Show us yer film shots then!

When I was in Germany in the British Army doing Pathology in the RAMC we had some good Leitz microscopes from the Germans as part of War Reparations and we had some mounted slides to learn from so I though I would do some 'Photomicrography' by holding over the eyepiece my 1953 British 'Ensign Selfix 16/20 Model II' loaded with Ilford FP3 and guess the exposure -- they came out well !! I discovered them in the garage filed away and scanned the album pages just now -- I showed them to Head of Department of University College London Geology and it got me the job as Scientific Photographer there on £ 12-00 a week -- when I left in 1970 it had gone up to £ 27-00 a week !
Lava of Malaria Mosquito

Photomicrograph: Mosquito Lava by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Tongue of Fly

Photomicrograph: Tongue of Fly by pentaxpete, on Flickr
 
Brilliant stuff Pete. My grandad used to take this sort of shot sometimes, not sure what camera/lens he used but I know that he built the microscope himself. I'll have to see if my mum still has the shots.
I've also just found out that work used to have 5 Hasselblad MF cameras and about 20 lenses in the laboratory, they seem to have 'ahem' disappeared sometime in the last 10 years.....:mad:
 
Andysnap said:
I've also just found out that work used to have 5 Hasselblad MF cameras and about 20 lenses in the laboratory, they seem to have 'ahem' disappeared sometime in the last 10 years.....:mad:
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Me thinks he doth protest too much... :D
 
Wow that second one is beautiful... as long as I don't think about what it really is!
 
pentaxpete said:
When I was in Germany in the British Army doing Pathology in the RAMC we had some good Leitz microscopes from the Germans as part of War Reparations and we had some mounted slides to learn from so I though I would do some 'Photomicrography' by holding over the eyepiece my 1953 British 'Ensign Selfix 16/20 Model II' loaded with Ilford FP3 and guess the exposure -- they came out well !! I discovered them in the garage filed away and scanned the album pages just now -- I showed them to Head of Department of University College London Geology and it got me the job as Scientific Photographer there on £ 12-00 a week -- when I left in 1970 it had gone up to £ 27-00 a week !
Lava of Malaria Mosquito

Photomicrograph: Mosquito Lava by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Tongue of Fly


Photomicrograph: Tongue of Fly by pentaxpete, on Flickr
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They're incredible Pete
 
Thanks Folks - I have some photomicrographs in COLOUR ( Ferraniacolor) somewhere -- I will see if I can find 'em
 
Robclarke said:
I have enjoyed The last couple you have posted. This one has a great range of tones and good light, the choice of shallow depth of field and what to focus on has worked very well.
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Rob, Thanks for your comments. I was testing the camera and shot several on the roll very close up and wide open. The 1960's lens rendered some nice images I felt.

happygolucky said:
That's come out well might have try some Shanghai GP3.
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Thanks for the comment, I read a lot of horror stories about GP3 before I used it but I have had some nice results from it. You just need to carry some tape with it as there is no self adhesive tape at the end of the roll!
 
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jojo90 said:
Just a few from this weekend, colour shot on Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar (Portra 400 dev in Rollei Digitise C41), B&W shot on my new toy, Contax G2 + 45mm Planar (Delta 3200 @ 3200, T-Max dev). Have a few more B&W from the G2 however they are probably a bit NSFW for this thread!
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you can't say that and then not post em, that's diabolical, besides.........nobody works in F&C, we are all too arty farty, well known fact, so your safe


nice pics btw, that last one is sweet
 
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After I left the British Army in 1958 I was introduced to the London 'Jazz Scene' by an Army friend and took my camera -- I used a CONTAX IIIa at first then got my first Pentax the S3 in 1961 and found the 100 Club in Oxford Street London and took many of the famous Jazz Musicians there - I have found a few prints in my Garage saved from the last 'Dumping Session' and scanned them ---
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HANK MARVIN of The Shadows I think, then there is TERRY LIGHTFOOT and ACKER BILK with his clarinet and the Trumpeter Smoking whose name I don't know.
I used Ilford HP3 in ID11 and Kodak Tri-X in Promicrol.
 
That smoking trumpet player is just fantastic Pete, looks exactly like a jazz club should look, dark and smokey, if Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's wasn't enough to prove smoking is 'cool' then that shot makes it undeniable :cool:
 
@pentaxpete What a fabulous set !!
Particularly like the unnamed trumpeter and Hank, terrific study of Acker. Really evocative of the time. Thanks for sharing, got any more ?
 
Trevor : Thanks-- well the 'Smoking Trumpeter' I did a 20x16" darkroom print on Kodak 'Bromesko' Paper and it was accepted at the Royal Photographic Society Pictorial Group Exhibition when I was a member and did well at the Essex International Salon and several other Exhibitions. I MAY have some negatives still -- I know I had Chris Barber and Kenny Ball and Beryl Bryden with her washboard and will have a 'hunt' -----
 
pentaxpete said:
Trevor : Thanks-- well the 'Smoking Trumpeter' I did a 20x16" darkroom print on Kodak 'Bromesko' Paper and it was accepted at the Royal Photographic Society Pictorial Group Exhibition when I was a member and did well at the Essex International Salon and several other Exhibitions. I MAY have some negatives still -- I know I had Chris Barber and Kenny Ball and Beryl Bryden with her washboard and will have a 'hunt' -----
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I'm not surprised you did well with that shot Pete, I'd be chuffed to have taken that and it would hang proudly on my wall.
 
Pete, you continue to make me go WOW!!!! Stunningly good set of evocotive and wonderful images.

And Mart, another set of shots that could not be more different from Pete's but are in their own way equally as good.

