Bought a Film Camera

[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.