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-The Dave- wrote: Different from what? Oct 14 12 08:01 pm Link Sprocket holes look dope yo. Oct 14 12 08:36 pm Link annie lomowitz wrote: She was...in fact I shot her again just last year when she was 66 I believe. And the shot I linked of her was shot around the same time Judy Dater did the one of her and Imogen Cunningham together. Same area too. Oct 14 12 08:44 pm Link Flash N Burn wrote: Do Americans in the digital/instagram age now have a fetish for film, which film photographs themselves are not sufficient to satisfy unless it's patently obvious that they were shot with "OMG REAL FILM"? Serious question. Oct 14 12 09:43 pm Link V Laroche wrote: If no one ever put 35mm in their medium format camera, the world would never have known images like the one posted in the OP. Would the world be better off they didn't exist? Is it up to you to say? Oct 14 12 10:00 pm Link V Laroche wrote: I shoot digital to make money, I shoot film to have fun. Oct 14 12 10:47 pm Link AgX wrote: Roy Hubbard wrote: I've tried the Tetenal C-41 kit just once and got a lot of grain. I shoot so little color that it's often just easier to take it to a pro lab several blocks away to have them process and scan. I do have a slew of Portra and Fuji 400H in the freezer, so maybe I'll do some autumn foliage and buy another kit. Oct 15 12 07:10 am Link AgX wrote: AgX wrote: I've tried the Tetenal C-41 kit just once and got a lot of grain. I shoot so little color that it's often just easier to take it to a pro lab several blocks away to have them process and scan. I do have a slew of Portra and Fuji 400H in the freezer, so maybe I'll do some autumn foliage and buy another kit. I'd definitely recommend playing around with it some more. The first few rolls I did were less than stellar, also, though I'm still not exactly sure why. After a color spree the past few weeks, I'm really happy with the results I've been getting. Oct 15 12 07:39 am Link V Laroche wrote: They are almost always landscape shots. No sense in wasting film that's going to get cropped down anyway. And the sprocket holes aren't always there - they are sometimes cropped out as well. V Laroche wrote: I don't know about the instagrammers (I never left film entirely), but for me its the superior dynamic range, exposure latitude and size of the film that sets it apart from digital. Oct 16 12 10:53 am Link From the Bronica RF645, an exceptional medium format rangefinder. 65mm f/4, Delta 400, XTOL 1+2 @68F for 12 min. Dec 05 12 09:53 am Link RB67 w/50mm, Arista 100 iso. Arista Developer Printing in my new darkroom on Ilford MGIV FB paper +2.5 Filter Yes, I'm in heaven. Dec 05 12 10:09 am Link Roy Hubbard wrote: Those are a lot finer grained than what I was getting with my first couple of iterations. Maybe you're right though, I should give it another shot. Dec 05 12 10:16 am Link Mamiya 67RZ Kodak Ektar100 Dec 05 12 10:17 am Link PhillipM wrote: Now that daylight savings is done, I can start printing again. I have to lug my Beseler 23C XL Dual Dichro upstairs to the bathroom to make prints. It's a real pain in the backside. Dec 05 12 10:20 am Link Tony-S wrote: What you need to do is sell your place and buy something with an extra bathroom that you can subvert permanently. Dec 05 12 10:23 am Link Tony-S wrote: Yeah, Tony, that would be a bitch to deal with off and on. I converted a storage room at the west end of the studio into a DR. I don't have running water in it yet, but that will come. Dec 05 12 10:26 am Link PhillipM wrote: As you get into more refined, complicated printing techniques, you will find that, to a point at least, larger prints will be easier to make. This is especially true when it comes to selective dodging and burning of smaller details. I printed some 8x10 for the first time in forever for a friend of mine and was continually frustrated by the lack of room, where as an 11x14 seems just right. Also, as the head is further away, your