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Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 08:58:19 No.4464845 View View Reply Original Report

Please post film photos, talk about film photography, film gear like cameras, film stocks, news, and tips/tricks in this thread.
old thread: >>4460704

I just copied and pasted the old OP because no one would bake a new bread

Thread Question: To what extent do you digitally edit your film scans?

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 08:02:52 No.4469999 Report

Quoted By: >>4470008

>>4469893
>>4469894
Good question, I think I would like to try getting some light trails from cars from an overpass close to here. So probably like 5+ seconds depending on how busy it will be.
So do I understand this correctly, for the example above I would probably go with 4 EV since the street has streetlights. And then I go down the column for my respective ISO and pick and choose which Aperture/Time I want from that row (+ reciprocity)?
Sounds fun, I'll give it a try

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 08:58:19 No.4470000 Report

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>>4469296
almost awesiome
>>4464845
>To what extent do you digitally edit your film scans?
i've been cloning out dust spots and lint

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 11:28:13 No.4470006 Report

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>>4469813
I haven't had time to use it yet but I'm already getting buyer's remorse. It feels incredibly cheap. Maybe I'm stupid for not looking it up but I expected it to have a flat LED array, but it's literally just a strip on the side. I have serious doubts about uniformity across the frame, at the very least I'd expect to see a mirror inside or something. It also comes with a soldered power cable with usb-a connector and I couldn't figure out why they would do that instead of a standard plug or just use a usb-c port so people can use their phone chargers, but then I realised it's probably because this is just what the cheapest led strip from alibaba comes with. This thing is worth like $25 for the collimating sheet and the fact that it's assembled for you but for $90 it's a straight up scam. Luckily I bought a bunch of film from cinestill with the same order and they're so much cheaper than aus film sellers that I still saved a few bucks even if I count this thing as a total writeoff

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 11:44:11 No.4470008 Report

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>>4469999
Yep, bingo bango you got it.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 12:31:26 No.4470013 Report

Quoted By: >>4470014

Did my first double exposure shooting through the roll twice.
Lots of garbage, but I'm very happy it worked out at all with all pictures overlapping nicely and I only fucked up the settings on some of them.
Plus it's a crazy amount of fun, when the ones that do line up well feel like magic

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 12:32:30 No.4470014 Report

Quoted By: >>4470015

>>4470013
Hoped something more interesting would land on this one. But at least the placement of the flower is spot on.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 12:34:30 No.4470015 Report

Quoted By: >>4470016

>>4470014
Ghost car parked in the garage

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 12:38:20 No.4470016 Report

Quoted By: >>4470021 >>4470060

>>4470015
This one feels pretty much perfect for my current skill level and is my favorite from the whole set.
There is another one that could have been perfect, a nicely lit golden hour portrait of me but unfortunately most of where I'm standing is eaten by the negative space in the second exposure

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 13:22:28 No.4470021 Report

Quoted By: >>4470029

>>4470016
this one slaps
I have a roll of pro image that I shot a bunch of flowers, foliage and textures like concrete, bricks and clouds on, and I'll try to find shots with a lot of contrast like sharp shadows or geometric shapes for the second exposure. Thinking about it now I have a feeling they'll turn out pretty shit but we'll see.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 14:01:59 No.4470029 Report

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>>4470021
Thanks
Honestly it sounds like that might work out pretty well. A big lesson this roll taught me was how hard it is to think about these double exposures if you don't have a plan. Like half of these were just random snapshits and I wasn't sure how to decide on if I need a subject, how prominent it should be etc
I think your idea about doing one pass of texture and one pass of interesting shapes should work quite well.
I think what I'll try next is convince some friends to let me take portraits of them and then do a second pass of texture or just minimalist touches like a neon sign or some bokkeh or light trails.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Sep 2025 16:50:50 No.4470060 Report

Quoted By: >>4470238

>>4470016
Worth it for this pic, very cool anon

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 03:01:58 No.4470179 Report

Quoted By: >>4470185

Accidentally posted this in the old threadd; I'll just ask again:
Does anyone have any advice for semi-stand developing with caffenol? I'd be using the process to develop some Kentmere 200 and I want high contrast and something moderately sharp. My biggest fear is fog, and I can't get potassium bromide for a reasonable price locally. I've read some stuff online that suggests that iodized table salt can be used to prevent fogging, but can't find anything about it being used during semi-stand development. Anyone have experience with this?

