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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-12-2020, 03:32 AM
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Great info, thank you. i guess it is the film and being already a grainy negative and not the correct ISO for the Pentax 110 the grain could be even more amplified. Do you know if the RED scale negative ''Lobster'' has the same grain effect? This later one is the one I was in doubt to test or not but after reading your advice I will probably leave it aside and order another Tiger negatives and some Orca. The cost of processing the film at a lab is very high and I want to keep to a minimum the trial/error until i will start doing them myself.
I will keep the post updated once I receive the Tiger ones but it will take a while.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-12-2020, 01:56 AM
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Thank you for taking time to read my post.
Thinking of what you said, I think you are right, every photo looks actually well expose, possibly 1 stop over or under. The colours are good too.
What makes them unbearable is the amount of grain or noise. I should probably change the name of the thread to '' to grainy photos''.
I re attached three better samples to express this noise/grain. To mention that this noise/grain is very consistent to all 28 photos in the same amount.
I also attached two samples, the last two, from the first negative when I got only 6-7 photos but really good quality so you understand why I think on the 2nd negative something went wrong.
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The prints are standard small 5 x 4 inches. I am aware if I chose larger prints the quality decreases.
I have used the same lab where I got 6-7 good photos from the Tiger negative.
I wonder if the Tiger and the other ones- Peacock and Lobster need same developing process or maybe there are different chemicals needed. Maybe I should have told the Lab what type of film is?
I intend to try some home developing but first I want to make sure the camera works fine and I have the right negative for it.
Thank you for taking time to read !
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-11-2020, 07:13 PM
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Thank you so much for taking time to check the photos.
I do apologize, the double exposure effect is my fault, the attached samples are photos taken with my phone of the printed photos.
What looks like double exposure is actually light reflection from the gloss paper.
I have checked again the whole lot and they are not doubke exposed but extremely grainy at the extent that you cannot distinguish any details.
It makes me believe that the iso 200 film isn't what I should have in the camera, but again, I'm really quite to photography hence I'm looking for advice from you guys.
I'm not expecting super sharp photos but in comparison to samples I've seen on this forum my ones are really bad.
I will try to attach better samples.
I have another 110 Auto Super but would prefer to know first if anything is wrong with the 110 auto before I test the Super one.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
06-11-2020, 05:36 PM
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Hi guys,
I'm very new to this forum but I read it quite often. I'm not a good photographer but I'm not really new in photography.
I need your help to figure out what happened with my Pentax 110 auto , maybe you have time to look over the photos I attached and shed some light on this.
I bought a set of three Lomography negatives, Tiger, Peacock (green scale) and Lobster.
All three are ISO 200, I didn't remove the pin selector.
I first tried the Tiger, and because something was wrong with either the battery compartment or light meter, I had to open the back to take out the batteries to unblock the shutter.
I managed to get out of the film 5-6 photos (the rest probably got damaged while opening the back cover). All this 5-6 were well exposed and usable.
Now comes the problem :
I then put in the Peacock negative. Prior to this I blown the dust from behind the lens inside the camera and I cleaned better the battery connectors.
The camera worked this time perfect, the auto exposure worked at every shot, I could see green or yellow according to the conditions outside.
Actually I managed to get about 28 photos out of the 110 cartridge.
The problem is that all 28 photos are very unclear, unusable .
Could you please take a look at the attached photos and tell me your opinion.
Are they overexposed?
Wrong developing ?
I developed at a known big name which has branches in one of the big supermarket chains in UK. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to give names here.
I would love to use this camera again but the failure I explained and with the cost of processing , £25 pounds , I'm afraid not to waste the money and the negative again.
Thank you for your patience to read this long story.
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