Does anyone here still shoot film?

Film like old SLR film?

My parents found an old XG1 in the basement with a cool lens and some film, so I've been shooting on that.
 
Film still holds a place in my heart and I'll continue to shoot color slide as long as they make it. I'm a fan of Provia and Velvia but I do like to shoot the occasional roll of B&W. You can ever replicate the dynamic range that film has with digital. It will come close but it's never the same.
 
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Every once in a while. This shot is from a Yashica A TLR I found at an antique store, and some super expired BW 120 I found at a thrift shop. f3.5 and about a second long exposure at 80mm

I have a lot of stuff that I need to scan and edit.
 
that's a sweet photo, really feeling the reflection. i have a ton of stuff i need to scan too, but it's tough at college when my scanner is back home...

 
I just invested in the epson v500. initial scans came out good, I need to re-scan the photo I posted.

At only 200, it's a real solid scanner. And, you can sometimes find it for around 150
 
I just invested in the epson v500. initial scans came out good, I need to re-scan the photo I posted.

At only 200, it's a real solid scanner. And, you can sometimes find it for around 150
 
i still shoot Bronica ETRS when i really feel like it, film is super cheap and medium format rules pretty hard.
 
Canon EOS 3, and I shoot a lot of color film. It's my minor in school. I shoot a lot of Kodak Portra, but I wanna explore a bunch of different film soon
 
A V500 for 150 would be sick. I bought my canon 8800f a few years back for around 200 I think. It has an led light source so it doesn't warm up, and I get awesome 120 scans and decent 35mm scans out of it.
 
Whos that one guy with the blue icon? Aenigma or something, Im fairly sure he does on the regular.
 
Leica... Lucky. My brother has a 1n with the booster, you could kill somebody with it and take a sequence while doing so.

Also, neopan 400 for the win.
 
It's the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. More specifically, it's on South Temple and 400 E.

Here's a fairly objective picture of it
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here's another one from that day:

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I almost never use my 5D anymore. Right now I do most of my shooting with my Toyo 45 GII 4x5 studio camera, and I just got a 6x12 pinhole that is pretty fun. We also have a Hassy 503C and a Mamiya RB67 at school that I check out every one in a while. I am going to use film for as long as I can! I doubt digital will ever be able to come close to what my 4x5 camera can do.
 
I got to use a 4x5 in highschool, but we had to use printing paper as negatives... I'd love to work with a camera like that but it seems to be expensive as hell to do, plus I gotta pay for other stuff. The whole process of using something like that is sick though, the other two kids in that class who were using it were annoyed by the whole thing though. Not quick enough for them.
 
When you scan a photo, it's not perfect straight out the scanner, no matter how good your exposure is. I wouldn't do anything to it that I don't know how to do in a darkroom.

I increase or decrease contrast (if needed) and increase or decrease saturation (if needed) and shift color (if needed). Maybe dodge and burn a little.
 
Wait.. what? All you do is 'edit' film when you are processing it. Same stuff as in the computer, but with chemicals/filters/etc
 
well not really... to a degree yeah, but you're not messing with the background or using healing brush, sharpening edges or anything, just adjusting contrast/dodging, burning etc...
 
Got my shots back from the bros today (I'm not cool enough to do my own darkroom stuff) and they turned out pretty sick!

I'll post some later today maybe if I have time.
 
I have a Canon AE-1 that I still use from time to time...I've stopped for a while cause my Darkroom had to get taken down and I haven't been able to put it back up - not too mention chemicals are expensive, but I do still love shooting with real film every now and then.
 
I use a Nizo Super 8mm. There is supposed to be a bunch of powder stuff in our film with it, but I have yet to get it developed because of the cost.
 
if your really good, you can clone things in the darkroom, and do other clone type effects. You have to o it while printing obviously.
 
oh im horrible with cameras i thought it was because it uses 40 minute digital betacam cassettes. but i dont understand how it can be a digital cassette
 
digital should have been your first clue. the digital information is just stored on tapes. same as mini dv, or isame as say an audio cassette tape, just with video as well as audio. its magnetic.
 
Tape does not automatically mean it's digital. Old tape delays are analog, along with the tapes used in every recording studio prior to the digital era. I don't know the exact science, but digital cassette is able to store metadata via binary, whereas analog tape is your basic, workhorse sine wave.
 
yeah sorry i didnt meant tape was automatically digital. just that digital automatically meant not film.
 
Don't hate on my pictures, I'm no photographer...I just do it for fun, and happen to do so on film.

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God I hope these work...
 
I love shooting stills in film, I got my moms old minolta from the late 80s early 90s and the thing is sooo sick, I'll get some shots up around monday
 
ill post a picture of the rollei in a little bit, they have some amazing technology put into these cameras, i was amazed when i got it/inherited it
 
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