Show us yer film shots then!

PMN said:
Thanks very much, Adrian! :)

I'm back at home now and my film is in mine and Hooley's little scanning den in Leeds so I can't check exactly what the one you've quoted above was taken on. I think the coffee shop one was taken on my OM20 with a 50mm f/1.8 and Fuji 100 film, the metal horse in the shopping centre was my EOS 10 with 24-105L and Poundland Agfa Vista.

With the scanning there's nothing clever going on, no profiling or anything like that, I'm literally just playing until they start to look (and feel) right to me. The Screen Cezanne scanner is a new beast and I'm still getting used to how it does certain things best, colour correction doesn't seem as quick and easy as the DPL software we had driving the drum scanner so I'm mostly doing that in post-processing on the 16 bit TIFF. The coffee shop shot actually had very little colour correction or general tweaking, the shopping centre one had some slight tweaking of Curves, a gentle overall 'S' curve to give it slightly bolder contrast and a little on the blue and green channels just in the shadows to even things up a bit. What I'm doing in post-processing is really dependant on the subject matter and film type so I'm dealing with each image as an individual rather than making a preset that will apply the same processing to everything, at the most the actual processing (not including dust spotting) is taking at the very most 2 or 3 minutes. It's all fairly quick and basic stuff.

Hope that kind of explains it, and thanks again for the kind words. :)
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Paul, really helpful description. It is always good to get insight from others. As mentioned you are achieving a very nice well balanced and very engaging look to your film work. I need to spend a little more time learning about using curves. Also I share your view about tweaking until it looks right. I just need to get better at it. The Screen Cezanne scanner sounds like a great bit of kit! Your work also demonstrates that when used well, Agfa Vista 200 is more than just an emulsion to test new kit!
 
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Great results from the Cezanne and it would be nice for a small equipment review sticky as you are the only one who knows how to use it......do you just put the neg in like a flatbed and how do you prevent large negs bowing and so on
 
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I uploaded this as an example of what us ever suffering film photographers have to put up with. The freakin' walk or bike through persona. Doesn't happen to the Digitalia - they just keep pushing down gently on that electronic button and all is OK. Lightweights ;-)
 
excalibur2 said:
Great results from the Cezanne and it would be nice for a small equipment review sticky as you are the only one who knows how to use it......do you just put the neg in like a flatbed and how do you prevent large negs bowing and so on
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There are a number of ways, you can mount 35mm slides in a holder like the V500/600/700 etc, only at about 40 a time! Or you can mount the film directly on the scanning bed and place a piece of anti-newton glass on top to stop bowing.
If the film is larger than the AN glass, it can be taped down.
 
robhooley167 said:
There are a number of ways, you can mount 35mm slides in a holder like the V500/600/700 etc, only at about 40 a time! Or you can mount the film directly on the scanning bed and place a piece of anti-newton glass on top to stop bowing.
If the film is larger than the AN glass, it can be taped down.
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So it's less bother compared to drum scanning and it would be interesting to compare the Cezanne with your drum scanner.
 
excalibur2 said:
So it's less bother compared to drum scanning and it would be interesting to compare the Cezanne with your drum scanner.
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I have yet to put this to the test myself as I've been all over the place for the last 2 weeks, but @PMN might have a few comparisons knocking around.
 
excalibur2 said:
So it's less bother compared to drum scanning and it would be interesting to compare the Cezanne with your drum scanner.
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The Cezanne is much, much easier and quicker to use than the drum scanner. I haven't done any timed experiments but from the playing I've done over the last 2 weeks I reckon I can scan 2-3 times more on the Cezanne than I can on the drum scanner, maybe more. In terms of quality it's difficult to say which is 'best'; the amount of detail the Cezanne pulls out of film is fairly insane so I'm not convinced the drum scanner is really any better as such, from my fairly limited experience so far the Cezanne seems to be a much quicker way of achieving the same kind of quality.
 
robhooley167 said:
I have yet to put this to the test myself as I've been all over the place for the last 2 weeks, but @PMN might have a few comparisons knocking around.
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Sorta like the Heineken advert “Reaches the parts other scanners cannot reach" ;)
 
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PMN said:
The Cezanne is much, much easier and quicker to use than the drum scanner. I haven't done any timed experiments but from the playing I've done over the last 2 weeks I reckon I can scan 2-3 times more on the Cezanne than I can on the drum scanner, maybe more. In terms of quality it's difficult to say which is 'best'; the amount of detail the Cezanne pulls out of film is fairly insane so I'm not convinced the drum scanner is really any better as such, from my fairly limited experience so far the Cezanne seems to be a much quicker way of achieving the same kind of quality.
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Your shots have digital quality so it looks like scanner noise\aliasing (or whatever the words are).......are low.
 
Bridlington Old Town, North Yorkshire and Wymondham, Norfolk, joined by a single roll of Fujichrome 400X and my Rolleicord. CCL processing and V500 home scan.

1. Regency Doorway
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2. Not only poppies to remember the fallen!
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Really like the doorway(s), Adrian!
 
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All very nice, but no 2 is just delicious!
 
Lovely stuff RJ, loving the tree.
 
Went for a quick potter around Croxden Abbey the other week. I had planned to dev the roll myself but broken daylight tank stopped that plan. Boo Hiss.


