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02/23/2009 04:22:28 PM · #1 |
That's right everybody, I really think it's time to brush the dust off our good ol' film cams and see what we can do without the benefit of chimping...;-)
Everything's allowed as long as the photo was shot on an analog medium, so you may also just scan old stuff if you like or even post process after digitizing (even though that's probably not needed as negatives and slides are usually gorgeous as they are).
I know there are some people out there still shooting film so be brave and join me on this apchallenge! haha
ETA the partizipants:
 digifotojo
 cpanaioti
 Mephisto
Melethia (maybe)
soup (if he had a means to scan negatives...) ;-)
Germaine
NikonJeb
Greetmir
tnun (maybe)
MelonMusketeer
pixelpig
tph1
Pug-H
Jessi
vxpra
sir_bazz
 booboo_goon
bergiekat
Nobody
undieyatch
shutterpuppy
steefmcbeef
IMAGE THREAD
Message edited by author 2009-03-04 12:29:47. |
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02/23/2009 04:31:41 PM · #2 |
On second thought, I don't have any old film cameras so I think I'll pass. Thanks anyway.
Message edited by author 2009-02-24 12:17:13. |
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02/23/2009 04:38:55 PM · #3 |
| Cool. I dug out my film camera last week to play with multiple exposures. Have a few rolls of slide film/bw print film to burn so count me in. |
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02/23/2009 05:43:26 PM · #4 |
| Cool! I'll start a list with the participants tomorrow. Anybody else game? |
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02/23/2009 06:11:08 PM · #5 |
| Well, if I can find a Canon film body and I can figure a way to scan negatives... Maybe. |
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02/23/2009 06:16:20 PM · #6 |
you'll need an EOS film body - unless you have some of canons manual lenses ( FD ).
i'd be in - if i had a means to scan negatives...
Originally posted by Melethia:
Well, if I can find a Canon film body and I can figure a way to scan negatives... Maybe. |
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02/23/2009 07:03:51 PM · #7 |
| Hey, sounds like fun. I bought an old Pentax H3v at a flea market a couple of months ago. It was my first "serious" camera back in 1966. |
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02/23/2009 07:06:50 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by soup:
you'll need an EOS film body - unless you have some of canons manual lenses ( FD ).
i'd be in - if i had a means to scan negatives...
Originally posted by Melethia:
Well, if I can find a Canon film body and I can figure a way to scan negatives... Maybe. |
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thanks for the hint! fetor, deb and me are planning to go check the local camera store tomorrow and see if we can find a baby for her.
as far as digitazing goes you can built your own repro table from a carton box or whatever, set your flash or a ligt bulb from underneath, use a few layers of white paper to diffuse the light, put your slides/negatives on a glass plate and then photograph with the dslr and macro lens (you'll need a 1:1 for 35mm or 1:2 for medium format) from above. That's the way i did it (and most of the photos i have in my film gallery are digitized that way) until i bought my canon 8800F that was only 130 euros, comes with film holders for both 35mm and medium format film and produces great digital repro's! |
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02/23/2009 07:52:27 PM · #9 |
You guys are a bunch of avant-garde heathens!!!
Don't you know that digital is the only true photography!
ROTFLMSOAO!!!
Check out my paperweights next to the daughter's D40....
The Agfa TLR & the FT QL were my Mom's.
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02/23/2009 08:18:01 PM · #10 |
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02/23/2009 09:46:56 PM · #11 |
well - i'll see what i can can come up with...
Originally posted by Mephisto:
thanks for the hint! fetor, deb and me are planning to go check the local camera store tomorrow and see if we can find a baby for her.
as far as digitazing goes you can built your own repro table from a carton box or whatever, set your flash or a ligt bulb from underneath, use a few layers of white paper to diffuse the light, put your slides/negatives on a glass plate and then photograph with the dslr and macro lens (you'll need a 1:1 for 35mm or 1:2 for medium format) from above. That's the way i did it (and most of the photos i have in my film gallery are digitized that way) until i bought my canon 8800F that was only 130 euros, comes with film holders for both 35mm and medium format film and produces great digital repro's! |
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02/23/2009 09:59:03 PM · #12 |
| Would be interested; very poor results from trying to rig up a way to photo negs with digital camera, and I worried about deteriorating the good ones with bright lights. Does anyone know much about this?. |
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02/23/2009 10:11:47 PM · #13 |
Is E6 film and developing still available? What time frame are we talking about? I have boxes and boxes of slide film from days gone by. If the time is right though, I would like to shoot fresh images for this S C. I also vote for being allowed to tune them up after copying.
