Show us yer film shots then!

Bry, that wm is terrible whatever you do - right across the main subject... nice pic but can't really see it.
 
I've just had a few occasions where people have nicked it etc... one sec I'll post an unwatermarked one for here...
 
Here we go :)

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Ah - much better! I take your point about the nicking... not that I haver ever had that problem, but why not just post a small low res image here rather than mess up with wm across?
 
Bryan that is a very good capture, love the colour and the main subject surrounded by her crew.
 
Excellent shot Bryan - wonderful strong colours.

As far as the nicking things, just make sure you've got your name and contact details embedded in the EXIF's, and a name/contact in the border. Then If people nick the images, send them a bill at double NUJ rates for the unauthorised usage, followed up with slapping 'em straight into the small claims court - always remember - if it's a film shot, you've got the ultimate proof of ownership and copyright - THE NEGATIVES !
 
Ambermile said:
Ah - much better! I take your point about the nicking... not that I haver ever had that problem, but why not just post a small low res image here rather than mess up with wm across?
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I don't like posting low res as it can give the impression that the original photo wasn't up to standard. Then again, "Up to standard" with me isn't great at the best of times anyway :lol:

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Bryan that is a very good capture, love the colour and the main subject surrounded by her crew.
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Cheers :) I believe this was taken on the Yashica using Kodak Color something... cheap and cheerful but love the results :)

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Excellent shot Bryan - wonderful strong colours.

As far as the nicking things, just make sure you've got your name and contact details embedded in the EXIF's, and a name/contact in the border. Then If people nick the images, send them a bill at double NUJ rates for the unauthorised usage, followed up with slapping 'em straight into the small claims court - always remember - if it's a film shot, you've got the ultimate proof of ownership and copyright - THE NEGATIVES !
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Never thought of that :D I must admit its very rare I do have photos stolen (for obvious reasons :lol:) But on the odd occasion it does happen, its nice that at least the site address is out there :)

Glad people liked the shot :)
 
Got myself completely lost on a bike ride yesterday... even with a GPS! Anyway, I managed to give my C330 a bit of a workout with some Provia 400X slide film and I must say, I'm very happy with it - light enough to carry in a small rucksack and has enough controls and features to suit my style of shooting.


Shenley surrounds 3 by ekimeno, on Flickr


Shenley surrounds 2 by ekimeno, on Flickr


Shenley surrounds by ekimeno, on Flickr
 
So here's a test of my new (to me) F5, my new 50mm F1.4 G and Boots dev and scanning service of C41 Kodak Professional 400 BW.

Just a few shapes and patterns and stuff from earlier today.

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The road goes no further, the path however....


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A boarded enclosure...


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Beside the airfield...


Levels and contrast tweaked on all of them slightly, oh! and converted to grayscale in PSE to remove a slight cast from the processing.

All the film processing was done at Boots, Broughton Park, Nr Chester - I think it worked out to £7-ish quid for 36 7x5 d and p and scanned on to CD - Till I get my dev tank and scanner sorted I'm more than happy at the quality from Boots.

Having seen the quality, I doubt I'll bother getting prints done next time, just dev and scan.

-Rob
 
Mike,

I just love 'shenley surrounds 3' your first pic. It's the sort of vista that opens out when I 'follow my nose' on my motorbike. I can't explain why I like the pic - just that I do :)

-Rob
 
Robert, those trees are sharp! I love my 1.4's too for the same reason - you can stop them down to get decent focus and still get silly-fast exposure times :thumbs:
 
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Mike, love the shots, especially the first one. Beautiful golds.. the provia 400 came out nicely for a mid-high ASA slide film. Look forward to seeing more from the mamiya in the future :thumbs:
 
Thanks Robert - not bad for used E6 developer that's been sitting in a cupboard for 3 months. Robert, love 'Beside the airfield' - nice use of DOF :)

Rick, thanks for the comments - the camera is a joy to use, though I took some close-ups yesterday and forgot to compensate for the position of the taking lens when framing, and ended up with some cut-off shots like this:


Pergola Gardens by ekimeno, on Flickr

:bonk:
 
Some from london last week, the first time I have shot using tmax and I love it.

