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| Posted: Thu Sep 10th, 2020 15:12 |
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GeoffR
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I calculated recently that, were I still using film, my annual expenditure would be around £6,000 for slide film and developing. I simply couldn't afford to take the number of photographs that I do with film. More to the point I wouldn't even have attempted some of my better images because they are parts of a long sequence (not shot on continuous). I would, in most cases, have run out of film before getting to the best image.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11th, 2020 03:19 |
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Robert
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Geoff, you hit the nail right on the head. Not just that but my photography sessions were much less frequent. Most extravagant was my trip to Le-Mans when I took about seven rolls of film in 36 hours. Due to my lack of practice and in such a strange environment (for me) I did't get as many really good pictures as I would have had I gone in recent times having had loads of practice at lesser events, which was afforded due to the 'free film' provided by digital. Digital has many advantages but I still say the biggest are the 'free film' and the histogram. I can home in and get an optimal exposure in difficult or impossible lighting, even bracketing and combining images (HDR) at times to 'get the picture'. All that said, I haven't even picked up a camera for at least two months. Just been too busy.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19th, 2020 06:52 |
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Graham Whistler
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Scanning in some negs from my photographic student days at the Regent Street Polly. This is another Rolleiflex image the 60 yer old neg still perfect only one dust spot to clone out.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19th, 2020 17:45 |
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Eric
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I've tried hard Graham....but it's faultless to my eyes ....which are nothing like hers, by the way.  Looking at the standard of your college work, I am reminded of the remark made to me by a teenage squash player who I (in my late thirties) had just beaten in a thrilling and exhausting squash tournament match. As we left the court he said “well done.... I bet you were really good when you were young?â€. Well done, lovely image and so reminiscent of the period.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20th, 2020 02:49 |
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Graham Whistler
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Could we do better quality with a DSLR today? I think it would have been Kodax PlusX 120 Film and D76 developer 100ASA and Mole Richards studio lighting (No studio flash in those days)
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| Posted: Sun Sep 20th, 2020 08:50 |
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Iain
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The detail in that is great, don't know if you could get better than that with digital.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23rd, 2020 14:12 |
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Graham Whistler
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How is this for detail Ian this is one of my London big hotel shoots sorry it's B&W but the client had the 4x5 transp. This is Sinar 4x5 and 16 Elinchrom Studio flash heads I just had my trusty flash mete and Polaroid film back! This is as shot scan off the original neg. This is Rank's Royal Lancaster Hotel in London shot Nov 1990. Long before Nikon DSLRs. Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24th, 2020 04:52 |
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Eric
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16 flash to position and balance!!!!  I only ever used 4 (I only HAD 4 ) and that was hard enough with chair shadows on table cloths everywhere. Mind you, I never did any venues that large. Wonder how they are coping with social distancing in these establishments?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25th, 2020 09:28 |
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Iain
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That looks good Graham. Worked with six flashlights and that was enough.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2020 12:04 |
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rmoser
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Back in the day my favorite film/dev b&w combination was Panatomic X exposed at ASA 25 and developed in Minicol. Wonder, smooth 35mm portraits. Neither still exists although I do have the formula for Minicol, so that's still doable. Naturally, I still have a bunch of Tri-X in the freeze and I sometimes give my F2's a little time out of the house. I have an F5 but I only use it if I'm also shooting with my D4s. We really are spoiled with excellent auto exposure and focus in hand these days. I stumbled on a batch of negs the other day that I took at an air show back in the middle 1970's using a Nikon F (which I still have in the safe). I just look at them and wonder how I did that. Manual focus, manual exposures, no motor drive and only 36 pictures before a re-load. I still have my 4x5 view camera and haul it out sometimes but I think I should get a digital back for it :). Sheet film, processing and scanning is a serious investment these days. Rob
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