Show us yer film shots then!

medwaygreen said:


Bluebell Hill
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Well that's a better Bluebell hill than the first one.
I was interested in the first one, not because it was good but because I couldn't figure out how you'd got to it, where it was going or anything, its got a little strip of Hockney and then nothing either side of it.......I think its one of you're oddest photos Richard...:)
 
joxby said:
Well that's a better Bluebell hill than the first one.
I was interested in the first one, not because it was good but because I couldn't figure out how you'd got to it, where it was going or anything, its got a little strip of Hockney and then nothing either side of it.......I think its one of you're oddest photos Richard...:)
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Well John I did on the first one try something different just to see how it would come out. That is taken from the top of Bluebell hill,but,shooting down the hill and excluding all reference the the horizon. I thought it was an interesting exercise that did not really work.

Never the less I like to try these things,thank you for the feedback.
 
Taken with Bessa R3a 21mm color-skopar and Velvia 50Asa.

 
I refuse to respond to this bear-baiting...... :sulk:
 
Who knows, there might be a R3A with recently re-aligned rangefinder in the classifieds one of these days....:banana::D
 
Decided to give Photoghost a bash to see what they're like. Received an email this afternoon with the photos attached, which is incredible as I only sent the rolls to them yesterday!

The scans are pretty good although the colours are off a bit I think, and I think UKFL are much better quality (and bigger). Overall I'm pretty happy with them and will give them a go for a few more rolls before I decide whether to keep using them, although for the price it's pretty hard to be disappointed!

Here's a few from the last few weeks, at Abbey Hill Steam Rally and Volksfest.


Abby Hill Steam Rally by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Abby Hill Steam Rally by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Abby Hill Steam Rally by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Volksfest 2015 by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Volksfest 2015 by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Volksfest 2015 by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Volksfest 2015 by Carl Hall, on Flickr


Volksfest 2015 by Carl Hall, on Flickr
 
Carl Hall said:
Decided to give Photoghost a bash to see what they're like. Received an email this afternoon with the photos attached, which is incredible as I only sent the rolls to them yesterday!

The scans are pretty good although the colours are off a bit I think, and I think UKFL are much better quality (and bigger). Overall I'm pretty happy with them and will give them a go for a few more rolls before I decide whether to keep using them, although for the price it's pretty hard to be disappointed!
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Actually, those really aren't too bad at all. The scans are most of the way there; some might just need a few minor tweaks. What size are their medium format scans? What was your final cost per roll?
 
skysh4rk said:
Actually, those really aren't too bad at all. The scans are most of the way there; some might just need a few minor tweaks. What size are their medium format scans? What was your final cost per roll?
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These are pretty much exactly as they came from the download, with a little bit of dust removal and resizing only. Their scans for subscriptions are only 1800 odd pixels on the shortest length (so 1800x1800 for me), but to be totally honest I think that's enough for me as I don't print anything off digitally. Plus if I find one I really like I can just rescan it myself at home if I really want it bigger.

Scan prices depend entirely on how much you shoot and how often you send it in, as it's just £25 p/m + postage. At the moment I've only shot 3 rolls rolls this month which makes the price (including postage each way) to be about £9.30 a roll, but if I get to their limit of ten per month then I expect that price to drop to about £3.60 a roll (assuming you send off 3-4 at a time and outward postage is 95p not £3.30) which is ridiculous value for money for next day scans!
 
Carl Hall said:
These are pretty much exactly as they came from the download, with a little bit of dust removal and resizing only. Their scans for subscriptions are only 1800 odd pixels on the shortest length (so 1800x1800 for me), but to be totally honest I think that's enough for me as I don't print anything off digitally. Plus if I find one I really like I can just rescan it myself at home if I really want it bigger.

Scan prices depend entirely on how much you shoot and how often you send it in, as it's just £25 p/m + postage. At the moment I've only shot 3 rolls rolls this month which makes the price (including postage each way) to be about £9.30 a roll, but if I get to their limit of ten per month then I expect that price to drop to about £3.60 a roll (assuming you send off 3-4 at a time and outward postage is 95p not £3.30) which is ridiculous value for money for next day scans!
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Those look like really decent scans to me. The colours seem spot on. To my eyes the difference between these and what UKFM usually deliver is a degree of 'pop', which you could probably achieve with nothing more than dragging the white point slider over in Lightroom. You should be able to get a half decent 8"x8" print off that size too, and like you say, if you have one that's going in National Geographic, you can always rescan it.

My only issue would be with postage. I always get hit with the small packet rate when I send film away, so now it gets posted off to the kitchen, where Mr Jobo sorts it out.
 
FujiLove said:
Those look like really decent scans to me. The colours seem spot on. To my eyes the difference between these and what UKFM usually deliver is a degree of 'pop', which you could probably achieve with nothing more than dragging the white point slider over in Lightroom. You should be able to get a half decent 8"x8" print off that size too, and like you say, if you have one that's going in National Geographic, you can always rescan it.

