Olympus OM-2, G-Zuiko Auto 28mm F3.5, 50mm f1.4, 135mm f3.5

[rudolfkremers]

I started shooting on film again for the first time in 20-25 years or so. I have to say I am very very encouraged
I love the way film grain looks, the amount of detail that feels "real" as opposed to digital, and the latitude that film offers. There is just so much subtle detail in there, and this is just a test roll of 35mm, developed by an online lab. I had to make very few adjustments in Lightroom actually.
It also seems brilliant for photographing people, but as it involves photos of my children I will keep those in the family.

Some shots were slightly overexposed, so I pulled them back a bit. Some small tweaks at times to saturation, but minor really.
All of these were shot with an Olympus OM2, on Portra 400 colour negative film. Lenses used: G-Zuiko Auto-W 28mm F3.5, G-Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f1.4, E-Zuiko Auto-T 135mm f3.5

[Excalibur]

Excellent and 35mm, I would have thought it was medium format.

[rudolfkremers]

Whoa! Thats high praise!

[PhantomLord]

That's great Rudolf and your first roll is great encouragement. I think I understand what you said about grain, detail and 'real' look as I think the same, but I would add 'colour' to that as the whole mixture of those things looks simply great.

About 1 year ago I come back to the film as well, although after shorter period of time , but it completely won me over. Now I mostly take my film camera instead of digital and I absolutely love it.
Shooting with old, but reliable piece of engineering with film of your choice is something that I cannot describe, but it feels great.
The OM2 is fantastic camera, I actually own OM2SP and it gives me so much pleasure to shoot with it.

Hope you would participate in this Colour Film thread as it's almost forgot .

[rudolfkremers]

Thanks Phantom, great to hear your experience as well. (I think I will follow a similar path)
I will definitely post more to this thread

[Teo]

Good first role . I am curious about more distant subjects , with more details.
Don't feel guilty about post processing . The final result matters Keep the balance !

[rudolfkremers]

[Teo]

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[rudolfkremers]

Slightly creepy but here ya go!
This is actually a crop in itself, I cut out about 15% of the edge.

The blocked out area is a person sniffing a flower. It makes the picture really.

Keep in mind this is a jpeg taken from a tiff scanned by Photo Express. An actual photographic print should show even more tolerance.

[kds315*]

very nice resukts. I like that graphic style a lot!

[Nordentro]

Great results with nice colors

[rudolfkremers]

Lovely reactions. Thank you all.

I feel like I have found something profound for myself, and I am looking forward to pursuing it obsessively.

[rudolfkremers]

Here is a new batch, mostly portra 400, and some Portra 160.
I think it is clear t me now that I want to shoot a lot more on film.

Various scenes





Some portraits too:





And some more miscellaneous





You can find more on my flickr account and a I have quite a few yet to share.

[rudolfkremers]

And a few more

[chris_zeel]

really nice shots with great colours!

how do you scan your negatives? what scanner, which settings and format and what post processing?

the scanning i did so far with my epson v370 was not satisfactory yet. but it might be the image quality from the camera..

[cooltouch]

Chris, I'm not familiar with the Epson V370 -- well, I just visited Epson's website and took a look. Its specs are very similar to my Epson 4990, which does a decent job with 35mm, better with medium format. I just use the EpsonScan software that came with the scanner. It's always done a good job for me, so you might want to double-check your settings, both in camera and scanner.

Rudolf, those are some great shots. I'm a big fan of Kodak Portra -- I've shot with the 160 only so far, but your 400 shots really look good. Grain? What grain? It isn't showing up in these photos.

Tell me, are you shooting at box speed, or do you reduce it, e.g., 160 at 100 or 400 at 320?
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[rudolfkremers]

Thanks guys!

I shoot mostly at box speed, but I have accidentally shot Portra 160 at 100 which came out great

My scanning process is pretty cunning!! I send them to Photo express in Hull
http://www.photo-express.co.uk/
Their scans are fine and I get them back as TIFFS on a cd with contact sheet. The rest is minimal lightroom. I generally have to do do very little as Portra is just marvelous. I also think the result would look even better if they were actual photo prints, and not digital scans.

I am now branching out to additional film stock (some a bit exotic) and larger formats, which I do with help from Nick and Trick
They provide some superb services and even offer their own bespoke service to shot on cine stock.


I am about to send off a whole bunch of rolls fro processing, so will post the results pretty soon :_)

[rudolfkremers]

I could post more from the previous roll as well, but I am afraid to overdo it on this thread.

[tb_a]

[chris_zeel]

thanks for the advice!
i'll definitely do a comparison of my own scan with the lab scan next time i bring a roll for develop.

[rudolfkremers]

Let's have a few more:

[Teo]

I don't know why I couldn't adapt very well with this camera ,wich is a great one .

[rudolfkremers]

It's a very good camera with some excellent features, but I find it a pain o use in full manual mode, because the shutter speed changes are controlled by a really awkwardly placed ring. It sets right next to the body and I have very big hands, which makes it very hard indeed.

There is much to like about it though and it definitely produces good photos.

[Teo]