Starting out on film... Have a wide angle and 50mm, thinking of macro as well any advice on films to use??
Thanks! So to summarize its,
For b & w: ilford hp5, kodak tx and adox
For color : ektra and porta
For natural : reala
For saturated colors : slides
Any recommendation for slides? I heard velvia is really good
alistair.o said:Hi, as you stated that 'you are starting out...' in film can I suggest you go to your nearest Poundland and buy £10's worth of Kodak Gold 200 (I think it is) - that would be 10 rolls and see how you get on.
Same with B&W, buy from Matt (if you are intending to develop your own) i.e.
http://www.ag-photographic.co.uk/rollei-retro-100-214-c.asp
OR
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_1&products_id=70021
C41 decent B&W for cheap 3rd party developing.
Hope this helps
Alistair
Thanks! So to summarize its,
For b & w: ilford hp5, kodak tx and adox
For color : ektra and porta
For natural : reala
For saturated colors : slides
Any recommendation for slides? I heard velvia is really good
Hi, as you stated that 'you are starting out...' in film can I suggest you go to your nearest Poundland and buy £10's worth of Kodak Gold 200 (I think it is) -
Alistair
Slightly inferior???? Its ****, probably the worst film I've ever used, drab colours, grainy and just horrible.
Its supposed to be a very old Kodacolour emulsion but if things were that bad back then then god knows why people used it!
Slightly inferior???? Its ****, probably the worst film I've ever used, drab colours, grainy and just horrible.
Its supposed to be a very old Kodacolour emulsion but if things were that bad back then then god knows why people used it!
Because back then, it was the mass market film, was bought by people like my mother, who only bought film on one criteria - how cheap it was - and probably had the shots processed by a mail-out processing company that would advertise in the small ads section of the Daily Mirror/Sun, took 2 weeks to process the film and returned 36 shots that were pretty much varying shades of magenta!
Meanwhile, the people who cared about their pictures were shooting Kodachrome
Slightly inferior???? Its ****, probably the worst film I've ever used, drab colours, grainy and just horrible.
Its supposed to be a very old Kodacolour emulsion but if things were that bad back then then god knows why people used it!
Gold is the last version of Kodacolour 200 from about 2002 rebranded. Theres been no updates to it since then apparently.
Kodak introduced new, reformulated versions of its KODAK GOLD 100 and KODAK GOLD 200 consumer films at the 2007 PMA Show.
Kodak say "now delivers even brighter colors and deeper color saturation than before"...erm well I thought Gold was a bit OTT before the new change, maybe it's mainly for throw away cameras that need a boost :shrug:
Kodak say "now delivers even brighter colors and deeper color saturation than before"...erm well I thought Gold was a bit OTT before the new change, maybe it's mainly for throw away cameras that need a boost :shrug:
:razz:
just tonight bought 3 rolls Gold 200/24exp from Sainsburys ...well at £4.99 for 3 on sale = worth a go...?
You have saturation, vibrance and clarity control in your image editor. You can adjust the image to taste.