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Scanned as 24bit TIFFs and with white balance colour setting rather than auto levels setting in vuescan. Turned out a lot better I think. Compressed lossless TIFFS are only about twice the size of minimally compressed JPGs.
 
Hope you don't mind me saying Suz but the shots have a blue cast, just bring the first shot up in Photoshop and select auto color and it's much better.
 
srichards said:
They look fine to me. Just exactly how I wanted in fact.
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Reminds me of the time I mentioned a photo of a village had a blue cast, and the poster said "Yeah I know, I wanted to convey the blueness of early morning" ......me> :muted: :schtum: :whistle: :exit:
 
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skysh4rk said:
A few photos from Majorca taken late last month:
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That's a superb set of photographs RJ. I especially love the olive tree. :clap:

Do you remember how you metered the sunset? Whatever you did, it's worked great. There's even a bit of detail in those dark rocks that are right next to the sun!
 
FujiLove said:
That's a superb set of photographs RJ. I especially love the olive tree. :clap:

Do you remember how you metered the sunset? Whatever you did, it's worked great. There's even a bit of detail in those dark rocks that are right next to the sun!
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Thanks!

With regard to metering, I rarely do anything fancy. For colour negative, I just make sure that the dome on the meter is in the shade, take a reading, and then apply the settings to the camera. With this particular photo, I think it was Fuji Pro 160NS, so the ISO on the meter was likely set to 80.
 
PMN said:
A few I don't think I've posted before. I sent 5 rolls of 35mm and 6 rolls of 120 to be devved today so there'll be some new frames of dodginess coming up soon! :p

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Hi Paul, some great scans, you've posted recently.

I know that the focus of discussion has primarily centred on the new scanner, which does seem amazing, but I do think that the main thing setting your photos apart are your own skills, especially with regard to colour correction and other relevant tweaking (e.g., contrast, s-curves, etc.). :)

Although I've searched for those magic fixes or shortcuts to improvement in the past (whether cameras, lenses, scanners, software, etc.), the more I dabble in photography, the more I realise the look of the end photograph ultimately rests on your own personal skills and knowledge (or at least that's how I've talked myself out of buying any new cameras over the past year!).

I would imagine that you'd produce a better scan with an Epson V500 than many of us using the Cezanne with the same negative!

Now, that all said, I certainly wouldn't mind having my own Cezanne or a drum scanner!
 
^^^ My goodness thats soooo nice....
 
Andysnap said:
A few more from the Lakes.

Rolleiflex Automat and Portra 400
Falls-at-Boot1 by andysnapper1, on Flickr
Shining-Pools-at-Boot by andysnapper1, on Flickr

Rolleicord Va MkII and Kodak Ektar 100
Sailing by andysnapper1, on Flickr
The above was August's POTY entry which surprisingly won the film section. :thinking:

The Lady of the Lake
Lady-of-the-Lake by andysnapper1, on Flickr

And my very own Lady of the Lake, the Current Mrs Snap.
Jan-&-Lady-Wakefield by andysnapper1, on Flickr

Cheers

Andy
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Lovely set, im up there at the end of the month for some autumn colour, so fingers crossed i get weather this good :)
 
skysh4rk said:
Hi Paul, some great scans, you've posted recently.

I know that the focus of discussion has primarily centred on the new scanner, which does seem amazing, but I do think that the main thing setting your photos apart are your own skills, especially with regard to colour correction and other relevant tweaking (e.g., contrast, s-curves, etc.). :)

Although I've searched for those magic fixes or shortcuts to improvement in the past (whether cameras, lenses, scanners, software, etc.), the more I dabble in photography, the more I realise the look of the end photograph ultimately rests on your own personal skills and knowledge (or at least that's how I've talked myself out of buying any new cameras over the past year!).

I would imagine that you'd produce a better scan with an Epson V500 than many of us using the Cezanne with the same negative!

Now, that all said, I certainly wouldn't mind having my own Cezanne or a drum scanner!
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Thanks for the kind words, RJ, very much appreciated!

I agree entirely with the idea that photos look how the people making them want them to look, and at 1024/Internet sizes the differences between something like the Cezanne and a V500 are certainly less visible. I guess the thing for me is I can see exactly what the scanner spits out and see the real differences between the two, my child-like excitement probably seems rather odd when only viewing the smaller sizes! Thanks for the feedback though, really is appreciated. :)

Aaaaand, I finally have films back from being devved! These are from a roll of Tri-X - my first ever roll and I already love the stuff, much smoother than I expected and the contrast is absolutely gorgeous.

These are from the RB67, first one taken in York before going and getting rather drunk with the Hooley and Mr Snap... :p

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And as is traditional, here's one I Hooley'd earlier! :D

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Liking these Paul. The loco detail is lovely and the clouds and solitary tree is lush.

We must get drunk... sorry, I meant take photos, again sometime.
 
Oh dear oh dear those are just gorgeous!
 
^^^ Nice......north west of London those blasted plane trails haven't ruined many of my scenery shots, yet Sunday morning in the same area I was driving along the road at about 7:15 in the morning and the sun was low facing me and above were all these plane trails, well for some reason it looked great but I didn't have a camera with me. :(
 
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