Film resurgence in UK

Fair bit of latitude with print films.
 
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MartinJvilla said:
Shooting film takes no hostages, there's no negotiating with it afterwards. You either got it right or you didn't.
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I still find HP5 quite hard to get completely wrong (and I'm fairly clumsy at times).

And you still get to play in the darkroom afterwards when it comes to printing.

And if it's really past the point of recovery then it's .... well .... become 'art'.;)

That said - I don't feel comfortable using film with flash at all. I have become totally dependent on test shots followed by adjustment to dial things in - rather than using metering and brain power.
 
TheTimeChamber said:
Amazing stuff - I have a box of about 25 rolls (35 and 120) of random films. I think I ruined my last roll of Fuji 400H by forgetting it was in the bag and sending it through one of the new CT scanners at the airport :eek::confused:
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I don't know about colour films but we have put Kentmere 100 and 400 through the CT scanners at Gatwick with seemingly no ill effect.
 
Yesterday I was in a very quirky and very small bar in the "Baltic Triangle" area of Liverpool. Phone shots for now....

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Sat near us were 3 women who I guess we're in their late 20's, 2 of whom had P&S cameras. So I took my P&S over and had a couple of minutes chat. One had a Voightlander (again guessing 70's, fixed focus with a Cds meter).

That camera had been her granddad's and she been given it for Christmas. Still on her first film. She was worried the shots would be dark as she'd initially set the ISO to 200 and not 100. When asked she said it was a colour film and I briefly explained I wouldn't worry too much as modern colour film had a wide exposure latitude. I asked how she was going to get the film developed and she didn't know so I suggested a lab I use for C41 with prints at £9.25 plus p&p. She eagerly looked the lab up and saved it on her phone.

Her mate had a battered red Halina ASF700. She said this was used when she didn't want to take her Minolta out (my assumption being the Minolta was a SLR).

They asked about my camera and I explained, again briefly, that I had many many of them. I thanked them for a nice chat and went back to my group.

The above exemplifies to me who is driving the resurgence of film. Yes a few of us on F&C may have gone back to film occasionally alongside digital or never stopped using film but the above "young" folk are mainly responsible.

In my opinion they just like something a bit different that is fun and NOT digital. They will happily shoot say 3 films a year and pay £25-30 a time on the cost of a film and dev/print/scan. They don't care that we'd consider that Halina as "not good" (see the recent thread about that very same camera).

Whilst I was being a little cautious so not to come across as a creepy middle aged man it was great to see people who didn't grow up with film getting into it all.
 
I'd love to put a film through my first 35mm camera, a FED4l but sadly the shutter curtains have shed most of the coating. I did see a way of fixing it a few years ago but can't remember what you use and how.
I have a few friends that want to try film again but I have so much digital it always seems to be put on the back burner.
 
IIRC, @lindsay has fixed some curtains with a ruberized paint of some sort but that might not fix a larger area (I think he fixed a few pinholes rather than a whole curtain.)
 
Nod said:
IIRC, @lindsay has fixed some curtains with a ruberized paint of some sort but that might not fix a larger area (I think he fixed a few pinholes rather than a whole curtain.)
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I have read that pin holes or small sun burn damage can sometimes be somewhat repaired with black rubber paint but the "shed most of the coating" sounds a bit of a step too far. :(
 
auntiemaryscanary said:
Yesterday I was in a very quirky and very small bar in the "Baltic Triangle" area of Liverpool. Phone shots for now....

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Sat near us were 3 women who I guess we're in their late 20's, 2 of whom had P&S cameras. So I took my P&S over and had a couple of minutes chat. One had a Voightlander (again guessing 70's, fixed focus with a Cds meter).

That camera had been her granddad's and she been given it for Christmas. Still on her first film. She was worried the shots would be dark as she'd initially set the ISO to 200 and not 100. When asked she said it was a colour film and I briefly explained I wouldn't worry too much as modern colour film had a wide exposure latitude. I asked how she was going to get the film developed and she didn't know so I suggested a lab I use for C41 with prints at £9.25 plus p&p. She eagerly looked the lab up and saved it on her phone.

Her mate had a battered red Halina ASF700. She said this was used when she didn't want to take her Minolta out (my assumption being the Minolta was a SLR).

They asked about my camera and I explained, again briefly, that I had many many of them. I thanked them for a nice chat and went back to my group.

The above exemplifies to me who is driving the resurgence of film. Yes a few of us on F&C may have gone back to film occasionally alongside digital or never stopped using film but the above "young" folk are mainly responsible.

In my opinion they just like something a bit different that is fun and NOT digital. They will happily shoot say 3 films a year and pay £25-30 a time on the cost of a film and dev/print/scan. They don't care that we'd consider that Halina as "not good" (see the recent thread about that very same camera).

Whilst I was being a little cautious so not to come across as a creepy middle aged man it was great to see people who didn't grow up with film getting into it all.
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^^^ That bar look like a fun place.

And likely just the sort of people who would have been buying vinyl on Record Store Day last weekend.
 
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