My only issue would be with postage. I always get hit with the small packet rate when I send film away, so now it gets posted off to the kitchen, where Mr Jobo sorts it out.
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Yeah postage is a real pain. Doesn't matter how cheap the scans are if you have to pay for two lots of delivery! The worst thing is that a roll of 120 in a jiffy bag is very slightly over the thickness limit for a large letter (95 pence for 1st class) so has to be sent as a small parcel a lot of the time (£3.30), unless you happen to get a post office worker who pushes it through the gauge a bit harder then you might get away with a 95p letter like I did yesterday :lol: Not sure how stringent they are with it if you post it through a letter box though, so it might be worth me sticking it in with a 95p stamp on and seeing if it gets there reliably. Photoghost are pretty good mind, their return postage is £2 for up to 5 developed rolls at a time, so as long as you send a few rolls off at a time then the postage doesn't work out too bad. Mind you, that means I have to be patient and wait a couple weeks, and patient is definitely something I am not :D

I think UKFL have the best idea, keeping all your negs until they're an inch thick or 12 months has past and then posting them all back together.
 
FujiLove said:
My only issue would be with postage. I always get hit with the small packet rate when I send film away, so now it gets posted off to the kitchen, where Mr Jobo sorts it out.
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Carl Hall said:
The worst thing is that a roll of 120 in a jiffy bag is very slightly over the thickness limit for a large letter (95 pence for 1st class) so has to be sent as a small parcel a lot of the time (£3.30), unless you happen to get a post office worker who pushes it through the gauge a bit harder then you might get away with a 95p letter like I did yesterday :LOL:.
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There's a very easy way around this postage issue, gentlemen: just buy a book of stamps and take the post office worker out of the equation. You get the letter rate every time that way.
 
skysh4rk said:
There's a very easy way around this postage issue, gentlemen: just buy a book of stamps and take the post office worker out of the equation. You get the letter rate every time that way.
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Yeah that's what I was planning to try, but I wasn't sure if they actually checked the thickness at any point in the process. Guess a couple mm isn't likely to be noticed anyway, probably only an issue if it's massively oversized. Do you send your films off this way every time? I'm too scared of losing some film if I try it and it goes wrong :lol:
 
I think the measure at the sorting office has more of a margin than the ones at the post office desk.
 
Carl Hall said:
Yeah that's what I was planning to try, but I wasn't sure if they actually checked the thickness at any point in the process. Guess a couple mm isn't likely to be noticed anyway, probably only an issue if it's massively oversized. Do you send your films off this way every time? I'm too scared of losing some film if I try it and it goes wrong :LOL:
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I haven't had any problems doing this; everything has made it so far. That said, anything that's particularly important, such as holiday photographs, I prefer to send via special delivery.
 
medwaygreen said:
Well John I did on the first one try something different just to see how it would come out. That is taken from the top of Bluebell hill,but,shooting down the hill and excluding all reference the the horizon. I thought it was an interesting exercise that did not really work.

Never the less I like to try these things,thank you for the feedback.
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Gary Winograd when asked why he shot something the way he did, always used to say "because I want to see what it looks like...photographed"
Ain't no arguing with that..:)
 
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skysh4rk said:
I haven't had any problems doing this; everything has made it so far. That said, anything that's particularly important, such as holiday photographs, I prefer to send via special delivery.
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I put the same film in the same envelope and take it to the same two post office ladies. Every time they offer it to the thing and it won't quite go through. They make some sounds like it's going to cost me extra, then try again, wiggle it a bit and it goes through. I've never had a problem with it not arriving so I think I may just buy a book of stamps and send it myself in future.
 
Another way of saving postage with 120 film -

The widest part of the 120 film spool is the plastic lip at either end. In order to use 120 spools in 620 cameras, I have in the past trimmed the edges off the plastic lip with a nail clipper. If done after exposing the film, this should get the package through the measuring aperture at the post office.
 
“From Shingle Street/ To Orford Ness/ The waves maraud,/ The winds oppress,/ The earth can’t help/ But acquiesce/ For this is east/ And east means loss,/ A lessening shore, receding ground, /Three feet gone last year, four feet this/ Where land runs out and nothing’s sound./ Nothing lasts long on Shingle Street” (The Ballad of Shingle Street - Blake Morrison)

Shingle Street, Suffolk II by wickerman6, on Flickr

Shingle Street, Suffolk I by wickerman6, on Flickr

Coastguard Cottages, Shingle Street, Suffolk II by wickerman6, on Flickr
 
ariel7515 said:
An error while developing but now looks like the Playmobil is taking a shot of it. :)

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I know you've said its an error, but even before knowing that I thoroughly liked how this one looked.
 
VirtualAdept said:
I know you've said its an error, but even before knowing that I thoroughly liked how this one looked.
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Thank you, but I suppose It was a some kind of fortunate error, and I like it too, so lets hope that all the future accidents will end up like this one.
 
Bessa R3a 21mm color-skopar and Velvia 50Asa

 
My girlfriend's granddad is a big steam engine lover, and goes to pretty much every steam rally in the local area. This is one of his little diesel engines that he takes a long to show. Whenever my girlfriend and I go to a rally you can guarantee he'll be there sitting next to his two friends, all showing their engines to the visitors.

RB67 with 127mm f/3.8
Portra 400
Photoghost dev & scan


Somerset Steam Spectacular by Carl Hall, on Flickr
 
Carl Hall said:
The scans are pretty good although the colours are off a bit I think, and I think UKFL are much better quality (and bigger).
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Nice images! What film were they shot on? I think the colours look good, and to be honest I prefer the look of these to what UKFL produce. These look much more natural to me (and not oversharpened like UKFL's scans I've seen have been).
 
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