...have been shooting film almost exclusively for the past 6 months or so.
I'm digitally burnt out, and desperately needed the thoughtful break film gives us
Hats off to you sir. Do you focus on wildlife photography, or are you using film for general photography as well? Are you using autofocus lenses, or manual?
There will doubtless be some nice photos of classic cameras posted in this thread, but photos taken by those cameras would be of infinitely more interest (to me, anyway).
Hats off to you sir. Do you focus on wildlife photography, or are you using film for general photography as well? Are you using autofocus lenses, or manual?
There will doubtless be some nice photos of classic cameras posted in this thread, but photos taken by those cameras would be of infinitely more interest (to me, anyway).
I decided to try this out.... I took my Swarovski Scope and hand held my Film Minolta SRT Camera using Kodak TriX 400 BW film. I shot at 5.6 with a shutter of 500. It was interesting. I focused using the scope, and drew up the camera to the eyepiece. It was not easy getting the camera aligned to the eye-piece as I had to look thru the viewfinder and shift camera accordingly. No back screen as in digital camera to help myself compose the shot.
Also, ....this set-up produced dark images as you can see. Kind of eerie in a way. The background is all blacked out and the light (although somewhat sunny out today) wasn't enough to really produce shots that had the background lit up. Anyhow, an experiment....I really don't mind the shots.
Next time I will have to use color film but I didn't have any in the freezer! ....
I decided to try this out....
Hi Jim
Looks promising!
Those are the first "film-o-scoped images I've ever seen...birds shot through a scope and captured on an analog film emulsion.
Half the fun of getting the film image is getting there to get the image in the first place.
Few more from the past few months. I do post process, given no choice. First, I home scan into TIFF format where there is some data compression. A 35mm film format scan produces a TIFF file of app. 70mb. Much too large to uplaod. TIFF's are converted to JPEG's, and much smaller, more reasonable sizes. By doing that, I'm again post processing. Labs do it to us unknowingly.
Labs batch process test strips in their chemistry, then use those test strips to calibrate their scanners. Converting to JPEG algorithms is post processing.
1-Kodak UltraMax 400 thru a pentax A 35mm to 105mm f/3.5 zoom on an LX body. Dec 12 2019 full moon over trumpeter swans about 25 minutes after sunset. I knew the blue spectrum would predominate. Zoomed into 105mm
2-Kodak UltraMax 400 thru a pentax A* 200mm ED f/4 macro on an LX.
male Hairy woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) taking walnut chips from an old oak branch that fell. I drilled holes into the dead branch and use it as a walnut chip feeder. Woodpeckers, titmice, chickadees, wrens...other species favor walnuts over suet. Have the two out, and walnuts are always taken first. Image is post processed via TIFF scan to JPEG conversion.
Hello there,
Interesting experiment , nice "moody" photo's.
I have not been able to find TriX for years and years , Ilford B&W films are freely available however ||||||.
Cheers.
Since I only had the 35mm lens for the Nikonos I didn't exactly take many wildlife photos with it. This was taken on the west coast of the Isle of Skye on a very gloomy day showing a mass of Moon Jellyfish trapped in an inlet below steep cliffs. No idea what film I would have been using.
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