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Liam, that first one is sublime - what developer did you use? EDIT: I see it was Rodinal.. 1:100?

Oh, I've been out after work at the pub in the bottom one many times when I worked in Victoria :)
 
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Thanks Mike, I used rodinal (1:50 - 12 mins) I am really happy with the negs as its the sharpest film I have used so I might be bulk buying some for my other cameras...


£70 for 50 sheets in 4x5 :'(:'(:'(:'(:'(
 
Yeah, I've used TMAX before and was impressed with the results... don't know why I haven't bought it again. Seems to be a perfect match with the Rodinal :thumbs:

I came very close to buying a Graflex 5x4 recently, but remembered that my scanner doesn't do LF - my finger was hovering on the 'place bid' button. I will get one at some stage, but for now I'm content with MF and 35mm.

Let's see some of your LF work ;) Your Flickr needs populating!
 
A couple more from Saturday

Splitting Hares


Perkeo at YSP by The Big Yin, on Flickr



Bretton Hall


Perkeo at YSP by The Big Yin, on Flickr



Bretton Hall Lake


Perkeo at YSP by The Big Yin, on Flickr

All shot on Voigtlander Perkeo, Ilford Delta 100 and developed in Perceptol 1+3 one shot, Scanned on Canoscan 8800F/Silverfast SE

Rather happy with the roll - 8 from 12 as keepers :woot:
(and the rest were just bracketed shots - hey it's a clockwork shutter that I rebuilt)
 
Hey you've hairy framing.....................................................
 
Nice shots TBY - I take it you don't use the 120 film holder with your 8800F? I've heard you can get sharper scans by sticking 'em down on the glass, but the fuss involved does my head in :bonk:
 
ekimeno said:
Yeah, I've used TMAX before and was impressed with the results... don't know why I haven't bought it again. Seems to be a perfect match with the Rodinal :thumbs:

I came very close to buying a Graflex 5x4 recently, but remembered that my scanner doesn't do LF - my finger was hovering on the 'place bid' button. I will get one at some stage, but for now I'm content with MF and 35mm.

Let's see some of your LF work ;) Your Flickr needs populating!
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You won't regret it when you finally do, but you will become addicted :D

I know, I know but I only want new pics on there so it may be a while...
 
ekimeno said:
Nice shots TBY - I take it you don't use the 120 film holder with your 8800F? I've heard you can get sharper scans by sticking 'em down on the glass, but the fuss involved does my head in :bonk:
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These were actually done with the 120 film holder. I find that on my scanner, the holder works fine, as long as the neg's are flat. If there's any trace of them being bowed, then they're pretty poor. I've tried the "tape 'em down on the glass bed" once but had awful problems with newton's rings where they weren't flat.

I'm currently agonising as to wether to get hold of one of the improved 120 holders for the 8800F from Betterscanning. It certainly looks better, but if anyone's actually bought one I'd like to know if it's worth the money.

Edit: one thing I forgot, is that I have my scanning software set to calibrate before each scan, I found that it definitely made an improvement.
 
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Don't give up cos it's raining...this Heron didn't:-

Meyer 135mm, Fuji C200, Tesco dev only
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I experimented quite thoroughly with my Canoscan 8800F and found the the optimum focus point is probably where the glass is itself. That said, depth of field is not too low and the very marginal gain in sharpness to be made by moving the film closer to the ccd (i.e. doing away with the mount and lying the film flat on the glass) is far more trouble than it's worth. I also doubt the true optical resolution of the scanner is much over 2400 dpi, but it's nice to scan a bit higher than that and downsample to eliminate grain alias artifacts and increase sharpness.

I also feel like the only person who isn't overly impressed with the TMax... it might sound silly to say about a B&W film but it feels too "grey". Lack of contrast between the black and white points perhaps? I dunno.
 
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I experimented quite thoroughly with my Canoscan 8800F and found the the optimum focus point is probably where the glass is itself. That said, depth of field is not too low and the very marginal gain in sharpness to be made by moving the film closer to the ccd (i.e. doing away with the mount and lying the film flat on the glass) is far more trouble than it's worth. I also doubt the true optical resolution of the scanner is much over 2400 dpi, but it's nice to scan a bit higher than that and downsample to eliminate grain alias artifacts and increase sharpness.

