I like film...(open thread)

[stray cat]

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I also compared your pictures for a while. Both are developed very nicely and in my opinion neither is better than the other, but overall I like the second a tad more for the slightly fresher greens and the for the "poppier" red of the boat.

 

Thank you sincerely James, and I think I tend to agree with you on the second picture for the reasons given.

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[philipus]

Excellent results Antonio, I particularly like the first one. Quite amazing for a two-stop push. How was it developed?

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[Doc Henry]

Rolleiflex 6008 I2, Portra 160 at Box speed

 

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In my opinion Portra is best at Box speed. Those negs were scanned at meinfilmlab.de and i asked the boss

about his opinion. He told me the same. Correctly exposed, Porta has a wide range from highlights to shadows.

They are developing and scanning a lot of Portra, so i believe in his words.

 

Thanks Klaus for this confirmation

 

My Kodak Portra seller tell me the same remark and he is often in breaking of stock

Henry

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[Doc Henry]

I posted above some ticks and Lyme disease in picture 

Here another picture in Fuji Superia 100 taken with my Leica R4S

 

Notice the color skin , pores and the "erythema migrans" aureole

all is well reproduced by film color !

My diagnostic is Borreliosis .  You can see in the middle of the aureole

the tick bite trace.

 

 

Fuji Superia 100-Leica R4S-Summicron 50

 

 

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[AntonioF]

Excellent results Antonio, I particularly like the first one. Quite amazing for a two-stop push. How was it developed?

br

Philip

 

Thanks a lot.

I always use HC-110 dilution B (1:31). Continuous agitation for the first minute and then 3-4 inversions every minute. Suggested time is 11 minutes for HP5 @ 1600.

I find HP5 to perform very well when pushed 2 stops.

I have also tried Trix @ 1600, but it gets too contrasty. On the contrary HP5 stock makes everything grey.

 

I think my preference at the moment is Trix when 400 is enough and HP5 when you need 2 extra stops.

[gnuyork]

Having been without, firstly, my scanner (now fixed!!) and secondly my computer (the old Mac Pro finally died. I am waiting on a new iMac which #&$%@! Apple seem to have "lost" for the last couple of weeks and am using a borrowed computer with the drives from my old computer), I have been neglectful in regards to this forum.

 

Anyway, I've been noticing a lot of conversation around the relative merits of various colour films. Whilst I think we all have our favourites, and with good cause, I'd just like to add a small consideration of processing to the conversation. It can potentially make a vast difference to the end result, at least as displayed on our monitors - and this is independent of whether the original picture was taken using digital, colour negative, slide or black and white film.

 

As an example, here are two different treatments of the same picture from my recent trip to Cape Light ...er Cape Cod. The negative is on Portra 160. One of these examples was scanned as a transparency, the other as a colour negative (using Vuescan) and both were processed to the best of my ability - ie I tried to get the picture as aesthetically pleasing as possible, while keeping it reasonably accurate to my memory of the scene.

 

Perhaps you prefer one or the other? I'd be interested to hear any comments anyone might care to make:

 

 

 

Wellfleet, Massachusetts June 2017

M6TTL, 35mm Summicron, Portra 160

Yes, I find there is much leeway in interpretation for scans (and even more so with digital RAW files). With my most recent scanning of Porta 160 I had a hard time arriving at a look. Of my scanning experience, I have the least with color neg (I mainly shoot transparency for color). For most of my slide scans I use the slide on the light table as a reference, but even then, it can be tricky. I have calibration tools for scanner/monitor and I still find it challenging to understand profiling and calibrating my scanner.

 

Anyway, I prefer the 2nd interpretation of your image. I feel like it has more punch/contrast and therefore more dimension.

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Firstly, thank you Frank. Secondly - what an incredible resource we are afforded when we have our old negatives and transparencies that, in effect, trace the stories of our lives. That you can resurrect them at will - even finding them in a paper bag or a shoe box or whatever - is pretty mind-blowing when you think about it. There they are, those pieces of plastic that were there - with you! - at that concert, or that wedding, or in front of that loved one or that sunset or whatever. The camera, the sunset, even sometimes the loved one may have gone from your life, but these tangible souvenirs remain.