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02/23/2009 10:25:37 PM · #14 |
I can do this! I have old slides, & a camera w/film in it, & a printer/scanner that can do slides. It would be fun! We could have a sub-side-challenge to find out who has the oldest working film camera.
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Message edited by author 2009-02-23 23:05:56. |
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02/23/2009 10:52:27 PM · #15 |
I'll give it a shot with Polaroid instant film. Does that count?
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02/24/2009 03:52:09 AM · #16 |
@tnun: don't worry, as soon as the film is developed it'll live forever, you can't destroy it with light or flash, only by scratching it to death...;)
@melonmusketeer: the time frame would be the month of march, meaning we start posting the first shots on march 1st and ending the SC on march 31st. E6 should still be done by most of the labs, or you can send in the films to a lab that does it in case you can't find one near you. expired slides are fun, because you never know what you gonna get, you should also try cross processing some of the films, meaning that you process your slide film with c41 process instead of E6. knock yourself out with processing after you get them back from the lab, like i said everything is allowed as long as the photo to start with was taken on an analog medium.
@tph1: polaroid rules dude, sure it's fine! |
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02/24/2009 05:43:42 AM · #17 |
I could possibly do this. I could scan a few photos I took here before I got a digital camera, but it would be more fun to take fresh stuff... but then it wouldn't be a post every day.
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02/24/2009 06:12:44 AM · #18 |
Umm.....is it cool to resurrect old images rather than going after film?
I've got boxes and boxes of old 4x6s, and even some enlargements I can scan/shoot and put up.
That may actually give me an excuse to look through some of this stuff I've been avoiding.
I've got various road trips, vacations, and a thousand or so of my daughter when she was a baby.
She was THE cutest kid!
(Y'all scared NOW????)
ETA: This is the kind of thing I had in mind.....this is an image from 1984 when my wife and I took a cross-country trip in our Firebird.
Message edited by author 2009-02-24 06:35:29.
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02/24/2009 11:05:41 AM · #19 |
From here, it's about 30 miles to the nearest lab that processes any kind of film. It would be an inconvenience and expense for me to have to go there just to have film developed for this S C. This may be an opportunity for me to go through some of my old slides and maybe copy a few of my old photos to share. I have a Chromapro professional slide duplicator. It's a light box with copy stand and adjustable color filters, which works nicely with a macro lens and my S3. The color filters allow for getting the color closer to right in the copy, which makes post processing easier.
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02/24/2009 12:06:03 PM · #20 |
| Yes! My photo class is all film. |
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02/24/2009 12:21:19 PM · #21 |
| I'd love in on this. I've done my best work on film. |
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02/24/2009 03:31:19 PM · #22 |
Alright peeps, I gonna edit my first post to list the partizipants. Really looking forward what you guys come up with...
BTW i would really appriciate if some people actually do shoot fresh stuff for the S C just as i do, though as i said it's ok if you sneak in some old ones, too.
And don't worry about the posting-one-a-day part, i'm not gonna be able to do that either, rather i'd post a stack of photos every few days when i get back my slides and negatives from the lab. |
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02/24/2009 05:43:57 PM · #23 |
Sounds like fun.
My 220 back and 5 rolls of Provia 100F arrived last week for the 645 camera. Also purchased an Epson V700 earlier in the year specifically for scanning slide. Actually enjoying film more than digital lately.
bazz. |
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02/24/2009 05:49:30 PM · #24 |
| Wooop this sounds like alot of fun........ I wanna use my lovely mamiya 330 more often, can I enter the side challenge?? |
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02/24/2009 05:50:51 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Mephisto:
Alright peeps, I gonna edit my first post to list the partizipants. Really looking forward what you guys come up with...
BTW i would really appriciate if some people actually do shoot fresh stuff for the S C just as i do, though as i said it's ok if you sneak in some old ones, too.
And don't worry about the posting-one-a-day part, i'm not gonna be able to do that either, rather i'd post a stack of photos every few days when i get back my slides and negatives from the lab. |
That sounds good!! I'm looking forward to this! |
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