*Post Your Film Shots*

Here's a scan from last night:

Here is a couple from a few months ago. Both were scanned on a V500.

Body: F75
Lens: Sigma 24/2.8...@f/8
Film: Portra 160NC

Rollei 6008i, Zeiss 80mm, Ilford FP4 Plus film

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Those images are so sharp! Are they much sharper when you scan the negatives compared to 4x6s developed at your average 1hr photo shop?

DStanic wrote in post #8441867
Those images are so sharp! Are they much sharper when you scan the negatives compared to 4x6s developed at your average 1hr photo shop?

Typically your local one hour joint is scanning the negs to make those 4x6s. And not doing it with any sort of quality in mind.

I stopped getting prints from the 1hr places a few months ago and do all my own scanning. Im not saying my results are as good as whats posted here, but my home scans are most certainly better than the CDs and 4x6s I was getting from the Walmarts, and Wolfs, and Targets of the world.

DStanic wrote in post #8441867
Those images are so sharp! Are they much sharper when you scan the negatives compared to 4x6s developed at your average 1hr photo shop?

You really can't tell how sharp they are by what you see here.

But when you print that 6x7 medium-format negative, scanned at 4000 dots/inch to make a 93-megapixel image, at 16x20, THEN you can tell how sharp they are. (Hint, I can downsample the image to make that 16x20 print.)

What makes them look better than the 4x6's at the lab is that the tones have already been adjusted by the photographer in Photoshop. I find that their prints of my negatives made with prime lenses are too contrasty by half, rendering the print to soot and chalk. And the colors are over-saturated to the point of being comical. Now, I like contrast and saturation, but it has to be controlled.

I paid less for my Pentax 6x7 with metered TTL prism, and three lenses (45, 55, and 105) than I paid for my 10D, body only. Yes, film is expensive in the long run, but I'm not a production shop and I don't mind those incremental costs.

(I do get excellent 4x6 prints from good pro labs, however. Most recently I've been mailing stuff to A&I in Hollywood.)

Rick "who can't find a consumer lab that will do medium-format rollfilm any more" Denney

Canon F-1 (new) 55 1.2 aspherical
Kodachrome 25

Two more recent film photo's. The owl with the 1V + 300mm f4 and the beach with the bronica + 150mm

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One from a product lighting workshop taken decades ago...

I love this thread....some beautful shots on here. Gosh Wilt, in my product shot days I use to use Ektachrome EPP and then print them on Ilfachrome (or Cibachromes as I use to call them) I've still got a bunch of them somewhere

Anyway, just processed 5 rolls of HP5 so I better go scan some!

Lizzy

Forgot to say....just bought an EOS3 on ebay

AE-1 with a canon 50mm macro lens.

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Both of these are scans of actual silver prints. Taking a black and white film class at the community college. Going to setup my own darkroom probably by the end of the year.

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Bronica GS-1 (6x7) with 100mm f/3.5 at f/4. Shot on Ilford Delta 100 and processed with Perceptol 1+3. Negative scanned with Epson V500 and VueScan software. Curves adjustment and USM in Photoshop CS4.

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