ZX-M...first rolls...

<p>Here are some examples from the first 2 rolls of film that I put though the ZX-M last weekend while I was at the beach. For the color pics, I used Fuji Reala 100 and for the B&W pics, I used Ilford Delta 100. Just to note that the B&W scans are rather grainy--I've been told that it's the scanner settings that the developer used in scanning and not the film itself. One of these days, I'm going to get myself a film scanner and do my own scanning, but until that happens, I'll most likely stick with color film and convert to B&W via Lightroom whenever I want B&W.</p>

<p>All in all, shooting film has been a rewarding experience to me. :) If you want to see everything I've put on Flickr, click here: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hwblanks/sets/72157615861937642/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/hwblanks/sets/72157615861937642/</a></p>

<p>Other than the first image, which was taken with the DFA100, the rest were taken with the FA43.<br>

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<p>Hey, that's my car! (JK) Nice set. I've been pretty dissatisfied with the film scans I've gotten so far from inexpensive processing. Will need to get a scanner capable of scanning negatives and make some time to do something myself, probably.</p>

<p>Nice heather. Love the second one! excellent composition!</p>

<p>As far as scanning goes, I have a HP flat bed/film scanner. It is excellent. I have two set ups. One with Silverfast software and one with vuescan software. Both are excellent.</p>

<p>Excellent choice in films. Those two are some of the finest grained normal process films on the market. They also both have very wide dynamic range. Whether this is good or not depends on what you want. I prefer the contrast I get from HP5 to delta 100.</p>

<p>The trick to scanning B&W is to scan at as high a resolution as your scanner allows... otherwise you get grain aliasing. Even if you don't need that big of a file, scan at your scanner's max. resolution and downsample from there.</p>

<p>The folks at the lab may have just scanned at your requested resolution. </p>

<p>Very nice shots! And a very nice little camera, light and inexpensive, fast to load with the motor advance and rewind... I do like mine as well, and even searched out the Euro-market MZ-M labeled one too. Have fun and post more fine pix. :-)</p>

<p>Here are a couple more shot with the 43 and Kodak HiDef 400:</p>

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