Film Photography

Found in Hardy, AR.

I've always been frustrated about film scanning being locked behind a paywall or generic AI slop. I've tried to make this as system agnostic as I can. Please give me feedback so that I can improve this article. Thanks in advance!

Heavily damaged negative that, after fixing, came out better than expected. Happy accidents!

Hello beginner photographers like me exploring black-and-white film developing…

I'm sharing the app I created to make my life easier and to follow the process properly when using the Bergger One monobath developer.

https://m33.sdf.org/1-N-B

Demo video

(Source code on codeberg.org)

Hello there

I just received a TTArtisant 40mm macro for my Fuji XM-1, much needed to scan negatives.

The focus ring is slow and need quite some efforts to turn. Probably best for precision and not sliding out of focus.

But the mount has a quite a lot of play. It rotates following the focus ring adjustments, which, in turn, mess with the focus… It fit nicely flat on the body but this angular free play is annoying.

Anyway I need a macro lens, and can’t afford $600 for a genuine Fujinon X mount Lens…

Does anyone also have TTArtisan manual focus lenses ? How does they fit ?

I am tempted to send it back, can’t decide. Any advices ?

Bye

[Edit] thanks for all replies, the lens is sent back.

[Edit] new lens came in, with exact same angular play. I guess it's my life now, I shall keep it.

I love the creative constraints of film, but I also like instantaneousness of digital. Instax strikes a nice balance between the two imo, though I'll likely eventually get into film. I don't know a ton about Polaroid history, but I believe instant camera SLRs are not that common? Combine that with that fact that the NONS SL660 supports interchangeable lenses, and I think it's a one of a kind camera - correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm excited to unlock the secrets of this camera.

Also, shoutout to this beautiful mini monstera.

Probably taken with the 50mm prime, but maybe with the 28mm. Scanned using my Olympus EM-5 Mk II with the Olympus 14-42mm pancake zoom. Processed in Darktable.

This film was very hard to scan, because there's absolutely no reference. Is the water/sky too cyan? Idk. But I like the colours in this image.

Kodak 200 * Canon EOS630 * Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

Film shot at box speed, stand developed with Rodinal. This is the location of the old Crichton-Vulkan shipyard in Turku, which used to be a major shipbuilder in Finland. Some of the most significant ships to get built here were e.g. the submarines used by the Finnish navy in WWII, first of which was originally built as a prototype for the Reichsmarine. It's still possible to go see one of them, CV-707 or Vesikko, in Suomenlinna where it's on display.

The shipyard, after multiple restructurings, eventually located to Perno, Turku, and was eventually purchased by Meyer. Now it's mostly known for building the worlds largest cruise ships, such as the Royal Caribbean Icon-class. The old dry-dock and shipyard were developed into new housing, and on the right you can see some of the most expensive homes in all of Turku.

For me, best known source of analog photos is lomography.com, but maybe something else is available? I know of Flickr, but when I’ve tried to use it for this purpose, experience was very poor.

In earlier days analog photography was the only choice, therefore photo archives have been compiled only with film photos. All professional photographers have been working with film. Using internet to look at images was troublesome, and I remember I had a CD with photos of tigers, and nature, and stuff (because how else would you look at a tiger on PC when you don’t have internet connection?). Maybe similar compilation is available to browse/download somewhere?

I feel like this CD is gaining its value again.

Picture taken from Renforsin ranta in Kajaani, a location of a former paper mill now housing the Finnish supercomputers as well as LUMI, a jointly owned machine that was the fastest in Europe back in 2023 when it was built.

Added fresh batteries and some film and going to see how they turn out. Crazy find.

Cool idea but super gimmicky.

Konica Minolta Dynax 5 @ 35mm

Kodak Gold 200

I'm amazed at how this ended up. Most of the other low-light shots with this camera turned out as a complete blurry mess. It's not sharp by any means, but with the conditions and a moving carousel it went quite well.

Scanned by hand using my Olympus EM-5 Mark II in the sensor-shift super resolution mode. Slightly downsampled because of the image size limit.

Image shot at Liquicity Festival