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Dad claims to have found a shoebox of unshot film to give me. It's almost certainly Ultramax 400 (or something similar), but it's been in a shoebox in a closet for 15 years. Is there any reason not to just shoot it as rated?
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It's color negative film. If you really care, you could give it an extra stop of exposure, but it'll probably come out fine even if you shoot it at box speed.
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Oct 17, 2014 16:17
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Mr. Despair posted:You can make a system to do this yourself if you want easily enough. I just took a 5 dollar immersion heater, a tiny fish filter to circulate water, and an arduino with a relay setup and temp probe. Had it turn the heater on if it was too cold, turn it off if it was too hot, and it'll sit within 1c of target all day long. Yeah, I'm ordering something from Adafruit for another project and I think it may just tip me over the edge into picking up an Arduino starter kit to mess around with. Probably have a Raspberry Pi follow me home too...
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Oct 17, 2014 18:04
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TheJeffers posted:It's color negative film. If you really care, you could give it an extra stop of exposure, but it'll probably come out fine even if you shoot it at box speed. On the other hand, you're not going to do any damage to it by shooting it at least at 200ISO. I have a bunch of lovely old expired, dubiously stored consumer 35mm and it always seems to turn out better if I overexpose by a stop from box speed and pay the extra $ to have it developed by a competent lab.
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Oct 18, 2014 05:36
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Yeah I shoot fresh Ultramax at 200 or 160 if it is overcast, it looks way better that way.
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Oct 18, 2014 05:53
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I just set up my scanner for the first time in a couple of months, and started scanning some colour slide film. The scanner seemed to be taking a reeeeally long time even just to do the preview scan, which came out like this:  something looks majorly wrong and I'm worried the scanner is stuffed (V700) Any ideas?
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Oct 18, 2014 06:03
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Sure you don't have it on the document setting?
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deaders posted:Yeah I shoot fresh Ultramax at 200 or 160 if it is overcast, it looks way better that way.
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Oct 18, 2014 06:23
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Spedman posted:Sure you don't have it on the document setting? Yeah nah, it's all set correctly as far as I can tell. I think it might have copped a flogging in the car on the move.
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Oct 18, 2014 06:41
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Sludge Tank posted:Yeah nah, it's all set correctly as far as I can tell. I think it might have copped a flogging in the car on the move. Please don't tell me you move your scanner without locking it. I know your are sludge tank and all but...
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Oct 18, 2014 09:04
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For a sec I thought you were scanning in the car 
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Oct 18, 2014 10:03
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Also "copped a flogging" is my new favorite phrase.
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Oct 18, 2014 11:42
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Sludge Tank could have also said he "belted the living suitcase" out of it (a personal favourite).
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Oct 18, 2014 12:43
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Spedman posted:Sludge Tank could have also said he "belted the living suitcase" out of it (a personal favourite). I just want to say, I love the way you Australians have taken the time and effort to make the english language so much more fun for the rest of us (even if they did sort of kick ya'll out of their country). Between this and discovering instagram user "Tindafella" I feel much closer to you as a people than I did last Saturday morning at 7 am.
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Oct 18, 2014 15:34
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So much budgie smuggler drone that Tinderfella bloke, gotta be from Sydney. If you want to watch the most Australian and un-PC movie from the 70's check out this: http://youtu.be/sk1cULdqjSw The main character pretty much only talks in slang. A young Dame Edna is in too!
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Oct 18, 2014 21:45
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8th-snype posted:Please don't tell me you move your scanner without locking it. I know your are sludge tank and all but... I locked it. But I changed the resolution from 720 down to 300 and it seemed to fix it, weirdly (after trying a few passes at 720 with same lovely results).
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Oct 18, 2014 22:06
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Sludge Tank posted:I locked it. Weird, is this with Epson Scan or after market software? I have never had an issue with Silverfast and resolution.
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Oct 19, 2014 02:15
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Aussie slang is cool and all, but New Zealand English is where the real party is at. They call a cooler/esky a "chilly bin", for christsakes.
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Oct 20, 2014 22:43
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Try buying a growler (of beer) in NZ.
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Oct 20, 2014 23:13
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Aussie slang is cool and all, but New Zealand English is where the real party is at. They call a cooler/esky a "chilly bin", for christsakes. And don't forget to put your jandals/thongs/double-pluggers on!
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Oct 21, 2014 03:27
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Spedman posted:double-pluggers I only heard that one for the first time up in Queensland a couple of weeks ago. After I replied with "huh?" then I get "You know! Havi's!". Friggin perverts the lot of 'em
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Oct 21, 2014 03:45
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Queensland is the Florida of Australia, I think the heat and humidity drive them all mad. I moved my scanner to a table next to the couch in hopes that it would help me get through my film backlog. Optimism at its best.
