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Rob Leslie
Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1103 Location: UK Swindon
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: Film Experiment. |
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Rob Leslie wrote:
My local Tesco supermarket will develop a 35mm and scan to CD for £1-97p. I’m afraid the ‘Operators’ don’t know what resolution the scans are. Then the ‘Pound shop’ are doing 36 exposure colour neg for £1-00. Well I just have to give it a go
As an experiment (Or a laugh) I have put a film in my little Olympus XA1.
This is the very basic XA with the f4 35mm lens and just full auto. You can’t even focus it, but I do have the flash!
I’m literally going to throw caution to the wind and shot with the intention of converting the scans to BW and hopefully get some ‘Interesting’ results from the ‘Snaps’
I see this as working to the limitations of the camera and must admit the couple of shots I have done have given me a sort of liberated feeling. Its like
‘What the hell I’ll compose it and then I’ll just get something from the file!!!’
I’m even going to try the flash!
Has anybody got a name for this sort of shooting? (Madness)
Watch this space, It may take me two or three weeks to use the film but I did choose to use the XA1 because I can put it in my pocket and maybe do those couldn’t care less snaps quickly.
Anybody any thoughts ) Or has anybody tried doing similar? _________________ Pentax K10D & K100D. Many Tamron Adaptall SP lenses, Fujinon f4.5 400mm. A loved Lens Baby 2, Lubitel triplet +++ and many film cameras. Mainly a Digital user inc G5, GR2
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Nesster
Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 5883 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Nesster wrote:
certainly! Recently I used a Vivitar crap-cam (I doubt that is it's official name -these seem to be rebadged and given out as promotions) with a non-focusing 28mm lens. It died on me at exposure 27, so I didn't even get a full roll. The shutter went. I had Ilford xp2 in it, and had it developed and scanned at the local drug store. They charge anywhere from $1.99 to $3.49 depending on who's ringing it up.
That's close to toy camera photography. I'd say it reaches toy hood.
The other cam I use around town is the Yashica T4, this one autofocuses and calculates exposure and everything. So there's an AF lag. 35mm Zeiss lens. Vignettes a bit at the wider apertures, and there's a bit of barrel distortion. But fun, and good to use.
On the Photographer Liberation Front: along my recent liberation path, the first step was with a Yashica GSN. My eye was outside the photo for the first time in years! And I had a lens with a real clear DOF scale and the means to use it. Hadn't had as much fun since my Pen FT days.
Then I took a flying leap: our daughter found an old '37 Franka with cloudy lens, and I realized the shutter worked. So I bought film, and bought the bug. Soon I had a Bessa 66, lovely little camera, NO focus aid, NO exposure meter, NO automatic shutter cocking... I was terrified at first, being conditioned to 'perfect' focus, 'perfect' exposure etc. I tended to worry about overexposure for some reason, and therefore tended to underexpose. But I loved the results, and with that feedback I was freed! I found I could estimate exposure pretty well (given a starting point reading, especially) and focus distance.
And that was the beginning of the end for me. Now I'm here, fitting ancient lenses on dSLRs, collecting old lenses and cameras, even using that crap Vivitar (it was actually a company gift for those of us who spent Y2K night at the office. We were supposed to take pics of each other having fun! ) for the first and last time in 8 years. _________________ -Jussi
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Katastrofo
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 10405 Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Katastrofo wrote:
Rob, looking forward to seeing what that little XA can do. Welcome back
to the world of film!
Bill |
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Rob Leslie
Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1103 Location: UK Swindon
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Rob Leslie wrote:
Katastrofo wrote: |
Rob, looking forward to seeing what that little XA can do. Welcome back
to the world of film!
Bill |
I'm not sure about that. I doubt I will be returning to film.
The little XA1 (The XA was a much better camera) gives very good results. The last time I used it was about 1998/9 but I was trying hard with it. As I wrote this time I'm just going for it!
The best you can hope for me is I like the results and I find myself a Olympus XA, XA2, 3 or XA4. My reply to Nesster may explain more.
Nesster. Doing it this way is something very new for me.
I started photography as a kid and always tried to work it all out and produce the sort of stuff I saw in the photo books/mags
I have done ALL the film stuff. I was doing scans and adjustment to files way back in the 1980's (Publishing)
You could say- Been there done it and got all the T shirts.
