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Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2025 20:42:46 No.4457140 View View Reply Original Report

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This is the Film General Thread, aka the /fgt/.
Please post film photos in this thread.
It's ok to ask about film gear in this thread.
old thread >>4453764

Thread Question: What did you get away with?

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 13:03:38 No.4459744 Report

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Any ideas on what these blue spots are? Googling suggests anything from static to light leaks.

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 13:04:55 No.4459745 Report

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>>4459744 I have this blank frame from another roll of film that has the blue spots plus what looks like lightning which leads me to think static.
The blue dots are present on 3 seperate rolls of film

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 13:13:49 No.4459746 Report

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>>4459745
Is it fungus in the lens? The pattern here kind of makes it look like that

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 14:01:33 No.4459749 Report

Quoted By: >>4459753

Bros this is in all likelihood the first and last roll of reala I'll ever shoot. I love fuji colours and I really hope I don't end up wasting this on garbage photos. Pray for me

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 14:07:19 No.4459752 Report

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 14:08:53 No.4459753 Report

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>>4459749
>already ruined it by putting it in sunlight

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 14:17:12 No.4459754 Report

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>>4459753
it's fine

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Anonymous Sat 16 Aug 2025 14:40:57 No.4459757 Report

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>>4459754
I've gotten light leaks around the paper on 120 before, just saying

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 00:16:37 No.4459896 Report

Quoted By: >>4459928

I like how it looks like a 90s movie but I don't get how every single shot needs different color adjustments. Same exposure, same environment, seconds apart, but some frames are way blue and some are way green.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 03:28:54 No.4459928 Report

Quoted By: >>4460018

>>4459896
>some frames are way blue and some are way green
how are you scanning

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 05:27:59 No.4459945 Report

Quoted By: >>4459951 >>4459977 >>4460697

Fgt has been dead lately. Share a film based project you want to do or are currently doing if you don't mind.

>>4459727
4x5 is the gateway film to 8x10. Be very careful. I think having and using a view camera is a really great idea for most people that enjoy shooting film.
Some say that shooting film makes you slow down and think about your shots before shooting them and view cameras do that x100. It's a much different mindset/mentality when you only take one or two pictures a day. I really enjoy it a lot and think it may be beneficial to my photography overall.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 05:42:55 No.4459949 Report

Quoted By: >>4459954

I did my mannequin zine >>4449618
gonna post a thread of an idea I had soon from some shots I took last month. maybe tomorrow if I have enough time

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 05:43:49 No.4459950 Report

Quoted By: >>4459954

I just purchased picrel and I waiting for some c-41 film from eBay to show up in the mail.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 05:43:57 No.4459951 Report

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>>4459945
I am to shoot some building corners

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 05:49:12 No.4459954 Report

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>>4459951
Awesome. Cant wait to see what you come up with!

>>4459949
Really cool and nice job.

>>4459950
Cute lil cam! Are those better than the rollei compact? The old one. I know the new one is shit.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 05:58:05 No.4459956 Report

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>>4459954
I don't own a Rollei so I can't comment on how it compares, but perhaps someone else here who has owned both can chime in.

Here's what was on my shortlist:
Olympus 35 RC
Olympus 35 SP
Konica Auto S3 / Konica C35 FD
Canon Canonet QL17 GIII G3
Minolta cle
Konica Hexar RF (note to self: you're poor and can't afford this)
Any Leica (note to self: must win lottery first)

Yes, my name is anon and I'm a rangefinder whore.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 07:57:34 No.4459977 Report

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>>4459945
Waiting for the 50 other photos from Peru
…

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 13:35:37 No.4460018 Report

Quoted By: >>4460028

>>4459928
plustek and vuescan
I think maybe something about processing it in c41 confuses the auto white balance. I can basically scan a full roll of gold/ultramax on default settings without touching anything but this movie film it seems like I have to tweak every image. Some day I will try an actual ECN-2 kit.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 14:34:00 No.4460028 Report

Quoted By: >>4460030

>>4460018
>auto white balance
where does this occur during the process?
my approach is that the entire roll should be processed the exact same way up through inversion & dmax/min points, then you can tweak from there

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 14:56:35 No.4460030 Report

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>>4460028
I just let vuescan do the inversion and save to a jay peg unless it's something important, then I'll save to DNG and do it manually.
Vuescan has a bunch of options and also LUTs for obscure films, but for normal films I leave it on "white balance" and "generic" and it does good, not so for vision. Probably I would have better results if I RTFM

