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bluebomberx · Resurected

I've been shooting a little bit of film again for kicks. Don't know what I get from it, but it makes me slow down and think about what I'm trying to accomplish before I press the shutter. Guess I'm just a gear junky at heart. I'm trying to get my EOS 5 fixed/replaced or pick up a used EOS 3. The wife just rolls her eyes... Still need to get another film scanner too.

JAW

Looks pretty nice! Can't wait to see what you get with it...

bluebomberx

Don't have any new stuff, but I uploaded some old film scans from 2001 and 2002 to my Flickr account. These were scanned with a Nikon 4000ED film scanner. Wish I had not sold it after switching to digital Sad

Fuji Superia 400 with a Canon 50mm f/1.8

Fuji Reala 100 and Canon 28-105

dooley

I'm liking them! Particularly the first - nice, warm lighting and DOF. I've never properly shot with film before - must force you to think about things a lot more so you're not wasting money on developing poorly composed pics!

bluebomberx

Thanks Dooley! Digital photography has certainly stepped up the pace of learning. The initial investment sucks, but the instant gratification is awesome. Before DSLRS became "affordable", few people would spend the cash to make mistakes and learn from them with film. I just won an auction on eBay for a Minolta X-700 manual SLR with a mystery lens for $52 USD. Looking forward to putting it to use. I'm pretty sure it's a 50mm f/1.7 that is coming with it, but I can't tell for sure.

Here is one more scan that I have up from Velvia 50 with a Canon EF 35mm f/2 lens. It was also shot in 2002 I think. I'm starting to really miss my Nikon 4000ED scanner...

Hamish

I miss Velvia. I really do.

I also miss the excitement at having to wait for the labs to process the slide film and the eagerness when you go back to pick them up.

But I don't miss:

Having to bracket and use up 2/3 of the (often expensive) film with pics you'd never keep

Having to write down all of your settings and then guess exactly which slides corresponded to them. In practice you'd hardly bother and the pace of learning was a lot slower.

Having to decide which type of film you'd use before you went out and missing some opportunistic snaps if the landscape film was too slow to handle some wildlife/action that you encountered... or having to waste film if you needed to change to, say ISO 400 and you hadn't finished the previous reel off.

Grain at ISOs considered quite low by today's standards, where it doesn't add to the image (e.g. the shadows in the plane pic)

The need for warming/cooling filters to get the WB accurate.

JAW

bluebomberx

Something about the wait always hyped me up too. The most I've ever taken with me on a trip is about 30 rolls of film. In fact, it was the same trip that produced the aircraft and battleship photos above. I think I took two rolls of Fuji Sensia 100 slide film, and and the rest was split between Fuji Reala 100, Superia 400, Superia 800, and a couple rolls of T-max 100. I was pretty good about keeping a good stash of Reala and Provia 100 as well as Kodak Portra 160NC and Ilford HP5+.

I haven't had the cash to stock up on film just yet. I've been shooting Kodak Gold 200 and Fuji Superia 400 because it's what I can get locally at good prices - ~$7.50 USD for five roll packs of 24 exposures. I eventually stopped printing experiments and asked the lab to process the film only. I got out the door for about $2.50/roll at that point. Then I'd go home and batch scan them in strips. I'll eventually get another 4000ED or it's successor, but only when the funds are available Sad

I might pick up some tanks/reels for b/w processing too.

I shot both of these photos in November with the Elan 7e and 24-70 f/2.8L on Kodak Gold 200. I finally managed to borrow my flatbed scanner from my dad. He said he wanted it back ASAP. I guess he forgot who paid for it... Very Happy

JAW

Immense colours!