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Post by julesd68 on Apr 20, 2020 22:02:28 GMT
Thank you sir.
The trick was to ditch the Mac 'photos' app for quick and dirty RAW editing - it's just rubbish in my experience. So have now imported around 400 shots into Lightroom where I don't usually edit holiday pics but of course am guaranteed a much better, if slower result. I spent some time with this shot just to see what kind of quality I could eek out of my little Sony camera.
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Post by brian2957 on Apr 21, 2020 9:54:40 GMT
Nice photos chaps .
That's a whopper David . What was the weight .
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 26, 2020 21:38:06 GMT
 So, who knew that you could develop black and white photos using just a mixture of cheap instant coffee, soda crystals, vitamin C, salt and water? ( petea excepted) Not me, until last week! |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 26, 2020 22:05:03 GMT
Amazing, Chris.
Great depth and texture. We tend to lose a lot of that with modern digital photography.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 26, 2020 22:27:48 GMT
I'm really excited with this development (ho-ho) Jules. Spending about a tenner gets you enough 'chemicals' to develop maybe fifty or so rolls of film! The only normal dark room substance we used was some fix.
If you can get results like this with your first try, then why would you bother doing it any other way? Better for the environment, my lungs and my wallet - I can't see a downside
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Post by MartinT on Apr 27, 2020 8:46:00 GMT
Nice. I used to like developing film in my development drum. The awkward bit was getting the film onto the reel in the pitch dark.
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Post by petea on Apr 27, 2020 9:40:36 GMT
Nice result, Chris. I've never tried Caffenol myself, but know several who have, to good effect. It's supposed to smell a bit though: does it?
Loading films is one of those those techniques that, one day, you just realise that you don't need to think about any more and cannot understand why people have trouble with. I keep a couple of 120 and 25mm strips in the darkroom to use to teach people - eyes open and then shut until they are confident to use 'live' film.
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Post by petea on Apr 27, 2020 9:41:18 GMT
Oh, I forgot to add that I mainly use ID11 still.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 27, 2020 10:06:35 GMT
I have some colour slides I developed myself using the E6 process. Tricky.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 27, 2020 10:09:31 GMT
Yes, it's a bit whiffy, Pete, but not dangerously fumey.
Our biggest problem with loading the film was that we couldn't find the changing bag and so making things properly dark was fun! Mischa put the film on the roll and when she had finished, she removed her hands from the dark green carrier bag(!) and I spotted the dial of her watch glowing rather magnificently! Going by the results, it looks like we got away with it though.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 27, 2020 10:23:34 GMT
This recently discovered album contains my photos from a school trip to Lake Constance in something like 1982. The graphic 'design' and 'styling' (I use the words loosely) are wonderfully of their time.  |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 27, 2020 10:34:19 GMT
I have a reel of Standard 8 silent film I took on a primary school trip to Calais, aged 11 (1969), using a wind-up cine camera that my dad gave to me. It's wonderfully shaky but hugely nostalgic, as you might imagine.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 27, 2020 10:35:34 GMT
Fab Jules!
We recently found a roll of undeveloped film lurking in a bag of stuff and didn't have a clue what it was. Turned out it was taken by our daughter on our second trip to Arizona back in 2004 when she was eleven.
Great snaps of saguaro cacti, the OK corral in Tombstone and native American cave dwellings among other things.
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Post by petea on Apr 27, 2020 11:26:30 GMT
This recently discovered album contains my photos from a school trip to Lake Constance in something like 1982. The graphic 'design' and 'styling' (I use the words loosely) are wonderfully of their time. So, this thing with you and the ellipsis has been gong on for some time it seems... |
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Post by petea on Apr 27, 2020 11:31:53 GMT
I started with 8 mm cine (after failing to get a real camera for Xmas: an Instamatix instead), using a Russian clockwork camera bought S/H because it could be over-cranked. I still have the reels created using it. Fascinating classics like; "Occasionally in-fcous shots of hover flies in slow motion", "Spider vs Ladybird" and that stop-motion masterpiece, "Watering can chasing cardboard box around the lawn"!
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 4, 2020 21:06:10 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 14, 2020 15:36:09 GMT
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Post by Barrington on Oct 24, 2020 13:04:25 GMT
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Post by Barrington on Oct 25, 2020 17:17:33 GMT
Buzzard sitting right outside our gate on the telegraph pole , camera settings were all over the place but quite pleased .  |
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 25, 2020 18:15:37 GMT
Gorgeous, nice job!
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