What a wonderful bunch of talented, handsome and sophisticated guys and girls we are.
 
pentaxpete said:
After I left the British Army in 1958 I was introduced to the London 'Jazz Scene' by an Army friend and took my camera -- I used a CONTAX IIIa at first then got my first Pentax the S3 in 1961 and found the 100 Club in Oxford Street London and took many of the famous Jazz Musicians there - I have found a few prints in my Garage saved from the last 'Dumping Session' and scanned them ---
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Ah, the days when you could wear a woolly jumper on a night out without being a fuddy-duddy .......
 
jojo90 said:
Just a few from this weekend, colour shot on Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar (Portra 400 dev in Rollei Digitise C41), B&W shot on my new toy, Contax G2 + 45mm Planar (Delta 3200 @ 3200, T-Max dev). Have a few more B&W from the G2 however they are probably a bit NSFW for this thread!


Moochin around Center Parcs by _Jo Gray, on Flickr


Moochin around Center Parcs by _Jo Gray, on Flickr


Moochin around Center Parcs by _Jo Gray, on Flickr


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JoJo, I really like all of these. The off beat feel they have is great. The shot with the G2 look great and whatever rattles and noises it has, it certainly works!
 
pentaxpete said:
After I left the British Army in 1958 I was introduced to the London 'Jazz Scene' by an Army friend and took my camera -- I used a CONTAX IIIa at first then got my first Pentax the S3 in 1961 and found the 100 Club in Oxford Street London and took many of the famous Jazz Musicians there - I have found a few prints in my Garage saved from the last 'Dumping Session' and scanned them ---
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HANK MARVIN of The Shadows I think, then there is TERRY LIGHTFOOT and ACKER BILK with his clarinet and the Trumpeter Smoking whose name I don't know.
I used Ilford HP3 in ID11 and Kodak Tri-X in Promicrol.
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Pete, these are just fantastic, the sort of shots that got me interested in photography in my youth and the sort of images that has kept me shooting film and not digital. As I have said before about your work it is very inspiring. I like all of the shots but as others have commented the smoking trumpeter is stunning!
 
Some cracking photos being posted again! :)

Here's one that I keep going back to which I think I like. Shot on the same roll of Velvia 50 that the Austin Healey was on. Breaking the rules that people keep telling me about using Velvia for contrasty scenes and also for people, but I kinda like it?

 
This might be my last image post for a while as I'm planning to really concentrate on improving my darkroom skills for the next few months rather than making new images. However I'll still be looking out for everyone else's fine contributions.

Looking towards Durham Cathedral from Crook Hall. Mamiya RZ67 and Portra 160.


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foto-paul said:
I'm hoping to start posting and becoming a bit more active in the film thread. So to kick things off I just bought a Rolleicord V and had a chance to play in the studio with it, this was taken on expired Rollei 400 and developed in D-76. I was going for a sixties feel :)
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You just got it.
 
pentaxpete said:
After I left the British Army in 1958 I was introduced to the London 'Jazz Scene' by an Army friend and took my camera -- I used a CONTAX IIIa at first then got my first Pentax the S3 in 1961 and found the 100 Club in Oxford Street London and took many of the famous Jazz Musicians there - I have found a few prints in my Garage saved from the last 'Dumping Session' and scanned them ---
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HANK MARVIN of The Shadows I think, then there is TERRY LIGHTFOOT and ACKER BILK with his clarinet and the Trumpeter Smoking whose name I don't know.
I used Ilford HP3 in ID11 and Kodak Tri-X in Promicrol.
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My stab in the dark is a young Ronnie Carroll.
 
Kevin Allan said:
This might be my last image post for a while as I'm planning to really concentrate on improving my darkroom skills for the next few months rather than making new images. However I'll still be looking out for everyone else's fine contributions.

Looking towards Durham Cathedral from Crook Hall. Mamiya RZ67 and Portra 160.


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That's a great thing to do, Kevin. I like this image, but do the colours seem a bit weird to you? Or a lot weird? I could buy the purple curtains, but not so much the purple wall, and not at all the purple frame for the chair.
 
OK Thanks to all my 'Jazz fans' then -- I found some more if I can show without 'hogging this section' ---

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Some Jivers' at the '57 Jazz Club' Ilford Town Hall and on the Crossing ( used in Ilford Recorder), Terry Lightfoot & Kenny Ball at 100 Club, Alan Elsdon at 100 Club, Chris Barber at the Richmond Jazz festival where i came out after a 'New Band' called 'The Rolling Stones' started up without taking any photos as I thought them RUBBISH !
 
I spotted this focus-stacking attempt when looking through last year's Aperture folders today. This was one of the candidate shots for the POTY14 "anything goes" round. I think it was composed from 4 or 5 shots stacked together with Helicon Focus. I really liked the colours, it's annoying the bottom pot was clipped, though I suspect that might have been partly an alignment problem in the focus stacking process. Pentax MX, not sure of the lens, Portra 400 probably shots at 250. [ETA: I didn't straighten this as I'd lose the top of the pots if I did!]



[Edited again to add: the colours don't look so nice, and more bits look soft than I expected. Not quite as successful as I'd thought!]
 
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A few firsts.

First time using off camera flash with the Bronica.
First time using a flash meter.
First time using a bulb / air operated shutter release cable.
I had hoped to be able to use the release cable with my foot but, no matter how hard I stomped on it, it wouldn't work. Works fine in the hand though. Most odd.

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simon ess said:
A few firsts.

First time using off camera flash with the Bronica.
First time using a flash meter.
First time using a bulb / air operated shutter release cable.
I had hoped to be able to use the release cable with my foot but, no matter how hard I stomped on it, it wouldn't work. Works fine in the hand though. Most odd.
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Well exposed and a lovely guitar too !
 
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