 

Photography. Isn't it great?

Yeah! It is.

Feel like in a time machine that leeds me to some foreign land. OK - it's my life but it is so far away. How different the world was in these days. Long before the internet and computers. And even if the film starts fading, hard to imagine what it will take to have digital files readable after nearly 40 years. The negs was just there with close to no care.

 

f-)

[STK]

Take solace from the fact that at least they cleaned the Thames up enough that there are fish alive in it these days.

You got yourself a great shot of Tower Bridge for your troubles.

 

A few more from sunrise with MP/50APO, Portra 160.

All of these are from wide open up to f/5.6 by the end I'd imagine (given it was sunrise/160 speed film.)

 

 

(Still shocked they allow driving on huge sand dunes in a National Park)

 

 

 

 

Looking back away from the sea, to give a sense of scale of the dunes (those are full height gum trees)

 

I've got some really nice B/W ones with the 50 I'll upload later..

Really perfect light, color anf framing - simply great

[chrism]

Pippa prefers I take photos of winches rather than wenches. F6, 35/1.4, Acros 100, HC-110, X1.

 

Winch 2 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Winch 1 by chrism229, on Flickr

[Keith (M)]

Secondly - what an incredible resource we are afforded when we have our old negatives and transparencies that, in effect, trace the stories of our lives. That you can resurrect them at will - even finding them in a paper bag or a shoe box or whatever - is pretty mind-blowing when you think about it. There they are, those pieces of plastic that were there - with you! - at that concert, or that wedding, or in front of that loved one or that sunset or whatever. The camera, the sunset, even sometimes the loved one may have gone from your life, but these tangible souvenirs remain.

 

Photography. Isn't it great?

 

Absolutely! Number 2 son was born exceedingly prematurely and spent weeks in an incubator (with oxygen enriched atmosphere). Here he is in a transitional period.  Now?  A 39-year old father of three and a very successful businessman.

 

Taken with either my Yashica 124G or Mamiya C3 on slide film.

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[B.Toews]

M6, Voigtlander 35/2.5, HP5, D76:

 

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[Michael Hiles]

 what an incredible resource we are afforded when we have our old negatives and transparencies that, in effect, trace the stories of our lives. That you can resurrect them at will - even finding them in a paper bag or a shoe box or whatever - is pretty mind-blowing when you think about it. There they are, those pieces of plastic that were there - with you! - at that concert, or that wedding, or in front of that loved one or that sunset or whatever. The camera, the sunset, even sometimes the loved one may have gone from your life, but these tangible souvenirs remain.

 

Photography. Isn't it great?

 

Yes - and for all the reasons you so eloquently set out. My archive goes back to my late teens, and each image brings back a memory of some sort. All the old negatives and slide have been scanned, and my file system and captions mean that I can lay hands on any image's negative in about 30 seconds. The record is there - essentially permanently. My heirs and successors may not care but I certainly do.

 

Thanks for your comment.

[SunnySixteen]

Into the sunset

Portra 400 - M6 - 50/2

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My son and future daughter-in-law (future ends Labor Day Weekend) -- Leica R 6.2 and the R 90mm Elmarit ..... wanted to get an SLR, skipped the SL (digital) and went straight to the M6 equivalent ... weight, form factor, etc is GREAT! purely mechanical except for the TTL meter, spot or average choice. Will have some fun with this in the coming weeks ...  BTW, no crop because I wanted to show the whole pic and no adjustments ...

 

 

 

 

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here is a cropped picture of my sweetheart with her grandson in the pool ....

 

 

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These are all PORTA 160 ...