I don't think I have ever picked a camera up with the intention of not even thinking about the settings, exposure before. It is probably the only area of photography I have never really tried.
Toy camera, Toy photography is the right term for it. It has to be or I would have put my Pound shop film into one of the film SLRs I still have.
PS Perhaps one of the best things about the XA series (besides the size and quality lens) is the viewfinder. If you ever get a chance just have a look through one. It just begs you to take pictures! _________________ Pentax K10D & K100D. Many Tamron Adaptall SP lenses, Fujinon f4.5 400mm. A loved Lens Baby 2, Lubitel triplet +++ and many film cameras. Mainly a Digital user inc G5, GR2
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j.lukow
Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Lindsay Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: |
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j.lukow wrote:
I think I would call this type of shooting - intuitive shooting. Trying to bring the artist out.
Even though I shoot SLRs with "bigger" lenses this is still part of the experience for me, I'm comfortable enough with my gear that the technical parts are almost automatic and I try to experience the shot.
Be careful, you may find something you never realized you missed
Jim _________________ EMPLOYMENT: That which funded photography and my new woodworking business.j.lukow
Jim's Kit:
Minolta Kit: Minolta X570 & Autowinder G, Minolta SRT200
LENSES:Minolta - 45mm & 50mm F1:2, PF 58mm F1:1.4, Tamron 28mm f1:2.5, Tamron SP 35-80mm f1:2.8/3.8 & CF TeleMacro zoom 80-210 f1:3.8, Vivitar f3.0~4.5 35-200mm macro focusing zoom, f 2.8 28mm CF Wide angle, 2x macro focus teleconverter,Sigma F4 25-250, f 2.8~4 35-70mm zoom master,Tokina SD f4-5.6 70-210 zoom, f4.5 80-200 "Ultra" Zoom,AutoImage 135mm F1:2.8, Spiratone 400mm f1:6.3, Magicon f3.5-4.8 35-70mm macro zoom,Quantary f8-500 Mirror/macro lens, Accura MD mount Macro bellows
M42 Kit:Praktica PLC2,Yashica TL Electro X
LENSES:Meyer Goerlitz Oreston 50mm f1:1.8 , Auto Yashinon DX 1:1.7 50mm,Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm f4.5, Adaptall-2 M42 adapter
Zeiss . . . Zeiss Contaflex 126 system, Zeiss Contaflex Super
Medium Format: Pentacon sixTL
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kevh53
Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Idaho, USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:03 am Post subject: my XA2 |
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kevh53 wrote:
Hello, this being my first post as a member... I had an XA2 years ago. It was my second most loved camera at the time (my first one being a Kodak 110 Instamatic, I was 12 years old). The XA was my first plunge into '35mm'. You would not believe the fantastic photos I was able to take with it! Alas, I drowned it when I stepped into deep water unexpectedly while fishing in Yellowstone National Park- Bechler River with the XA in my wader pocket . For nastalgia sake, I am looking for another XA2... _________________ I love my F3T. Tough as nails, gets the shot! |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Hello, nice to see you here! _________________ -------------------------------
Items on sale on Ebay
Sony NEX-7 Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4, Minolta MD 35mm f1.8, Konica 135mm f2.5, Minolta MD 50mm f1.2, Minolta MD 250mm f5.6, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8
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kevh53
Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Idaho, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:32 am Post subject: |
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kevh53 wrote:
Attila wrote: |
Hello, nice to see you here! |
Thank you very much! I hope to visit often and learn much. I just bought a beautiful Nikon 180 ED, and a TC 14. Went to the super bike race in SLC last weekend and got some great shots with it! As soon as I get them scanned I may post a few _________________ I love my F3T. Tough as nails, gets the shot! |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
kevh53 wrote: |
Attila wrote: |
Hello, nice to see you here! |
Thank you very much! I hope to visit often and learn much. I just bought a beautiful Nikon 180 ED, and a TC 14. Went to the super bike race in SLC last weekend and got some great shots with it! As soon as I get them scanned I may post a few |
We all look forward them ! Thanks! _________________ -------------------------------
Items on sale on Ebay
Sony NEX-7 Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4, Minolta MD 35mm f1.8, Konica 135mm f2.5, Minolta MD 50mm f1.2, Minolta MD 250mm f5.6, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8
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