Film
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Melbourne weekend
Some shots I took over a weekend away in Melbourne. I always find it a photogenic city, in some ways much more so than my hometown of Sydney. In this set I tried to play with perspective and figurative aspects. I quite like the tones as I shot these on Neopan 400 and processed with Rodinal at 1:50; probably my favourite combination.
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A few from Japan
Getting a little worried now. Still cant find a roll from my trip. It’s always the one you’re most looking forward to developing that you loose or ruin.
Anyway…
I quite like the first shot. As everyone started to cross the road, i took a quick look behind me and saw this girl standing there whilst everyone moved past. I guessed the distance and got a quick shot before she disappeared into the crowd. It’s out of focus as you can probably tell, but without trying to sound too “wanky”, I think it reflects the moment for me.
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More from Italy
Here are some more shots from Italy. I’m just trying to scan as much as humanly possible before me scanner packs it in. The quality isn’t brilliant, but after an overseas trip I have no money left for a fancy new negative scanner!
Taken with Neopan400 and Tri-x400 (some EI300).. I’m really liking Neopan at the moment. Maybe I’ve just fluked a development time/method that gives the results I want, but I can’t seem to work tri-x out at the moment. Oh, all were developed in Rodinal 1+50, but I think I managed to keep the grain down (even with bad scans).
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Things with wheels in Italy
Ok I’ve just about finished developing my film from the holidays so I’ll start posting shots up here.
The title of this post says it all really. I kind if got on a mission to take photos of cars/bikes/etc one afternoon and this is what I came up with.
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Film Scanners
I developed my first roll of 120 film yesterday and I already think I’m addicted.
Actually, that’s a pretty silly thing to say. My negatives are still hanging up by themselves looking pretty because i have no way to scan them. They might not turn out brilliant, but I’m now addicted to medium format viewfinders, and really like the whole process (I’ve been borrowing a friends RB67). But that’s a whole other story.
Anyway… Scanners… Yet another thing to spend money on =/
The film scanner I’ve been using up to now was something I bought a while ago before i was into photography, it’s well over 5 years old now. So it was just a fluke that it had film scanning capabilities that came in handy.
With film scanners you have two main varieties (for those who don’t know). Dedicated scanners that you feed slides and negative strips into that don’t do anything else besides scan film. Then you have the more conventional flatbed scanners that have film scanning capabilities.
Dedicated film scanners generally offer the best quality, but can be quite expensive and only take 35mm film.
The flatbed scanners are generally cheaper, offer decent quality (especially for web viewing and smaller prints), plus can take medium format film as well.
So at this stage I’m leaning towards a flatbed scanner as I don’t want to spend over $300, plus I need something that can take 120 film. I’m currently looking at the Epson 4490, Epson V500, Canon CanoScan 8800F, plus a couple others. I’m just trying to find some trustworthy reviews and personal opinions, as the manufacturer specifications are quite often misleading.
It’s actually bit of a pain in the ass finding the right scanner in my price range. The reality is none will really bring out the best of film, the full dynamic range that actually makes it superior to digital. So it’ll always be bit of a compromise. As long as it’s better than what i already have I’ll be happy!
Anyone want to buy me a drum scanner?