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 03:36:05 No.4470185 Report

Quoted By: >>4470635

>>4470179
Why do you want to do a semi stand?

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 04:05:46 No.4470188 Report

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 04:20:34 No.4470196 Report

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 04:39:03 No.4470198 Report

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 07:33:12 No.4470212 Report

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>>4470188
>>4470196
>>4470198
Very nice, especially the second one.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 07:45:57 No.4470216 Report

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>>4465558

f801 go brrr
dat f3hp stou

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 09:53:42 No.4470233 Report

Quoted By: >>4470484

Should i get fuji if i never used professional camera before?
I really like the style of photos but i dont know if its worth investment for me since im noob in photography

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 10:46:49 No.4470238 Report

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>>4470060
Thanks mate. I'm also in disbelief how well that lines up

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 11:57:31 No.4470246 Report

Quoted By: >>4470247 >>4470280

I need to pick a B&W film to use for medium format portraits. I am thinking non-T grain because I want some nice grain to show up on a screen or in print at normal size (eg not zoomed in), but I want it tightly packed, not sparse or blotchy. Wont be using a flatbed scanner, so no need to worry about softening.

I was curious about Lucky SHD 400 too, and maybe rating it at 100 given the results on flickr.

Though Im thinking Tri-X maybe.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 12:02:54 No.4470247 Report

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>>4470246
Also looked into using HC110
>cheapest is ~$90 dollarydoos
ouch

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 15:24:40 No.4470278 Report

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>>4466871
How do you afford to shoot movies on film?

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 15:27:04 No.4470279 Report

Quoted By: >>4470281 >>4470364 >>4470386

How many of you actually print as opposed to just scanning?

I've been shooting film for a while and i'm starting to question whether I should move to printing instead of using my scanner but I'm not sure if that will just be too complicated and i'll be more focused on printing than taking photos (Especially since none of my photos do anything)

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 15:31:34 No.4470280 Report

Quoted By: >>4470378

>>4470246
>I was curious about Lucky SHD 400 too, and maybe rating it at 100 given the results on flickr.
huuuh, they also make Lucky SHD 100 so no need for doing it m8.

I always develop those in Rodinal and came ok, not as much for the 400 it results too grainy for my taste even at 6x9.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 15:34:17 No.4470281 Report

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>>4470279
Physical photographs are the devil and you should eschew the thought lest you become a mindless faggot.
Nah but for real, printing is a great avenue to go down and I wholly support more phyiscal media in your life. Get a cheap 6x4 photo album for the good shots and frame the great ones in 8x10 and 6x6.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 21:21:39 No.4470364 Report

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>>4470279
I print but I do it the retarded roundabout way with digitizing film then printing it on my pro200. Don’t have a darkroom setup but I do want to get one eventually. But this makes printing colour quite simple as well. Prints really are the end game, nothing compares to holding a crisp 13x19 in person

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 22:22:52 No.4470378 Report

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>>4470280
Lucky shd 400 seems overrated in the speed if I go by the results, hence 100 should work much better in theory.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Sep 2025 22:38:28 No.4470386 Report

Quoted By:

>>4470279
me
right now

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Anonymous Thu 25 Sep 2025 09:39:42 No.4470484 Report

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>>4470233
Like a fuji digital camera? Probably yes, honestly. Just skip the raw editing rabbit hole that ends up being a timesink and use the film simulations. A shit photo with the best lightroom edit is still a shit photo and a good photo that's just a sooc jpeg is still a good photo. I think that's why most of us started shooting film, you just let the film stock do 90% of the look for you and focus on finding nice angles of nice subjects.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Sep 2025 13:19:16 No.4470514 Report

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 03:49:42 No.4470635 Report

Quoted By: >>4470645

>>4470185
I wanted to get higher contrast photos, but I've slept on it and don't think that it's worth it for the photos that I'll be developing.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 05:19:25 No.4470645 Report

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>>4470635
Lower dilutions and more agitation produce higher contrast. You should also push your film and increase dev time for higher contrast. Pyro based developers are great at increasing contrast, and reducing contrast.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 07:26:33 No.4470666 Report

