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Just getting started in film and for the most part photography on any kind of regular basis. I have a few questions if appropriate to ask here. I spend very little time on the internet but this site and in particular this thread is full of wonderful images and talent. I have a few older 35mm film cameras as well as a borrowed Leica M4 that I plan to use for all of this year. I find the M4 much easier to focus than my Nikon FM and my now older eyes. I did mess with digital a few years back for a little while but I am not fond of computers, learning software and digital editing of any sort. Plenty old enough to have spent a large portion of my life with film but never had an interest at the time. I see many of you post your images along with the camera and lens used as well as the developer details. Does anyone here just send out their exposed film? I am intrigued by the process of a wet print but hesitate because it seems that darkroom work is an endeavor which require a significant amount of time and added expense. It often takes me a good month to exhaust a roll of film. Time, interesting subject matter (do not wish to shoot just for the sake of shooting) and the changing light can be a challenge when using say one roll of Kodak TMax 3200 over a period of 30-40 days. Trying to meter (phone app) for indoors and outdoors at box speed can also be rather limiting. Do any of you have a preferred lab in the USA that you like? That is how I plan to start. Send out the first three rolls and see how I did with metering. My apologies for the long text. Paul

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32 minutes ago, pks said:

Just getting started in film and for the most part photography on any kind of regular basis. I have a few questions if appropriate to ask here. I spend very little time on the internet but this site and in particular this thread is full of wonderful images and talent. I have a few older 35mm film cameras as well as a borrowed Leica M4 that I plan to use for all of this year. I find the M4 much easier to focus than my Nikon FM and my now older eyes. I did mess with digital a few years back for a little while but I am not fond of computers, learning software and digital editing of any sort. Plenty old enough to have spent a large portion of my life with film but never had an interest at the time. I see many of you post your images along with the camera and lens used as well as the developer details. Does anyone here just send out their exposed film? I am intrigued by the process of a wet print but hesitate because it seems that darkroom work is an endeavor which require a significant amount of time and added expense. It often takes me a good month to exhaust a roll of film. Time, interesting subject matter (do not wish to shoot just for the sake of shooting) and the changing light can be a challenge when using say one roll of Kodak TMax 3200 over a period of 30-40 days. Trying to meter (phone app) for indoors and outdoors at box speed can also be rather limiting. Do any of you have a preferred lab in the USA that you like? That is how I plan to start. Send out the first three rolls and see how I did with metering. My apologies for the long text. Paul

Hi Paul. I send out my film for processing to The Darkroom in California. I try to use a darkroom that has some regular volume so that the machines they use will have replenished regularly ensuring a good chance of getting back processed film without any development issues - I live in the East coast so turnaround time is weeks sometimes (I’m in no hurry). I scan the film using a dedicated film scanner and have the occasional standard prints made by Mpix except for those times when someone is paying for a print in which case I use Whitewall who have done very good work with both color and B&W prints but they are a bit more expensive…hope some of that helps. Looking forward to seeing some of your work in this thread…

Cheers,

Tuna

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8 hours ago, pks said:

Just getting started in film and for the most part photography on any kind of regular basis. I have a few questions if appropriate to ask here. I spend very little time on the internet but this site and in particular this thread is full of wonderful images and talent. I have a few older 35mm film cameras as well as a borrowed Leica M4 that I plan to use for all of this year. I find the M4 much easier to focus than my Nikon FM and my now older eyes. I did mess with digital a few years back for a little while but I am not fond of computers, learning software and digital editing of any sort. Plenty old enough to have spent a large portion of my life with film but never had an interest at the time. I see many of you post your images along with the camera and lens used as well as the developer details. Does anyone here just send out their exposed film? I am intrigued by the process of a wet print but hesitate because it seems that darkroom work is an endeavor which require a significant amount of time and added expense. It often takes me a good month to exhaust a roll of film. Time, interesting subject matter (do not wish to shoot just for the sake of shooting) and the changing light can be a challenge when using say one roll of Kodak TMax 3200 over a period of 30-40 days. Trying to meter (phone app) for indoors and outdoors at box speed can also be rather limiting. Do any of you have a preferred lab in the USA that you like? That is how I plan to start. Send out the first three rolls and see how I did with metering. My apologies for the long text. Paul

Hi Paul,

I cannot advise on film lab in the US but just wanted to say that when I started shooting film, I did exactly what you have in mind: send it over and get prints/scans back... Then slowly, I wanted more control so sending the film, but scanning home (I still do this for colours). Then for B&W, I wanted even more control and started to process on my own. I cannot use the darkroom at the moment due to space but developing and scanning at home gives me results that I am really happy with. For darkroom, you might want to check if you have a public one near where you live. I still send out my film when traveling and I am perfectly happy with the results (not so much with the cost though). 

The important thing is to find out what works for you. You can do it in steps and working backward if you wish too. I think scanning at home both reduce the cost and give you much more flexibility.

Enjoy and please share your results here.

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On 2/28/2024 at 7:43 AM, espelt said:

Stuttgart. New central station construction site

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M6 . Summicron 35 . HP5 in Rodinal

Been away for a couple weeks. Photos like this make it such a joy to catch up. There is just something striking about the ability to take any scene and make it a great photograph, just through the ability of the photographer. Very well done. Thanks.

 

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Scanned another oldie, somewhere in the early 1970's. A trolleybus in Arnhem (Netherlands)

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On 2/28/2024 at 9:06 PM, stray cat said:

For those who didn't see it, there is a new online magazine from Spain devoted to Leica photography that was written about here:

I downloaded one of the issues - it's an excellent publication, well written and copiously illustrated with good photography. So I contacted the publisher, Luis, to congratulate him on a very good addition to the online Leica presence.

One thing led to another and I was asked if I'd be interested to submit some work for consideration. As a result a portfolio of my photos taken in 2011 in Oaxaca, Mexico during the Mary Ellen Mark workshop is scheduled to be published in the April edition. I am very happy and excited about this. Apart from anything else it encouraged me to go back and have a look at some of the pictures I took then. Here is one that had one of Mary Ellen's characteristic little yellow dots that I discovered on a proof sheet. She colour-coded photos depending on whether she thought a work print should be made of the picture. I can't remember what a yellow dot meant though!

rodeo, tlalixtac de cabrera, oaxaca 2011

m6ttl, 28mm, SF20 flash, yellow filter, XP2 Super

 

 

The wait is a tad agonizing, so I'm putting in an order for some of those entries from your diary reflecting on your experience with Mary Ellen Mark's Oaxaca Workshop. Please, please.

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