Show us yer film shots then!

My Ex-Wife's father at home in St Neots...
Leica M6, 35mm f/2 Summicron, Ilford FP4, dev'd in ID-11, dil. 1:3
Scanned with Nikon Coolscan 5000ED

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****A couple from yesterday's wander around with the A-1 and my first try with Fuji Acros 100. For a first attempt, I think I like this film***

The quality of your B/W shots is very good.
 
Some Hull on FP4/Ilfosol 3, first roll through a Mamiya C220...:)

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Got some more on my 6 with an orange filter and there's quite a difference.
 
Love that #1 John - timeless :thumbs:

#2 I'm thinking Ankh Morpork :lol:
 
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Seeing Andy's photos from around Dunham Park reminded, I took a couple the other week.
Shot on Delta 400/ Dev ID-11 stock using a 16mm fisheye lens

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You're gonna hate me for this...

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Ambermile said:
You're gonna hate me for this...

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:lol::lol:

No even though many of my cameras have grid lines in the them I still manage to find a small hole to stand in and get a perfectly straight image wonky.

Its a talent I tell thee :suspect::lol:
 
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Another FP-4 shot taken on the Leica + 35mm f/2 Summicron
Blists' Hill Museum
Candlemaker.

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Ambermile said:
I meant the burning :thinking:
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:lol::lol:

Oh yeah I see what you mean now, DOH! :bang:

Still no, at the end of the day how it is shown here is probable how I would have printed the neg anyway.

But if you had he neg you would have done it differently, which is fair enough.

Having said that I might go have another play with that neg in PS later on. :shrug:
 
Venomator said:
That one I like Rob... :thumbs: ...a lot... :D
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Cheers - it's a pretty poor scan by the look of it - fairly lo-res... There is more detail to be had in the shadows, but this is a quick and dirty edit from a while back.

It was a proper 'guesstimate' exposure as well - I just set 1/15th at f/2 and went for it with the lens pre-focussed at 10ft as it was too dark in there to see the images lining-up in the viewfinder...
Real 'cowboy' shooting from the hip stuff - that may be one of the reasons I like it...
 
There is more detail to be had in the shadows, but this is a quick and dirty edit from a while back.
It was a proper 'guesstimate' exposure as well - I just set 1/15th at f/2 and went for it with the lens pre-focussed at 10ft as it was too dark in there to see the images lining-up in the viewfinder...
Real 'cowboy' shooting from the hip stuff - that may be one of the reasons I like it...
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That shot is fantastic! The dark areas seem to frame the subject well and I certainly wouldn't change it if you could go back and do it again! Besides there's something poignant about a candle maker working in the dark :)
 
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I scanned these in with a cheapy Film Scanner I picked up from Aldi yesterday, these were taken on my first film through my new to me Bessa R2a using my cracked 35mm Summicron f2 and a lovely old Jupiter 9. Taken using Fuji Superia 400

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The colours are far far better on the actual photographs but there's a line through all the negatives!
 
***I scanned these in with a cheapy Film Scanner I picked up from Aldi yesterday, these were taken on my first film through my new to me Bessa R2a using my cracked 35mm Summicron f2 and a lovely old Jupiter 9. Taken using Fuji Superia 400***

....but the sharpness is coming through, the shots just need correction for colours, contrast, exposure or whatever.... in photoshop or maybe windows viewer can do it.
 
Both of yours on this page are amazing Rob. I particularly like the jigsaw picture, if only I could get my family to let me take pictures of them.
 
raathistle said:
Both of yours on this page are amazing Rob. I particularly like the jigsaw picture, if only I could get my family to let me take pictures of them.
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Bribery - works every time...

Eric's fee for this was a bottle of Pusser's Rum (he's an ex-Matelot - but had I known how much the bloody stuff costs...!!!)...
 
I havent got many as I need to get myself a scanner
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Never really posted any of my images before but anyway here are a few from a Portra 400VC taken with my Spotmatic F.

The colours look much better on the actual prints due to my crappy printer/scanner/copier combo.











What do you think?
 
excalibur2 said:
****A couple from yesterday's wander around with the A-1 and my first try with Fuji Acros 100. For a first attempt, I think I like this film***

The quality of your B/W shots is very good.
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Thanks... :thumbs:

It's usually the colour ones that are a bit pony... :lol:
 
Got my first batch of Kodachrome back :D. Shot with Canon EOS 50e.

Using only my very high resolution MkII eyeballs and a bright light, they look lovely. The sharpness and detail on some of them jumps out at you even on those tiny little frames.

Once scanned with the Epson 4490, it's an entirely different story. Really not impressed with the scan quality at all :shake:. Barely OK for web use, there is no chance of printing these out. Might need to send some of the better ones off to give the professional scanners a chance.

Anyway, here's my first shot:

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Got my first batch of Kodachrome back :D. Shot with Canon EOS 50e.

