@Desmolicious I was just wondering, as you seem to shoot a lot of film (and the images look very nice throughout) - do you develop (and scan) all this stuff yourself?
If so I'd be interested to hear about your setup / workflow..
..or do you just happen to have a good lab nearby (you must have some sort of a flatrate deal with them, haha)
Tina Kino wrote:
@Desmolicious@ I was just wondering, as you seem to shoot a lot of film (and the images look very nice throughout) - do you develop (and scan) all this stuff yourself?
If so I'd be interested to hear about your setup / workflow..
..or do you just happen to have a good lab nearby (you must have some sort of a flatrate deal with them, haha)
B&W I develop myself using Cinestill DF96 monobath. I scan with a Nikon Z7, 60mm G lens and Nikon ES-2 holder for 35mm. For 120/220, same camera and lens, but a Lomo Digitiliza film holder and a copy stand.
Kolor film my local lab develops it, but the rest is as above scanning it myself. I use negativelabpro to convert negative to positive.
Desmolicious wrote:
B&W I develop myself using Cinestill DF96 monobath. I scan with a Nikon Z7, 60mm G lens and Nikon ES-2 holder for 35mm. For 120/220, same camera and lens, but a Lomo Digitiliza film holder and a copy stand.
Kolor film my local lab develops it, but the rest is as above scanning it myself. I use negativelabpro to convert negative to positive.
Nice, thanks for elaborating ✌️
I never tried the CineStill DF96. Suppose where you live you can do this at room temperature, basically 😀
Tried Negative Lab Pro myself for the first time recently, and was quite pleased with the results 👍
opotopo wrote:
Thank you. I've been to the Ticino area and that was pretty special too. Where would you recommend in the SE?
There’ll be people here much better able than me to recommend good places in SE Switzerland. What I will say is that both the Prättigau and Engadin valleys are just wonderful.
We’ve been going to that area for over twenty five years, initially for skiing, but fairly quickly for hiking and climbing in the summer too. The Klosters / Davos ski area is well known, of course, but within a year or two of first going in the 90s, we realised that we enjoyed it even more in the summer. Hiking over to the Lower Engadin from the Vereina Valley, for example, is — for anyone who enjoys that sort of thing — delightful. Walking up to the glacier above the SAC Silvrettahütte is a fascinating outing.
And if, like me, you are keen on trains, the Rhätische Bahn is a real treat. Some of the viaducts are stunning. There is a great railway museum at Bergün, not far from the famous Landwasser Viaduct.
With apologies for not having replied sooner and to everyone else for going rather badly off topic.
Desmolicious wrote:
B&W I develop myself using Cinestill DF96 monobath. I scan with a Nikon Z7, 60mm G lens and Nikon ES-2 holder for 35mm. For 120/220, same camera and lens, but a Lomo Digitiliza film holder and a copy stand.
Kolor film my local lab develops it, but the rest is as above scanning it myself. I use negativelabpro to convert negative to positive.
I have been talking about scan by myself for a long time.
Hopefully I could get it set up once I move in new house.
Gonna " retrie " my Z7 II as film scan only , and buy the Z8 as my primary digital camera.
A few from Easter. Leica M6 + 28 cron + Portra 400. I even got one with me in it hah! Set the lens to f/8, zone focused and gave the camera to a stranger and what do you know it's not too bad!
I've been wanting to test my home-brew C-41 chemicals and it does a good job. Probably not quite as good as some commercial kits, but much cheaper. Next on my list is to compare using these chemicals versus just cross processing in ECN-2.
lifeandmylens wrote:
A few from Easter. Leica M6 + 28 cron + Portra 400. I even got one with me in it hah! Set the lens to f/8, zone focused and gave the camera to a stranger and what do you know it's not too bad!..
The only time I'm handing a Leica to a stranger is if they are either wearing clogs or in a wheelchair.
lifeandmylens wrote:
The smile on my face is hiding my internal panic of them dropping it haha.
I feel you. A couple of weeks ago I handed my beloved Holga TLR Pinkie to a complete stranger to take this pic of me and Dr G.
My train of thought was a bit different though. More on the lines of if he drops it, would it re-center the lens?
My favorite couple photos from my roll I can’t post because they are larger than the 1.4 MB limit. And I can’t do the convoluted way of posting through Flickr. Too bad about that upload size issue. I’ve run into it many times. I feel like the size hasn’t updated in a decade. Oh well.
Andrew CD wrote:
There’ll be people here much better able than me to recommend good places in SE Switzerland. What I will say is that both the Prättigau and Engadin valleys are just wonderful.
We’ve been going to that area for over twenty five years, initially for skiing, but fairly quickly for hiking and climbing in the summer too. The Klosters / Davos ski area is well known, of course, but within a year or two of first going in the 90s, we realised that we enjoyed it even more in the summer. Hiking over to the Lower Engadin from the Vereina Valley, for example, is — for anyone who enjoys that sort of thing — delightful. Walking up to the glacier above the SAC Silvrettahütte is a fascinating outing.
And if, like me, you are keen on trains, the Rhätische Bahn is a real treat. Some of the viaducts are stunning. There is a great railway museum at Bergün, not far from the famous Landwasser Viaduct.
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Many thanks Andrew. I will make a note of these locations and attractions for our next adventure that way. All the best. Simon
