Keith (M) Posted December 31, 2011 Share #1 Posted December 31, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) For me, anyway! After an absence of some years, film (specifically b&w) firmly re-established itself in my heart this year. It was something that had been slowly sneaking up in the back of my mind for a while and at the start of the year I succumbed sufficiently to put new batteries and a roll of Tri-X in my long, long ignored ME Super. After that, there was no escape... Digital is certainly not forgotten and is probably still well ahead frame number-wise. Over the course of the last eleven months I've managed to expose 28 rolls but due to circumstances for two of those months, I was pretty much limited to digital. I look forward with anticipation to 2012 and the opportunity to expose many more rolls! Film (almost) rools. PS - photo does not break forum rules - taken with M9 & Elmar 90mm f4 (1/6th sec hand-held!) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/169631-2011-the-year-of-film/?do=findComment&comment=1885132'>More sharing options...
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alw Posted December 31, 2011 Share #2 Posted December 31, 2011 Way to go, I´m all in! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym911 Posted December 31, 2011 Share #3 Posted December 31, 2011 nice setup......that rolleicord is lovely..have one myself...there is something very subduing when shooting 12 exposures on one roll...have also the flex 2.8f but prefer the small light cord anyday....enjoy your film days.. best andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim123 Posted December 31, 2011 Share #4 Posted December 31, 2011 Never left slide film. I dont know anything else. Slide film and Leicas it doesnt get any better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted December 31, 2011 Share #5 Posted December 31, 2011 2011 was my first film-only year since the Nikon D70 came out. I now don't own a proper digital camera. Just 2 M2s, a Kowa SIX, a Hasselblad 500c/m, an OM1n, an OM2n and a Rollei 35s. How quickly things get out of hand when you're having fun. Film only for me in 2012 if Portra stays available. Happy New Year. Pete Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/169631-2011-the-year-of-film/?do=findComment&comment=1885189'>More sharing options...
andybarton Posted December 31, 2011 Share #6 Posted December 31, 2011 PS - photo does not break forum rules - taken with M9 & Elmar 90mm f4 (1/6th sec hand-held!) It wouldn't break forum rules, regardless Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveYork Posted January 1, 2012 Share #7 Posted January 1, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I shot 203 rolls of film last year. Much more then the previous year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandro Posted January 1, 2012 Share #8 Posted January 1, 2012 Happy New Year to all! with lots of fun with films. I don't have (and never had) a digital camera and I'm (still) happy without. Recently I began using black & white again and I enjoy it a lot. Lex Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
epm Posted January 2, 2012 Share #9 Posted January 2, 2012 I too have been on a film kick, after purchasing a used M7 with a Summicron 50mm late summer 2010, I have been shooting again and enjoying all of it! I even started processing my own black and white film and have branched away from my standard Tri-X and started shooting Efke. Wow the grain is so tight! I also enjoy Ektar and the Portra films! I am a big fan of film and will continue to shoot film as long as it is being made. Eric Eric Patrick McCormack Photography - Fine Art and Portrait Photography Flickr: E_Mack's Photostream Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 4, 2012 Share #10 Posted January 4, 2012 I spent 2 hours yesterday driving round East Sussex trying to find chromogenic B&W 35mm film. I am going off to stay with relatives in the Caribbean tomorrow, using up all my expiring Airmiles, and the only B&W film you can get developed there is C41 stuff. I managed to find just one roll of nearly out of date XP2, so in the end, went for a pack of Superia 200 colour negative, which I will scan to black and white when I get back home. The large (they would like to think of themselves as professional) camera shop I eventually bought in, probably had around 30 rolls of film in total, including a couple rolls of HP5 and FP4 but no 120, chromogenic, colour reversal or Kodak film at all. No wonder Kodak is in trouble. Film is rapidly becoming a mail order speciality. I thought I had a pack of Kodak BW400CN sitting in the fridge but when I went to get it, found it was 120 and all I had in there in 35mm was T-Max100 and 3200 Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alw Posted January 4, 2012 Share #11 Posted January 4, 2012 Have a great trip! I work in a newspaper as a picture editor, and many years ago when we went digital, all the film stock from the vast fridges was distributed to us as redundant. Luckily my freezer still has abundant reserves of out-of-date film. Of course I keep buying new as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 4, 2012 Share #12 Posted January 4, 2012 I spent 2 hours yesterday driving round East Sussex trying to find chromogenic B&W 35mm film. Hmm... Boots does 400CN and XP2. Well at least they do in Waterloo, Guildford, Camberley, Farnborough, Frimley, Reading, Bracknell, Woking, Weybridge, Aldershot, Southampton... I cannot vouch for anywhere else, but... Perhaps East Sussex is a special case? Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted January 4, 2012 Share #13 Posted January 4, 2012 Surprisingly some Jessops branches carry a small but decent range of 35mm and 120 film. However if I shoot C41 I tend to go with colour stock anyway. Indeed, unless you happen to live near a reliable retailer then ordering over the internet is the way to go, but that's the same for quite a few things - when's the last time you tried to buy a book that's off the bestseller list, from an actual shop! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 4, 2012 Share #14 Posted January 4, 2012 Doesn't the shop in Lewes sell film? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted January 4, 2012 Share #15 Posted January 4, 2012 Perhaps East Sussex is a special case? It wouldn't have been difficult to get XP2 or 400CN in Brighton but maybe Wilson lives the other side of the county? As Bill states, Boots almost always still has C41 B&W film (plus usually a colour slide film or two), though you do have to be prepared to pay a bit through the nose for it. Still, the point is that they still sell it. I haven't checked recently but it used to be possible to get C41 B&W from most supermarkets in the form of B&W single use cameras which you can easily crack open and remove the film. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 4, 2012 Share #16 Posted January 4, 2012 Hmm... Boots does 400CN and XP2. Well at least they do in Waterloo, Guildford, Camberley, Farnborough, Frimley, Reading, Bracknell, Woking, Weybridge, Aldershot, Southampton... I cannot vouch for anywhere else, but... Perhaps East Sussex is a special case? Regards, Bill Boots in Haywards Heath had just 400 ISO colour Fuji and then only about 4 rolls. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 4, 2012 Share #17 Posted January 4, 2012 Doesn't the shop in Lewes sell film? Andy, I am sure it does but I was up in the north and east of the county with a whole list of things that needed to be bought/collected for my sister-in-law in Barbados. The last time I went to buy B&W film from H. A. Baker about 30 months ago, when they were in a bit of an interregnum, they had limited choice and the date was rather short on the Delta 3200 I bought then. It was such a foul day, that by the time I had done all the shopping and was thoroughly wet through and bad tempered, I could not be bothered to go and pay to park in Lewes, so I just bought what Park Cameras had. As I only print from scans, using colour negative film does not matter a whole lot anyway. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted January 4, 2012 Share #18 Posted January 4, 2012 Presumably you can't get C41 B&W film in Barbados? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted January 4, 2012 Share #19 Posted January 4, 2012 I haven't checked recently but it used to be possible to get C41 B&W from most supermarkets in the form of B&W single use cameras which you can easily crack open and remove the film. A couple of points as I don't know if you are talking from a theoretical point of view or whether you've done this yourself (applogies if the latter). If the camera has flash there'll be a largish capacitor inside the body. You need to take care not to accidentaly short that. The few disposible cameras I've taken apart rewound the film back into the cassette as the shots were taken, so if you open up the body in daylight you'll expose the unexposed film. Doing it in a changing bag/darkroom leads me back to the previous paragraph. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted January 4, 2012 Share #20 Posted January 4, 2012 Doing it in a changing bag/darkroom leads me back to the previous paragraph. Yes, both good points. You can avoid the changing bag/darkroom if you fire the shutter and wind-on the camera through the whole roll of film before taking it apart. Obviously you need to cover the lens (and preferably do it somewhere fairly dark) to avoid exposing or fogging the film. It's all a bit moot because a quick search on Google suggests you can no longer buy the B&W single use cameras. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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