cgiff wrote:
I just think you\'re used to being able to save shots like that in PP, where in reality the light just wasn\'t that good. I don\'t mean that at all offensively, digital just makes it a lot easier to do things like bring up shadows and alter color in post. With film you\'ve gotta know what you\'re hoping to get before you take the shot, and whether or not the film is going to let it happen.
Sorry if I\'m preaching to the choir here. I love the shot a few posts above with the lights and snowy cars -- great stuff.
Thanks. You are right that the light wasn\'t ideal but still, it\'s way worse than I expected. As it happens, I have no metering prism so I used my compact Leica X1 for metering and subsequently I\'ve got shots from both that I can compare. The shots below are in pairs - digital then film. They are not exactly the same but they were taken at the same time under the same roughly of t
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#2
#3
#4
I actually prefer the film shots, #2 and #4 but that has more to do with the medium format than with colors.
I have so far tried Ektar 100 and Portra 160 VC and can\'t say that I\'m a huge fan of either. I suppose that I should explore some other color films as well. I have not tried slides yet.
Makten wrote:
Denoir! Japanphoto charges only 39 SEK for developing one roll of 120 slide film, no matter what sort. I got very nice results with Provia 100 F, which I then scanned myself. But the cost of developing shouldn\'t have to be too bad then.
And then again; film is *not* going to look as perfect as digital. Colors will be off, too saturated, too dull, et cetera. Why not try to like it? In the shots you posted, I would only make minor adjustments to make them look good to my eye.
I develop my stuff and get it scanned at Crimson. They charge a bit more for the development and quite a lot for the scanning. It\'s quite convenient - I just post one of their envelopes with the film roll and I can download the images a day or two later. I would not even mind the price, but the scans are not very good, or at least I think they are not. And they are quite small - 3 Megapixel (1900 x 1500).
So I\'m at a crossroads. Either I give up the film thing or postpone it or get a big expensive film scanner. It\'s the size of the thing that bothers me the most, I don\'t really have any good place to put it. The other alternative is to try a couple different film stocks and see if I like the results better - although I\'m pretty sure the scans that I\'m getting won\'t improve...
Jan 13, 2011 at 06:54 PM
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