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 15:11:52 No.4460032 Report

Quoted By: >>4460038

>shooting 25 ISO film in my medium format camera
>500t in my 35mm camera
>light meter on my phone has been unreliable and my 35mm camera has multi pattern metering, so decide to just use it instead
>set the ISO to 25
>set the ISO to 25
>shoot the rest of the 500t roll while occasionally remarking to myself about how incredibly unusual it is that I keep having to open up to f/4 on a sunny day

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 15:46:07 No.4460035 Report

Quoted By: >>4460036

suedi "food"

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 15:47:42 No.4460036 Report

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>>4460035

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 15:52:35 No.4460038 Report

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>>4460032
My 35 mm lens has been stuck at f/2 since I got it, so the images are soft as fuck. I guess both Aerochrome and 500T takes overexposure just fine, but I have shot two rolls of RVP50 this summer that I've yet to receive.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 15:55:03 No.4460039 Report

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 16:35:05 No.4460051 Report

Quoted By: >>4460059

>>4460038
Yeah I'm not like devastated over it I don't think all the photos would be ruined, they will probably just look a lil weird
Is that aerocolor 2-3 stops over?
>>4460039
Banger

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 16:55:15 No.4460059 Report

Quoted By: >>4460093

>>4460051
Either I was using f/8 or P which tends to choose f/8 in broad daylight at ISO 100, so it's more like 4 stops over.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Aug 2025 17:54:34 No.4460093 Report

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>>4460059
The highlights and the contrast almost make it look kodachrome-y, but with different colours

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 00:38:10 No.4460300 Report

Quoted By: >>4460311

If you ever need a really black background material it is called flock paper. I just found that out and got some for my studio work. Maybe someone else will benefit from the knowledge.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 01:37:34 No.4460311 Report

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Aaaaand the egg has dropped. A simple one, but I really like it. The palm leaf stalk piece is really so cool. Should make a cool looking print.
I kinda like the background, but it also kinda upsets me.

I ordered the flock and made this post >>4460300 you can now understand why. Soon pure black backgrounds will be eqsy as egg pie.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 22:18:43 No.4460552 Report

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 22:28:09 No.4460555 Report

Quoted By: >>4460604

>>4459538
not much, to be fair
Rodinal has high accutance and makes grains way more pronounced indeed
picrel is the original photo

>>4459539
these truck paintings were always common throughout the whole country, but there are lots of regional characteristics
there's this one brazilian dude on instagram who always shares popular brazilian typographic art
his name is Filipe Grimaldi @filipegrimaldi

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 23:00:19 No.4460567 Report

Quoted By: >>4460569 >>4460570 >>4460804

has anyone here used this Foma Universal Developer before?
it comes in two parts:
>hydroquinone, phenidon, sodium pyrosulfite
>sodium carbonate
is this a pyro developer? will this stain my stuff?
I wanna use it for developing paper and I'll see how it looks as a film developer as well (stock for paper, 1+3 for film)
any tips on using it? the "may cause cancer" stamp is not very inviting lol

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 23:05:22 No.4460569 Report

Quoted By: >>4460637

>>4460567
No I dont think so. Pyro developers use pyrocatechin or pyrogallol. Phenidone is used in pyrocat HD, but I don't think it stains. Ask chatgpt about it. It knows film chemistry suprisingly well.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 23:06:23 No.4460570 Report

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>>4460567
Just mix it in a well ventilated area, and try not to get the liquid on your skin. Wear gloves if you're really worried.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 00:56:26 No.4460604 Report

Quoted By: >>4460637

>>4460555
Pyro based developer when?

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Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 02:55:35 No.4460637 Report

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>>4460569
>>4460570
Thanks for the info, I'll ask the clanker to better understand it
When I saw "pyrosulfite" I thought it was pyro-related stuff
>>4460604
Well, not this time, apparently lol
It's not pyro
I have a couple more shots of HP5 in my Rollei 35, I'll develop it in this Foma developer and see how it looks when I finish it
From the datasheet it seems to be high accutance as well, so I'm expecting something like Rodinal
The only problem is that I'll have to mix 5L of this thing at once, so I hope it doesn't go bad fast (it was pretty inexpensive, though)
I'll buy 2 5L bottles tomorrow; one for the stock solution, and the other one for disposal
The package states that it should not be disposed of in the sink

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Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 05:34:59 No.4460697 Report

Quoted By: >>4460707

>>4459945
>view camera
alright dude, how do i even begin to look at getting a view camera

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 06:15:30 No.4460707 Report

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>>4460697
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225912790736

Great deal on one of the best starter view cameras + a good lens. Youll need some film holders and a couple other accessories, but the F2 is a really good beginner cameras.

