hektor Posted July 2, 2007 Share #41 Â Posted July 2, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) The key surely is to get someone 'hooked' by seeing good results from the first few films. Â Steve, Â IMHO the above is symptomatic of the age in which we live and in which we are conditioned to immediate gratification. There is something to be learned from the slow food movement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stunsworth Posted July 3, 2007 Share #42 Â Posted July 3, 2007 Justin, I have to disagree. Â If a child had an interest in say tennis you wouldn't match them with someone who would play to win every point. When you learn a language you don't start by attempting to read a difficult novel in whatever language you are trying to master. Similarly the important thing in photography IMHO is to get people interested in photography and not try to make life as difficult as possible for them. As I say, that can come later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted July 3, 2007 Share #43  Posted July 3, 2007 ...The confirmation is with projection, not just the receipt of the "boxes". I still think nothing yet beats the projection with a Pradovit or two onto a 2m x 2m screen...The days of people boring others to death with slide projections are mercifully gone. Okay, I'm joking for effect. But the point is that the type of photography that I'm interested in is requires viewing prints that usually have been worked on — dodging and burning in the darkroom or digital post-processing — not viewing perfectly exposed transparencies. As an aside, for the reasons Steve states, digital is a better learning tool than film because of instant results and a short feedback loop. After that it's much easier to move to film.  And, come to think of it, I reallly don't want to be subjected to someone''s vacation slideshow...  —Mitch/Potomac, MD Flickr: Photos from Mitch Alland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 3, 2007 Share #44 Â Posted July 3, 2007 * * Gentlemen, Â We have moved a long way from Allan's original question "What would you recommend to someone new to film usage? For example, a photographer switching from digital to a film camera to try it out firsthand...." Â I have nothing further to add. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted July 8, 2007 Share #45 Â Posted July 8, 2007 I don't know your domicile, however E6 processing is readily available in most parts of the world. Â Thanks. Newcastle. Last time I checked, admittedly not recently, it was going ot cost me in the order of twenty, twenty five dollars to get E6 mounted. At that price I would be stuck to exposures in my comfort zone and never experimenting. Was chatting to a bloke from Bangkok who gets Provia from a bulk buy company supplying pro market and he gets the stuff pro developed in an hour for about five or six bucks. Have you found anywhere reasonable in Aus? I know I can get the Provia sent over bulk at about the price I pay for consumer colour film. Â Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted July 8, 2007 Share #46 Â Posted July 8, 2007 I would LOVE to shoot just Provia. But an m8 is only a hundred and eighty rolls of mounted slides. If I could just release a calesie virus aimed at digital...and everyone went back to slides... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAG Posted July 8, 2007 Share #47  Posted July 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) B/W : Agfa APX 100 + 400 : sells really cheap by germand dealers on the Internet (1,7€/roll) Tri-X of course All Acros are fine for me.  Colour : All Portra  I always found Ilford too soft toned, is it just me ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucklik Posted July 8, 2007 Share #48 Â Posted July 8, 2007 I would LOVE to shoot just Provia. But an m8 is only a hundred and eighty rolls of mounted slides. Â I didn't knew the M8 was capable of delivering mounted slides. Â Mounting your own (keeper) slides is not that difficult nor time consuming. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted July 8, 2007 Share #49 Â Posted July 8, 2007 Photo Conti has E2 mount at $14, develop only at $9. Pro services round here are nearly twice that. Anyone else in Aus for E6? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted July 8, 2007 Share #50  Posted July 8, 2007 hi again to every body )  best film for bigginer ?? allan.... giving some insight into the film photography - i take this chalange....  here is the new website i launch that will be dedicated to the film photography.. bigginers and long time users will find plenty of practical info on it..  just started to work on it a week or so ago... so things are in preparations as yet....  if any one has any recomendations or remarks .... welcome....  