Bought a Film Camera

[danespann]

Well, I dug my old Minolta out and some expired Fuji C200 and shot some new stuff because of this thread. It’s been a long time.

Had it developed at my local lab, but decided to grab some macro extension tubes and try my hand at DSLR scanning. Went pretty decent, but still need to get better at it.

The Light Meter on my camera is broken, so I either pull out my iPhone to light meter or kinda guess. That usually ends up with underexposure it seems.

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_1 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_11 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_21 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_23 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 scans cropped_18 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 scans cropped_15 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

[tig]

I have no.desire to go back to dealing with film. In a former life, I did it all. But now, the convenience of digital and the power of modern smart phones is just ...

That said, I LOVE this thread and the results.

I recently posted a photo Sam Hurly took of Vlad in reddit and the top comment was "was that shot with film?".

People can tell.

[LeiseyJr]

Well, I dug my old Minolta out and some expired Fuji C200 and shot some new stuff because of this thread. It’s been a long time.

Had it developed at my local lab, but decided to grab some macro extension tubes and try my hand at DSLR scanning. Went pretty decent, but still need to get better at it.

The Light Meter on my camera is broken, so I either pull out my iPhone to light meter or kinda guess. That usually ends up with underexposure it seems.

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_1 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_11 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_21 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 Roll 2 cropped_23 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 scans cropped_18 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-06-06 scans cropped_15 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

Expired film usually requires a lot of overexposure depending on how it was stored. The iphone meter is usually pretty good.
Cool Pictures!

[LeiseyJr]

I have no.desire to go back to dealing with film. In a former life, I did it all. But now, the convenience of digital and the power of modern smart phones is just ...

That said, I LOVE this thread and the results.

I recently posted a photo Sam Hurly took of Vlad in reddit and the top comment was "was that shot with film?".

People can tell.

The beauty of it is I can always take out my phone and snap a picture if need be, unless it is dead.

[alemac1]

https://flic.kr/p/2m5Rb1w
https://flic.kr/p/2m5V1p7
https://flic.kr/p/2m5V147
https://flic.kr/p/2m5Racs

couple of film shots of my e28 over a few years. mostly Portra 400 shot on a Nikon F4. With one on something like fuji or something cheaper

[LeiseyJr]

https://flic.kr/p/2m5Rb1w
https://flic.kr/p/2m5V1p7
https://flic.kr/p/2m5V147
https://flic.kr/p/2m5Racs

couple of film shots of my e28 over a few years. mostly Portra 400 shot on a Nikon F4. With one on something like fuji or something cheaper

55850034 by alex macdonald, on Flickr
FH000009 by alex macdonald, on Flickr
CNV00014 4 by alex macdonald, on FlickrCNV00035 3 by alex macdonald, on Flickr

[LeiseyJr]

woops

[alemac1]

LesleyJr, thanks for reposting those - what did i do wrong to just get the links and not the images themselves come up (never bother posting pics online so I'm stupidly new to flickr) haha

[danespann]

Expired film usually requires a lot of overexposure depending on how it was stored. The iphone meter is usually pretty good.
Cool Pictures!

Thanks. I shot this as if it was 100 iso based on what I read about shooting expired but it probably has heat damage since it's Arizona.
Oh well I'll try shooting some different film soon.

[LeiseyJr]

047FBD84-2C20-4D1F-BC17-3B7CC0569FBD (1) by Kurvenkamph Motorsport, on Flickr

D281F571-88C4-41CE-9CE0-661973DFE6BE (1) by Kurvenkamph Motorsport, on Flickr

36E5D214-D2F5-4C00-B673-D700661B86CD (1) by Kurvenkamph Motorsport, on Flickr

[LeiseyJr]

IMG_2028 by Kurvenkamph Motorsport, on Flickr

[danespann]

Time to bring this thread back up with some photos from 5er Fest Reno. Kodak T-Max and Ilford HP5:

2021-09-18 7671 Kodak Tmax Reno 5er_11 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-09-18 7671 Kodak Tmax Reno 5er_7 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-09-18 7671 Kodak Tmax Reno 5er_16 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

2021-09-18 7669 hp5 scan_18 by Dane Spannaus, on Flickr

[vinceg101]

How did I not see you with a film camera last weekend?
I can usually hear a mechanical shutter and winder at 100 paces.

Shots look great; a few of the shots over in the Reno event thread were formatted brilliantly.
Have you experimented with filters for B&W yet? Green is good to punch vegetation and yellow/orange/red will get you higher contrast (red the highest).

Keep up the good work.

[danespann]

How did I not see you with a film camera last weekend?
I can usually hear a mechanical shutter and winder at 100 paces.

Shots look great; a few of the shots over in the Reno event thread were formatted brilliantly.
Have you experimented with filters for B&W yet? Green is good to punch vegetation and yellow/orange/red will get you higher contrast (red the highest).

Keep up the good work.

Thanks! I actually just used a little Fuji Discovery dual lens Point and Shoot for 90% of the weekend so I could keep it in my pocket. I think I took a few shots on the bigger camera with color film in but didn't finish off and develop that roll.

That also meant I couldn't use filters. I have some that I need to experiment with on the real cameras but I haven't yet. First round of shooting B&W film. Next round, I'll put it through some older cameras and use some filters. Thanks for the pointers on which filters do what.

[vinceg101]

Your B&W shots prompted me to stroll through my scanned images I shot in the (long) distant past with my 35mm's:
(I will fully confess most of these went through some sort of post-production adjustments, but for the most part, they're close to the originals. As you can see I was going through a serious vertical formatting stage.)

Sequoias, 1993 (Nikon F3HP, film unknown but I was shooting a lot of Ilford HP5 & FP4 and Kodak Tri-X back then. This might have had a green filter, but it was pretty dark in that forest so I was struggling for all the light I could get)


Manhattan, NYC, 1990 (Nikon FE2, again film unknown but likely Kodak Plus-X 125, Tri-X 400 or even TMax)


Craigmillar Castle, Scotland, 1990 (Nikon FE2, Kodak Tri-X 400 or TMax-400)


Falkscrath(sp) Keep, Ireland 1990 (Nikon FE2, Kodak Tri-400 or Tmax 400)


B&W is a lot of fun when you find the right film; it requires a different eye and mind-set to see subjects that are better expressed with black and white. What's interesting is to take both B&W and color images and flip the colors around (i.e. take the color shot and make it a B&W and vice-versa) to see if the composure holds up or if the impact of the image changes. It's a fun experiment to train you eye and brain.