Once scanned with the Epson 4490, it's an entirely different story.
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I saw this and thought I wrote it. I just shot a roll of kodachrome through a canon 50e and will be scanning them with an epson 4490.

Shame about the scan, definitely soft. Looks like you may have missed the focus a little though, how do your other scans look?
 
bobiscuit said:
All look out of focus. And I can't see any back/front focus at all in the shots - nothing is sharp, ever.
This shot has had quite a bit of sharpening by the way - loads more than I normally do.
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IIRC there are a number of issues with scanning kodachrome - partly because of how the image is built up in layers on the film surface. One thing to try might be to flip the slide over and scan the other side, see if you get a sharper image. Another thing is that Kodachrome and Digital ICE don't see eye to eye, so you'll need to switch that off (if indeed you've got it). A third problem seems to be that the slides seem to scan with an overall blue cast which needs to be corrected out.

All things considered, I think Kodachromes are best enjoyed in a large darkened room with a large reflective screen at one end and a projector at the other.
 
I think I'll need to get a screen and projecter then, because I have 4 more sets on the way back to me and 4 more in the fridge :bonk:.

I noticed that blue/purple cast - to be fair to the Epson, the "remove color cast" feature is very accurate.
I didn't try turning the slides upside down, but I did try raising one of them by about 3mm and there was no noticeable difference in the sharpness, either good or bad - that can't be right? :thinking:

By the way - are there other scanning methods (such as sending off for a drum scan, or getting one of those SLR macro slide attachments) that would get better results with Kodachrome? Or is it just awkward to scan whatever you do?
 
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I think I'll need to get a screen and projecter then, because I have 4 more sets on the way back to me and 4 more in the fridge :bonk:.

I noticed that blue/purple cast - to be fair to the Epson, the "remove color cast" feature is very accurate.
I didn't try turning the slides upside down, but I did try raising one of them by about 3mm and there was no noticeable difference in the sharpness, either good or bad - that can't be right? :thinking:
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I have a large collection of slides from the 70,s and 80,s and I used a Ohnar digital slide duplicator connected to a little Olympus C4000 Zoom and duplicated the whole collection of slides one afternoon. The quality of the copies are to a very good standard, it may be something to consider.:thumbs:
 
It might seem counter-intuitive, but another thing to try is to scan the images with no software sharpening or noise reduction from the scanning software, no multi-pass or anything, just a single straight pass from the scanner. I think some of the noise reduction software interprets the different layers of emulsion as noise artifacts, and then blurs the edges to get rid of it.

Also, I'm not sure what slide holders come with your scanner, but if they are adjustable height, try varying how close to the glass you can get - one site I saw actually advised de-mounting the slide, and using a slice of anti-newton glass to sandwich the neg to the scanner glass - so i'd start by getting the film as close to the scan glass as you can.

Top and bottom of it is, you may well come up with a setting that works. If you do - save it in your scanner's setup (or write it down), and don't forget to share it with everyone on here, I've got a couple of rolls to shoot myself, and any heads up on getting it right would be appreciated :)
 
You could try sending them to this place:

http://www.easyslidescanning.com/pricing.html

Their 40p per slide for Tiff images with a Jpeg or 30p per slide for jpeg on DVD or CD. They scan them at 4000dpi on a Nikon Coolscan 5000 or 8000. Don't be put off by the return postage though, if you email them they will give you the price for normal 1st class.

If you look on this thread:

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=165556

Theres more info about a discount for TP members as well and plus you can ask for 16/48 bit scanning or software dust removal on the order form. Most Nikon scanners can now remove dust from Kodachrome due to a software update, you could just email and ask beforehand.

I have not used these guys yet but it seems very good and theres actually a completely free option of 4 test scans as well on their order form which I am going to take advantage of shortly to see how they are!

Hope this helps:thumbs:
 
A shot from a road trip up to Torridon at the weekend. Olympus Trip 35 loaded with Kodak Ultra 200 Film. £1 per 24 shot roll from Poundland:thumbs:

Developed in an hour in Tesco for 99p, with a CD included for an additional 97p. Full frame for peanuts:D:D:D

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Can't argue with the price....or the pictures.:thumbs:

Is that your camper, the picture could have been shot in 1982..
 
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Yes, that's my camper. But shot was taken lunchtime on Saturday!!!

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I know but, if you said 82, who could tell..
Short of rooting about in old Vdub Devon conversion catalogues....:shrug:
 
only giveaway would have been the bottled water - we weren't daft enough to BUY water back in '82 :lol:
 
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only giveaway would have been the bottled water - we weren't daft enough to BUY water back in '82 :lol:
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No....the bottle was filled from a tap nearby, and was for (if you look really close) the hairy driver of the van!!:lol::lol:
 
Lovely tones. Very smooth looking film. A guess, is it FP4?
 
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