I shot four rolls of colour film on our vacation last week: two rolls of Fuji Pro 400H in the Holga, a roll of Harman Phoenix in the Holga, and a roll of Kodak Aerocolor IV 2460 in my pinhole camera. My lab still doesn't know how to scan Aerocolor properly (I can rescan it myself once I get the negatives) but I always get a kick out of their scans and prefer them to more realistic colours.
Roll 184: Test roll with a new to me Bessa 6x9 to check for focus, film flatness, shutter, and light leaks. Only one keeper, and you can see the light leak from a mile away. *sigh* One more folder to try (an Ercona I in beauty queen condition, so fingers crossed) before I give up and just embrace the tank that is the GW690 I.
There is great pleasure in seeing a shot finally how you pre-visualized it when shooting. Something only analog gives me. I enjoy much more being in the moment, and not to check a screen. Also, smartphones have become too good and took the fun out of photography....
The Agfa 400 though won't become my facourite film stock, whatever the emulsion is....
Pentax MZ5 | Soligor 20mm F2.8 | Agfa Color 400 | Valoi Easy 35 | On1 Raw
Tim Floyd wrote:
James Taylor, Nikon FE2, FP4+, 510 Pyro
Wow! I never would have thought to use FP4 at a concert -- did you have to push it or was this shot at box speed? It looks great, and clearly he was well lit. :-)
An image from my first roll of slide film. I developed in HC-110 + ECN-2 chemicals and fogged with a light bulb. Everything worked, but some of the images on the roll were underexposed. So still have some tweaking to do. I'll try on scenes with less dynamic range next time, and use a spot meter averaging the high and low.
bjhurley wrote:
Wow! I never would have thought to use FP4 at a concert -- did you have to push it or was this shot at box speed? It looks great, and clearly he was well lit. :-)
I actually pulled it a little bit, shot at 100. It was very well lit - in fact, he's a little blown out.
lifeandmylens wrote:
An image from my first roll of slide film. I developed in HC-110 + ECN-2 chemicals and fogged with a light bulb. Everything worked, but some of the images on the roll were underexposed. So still have some tweaking to do. I'll try on scenes with less dynamic range next time, and use a spot meter averaging the high and low.
Mamiya 7ii + 80mm + Velvia 50
A lot of work but very nice.
Back in the Jurassic era, a couple of us would buy an E6 kit for twelve bucks and spend the weekend processing twelve or fifteen rolls of Ektachrome. I always ended up with the crappy job of mounting them cardboard and trying not to burn myself with the iron.
