Activatedfx wrote:
A few from Lower Manhattan, NYC this week. 500 C/M + 80/2.8 + Provia 100. Home developed using the FPP Arista Rapid E-6 kit. Scanned via A7ii + Tamron 90/2.5 Macro (52BB) using a Lomo "DigitaLiza 120" and lightbox.
Thanks! I'm just LOVING Provia. Those colors!! And the raw negatives look exactly like the images I posted. No adjustments. So rich. DR for years. No blown highlights. Shadow detail is there. Crazy good!
And I'm metering pretty loosely - I just point my iPhone at the subject using the the "Lux" App, then wing it.
So I recently picked up a Leica R9 for cheeeep. It came with a roll of Tri-X in it, only 8 exposures taken.
As it had 28 left, I wasn't going to waste it, so I loaded it into the most opposite camera I had - a Zenit 12SD..
Zenit 12SD, Helios44 58 2.0, Tri-X from a Leica..
The first 8 shots were of some suburban street, just pointed down the street.
edwardkaraa wrote:
...Love your ektachrome set. Nice color palette that looks very natural without excessive saturation. I’m really looking forward to the revival of ektachrome film.
Thanks very much Edward. I applied Lightroom tweaks trying to get close to the colour saturation I see in each original slide, although even the mighty Nikon scanner is found lacking a little with these slides. Gold leaf needs special attention!
Here are a few more from that same day. I had basically no idea where almost all of these were taken. I solved that by a combo of Google image search, and some contextual keywords, once I had located one town (from Google image search) on my little-remembered route. Its been a fun detective exercise.
I love the results from film, but I'm pretty terrible about sending rolls off for development. Here are a random assortment of shots that I got back recently. The first and last photos of my daughter should give you an indication of how long it took me to have one of the rolls developed. All shot on a Leica M6 with Portra400 except for the last, which was shot on a Nikon F3HP with 50/1.2.
shujert - Nice photos! Great look and feel from the Portra.
I was pretty much ready to sell my film cameras because getting the film developed was costly and time-consuming. Then I decided to try home developing, which completely changed the game for me.
I had only planned to do B/W, and that is very easy, particularly with the "FF No. 1 Monobath" developer I use. More recently, I decided to try home-developing color, and that is also not very difficult. The "Arista Rapid E-6" kit from Film Photography Project (there's also a kit for C-41) uses 3 solutions rather than 6, and only needs to be kept at around 100ºF, which is easy to do in a kitchen sink filled with 100º water. I haven't been super crazy about getting the temp exactly right, and have had no issues.
See my home-developed Provia 100 post on this page and a few pages back. Not too shabby!
Excuse the non-film photo (video-still), but imagine being presented with an opportunity to capture two of our largest raptors, and only having a smartphone and a Hexar RF with 50mm lens and ISO 6 B&W film!
I tried about 6 shots with the film camera but I'm not hopeful!
One of two Wedgetail eagles (Aquila audax) hunting.
Activatedfx wrote:
shujert - Nice photos! Great look and feel from the Portra.
I was pretty much ready to sell my film cameras because getting the film developed was costly and time-consuming. Then I decided to try home developing, which completely changed the game for me.
I had only planned to do B/W, and that is very easy, particularly with the "FF No. 1 Monobath" developer I use. More recently, I decided to try home-developing color, and that is also not very difficult. The "Arista Rapid E-6" kit from Film Photography Project (there's also a kit for C-41) uses 3 solutions rather than 6, and only needs to be kept at around 100ºF, which is easy to do in a kitchen sink filled with 100º water. I haven't been super crazy about getting the temp exactly right, and have had no issues.
See my home-developed Provia 100 post on this page and a few pages back. Not too shabby!...Show more →
I agree! Developing C41, E6, and B&W is so easy and super enjoyable. Just crack a beer and enjoy the process.
Interestingly I bought the Jupiter 8 NOS from a Russian seller on ebay for about $40. It was to be my 'beater' lens. But even though I have lots of fancy-pants Leica glass, I really like this tiny, superlight, unassuming lens. I just wish it had indexing for the aperture stops, as the aperture ring rotates too easily.
Same as above, but converted to B&W. This is actually why I am finding it hard to shoot real B&W film (which my freezer is full of!). I really like the results I get by just converting my colour C41 film, and of course you then have the flexibility of having that option.
There actually is more detail in the deep shadows but I prefer it processed like this. Otherwise it becomes kinda digital/hdr-looking.
Hoping this comes to pass, but I have a line on a white faced Rolleiflex for an absurdly cheap price. It looks to have some issues, but it’s my “Holy Grail” of a camera.