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Oct 21, 2014 05:07
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I got an XA2 for $10. It's kinda fun but I think it picked up a light leak somewhere in my travels 
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yo dogg I hear you like starflex so we took a picture of your starflex with a starflex Untitled by voodoorootbeer, on Flickr Edit for actual content:  roll yo own by voodoorootbeer, on Flickr Definitely not spending crazy people money on crusty old 127 film. Respooling this wasn't really all that difficult in a dark bag. voodoorootbeer fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Been taking classes this semester focused on film photography, film development and darkroom printing, and I think that something about the film scanning process has just lost its allure for me. I feel like my scanned negatives don't hold a candle to what I can accomplish with a couple hours in the darkroom with an enlarger--the actual prints just seem BETTER, even blowing 35mm up to 8x10. Maybe I'm spending too much time on scanned negatives, processing them as if they were more like digital images? All I usually do is scan as a positive, invert and play around with the curves (and spotting dust), but the disconnect has absolutely killed my motivation to get my film backlog scanned. At least I'm enjoying staring at the pile of prints I've made. Anyone else ever feel this way?
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Shellman posted:Been taking classes this semester focused on film photography, film development and darkroom printing, and I think that something about the film scanning process has just lost its allure for me. I feel like my scanned negatives don't hold a candle to what I can accomplish with a couple hours in the darkroom with an enlarger--the actual prints just seem BETTER, even blowing 35mm up to 8x10. I wonder if that's a function of process fatigue. You feel better about your darkroom prints because you are actually physically "doing" some thing versus sitting in front of a computer. Which is a thing all of do all the time in 2014. If it works better for you cool. There's nothing wrong with preferring to work one way or another but I'm not sure it's objectively better in some way.
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Shellman posted:Been taking classes this semester focused on film photography, film development and darkroom printing, and I think that something about the film scanning process has just lost its allure for me. I feel like my scanned negatives don't hold a candle to what I can accomplish with a couple hours in the darkroom with an enlarger--the actual prints just seem BETTER, even blowing 35mm up to 8x10. It is far more satisfying as it is a far more involved and tactile process, especially when you get into the realm of split filtering while dodging and burning. And your images will probably look better, especially with an enlarger with a good lens on it. Unless you get into the realm of drum scanning in which case the photos will look pretty drat close if not better. But at the end of the day, unless you have access to a darkroom (I no longer do, which is a severe bummer for me), you are pretty much left with what ya got. Not to mention if people thought film was expensive, they'd lose their minds when introducing wet printing. The price per image sky rockets at that point, especially when the cost of paper alone is a dollar per gently caress up, more so if you are using fiber paper, and you should always be using fiber paper. But I do feel sorry for those that haven't had the opportunity to play with chemicals in the red light. It's a pretty unique experience and while I can't say I have the time (or income) anymore for it to be in my workflow, I definitely would be lying if I said I didn't miss it.
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pootiebigwang posted:The price per image sky rockets at that point, especially when the cost of paper alone is a dollar per gently caress up, more so if you are using fiber paper, and you should always be using fiber paper. gently caress ups cost a dollar? Oh that's cute.*scene cuts to LF camera vomiting money into the street*
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8th-snype posted:gently caress ups cost a dollar? Oh that's cute.*scene cuts to LF camera vomiting money into the street* I hate money. That's pretty much the only reason I got into LF. gently caress the system.
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Sometimes Velvia 50's colour wants to punch you in the face. Ang Moh Kio by alkanphel, on Flickr
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Here is a French dude in Beijing who buys old discarded negatives by the kilo, and has made a project out of everyday photos taken by Chinese between 1985-2005. My favourite parts are the buying bags of film, and the Chinese guy scanning 18000 negatives a month on his little Canon scanner hooked up to a beige box with a little CRT: http://vimeo.com/40689438 And a theres a photographic celebrity appearance at the end.
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Spedman posted:Here is a French dude in Beijing who buys old discarded negatives by the kilo, and has made a project out of everyday photos taken by Chinese between 1985-2005. My favourite parts are the buying bags of film, and the Chinese guy scanning 18000 negatives a month on his little Canon scanner hooked up to a beige box with a little CRT: I was seeing his images all over the new Yorker Instagram. The video is very nicely done, and pretty interesting. Edit: those are intense eyebrows. bobmarleysghost fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 01:48
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Jesus. Scanning that many on a flatbed must be torture. Someone get these guys a Pakon.
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At the risk of sounding stupid as gently caress, has anyone played with a Nishika N8000? They look pretty fun. Especially for some halloween photos. I've been reading that it recommends film rated for 200 outdoors and 1600 indoors, since I think the shutter is locked at 1/60. So maybe Superia 200/1600. mod edit: i edited your post for you so you didn't run afoul of one of our fine dorkroom rules. 18. In this day and age, the term 'hipster' is not representative of any specific cultural group, manner of dress, or style of photography. As such, using it as a blanket term is really stupid and you really shouldn't do it. Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Yeah, I have the n9000 and it recommends 1600 with flash for indoors and 200 for outdoors. The n9000 has a switch that flips between "sun" and "cloud" so I think it has two apertures.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:53
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I got an Olympus XA3 and loving love it. Tri-x @ 200 ei  Baldivis, 23rd October 2014 by Simon Deadman, on Flickr  Railway Crossing, Baldivis, 23rd October 2014 by Simon Deadman, on Flickr
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Geektox posted:Yeah, I have the n9000 and it recommends 1600 with flash for indoors and 200 for outdoors. The n9000 has a switch that flips between "sun" and "cloud" so I think it has two apertures. Awesome thanks! Can't wait to burn some Out of curiosity, do you have any images you've taken with it up here?
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