Does anyone here still shoot film?

Any of you guys who claim to shoot film but don't develop it need to start. It is so fun and gratifying. Plus it's the one of the main things that sets film apart from digital. Digital photographers don't need to develop.
 
while i understand your original point, i am going to offer that the majority of photoshop's original tools/functions are a direct translation from darkroom techniques. you don't get the satisfaction of avoiding developer bubbles or keeping dust from getting everywhere, but don't confuse the processes of digital toning and digital manipulation. the first (toning) could be described as "digital developing" and isn't done as often as is needed.
 
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fuji astia 100f; best chrome available at the moment.
 
Shot with a Hasselblad 500 C/W. My first roll of velvia 100. just got it developed. A lot of under exposed stuff including the portrait. Other than that really stoked on how it looks.
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The portrait looks over exposed to me. You should be under exposing slide film by half a stop anyway to make sure your highlights don't go clear.
 
No i def picked up on that. kinda obvious. i'm still learning how to meter without a meter. guessing isn't as easy as i thought
 
You're definitely much better off with a spot meter when you shoot outdoors. Pick your zone VIII and then expose for that, since you can't really push or pull color slide film.
 
velvia 50 is one of the hardest films to expose. you want to be dead on or 1/3 stop under. there is really no latitude.
that being said, when outside and sunny, subscribe to sunny 16 rule. otherwise become a human light meter (i had a professor in college who could walk into a room and give an accurate exposure 95% of the time, we tested him) or invest in a light meter.
 
^thanks you guys. Yea i'd love to learn how to become a human light meter but for the time i need to pick one up.
and it's 100 but i'm guessing there isn't much of a difference. is there? i know about the Zone system but never heard about sunny rule 16. what is that?
thanks guys
 
sunny 16 applies only to sunny clear days.
it is uber simple; 1/iso @ f16.so if you are shooting 120 speed film, you shoot 1/125 @ f16 (or equivalent). I find myself shooting from the hip with my yashica 1/500 @ f8 and velvia 100 with outdoor stuff a lot. Try to get as close as possible with the shutter speed to iso (or underexpose if your camera doesn't allow, i.e. 200 -> 250).
 
yess! film is, and always will be so much better than digital, ive got an fm2 and a canon 1014xl that i shoot super 8 with. super 8 looks so amazing.
 
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Whoever is talking about slide film, you should definitely expose it normally. It reproduces highlights better than print films so you might as well use it. Plus it has much less exposure latitude, so you want to get it correct as possible.

For instance, this had really bright highlights cause thats what it looked like in real life. This was provia

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this was velvia

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and my favorite; E100VS

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slide film kicks ass. but it's hard to find cheap processing. so i use ektar unless I really want to use slide.
 
That was me. I have every intention of exposing it properly, it was just a matter of me failing at spot metering. i shot a few rolls over the weekend and have high hopes for those.
Anyone shoot 6x7 medium format? or even large format? would love to see some of that from NS'ers
 
Sweet thread. Last summer I helped a buddy drive from Michigan to Alaska and shot a few rolls from a borrowed camera. Here's a few good ones:
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seems like a fair amount of money for an edit like that.. Looked nice but i'd be spending my money with film on something a lil' more worthwhile.
 
I killed a roll of 64t between 1 and 2 in the morning on sunday night cause it was extremely foggy, can't wait to get the slides back.
 
You can get Canon 50mm 1.4 Fd lenses for much cheaper. Look on keh, at garage sales and such. Even the camera store near me has a canon one for around 70 dollars. Fd system rocks though. I used to use an AL-1 but I upgraded to a t90 a while ago. It;s the 1v/1n of the fd cameras. You can get good fd lenses for dirt cheap though, no need to buy 3rd party glass either.

Too bad they won't do slide film in a day anymore. Stoked to see my shots.
 
I decided to throw a film back on my hasselblad and decided to prove to people that you don't need to edit the shit out of your shots before presenting them to a client. These are straight out of the camera and I would be comfortable presenting any of them to a client. SHITTY part is that the lab put a nice fog line through all of the shots as you will see. These were shot on a 501 cm with either a 40, 50, 80 or 150 lens. The film is fuji 400pro h. Straight outta the camera and scanned.

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I actually manipulate the stuff I shoot on film way more than the stuff I shoot digitally haha. Digital manipulation looks like balls.
 
If you're scanning it yourself quite a bit of color balancing and stuff like that is usually required. Usually when I scan superia 400 it has too much red, ektar is rather blue, portra usually looks good and anything slide is always good. I have a canoscan 8800f, but I bet a proper film scanner would do much much better.
 
beautiful mang,, ive got an old minolta film that my mom got in the late 80's, x-700 i believe. need to get it cleaned up and use it, always been a fan of film photography
 
I'm going to be shooting this for the next few weeks

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Still waiting on my first negs to come back! Shooting all color too. I'll post some 35mm and medium format later.
 
Aw yeah! Lots of pictures!

Shot on a Canon EOS 3, the square stuff is a Hasselblad 501. Lots of Portra, some Ektachrome in there, and also some expired Mistubishi film.

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Love Film. If a digital wasnt so conveniant all i would shoot would be film. I use a 35mm Pantex and us Kodak tri-x film
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I've been shooting so much film lately, I don't think I've even turned on my digital camera in a month. I also just bought a couple rolls of Kodachrome 64 so I'm stoked to shoot those before they stop developing them at the end of this year.
 
Some older stuff, just ordered quite a few rolls of 35mm film (BW400CN, Portra 800 and Superia 1600) so I'll probably have more stuff to show quite soon.

Superia 1600, pushed one stop.

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Ilford Delta 100, which I'd had a perspective control lens for this one.

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Another Delta 100

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Ilford HP5+

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I've got way too many film cameras, dad used to be a photographer.
 
Wow. Awesome.

I think my favorite format of all is super8. It has such a dreamy and chaotic feel to it. Shooting digital just isn't the same. But alas, it is all I can afford...
 
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