Your Cameras

also I've heard that some places are selling DIY c-41 kits (i.e. freestyle photo) and that with one kit you can do at least 10 rolls, usually more, and it's a pretty simple 'dunk and dry' process

hmmm... isnt the whole thing with C-41 that there's a lot less range wrt water temperature? like you have to keep your bath at EXACTLY 103F for 15 mins, wheras b+w it can flux a little?? hence no one doing C-41 at home?

\(o_O)/ just passing on what i've read

Just got back some Neopan 1600 prints (put it in at Jacobs a month ago and forgot about it) - ridiculously contrasty, not a lot of midtones. Shot quite a bit of it with a hired 12-24mm back in June - I'll pop the best on the photos thread eventually. Which might not be much.

i never worked out a happy medium in terms of b&w re: midtones - i love shooting 1600 or 3200 for the insane contrast; 100 comes out way too grey, no ink black in sight, and i'm still waiting on seeing what 400s look like. don't think ilford or fuji make an 800 ...

developing wisdom is useful - i don't think i could ever put a film in the mail. do you send it registered or something? i'd worry.

I've got some Neopan 400CN in the fridge - be interested to see what that's like (and, as a C41 film, it'll be cheap and quick to get back).

I trust the Royal Mail maybe more than I should. I liked using Metro in Birmingham for E6/120 - their scans were super - but the last time I used them they neglected to include the CD-R I'd paid for and didn't respond to any emails. So sod them.

Regular Neopan 400 was the bomb. Tonality akin to Tri-X or HP5, grain more like the Deltas/TMaxes.

Got a Canon S90 tonight to keep with me for times when the D700 is inappropriate.

as promised

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oh shiiiiiiiiit

Totally psyched: I have an Olympus RC which is missing the shutter dial (my fault) so I eBayed a lot of 5 broken models, got em for $30, received them today and am pretty sure that at least 3 of them are in very good working order. Yanked the dial from one of the broken ones, and now I've got gift cameras for my friends and family!
I realize that my last camera post on here also began with the words "Totally psyched." It's a good life I guess.

I'm mostly lurker here anyway, but had to brag.

those are very good cameras

A couple weeks later and I'll say how much I agree: great cameras and they all work (or uh at least the three I've tested). So sharp! So small!

After downloading a few of the X100 sample images and playing with them in LR, I really hope the camera handles well - ie autofocus is half decent and it's responsive. The files on Fuji's website are unsharpened and the B&W ones are particularly badly processed - five minutes in LR and a bit of sharpening does wonders for them.

A beater Leica M2!! Couldn't resist the price. I will still be skipping a few luxuries for a bit though, since I'm normally a thrift-store and flea market cameras kind of guy.

i might be buying a new camera today but idk i feel like i would be betraying my old one, still it would mean i could put some 800iso film in it for taking night time photos and i wouldnt have to use the whole roll before i could go back to my normal ones.

cool! come w a lens? how beater? details? xp

Eh, it's pretty beat looking. It would mostly be just normal scratches and occasional flaking vulcanite, but on the counter-side corner there's some significant denting. Looks like it took a nasty fall at some point. Functions (seemingly) fine. Shutter speeds seem accurate etc. but I'll know better when I finish off the roll I've started going through.
No lens. So I am just starting off with a low-end Voigtlander 35. Will be on the lookout to upgrade when I have the money or a deal comes up on CL etc.

And xp: I also feel as if I've betrayed my Olympus RCs! After lauding them so much and all. And I feel sorry for my Pentax, and my Minolta AL, and my borrowed Nikon F2, or the FED, or the XA etc. I'm a little nostalgic about every camera I pick up and feel kind of guilty when I get new one. I think the goal is to settle on just a few that each have their purpose.

plax i usually roll w/ 2 cameras: 1 loaded w/ b&w and one w/ color/slide film

i dont do b+w but i wanna be able to take night photos that dont look like something christopher doyle vomited on

but yeah, looking into soviet copies of leicas and stuff on ebay.

now that i have a job and shit

anyway 2 cameras = roll w/ 2 diff types of film

yeah this is something that actually only occurred to me for the first time last night!

its awesome try it

as long as nobody outbids me I will!

one of them comes w/ like additional lenses. Idk it all seems a bit much, this is my only camera except for this shitty digital thing i never used and a crappy one an ex gave me when he was done w/ it that survived abt a month w/ me as owner

i dont do b+w but i wanna be able to take night photos that dont look like something christopher doyle vomited on

lol. go for 1600 i say.

really, i only start getting handshake at 1/8 and most of my night shots are 1/2 - 2s atm, i thought 800 would be fine?

god i used to think u just had to press a button

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plax russian cameras are kind of hit or miss

chinavision strangely enough I also bought a beater M2 recently, that's dented in the same area as yours :o

I have a disease

really, i only start getting handshake at 1/8 and most of my night shots are 1/2 - 2s atm, i thought 800 would be fine?

I'd just buy the new Portra 400 that can be shot from 400-1600 on the same roll without issue, and shoot 1600 when light demands it.

200 is the only iso i've used even though i have some 400 but its all 24exp so im too cheap to use it.

well i bought a supercute little FED-3 for £31 incl deliver and a leather case. goes from 1s-1/500+B so i figure it can be my night one for throwing some 800/1600 (depending) into. feel v. excited about all this btw!

i mean, its not a leica but i've never used a leica so idk what im missing and its a helluva lot more appro for my budget.

My parents bought themselves at 60D (which I will probably be selling for them in a year when they realize it hasn't been used). I've played it with for a few hours here and there - definitely an improvement over the T2i/Rebel series (which is what my brother just got, giving them the impetus to buy something one step better), and the viewfinder is pretty big and bright for a crop sensor (except at night indoors, with the kit zoom).

The fold out screen is interesting - I could see maybe using it during the day, when shutter speeds are high enough to not care (holding a camera at arms' length to view an LCD screen is less stable than elbows locked and braced against your face). But OTOH, in daylight is it going to be visible at all? Guessing it would be more useful to someone who has some idea WTF they're doing with video.

i got my fn ФЭД

i get the focusing thing, it made no sense to me when it was explained. dying to get a test roll but its like it takes forever to take all those photos.

it doesnt have to.

well i had work all day and i got it today. i might be 2/3 through a 36 roll

KIU!!!

My friend's dad gave me his Pentax Spotmatic F w/ 50mm f/4 macro lens tonight, he used it for 30 years to copy slides for his classes and Powerpoint made it obsolete. I love the feel of the camera, so solid and smooth.
Need to order a cheap fast 50 from KEH.

That was my dad's camera too! Had a 50mm lens with a big wide f/1.4 aperture. Still has it, although it was replaced with a ZX-5n that he only used for a couple of years before switching to a high-end Canon digital.

just wanted to say I dig this thread. keeping it from slipping the surly bonds of new answers.
I like the timeline of everyone's continued interests and acquisitions, etc.

I realized maybe day before yesterday, in the middle of a conversation, that at worst i always have at least one camera on my person, on my phone. There's also one on my iPod. And another one on my iPad. And there's my pocket Powershot. And then there's my DSLR Nikon. So when I show up to work most days, with my overstuffed backpack, I actually have six cameras on me, or eight if you count the two cameras on the iPad and iPod. So there are two good cameras, one middling one (on my Android phone), and four completely shit ones. And sitting at my desk here at home, I realize I have two MORE cameras -- the webcams on my iMac and my PC. I have a LOT of cameras. They have different functions, and only two of them take actually acceptable photos.

all of those take acceptable photos imo

The iCrap, even? Really? Maybe in special, perfect, mid-day circumstances.

best camera is the one you have etc etc