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So two photographers I met in Tokyo, we decided to do a junk camera challenge. $30 limit and basically scoured Tokyo for the best we could find for $30. I ended up with an old Canon FTb with a broken meter and wonky mirror. The lens was supposedly "mouldy" but seemed nice to me. Was an FD 35-70 F4.Rules were also no outside gear, which means we had no metering so I had to guess exposure and pull numbers out of my ass based on experience in digital.
So here's the thing. This is one of the photos, and I'll post two more. They almost all came out great. And we went to a big-box camera store, not a small dedicated developer.
Now I had a Nikon FE as my previous film camera, and my first film camera. I've maybe shot 4 rolls in my life. And the pictures I got out of it were pure garbage. Extremely disappointing. And I also went to a local lab for developing and scans.
So what the fuck do you think happened there? Was I really that terrible on my first two rolls, then suddenly fine on my third? Was the developer just shit, even though they're a pro lab? What the fuck happens in these situations? How do I know if it's me or the scanner/developer?