Quoted By: >>4470679 >>4471335

I bought pic related as my first 35mm camera. What am I in for? I mostly bought it to use on my vacation to Roswell next month.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 10:55:45 No.4470679 Report

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>>4470666
I have the 220/SL which is almost the same thing.
It's an absolutely fine camera, however it was made before "compact" became fashionable. So next to my chinons it is comically huge and heavy and the shutter slap will rattle your teeth.
It has a needle meter which is broken on mine so I just sunny 16 it.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 12:11:12 No.4470688 Report

Quoted By: >>4470689

Tried using expired film for the first time.
The results were pretty nice.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 12:14:59 No.4470689 Report

Quoted By: >>4470690

>>4470688
Whn4w

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Anonymous Fri 26 Sep 2025 12:16:58 No.4470690 Report

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>>4470689

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2025 11:13:12 No.4470868 Report

Quoted By: >>4470870

everyone's heard of the +1stop/decade rule but has anyone really done an exposure bracketing test from nominal rated iso down to 1? particularly for kodak/fuji's more consumer grade film stocks

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2025 11:44:21 No.4470870 Report

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>>4470868
What happens is you get more base fog the older the film is, which makes the shadows grainy and muddy. Overexposing uses more of the "good" highlights and less of the "bad" shadows. The total dynamic range is still decreased relative to fresh film you are just shifting the midpoint.
I have not done formal tests but I have definitely seen the increase in shadow grain and base fog in expired film.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2025 12:13:01 No.4470872 Report

Quoted By: >>4470954 >>4471031 >>4471750

Im all in on film now, its time to build out my 35mm reserve. Where do most people order their film from? What stocks should I pick up? Planning on picking up HP5+, Kentmere 100/400, Tri-x, portra 400, and ektrachrome. Anything else interesting out there?

Separately, is it worth having prints made? I can get them for an extra 5$ during development.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2025 18:57:43 No.4470954 Report

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>>4470872
look for local shops that carry film, online prices are usually inflated (some online photography gear shops are alright)
>Separately, is it worth having prints made? I can get them for an extra 5$ during development.
I mean, that's all up to you, if there's a photo you are really proud of you can get prints made of that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2025 01:45:14 No.4471031 Report

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>>4470872
amazon sometimes have a good deal on 5/10 packs for ilford.
i got 20 rolls of hp5 @ $13 AUD each, cheaper than all the other stores near me, good for the fridge.

every now and then you can find a lot of expired film on marketpace for cheap, it won't be a good as fresh film but it can be fun to fuck around with. (+1 stop for every 10 years)

$5, why not, if you think the roll is going to be kino do it.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2025 21:09:54 No.4471197 Report

Quoted By: >>4471202

>>4468672
oh fuck off, you know damn well most people don't make a distinction between rangefinder and viewfinder cameras

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2025 21:28:01 No.4471202 Report

Quoted By: >>4471203

>>4471197
>I'm a retard, surely everyone else is too

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2025 21:33:13 No.4471203 Report

Quoted By: >>4471452

>>4471202
go edit wikipedia then

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Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2025 13:10:08 No.4471335 Report

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>>4470666
Likely quite a few over/underexposed and out of focus shots with the odd gold nugget in between. But that's all part of the learning experience with film, so have fun with it!

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2025 01:42:25 No.4471452 Report

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>>4471203
>A rangefinder camera is a camera fitted with a rangefinder, typically a split-image rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism allowing the photographer to measure the subject distance and take photographs that are in sharp focus.
What am I supposed to be editing?

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2025 13:30:27 No.4471596 Report

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>>4471595
>>4471595

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Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2025 02:28:48 No.4471750 Report

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>>4470872
>Anything else interesting out there?
Pro image, aerocolor iv, opticolour 200, wolfen nc500, harman phoenix/2, gold/colorplus, respooled vision 3 250d and 500t. These are all good films although phoenix has very limited dynamic range. 2025 is a good year for shooting colour film, we have so many more options than even just a few years ago when fuji called it quits and kodak killed ektachrome. I don't even buy portra anymore, it's expensive as fuck and the photos come out with so much detail and such a flat profile that invertinf it almost starts to feel like editing a digital raw file (exaggerating a bit though).

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