[TwoUptons]

Am I alone in finding few things as disheartening as getting a roll of film back from the lab and thinking, "well, that's a load of.... rubbish" [insert expletive of choice here]? This is rapidly followed by: "is there something wrong with the camera's metering? is the new-to-me film stock rubbish? Did I set something wrong? Did the lab screw up?" Followed (in due course when the negs come back from the lab) by a lot of staring at them whilst squinting.

This posting is prompted by downloading the scans from a roll which looks (from the scans anyway) horribly under-exposed. Fiddlesticks.

I see this most with expired film.
It's really crushing to see something that looks fine otherwise (composition, focus, quality of light) be a dark, muddled mess...

I had some Kodak 800 that was so bad I threw a few rolls away, as by the time I got enough light on it to expose it properly, the grain was terrible... it must have gotten too warm or something... it was really bad...

-Eric

[dsmithhfx]

Tri-X 1988

[womble]

I see this most with expired film.
It's really crushing to see something that looks fine otherwise (composition, focus, quality of light) be a dark, muddled mess...

I had some Kodak 800 that was so bad I threw a few rolls away, as by the time I got enough light on it to expose it properly, the grain was terrible... it must have gotten too warm or something... it was really bad...

-Eric

Yes, I've seen that too, but this was a fresh roll. I want to see the negs to see if I can figure out what went wrong.

[photocles]

Pseudo humans and a couple of real humans. Pentax z-70, Sigma 35-70 Zoom Master and HP5.

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[Aaron28]

shanghai gp3 100......pentax 6x7.....smc takumar 105/f2.4.......poor expsoure n focusing.....

[dsmithhfx]

Plus- X 1984

[Aaron28]

did not like the blotchy black blobs that appeared on recent scans of shanghai gp3 100 pan film and rescanned of few (epson v600)

the espon scan program produced the same blotchy results (it's likely me in "setting up" the scan).....recently got a free download of silverfast8 courtesy of being an epson owner and tried it out......(navigation is difficult for me on it) however the results were much better as the black blotchiness was no longer present and it scanned at a much quicker so it seems to me

so same images that have been posted before but here for a direct reference......it's fun and frustrating stumbling through the process of scanning

silverfast8


epson scan...the blotchy black crap is present on his body as other places



silverfast8


epson scan......the black blotchy is present on his body....also fergot to reverse the image...oops

[dsmithhfx]

Hp5+

[crossed-up]

Pentax K1000, 50mm 1:1.7, Fujicolor C200

[photocles]

Fujicolor C200

That's a nice red!

[Swift1]

From March 2016...

Minolta PROD-20'S
Kodak Portra 400
Epson V750

[TwoUptons]

We were sitting at home a few weeks back, and my wife was poking around on that advertising service that sounds like "space hook".
One of the local restaurants we had wanted to try didn't make it in the face of COVID, and the new owners (who promise to open up in March, despite ugly numbers) were selling off some of their stuff.
Outdoor chairs, restaurant grade, $45/ each. Her car is a Mini Cooper... mine was full of stuff we were taking somewhere else the next morning... so... what to do?

Bicycle trailer... hooked up and on the road in 15 minutes, grabbed a couple of chairs and right back home.
Our raggedy outdoor side table got a new coat of paint (which matched better than we deserved), and it all goes well...

Shot with a Yashica Electro 35 MC, which is a tiny, aperture-priority zone-focuser (not a rangefinder), on Fuji 200.
Apologies for desaturating the yellow, but there's a bright yellow trash can in the background that distracts otherwise... and I thought it looked fun this way...
The Yashica was a bit of a pleasant surprise -- very good lens, classic bokeh, and decent meter. If it was a rangefinder with full manual control, it would be nearly perfect...



-Eric

[dsmithhfx]

HP5+

[goatsNdonkey]

Nice to see I'm not the only one afflicted with the pun virus. There's no treatment or vaccine for that!

We were sitting at home a few weeks back, and my wife was poking around on that advertising service that sounds like "space hook".
One of the local restaurants we had wanted to try didn't make it in the face of COVID, and the new owners (who promise to open up in March, despite ugly numbers) were selling off some of their stuff.
Outdoor chairs, restaurant grade, $45/ each. Her car is a Mini Cooper... mine was full of stuff we were taking somewhere else the next morning... so... what to do?

Bicycle trailer... hooked up and on the road in 15 minutes, grabbed a couple of chairs and right back home.
Our raggedy outdoor side table got a new coat of paint (which matched better than we deserved), and it all goes well...

Shot with a Yashica Electro 35 MC, which is a tiny, aperture-priority zone-focuser (not a rangefinder), on Fuji 200.
Apologies for desaturating the yellow, but there's a bright yellow trash can in the background that distracts otherwise... and I thought it looked fun this way...
The Yashica was a bit of a pleasant surprise -- very good lens, classic bokeh, and decent meter. If it was a rangefinder with full manual control, it would be nearly perfect...



-Eric

[gofour3]

Super Program & FA24/2, shooting CineStill 50:



Phil.