exposure times are longer. If doing split grade printing (especially if combined with a dodge or burn move) it's easier to divide up the longer time into sub exposures during which time you will be completing a secondary task. Dec 05 12 11:28 am Link PhillipM wrote: I'm loving the hell out of my RBs. I like a 180mm for portraits n that 50 is just so sweet.. focusing from 4" to infinity.. yum! Beautiful razor sharp images.. count the hairs on a fly's ass! Dec 05 12 02:57 pm Link Para: Thanks for the info. Insightful as usual... Baby steps for me right now, but I'm chomping at the bit to print larger. Waiting for that special image to do so though. Fstop: Love my RB too. I have to get another 120 back. Mine is Fubar'd, but I love that 50mm. I have a 180mm, but damn it's heavy when thrown on that RB. Dec 06 12 04:00 am Link Just received this in the mail yesterday. First of it I've seen for sale in at least the last 6 months, as they quit making it. And it's still got a couple of months left on the clock! Dec 06 12 04:22 am Link 1935 Netter Ikon 6x9, Ektachrome: Dec 06 12 04:36 am Link When I first got into photography in a serious way, a film SLR was all I could afford, so that's what I went with. The step up in quality from my little mid-2000s digital point and shoot to high-res scans of good film from a well-run Fuji Frontier machine was amazing and the money I saved by going analog rather than buying a DSLR meant that I could get a few nice lenses. Sadly, film prices just kept going up and it got to the point where I just couldn't afford to shoot film any more, but it was certainly fun while it lasted. Dec 06 12 06:34 am Link Love this thread. I'm not a film shooter myself, I have no desire to go back to that, but I really enjoy seeing everyone else's use of it. Dec 06 12 02:13 pm Link My shoes... Shot with Fomapan b/w on a Graplex Graphic View, developed in Arista 1:9, printed on Kodak Polycontrast III RC paper. Shot in the studio for a possible candidate for a print exchange later in 2013. - Arista Film - Dec 31 12 03:43 am Link Click Click Click wrote: Damn that's NICE!! Dec 31 12 08:47 pm Link Pulled out my RB67 yesterday. Got a WLF on it, and was test driving it. Shot in Nashville. Ilford 100, Arista Developer - - Jan 20 13 08:34 am Link I have entire folder of images I shot on film titled "Classic Shots" Jan 20 13 12:21 pm Link Mamiya RB67 / Fomapan BW Jan 23 13 02:51 pm Link Here's a link to one of my film images. Sorry, don't know how to upload the actual image.. https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/30566048 Jan 23 13 03:05 pm Link Crown Graphic HP5+ Rodinal 1-100 Jan 23 13 03:15 pm Link Jan 23 13 05:43 pm Link Last roll of film I shot in 2000. Sat in a humid garage for a decade undeveloped 'till I found them by accident. "Universal 200" was the film they sold us at school (High School). It was actually the last time I visited Mexico, going back in 2 weeks just 13 years after this photo was taken. Jan 23 13 05:46 pm Link PhillipM wrote: Very expressive, loved it. Jan 23 13 06:02 pm Link Jan 23 13 07:06 pm Link Not the best, but one that I was able to find. 4x5 negative film. Shot back in 2003. Jan 23 13 07:57 pm Link Carioca wrote: This is beautiful. It needs nothing else. Jan 24 13 02:30 pm Link Leica R6.2 Leica 180mm f2 APO Kodak ektar Jan 24 13 03:27 pm Link Mission Mountains, Montana. Bronica GS-1, PG 200mm f/4.5 at f/11 and 1/2", Ilford SFX film, #89B (Cokin 007) near-IR filter, Perceptol 1+1 for 20 min at 68 F. It's too bad real IR film is tough to come by these days, with Efke gone. Mission Mountains, Montana 2 Feb 13 13 07:15 pm Link Mmm. Velvia 50 and reciprocity effect! Bronica GS-1, 50mm lens, 2 minute exposure. St. Mary Falls, Glacier National Park, USA Feb 13 13 07:16 pm Link Both of the above examples are very cool. I've never shot IR or Velvia. The former, I'm not likely to, the latter perhaps someday (I have some Sensia in one body now; my first chromes). Feb 14 13 12:39 pm Link |