1 roll of film (36x imgs)

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 02:40 PM

A good forum friend came to town for a short visit over the weekend, we had a long walk around the city. Haven't shot film for a long time, I decided to give my beloved SuperPROGRAM a test run. It's the first time I used manual film camera, what an experience! Shot 3 rolls of expired film (2 fujifilm, 1 kodak), the first two rolls turned out to have weird colors probably due to their ages, the last roll seems to be great, to me at least.

I'm kinda digital guy nowadays, shooting film really took me some shots to get used to. At the beginning I'd look at the camera back after each shot, even tried to look for the replay button

Sometimes I forgot to forward the film before taking a shot, and my finger got into some shots when I used a super wide angle 20mm lens

Anyway, I'm pretty happy w/ the test run. Here are all the 36 shots from the last roll, all in sequence as they were taken, scanned by the shop where I had the film developed. No process other than resize/some sharpening/sign. I'm sure some cropping and processing might enhance them further, but decide to post them as is. Hope you like some of them.

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 02:40 PM

01-10

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 02:41 PM

11-20

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 02:41 PM

21-30

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 02:42 PM

31-36

BBear · 07-14-2008, 03:10 PM

Wow... I envision another "film x digital" battle after these pictures... so much VIVID colors... great shots!

Let me ask you, do you get a experssion approval from people before taking these pictures or just pop the camera out and take them?

somehow I still feel weird about shooting random people in the streets... Any tips about that?

*Heinrich Lohmann* · 07-14-2008, 07:09 PM

Very nice Frank and yes film works good but I couln't afford to shoot film the way I do digital. What did you scan them with? Looks very good,

take care,

maxwell1295 · 07-14-2008, 07:27 PM

Nice! I agree with Heinrich on the scans. Wouldn't know they were scans if you didn't mention that these were film shots. What lens is that in the furst few sets? Based on Dave's pics, I guessed that it was a A35-70.

*sharko* · 07-14-2008, 07:57 PM

How did you get that fisheye effect with the black all over? I'd like to do something like that...

betsypdx · 07-14-2008, 08:59 PM

Nice set of shots Frank - I love how you've included all 36 (and impressed by your "keeper" rate).

PS I've looked at the back of a film camera too - it's hard not to do.

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by BBear

Wow... I envision another "film x digital" battle after these pictures... so much VIVID colors... great shots!

Let me ask you, do you get a experssion approval from people before taking these pictures or just pop the camera out and take them?

somehow I still feel weird about shooting random people in the streets... Any tips about that?

Thanks. I kinda like how these photos turned our on film too. Shot the same scenes and people for many times by digital, but I think I prefer these better

Most people here in Singapore don't like their photos taken by strangers, but those Indians don't seem to mind, actually quite like posing for you if you ask. For those people, normally I'd ask them to pose for me. But for the rest, I'd just raise my camera and shoot away. I guess they kinda get used to this too, don't seem to mind either.

I like to take street people photos, actually the most 'scary' experience was the one of those street shootout in Beijing China, here are two of those scary ones taken by K10D+K135/2.5 lens:

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Heinrich Lohmann

Very nice Frank and yes film works good but I couln't afford to shoot film the way I do digital. What did you scan them with? Looks very good,

take care,

Thanks Heinrich. Actually I'm also a digital guy, don't shoot film any more. But I do have a very beautiful shinny SuperPROGRAM, one of the best film cameras imo (and I did have a few before including MX, ME, K1000 and some auto ones like MZS, MZ3 and etc). My friend has quite a few expired film, and he passed me 10 rolls to play

I don't have access to a good scanner, so I just asked the shop to scan the negative for me instead of printing them out after developing the film. Don't really know which scanner they use. From the EXIF, it's Camera Make: NORITSU KOKI, Camera Model: QSS-32_33. I'm quite happy with the scan results too, probably will ask them to scan all the film in the future

It cost me $7USD per roll including development and scanning.

cupic · 07-14-2008, 09:10 PM

A excellent series as film has its merits

cheers

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by maxwell1295

Nice! I agree with Heinrich on the scans. Wouldn't know they were scans if you didn't mention that these were film shots. What lens is that in the furst few sets? Based on Dave's pics, I guessed that it was a A35-70.

Thanks

I used FA43 on the first few sets, FA77 on those chess players, M20/4 for the cityscapes, and Sigma 8mm Fisheye for the fisheye shots.

*frank* · 07-14-2008, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by sharko

How did you get that fisheye effect with the black all over? I'd like to do something like that...

Those were taken by a Sigam 8mm fisheye lens. I didn't know how they ended up like that, but it's quite different from what I saw from the viewfinder, I mean I didn't see the blacks around the center. Probably that's how fisheye lens works on film ...