This could turn out to be the loneliest topic on Muvipix. I don't know if anyone else that visits is still doing film photography, but I would love to see your work and any tips.I love being thoughtful with each shot.
This Christmas I got C41 chemicals and a sous vide (for temperature control) from my wife. I developed my first roll of color film ever yesterday, and I must say it's easier then doing B&W film.
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That would be a sight to see Sidd! I'm taking the new drone out for the first time late this afternoon after I visit my Father. Just will try to figure out the controls.
This is cool, Ed. Is this print film or slides? If print, are you also developing your own prints? I'm wondering how you got from the film to the pics you posted. My dad had a darkroom and we would develop B&W negative film and make prints, often up to 11x14. He always said that developing color print film and prints was more difficult because it required more chemicals and closer control of temperatures, but we never tried it.
These are color negative taken with Kodak Proimage 100 film and a Minolta Hi-Matic G camera I bought in college, I think 1978. It's a point and shoot, but it's a great camera to slip in a jacket pocket.
I don't have a darkroom. I use a daylight developing tank and scan the negatives. I wish I could do prints, that was my favorite thing to do in photography classes. There's a lab you can rent time in at a federal park near me, but they've been closed because of Covid.
The toughest thing with color developing is you need a constant temp for the chemicals, usually 102 degrees, and there is a bleach agent involved. I got a sous vide for my holiday gift to keep the temp, keeping the chemical bottles in a water bath.
ed wrote:These are color negative taken with Kodak Proimage 100 film and a Minolta Hi-Matic G camera I bought in college, I think 1978. It's a point and shoot, but it's a great camera to slip in a jacket pocket. I don't have a darkroom. I use a daylight developing tank and scan the negatives. I wish I could do prints, that was my favorite thing to do in photography classes. There's a lab you can rent time in at a federal park near me, but they've been closed because of Covid. The toughest thing with color developing is you need a constant temp for the chemicals, usually 102 degrees, and there is a bleach agent involved. I got a sous vide for my holiday gift to keep the temp, keeping the chemical bottles in a water bath.[/img]
This is a great video explaining how to use a spot meter in film photography. I have a Minolta meter, but the nice thing about the one he's using is you don't have to change attachments to go from incident to spot metering. He's also so correct that you're best to slightly over expose film. I think digital is the reverse from that because you can't recover the blown out highlights.
Here's a photo of my Dad from last weekend I used the incident light attachment on. I've been a little lazy and used either a phone app or the camera meter (if it has one) lately. Camera is Yashicaflex B, film is Kodak Porta 160 shoot at box speed.
I really enjoyed using film cameras. It was a surprise to find out if the picture you took was any good (relative term) You had to really make sure the shot was worth it to take.
But now I have been shooting on my Casio QV-10 and it is such a cool experience.
It has a fixed focus, rotating F2.0 lens, which is equivalent to 60mm. The price is around $750, which is a bargain. Photos are captured by a 1/5" CCD, which produces photos at a gigantic resolution of 320 x 240. The QV-10 has no memory card, instead saving photos to its 16Mbit (2MB) of built-in memory. Cameras does not capture movies but I love it.
Sidd
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
sidd finch wrote:Amen to that. It also makes it easier to send pictures to my friend through Hotmail (upgraded from my Lycos account). Gosh I love this technology.