[stray cat]

Yes, I find there is much leeway in interpretation for scans (and even more so with digital RAW files). With my most recent scanning of Porta 160 I had a hard time arriving at a look. Of my scanning experience, I have the least with color neg (I mainly shoot transparency for color). For most of my slide scans I use the slide on the light table as a reference, but even then, it can be tricky. I have calibration tools for scanner/monitor and I still find it challenging to understand profiling and calibrating my scanner.

 

Anyway, I prefer the 2nd interpretation of your image. I feel like it has more punch/contrast and therefore more dimension.

 

Thank you sincerely Gnu. Yes, to my mind, and to the memory of how the evening "felt", number two is the one I'd go with. I'm unsure if it is the more accurate, but I can look at it and "feel" the feeling I had that evening in front of that scene. Which, at least to my way of thinking, is what it is all about really.

 

Yeah! It is.

Feel like in a time machine that leeds me to some foreign land. OK - it's my life but it is so far away. How different the world was in these days. Long before the internet and computers. And even if the film starts fading, hard to imagine what it will take to have digital files readable after nearly 40 years. The negs was just there with close to no care.

 

f-)

 

 

Absolutely! Number 2 son was born exceedingly prematurely and spent weeks in an incubator (with oxygen enriched atmosphere). Here he is in a transitional period.  Now?  A 39-year old father of three and a very successful businessman.

 

Taken with either my Yashica 124G or Mamiya C3 on slide film.

 

 

Yes - and for all the reasons you so eloquently set out. My archive goes back to my late teens, and each image brings back a memory of some sort. All the old negatives and slide have been scanned, and my file system and captions mean that I can lay hands on any image's negative in about 30 seconds. The record is there - essentially permanently. My heirs and successors may not care but I certainly do.

 

Thanks for your comment.

 

 

And thank you sincerely Frank, Keith and Michael. Some pictures, like Keith's here, are... well... priceless. Keith and his partner couldn't possibly have known what the future held for that little bundle in the incubator. But here it is, a moment of transition held forever in time, the future unresolved but (as it turned out) great. And Frank - "it's my life but so far away". How true that is. Sometimes we can look at these photos at a complete remove, almost as if we forget that it was we ourselves who took them, we ourselves standing in front of the scene with a camera containing the very piece of film we're looking at now. And Michael - it is true - our heirs and successors may not care (although sometimes they may) but that is really out of our hands. It's OUR story. It's important to US - each moment captured, each split second frozen is a fraction of time that testifies that we were THERE, in space and time, standing right in front of whatever it is shown - and if it's there on film (or on digital files) or in prints, it means something to us.

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Thanks all for the positive feedback on the 50APO beach shots.

 

Love your family shots above Steve, the R6.2 is a fine camera, looks like you are enjoying it.

Totally agree with straycat's (and everyone else's) nicely expressed thoughts on film through the lens of timet.

 

I don't normally share family pictures but since we're on the subject, time is all too short, and my youngest is now 7 (and right at this moment in time I can feel her standing on the precipice of leaving innocence behind forever.)

 

A fun 'old school cool' shot with the SWC/Provia 400. A very recent holiday rental house with such retro authentic furniture we felt compelled to capture it.

 

And both my kids, with the Rolleiflex/Portra 160 this time

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Thanks all for the positive feedback on the 50APO beach shots.

 

Love your family shots above Steve, the R6.2 is a fine camera, looks like you are enjoying it.

Totally agree with straycat's (and everyone else's) nicely expressed thoughts on film through the lens of timet.

 

I don't normally share family pictures but since we're on the subject, time is all too short, and my youngest is now 7 (and right at this moment in time I can feel her standing on the precipice of leaving innocence behind forever.)

 

A fun 'old school cool' shot with the SWC/Provia 400. A very recent holiday rental house with such retro authentic furniture we felt compelled to capture it.

 

 

And both my kids, with the Rolleiflex/Portra 160 this time

 

 

Thanks a lot, Coogee. Fast forward 10 or 20 years and try to imagine the different vibe you'll be getting from these wonderful pictures then!

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