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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-29-2019, 11:06 AM
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From the Iditarod ceremonial start in March 2019, Anchorage Alaska. Olympus XA and Ilford 400 speed B&W
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-04-2019, 05:39 PM
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Spent some time today while the kids are with their grandparents and my wife is napping to play with the FilmLab App for IOS. For those unfamiliar, it's an app that automatically inverts color neg and black and white negs using your iPhone or iPad camera in real time and capture the inverted (i.e. positive image) with your device's camera. I used my iPad as a light table and just held my phone, better results would definitely be had with a stable stand to hold the taking device steady and level, some anti-newton glass to keep the negatives flat, and a real light table. If you're a 35mm only person, I think the app would be great with the Lomography smartphone scanner stand. The app costs $5.99 and I've definitely wasted money on worse. There was some weird flickering on the app's screen as I was taking photos but I suspect that it was due to either the iPad or not using a mask for the film frames.
Surfboards, Fells Point Surf Co, c. 2007, shot with a Holga and Kodak Tmax 400
 Surfboards, Fells Point Surf Co by David Dawson, on Flickr
Frames from London, c. 2000, Olympus Mju? and Kodak B&W film, probably Tmax 400
 Frames from Picadilly Circus, London, 2000 by David Dawson, on Flickr
Ran when Parked, Chena Hot Springs Road, c. 2013. Yashicamat and Ilford Delta 100
 Ran when Parked by David Dawson, on Flickr
Two from sled dog races in 2013
 FilmLab-7015 by David Dawson, on Flickr
 FilmLab-7016 by David Dawson, on Flickr
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-28-2018, 10:51 AM
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I’m definitely excited to see the results of the new ektachrome. It looks more neutral and natural than Provia 100F from what I’ve seen so far but I admit that I haven’t seen much yet.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-27-2018, 11:04 PM
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Cat on a fermenter, Casa El Enemigo winery and restaurant, Maipu, Mendoza, Argentina. Olympus XA, Kodak Tri-X 400
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-27-2018, 09:09 PM
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Wynwood Walls, Miami. Olympus XA, Provia 100F, developed and scanned by The Darkroom
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-28-2018, 03:14 PM
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Conparison shopping, taken with my iPhone and probably my K-30’s last hurrah. It’s almost criminal how much better the LX’s viewfinder is...
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-26-2018, 03:11 PM
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I know I went off on bit of a rant, but it wasn’t directed at you or your work specifically and I apologize if it came off that way.
Reds can get a bit overstated with ektar for sure.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-26-2018, 11:48 AM
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I've read that and seen that, but I've never had any problems with color or saturation with Ektar. I think a lot of the issues people have with Ektar come from bad processing (temperature or old/exhausted chemistry causing color shifts), bad metering (old cameras with off-shutter speeds, old light meters, low batteries in either camera or meter, a wrong guess at the light if going off of Sunny 16, or a fooled meter), or bad scanning/post processing, with "bad" in this case meaning something detrimental to the process that causes an unintended consequence in the final digital or printed image from the negative and not necessarily poor technique. There's a lot that can go wrong with color film, and more so if you starting messing with more than one of those variables at a time. I think a lot of film shooters make it too hard on themselves honestly by using old worn out cameras or meters and then using multiple labs and scanners/scanning techniques, and taking advice from blogs and forum posts on the internet from other users who may or may not have the same goals as you with their film or even know how film is supposed to look and work (hint: film images are not supposed to be a grainy off-color lomo mess if they're done right. There's nothing wrong with a lomo image if that's your intent, but you should know and understand how to make a straight image first BEFORE heading off to Lomography land).
I generally shoot it at box speed in cameras with known good metering (from shooting slides and from matching the meter readings from my various film bodies to my K-30) and send it to good labs that know how to scan (The FIND Lab or The Darkroom generally) and get great results.
Mexico web-025 by David Dawson, on Flickr
GKAHSTTT web-744660010014 by David Dawson, on Flickr
Red Rocks Panaromic by David Dawson, on Flickr
Things get a little orange at sunset, but then again the light was a bit on the warm side that evening too...
elena and nate web by David Dawson, on Flickr
...but a cooling filter would probably cure most of it. I've also read that Noritsu's scan cooler than Frontiers, and I think I generally ask for the Noritsu scans from FIND with Kodak Film. I'm not sure what the Darkroom uses off-hand.
It works for me in a studio setting too (this was one of the last rolls I had developed at my local grocery chain before they pulled their developing equipment, and they uses a Frontier which might explain the warmer color cast)
sarah lucas web by David Dawson, on Flickr
Long exposures work too
sunset in port by David Dawson, on Flickr
And when its dark and you're on the move, set your meter to 400 or 800 (I can't remember which I did for these, but probably 800) and let the color shift fade in to the darkness.
deus inside by David Dawson, on Flickr
chez marie by David Dawson, on Flickr
But that's just my opinion man...
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-24-2018, 11:17 AM
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I've got a roll of ektar, 5 rolls of provia 100F, and 3 rolls of Tri-X to use and a M 28mm f2.8, Super Tak 55mm f1.8, and a Super Tak 200mm f4 to choose from when I head to Denali this weekend. :)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-23-2018, 06:46 PM
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Back in the 35mm film game! Picked up an LX from my local old camera shop by horse trading my YashicaMat that’s eaten it’s last three rolls of film and my Olympus 35 RD that looked pretty but never got used.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-25-2017, 10:52 PM
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Hoping to be able to add more to this thread as I picked up an Instax camera on Black Friday. I'm going to have to find a better scanning method than my iPhone but for now it's what I have.
#instax at the Santa Claus House by David Dawson, on Flickr
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-13-2017, 10:19 PM
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Have you guys seen this app yet?
Film Lab, the app for digitizing film
I've been wanting to shoot more film casually, but the cost of developing and scanning is prohibitively expensive where I live. I see myself running a lot more black and white and developing at home should this app work as advertised.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-25-2017, 11:14 AM
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The skill of your developer and scanner person is probably the single most important technical part of shooting film.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-08-2017, 11:18 AM
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Some more from Mexico. The Mission and Cathedral in Loreto, Olympus XA and Ilford XP2 Super
Loreto Cathedral by David Dawson, on Flickr
Mexico web-069 by David Dawson, on Flickr
Mexico web-055 by David Dawson, on Flickr
Loreto Mission, Passion... by David Dawson, on Flickr
Mexico web-051 by David Dawson, on Flickr
Mexico web-053 by David Dawson, on Flickr
Contemplation by David Dawson, on Flickr
And the light of the Son shined through by David Dawson, on Flickr
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-04-2017, 08:24 PM
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That's a wonderful shot! Love the colors!
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