If you want something more portable go for a wooden field camera.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 16:10:50 No.4460804 Report

Quoted By: >>4460822 >>4460870

>>4460567
Just don't drink developer and avoid getting it on your skin or eyes.
Hydroquinone (a developing agent) is classified as a potential carcinogen. It was also used in skin-whitening products for ages, it is not going to immedately melt you.
Pyrosulphite == metabisulfite is used in many devs and other photo formulas and whatever like cosmetics, preservative in some foods. Some people are allergic to sulphites. Phenidone (also a developing agent) is mostly harmless. Sodium carbonate is alkaline but not as strong as drain cleaner.
If it can be used to develop prints its not a staining developer.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 17:23:23 No.4460822 Report

Quoted By: >>4460870

>>4460804
Ernm ackshully you can use staining developers to make prints and I have them posted in this very thread. They aren't ideal for extended printing sessions, but they do make a pretty nice looking toned print.
Amidol is technically a staining developer and it is considered one of the best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 22:09:34 No.4460870 Report

Quoted By: >>4460871

>>4460804
thanks for the reassurance
the warnings on the package were much more terrifying than what I've seen on Rodinal or D-72 or D-76 packages, and I'd never seen this developer before, so I just wanted to know if there was any additional precautions I should take
>>4460822
I've researched a bit about pyro developers and seen comparisons between them and regular developers and all, but I can't seem to get the whole staining shtick
what's the deal with it? okay, it builds density in the highlights apparently, but is it useful for non-alternative processes in terms of looks?

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Anonymous Tue 19 Aug 2025 22:21:32 No.4460871 Report

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>>4460870
It doesn't build silver density in the highlights. It builds stain density more in the highlights than the shadows. The color of the stain acts as a contrast filter when printing. It makes printing easier by selectively reducing contrast in the highlights.
There are pyro developers with more or less stain you can choose from as well as different color stains.
If you're just scanning then the stain doesn't really make a difference.

Pyro devs are very good for sheet film, alt process, and contact printing printing because it gives you really good control over contrast, and it produces very good/smooth tonality in negatives.

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Anonymous Wed 20 Aug 2025 02:57:31 No.4460958 Report

Quoted By: >>4460959

>>4458293
so I misspoke
this roll of Gold was actually my first in 25y
I just forgot because I devved the p160 roll first because egg

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Anonymous Wed 20 Aug 2025 02:58:05 No.4460959 Report

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>>4460958

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Anonymous Wed 20 Aug 2025 02:59:11 No.4460960 Report

Quoted By: >>4460962

>>4460959
it was okay, most were just snapshits
and yeah gold is pretty grainy in 35, still nice colors

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Anonymous Wed 20 Aug 2025 03:02:38 No.4460962 Report

Quoted By: >>4460964

>>4460960
well, nice colors unless you're using uncorrected flash, or fluorescent lighting
>restrooms for men, telephones, and women
funny story about this one (not that anyone cares), wanted to snap some planes at the airport to finish the roll while waiting for a taxi
but the controller guy at the counter was way too efficient, I spent max 30s outside before I was inside the taxi he called
guess I'll have to make a dedicated trip at some point

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Anonymous Wed 20 Aug 2025 03:03:48 No.4460964 Report

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>>4460962
oh and I have no fucking clue what happened to this shot
the lighting almost looks like a negative, even after inversion

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Anonymous Sun 31 Aug 2025 09:27:39 No.4464220 Report

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do you correct for your lens?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 21:43:35 No.4467244 Report

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Can someone spoonfeed me on bulb mode?
What and how do I use it for?
I assume it's for super long exposure for shit like low light photography? So do I just put my camera on a tripod, let a lightmeter tell me how long the exposure should be and keep the button on my cable release pressed for that long with a timer? I guess it makes sense that if the exposure is 10s+ it doesn't matter if I get it exactly right or am off by a second or two

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