the site link http://web.mac.com/victorbt/iWeb/film/the%20dignity%20of%20photography.html  for those who are directly interested to hear about various films.. go to "film selection" from the content page.... again.. just in preparation so checkout from time to time the sections that interst you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 8, 2007 Share #51 Â Posted July 8, 2007 He had a quick sqizz at the site Vic great idea. This is going to be a great resource, I'll see what I can dig up and send maybe you will be able to use it. Mark Antony (LUF member) has some stuff about film on his blog that may be of interset. 000000000000000000000000001000000000010101010101 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted July 8, 2007 Share #52 Â Posted July 8, 2007 ya imants.. i will develop it seriously etc.. your contribution is always welcomed man.. and i dont neccessarly mean tech stuff.... let me give that site some shape and i will join to it some really good photographers to help inlight people who are interested in photography.... Â ya. saw mark's stuff.. great...... mark there are some things im not femiliar with, so i will put a link to you if you want.. the fomapan you have is really intersting.. never used it myself... and i know it is a film that goes nicely in europe.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve kessel Posted July 9, 2007 Share #53  Posted July 9, 2007 hi again to every body ) here is the new website i launch that will be dedicated to the film photography.. bigginers and long time users will find plenty of practical info on it..  just started to work on it a week or so ago... so things are in preparations as yet....  if any one has any recomendations or remarks .... welcome....  the site link the dignity of photography   Vic  Having recently decided to explore film for myself, partly as a result of your enthusiasm, I look forward to visiting your new site.  Many thanks,  Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Antony Posted July 9, 2007 Share #54 Â Posted July 9, 2007 Hi Vic I have put a link to your site on Photo Utopia. I enjoyed your site even in it's development stage its a huge job putting info together I'm sure you'll agree. What drives me (apart from a love of photography) is that there is so little info that is easily accessible. I wanted to share opinions, links and film reviews, you'd be surprised how many folks hit my site from google searches "brand X dev times in Rodinal' so I put a link to the digital truth dev chart. I think in these days of drive for digital some people may overlook our 'niche' as irrelevant, you know the 'film is dead' crowd and I think thats a shame because there is life in the old dog yet. BTW at the moment I'm testing a 1941 Agfa film for a laugh don't expect it'll work being out of date during the war, but it comes in a nice tin ;-) Mark Photo Utopia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vic vic Posted July 9, 2007 Share #56 Â Posted July 9, 2007 great mark, ya i putted now too in "useful links" and gave a few lines to your fomapan200 on the "film selection" directing it to you... great to see link-minded people as you ) Â indeed a lot of work, but time to take the resposibility and to do it... im not some kind of unti-digitalist.. i know digital photography at its best, something that majority tech-toy-boy cannot even dare to dream about. but still, dont think it has the inspiration, charm/grace and coherence of film photography.. so it is time that real film enthusiasts will stop being either too isolated in their own small niches or behave as frighten rabbits when they must give their voice ... )) Â Â ah mark... the old 1941 agfa film is going to record the war perioud when you photograph with it ?????????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 9, 2007 Share #57 Â Posted July 9, 2007 Maybe we should give the roll to Rob............................................................................Capa , that is....................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Antony Posted July 9, 2007 Share #58 Â Posted July 9, 2007 Maybe we should give the roll to Rob............................................................................Capa , that is....................... Â Nah i heard his technicians weren't very good at processing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 9, 2007 Share #59 Â Posted July 9, 2007 get Rob 2004 to process it.... Newcastle's a historical chemical dumping ground down under Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic vic Posted July 9, 2007 Share #60 Â Posted July 9, 2007 leave rob... send the raw to the digital forum guys.. they will know what to do.. make sure you use a good lens.. summicron 75 mm is the best it has resolution resolution bokeh bokeh ... and pitty that cappas fotos cannot be done on digital.. so be careful not to use this film pointlessly.. otherwise, then go and convicnce the digital toy-boys that the blitz on london was not on the same day you tasted the old agfa ) Â Â ah steve.. thanks man.. i will be happy that you and other people find the site helpful for better insight into the film world and for practical advices to do film photography ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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