version of Silverfast is even dearer! Its not cheap this slide stuff, should've stuck to black and white.
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Which one did you buy? Generally the generic Kodak (K3) or Fuji (N3) types are a good enough reference for the great majority of people (the Kodak one is £20, the Fuji £30).
 
I got the N3 figured I might as well get that as Velvia seems to be all thats left any way.
 
OK this is just to cheer myself up, not at all recent, taken in 1992 at a Safari Park somewhere near Aberdeen I think. Pentax ME, must be the Tamron-F 85-210 lens, some kind of 100 ISO colour negative film (most likely Kodak, but surprised the scan folder name doesn't say), scanned on the Plustek 7500i with Silverfast SE+. Some other nice ones from that day, but this one comes up on my rolling screen-saver, and never fails to please me!

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Pity about cropping the foot. I wonder if it's actually on the negative (can't seem to find the folder, so much for labelling them and filing so "carefully"!).
 
steveo_mcg said:
I got the N3 figured I might as well get that as Velvia seems to be all thats left any way.
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Thats a good general target, unless you shoot exclusively Velvia 50 then I see little point in getting a dedicated target just for that, a 'general' target like the N3 will give a drastic improvement to the colours anyway and it is also optimised for Provia 400X which is a very nice film if you ever try any (its expensive though!)
 
Just a snap really, taken in Cafe Rouge after a pit stop to load a film. We were shooting in Canterbury Cathedral and I later discovered that F22 was actually more like F11 and everything was over exposed except this snap. Which is a shame as the Cathedral has been cleared of chairs - they do it each year in February - making a great photo opportunity and I think the Hassy will be back after the chairs are replaced!

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Mark
 
Snap? Or portrait.
Sir you do yourself an injustice.
I think the “snap” has potential.
You have your edit box ticked so I took the liberty. I hope you don’t mind, if you do I’ll take it down.

Rhodese.


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Thank you and no, I don't mind edits at all. I tried a landscape crop on that;

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- making Sam more prominent and keeping that bokeh on the right - but preferred the original in the end.

But mine has no post processing - it's straight out of the scanner - and you have added a little contrast and/or sharpening?

M
 
Yes, I also lifted the eyes and skin tone, took the background down slightly and a bit of cloning, spotting, dodge and burn. I think it has all the makings of a nice family keeper.

Rhodese.
 
I really need to learn Photoshop - the book I bought is gathering dust on the shelf!

M
 
Alan, strong shot, great range of tones and I like the way the handrail draws you into the scene, nice work. the Oly lens handles the 'contre jour' very well
 
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The two ends of Elm Hill, Norwich

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HP5 from 2008, developed yesterday in Perceptol 1:3. I had forgotten about this film!!! Shot with my 1957 Rolleicord V.

I had a devil of a job scanning the negs because of the curl in it. Time to upgrade the MF holders for my V500. Advice and suggestions. on 120 neg holder upgrades welcome.
 
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Jao said:
Time to upgrade the MF holders for my V500. Advice and suggestions. on 120 neg holder upgrades welcome.
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id be thinking time to buy a couple of heavy books :D
 
Jao said:
Time to upgrade the MF holders for my V500. Advice and suggestions. on 120 neg holder upgrades welcome.
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I'm not generally a fan of Lomography branded equipment, but I've been using their Digitaliza 120 film holder for the past few weeks and it works well and holds the film quite flat.
 
skysh4rk said:
I'm not generally a fan of Lomography branded equipment, but I've been using their Digitaliza 120 film holder for the past few weeks and it works well and holds the film quite flat.
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RJ, thanks for that, another option to add to the list.
 
Following on from my recent attempt at C-41 processing at home, here's a few more on Agfa Vista Plus 200 film:

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The colours are straight out of the 60's, fantastic!
 
RaglanSurf said:
The colours are straight out of the 60's, fantastic!
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Cheers Nick, been busy with C41 this past week ...in fact got another two films to dev this afternoon......Got so much scanning etc to do .....somewhat overwhelming atm but I'll get plenty posted soon.
 
Excellent shots Asha, really evocative.
 
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