I also feel like the only person who isn't overly impressed with the TMax... it might sound silly to say about a B&W film but it feels too "grey". Lack of contrast between the black and white points perhaps? I dunno.
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If I am informed correctly the focus on scanners is fixed when scanning film and it will vary depending on the particular model.

Tmax is a bit grey but it gives a nice tone when scanned in colour, I have found it a lot sharper than ilford films.
 
Yeah, the scanners don't have focus mechanisms. I just find that the depth of field of the scanners is enough to compensate. Not that there's a lot I can do about it on my particular scanner and given the way I (and I think most people) use scans, I don't think it's so critical.
 
***Love that shot I walk the canals regularly but rarely manage to get any Heron shots***

Thanks, at another stretch of the canal there is a Heron which is very tame with a boat owner and will allow you to get very close for a photograph (only near the boat):-

Might have over sharpened this shot as I wasn't impressed with a Kiron 70-210 zoomlock, film was Kodak gold.
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Liam said:
If I am informed correctly the focus on scanners is fixed when scanning film and it will vary depending on the particular model.
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For flatbeds that is generally true. One exception is the Microtek ArtixScan M1 - AFAIK it is the only one that does.

Nikon Coolscan film scanners, for example, certainly have autofocus though.
 
The cheapo ones are just that cheap! Even the likes of the 7300 at £200-250 are not much cop. I bought one and sent it back then it's replacement before getting my money back. The scans I did from negs were not as good as a £40 flatbed did on the actual picture. Sorry can't remember the brand but it is sold regularly and there is a thread about the woes I had with it. It scanned great in black and White though as it's main issue was colour inaccuracy across the neg.
 
There was a Battle of Britain commemoration weekend on Lytham Green featuring some WWII re-enactors.

My small contribution was to shoot film rather than going digi :D

These are from the Saturday.

Pentax SP 500, Prinzflex Auto Reflex 200mm 1:3.5, Fujicolour 200 Dated 2009. Tesco Dev and CD.

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I'll post some samples from the Sunday taken on my EOS10 later.

Paul
 
On my recent hols I had the chance to visit Lacock in Wiltshire, UK.

For anyone who doesn't know it, the 13th century village is basically untouched and was used in filming Cranford (a BBC period drama), some images to follow.

There is a museum dedicated to Fox Talbot as Lacock was his family seat.
The museum was extremely interesting, showing the first steps into photography and the Camera Obscura.

Then there is the Abbey, which was later used as a Manor house but still has a lot of the original features, (some of Harry Potter was filmed here).

This shot was taken using a EOS30 with LegacyPro100, dev in Suprol.

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cowasaki said:
The cheapo ones are just that cheap! Even the likes of the 7300 at £200-250 are not much cop. I bought one and sent it back then it's replacement before getting my money back. The scans I did from negs were not as good as a £40 flatbed did on the actual picture. Sorry can't remember the brand but it is sold regularly and there is a thread about the woes I had with it. It scanned great in black and White though as it's main issue was colour inaccuracy across the neg.
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thanks. I guess, we just need to wait till the rest gives their 2p .
I can only give one penny in this thought - 50quid small 35mm scanners can't be that bad as the epson 4490 usually goes for around 80 quid.
 
I'm another nay for the £50 scanners - I was given one by a mate, after he'd tried for 6 months off and on to get a decent scan out of it and failed. I had it for a couple of months as well - got some decent enough shots - indeed my first couple of months postings in F&C were produced on it. Decent enough for grainy B&W shots, but colour rendition was awful, and changed during scanning sessions (which were never more than 3 shots before the awful dedicated software crashed) Software was pants, no twain drivers so you couldn't scan within CS4, just a dedicated but ****-poor graphics program (arcsoft??) which basically I used to scan save and get out of. The sole reason for getting one of these type of scanner is that they take up less desktop real-estate than a second hand flatbed of the types that our pikey in chief Excalibur recommends. If i'd the money, i'd have a Nikon, as I'm skint I bought a 8800F and never looked back :)
 
I see.
I have put some minolta's on watch list, to see how will it go.
I guess you still need to buy brand with the scanners.
 
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