Film Camera Week for May 10

Greetings all and welcome to our new thread. Post all the images you want from any film camera. I'll start with a few. I used a Minolta XE-5 with MD Celtic 35mm f 2.8 with Tri-X.

quiet pasture in Calhoun County

wooded area, also in Calhoun County

late afternoon, used deep yellow filter

sewer access

plant in late afternoon

another plant (both need some work)

Looking forward to seeing everyone's work this week.

Iris. Nikon F6, Zeiss Milvus 50/1.4, #12 yellow filter, 400TX.

Maple Leaf. F6, Milvus 50/1.4, #12, 400TX.

Downtown Starkville. F6, Milvus 50/1.4, #12, 400TX.

Mercedes-Benz Sports Car. Nikon FM2n, Zeiss 25/2, 400TX.

DeLorean. FM2n, Zeiss 25/2, 400TX.

"High rise residential buildings - home sweet home"

 

 

Voigtlander Bessa II - 105mm Heliar - Expired APX100 - Rodinal 1:100 Semi-stand

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A quick back story - I was on my bicycle and this exposure wasn't possible to do from street level.

So, I rode over to a nearby parking garage and took an elevator to the top level. Fun, fun.

"Residential high rises from Lake Lady Bird taken at sunset."

 

 

Voigtlander Bessa II - 105mm Heliar - Expired APX100 - Rodinal 1:100 Semi-stand

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Taken on a hike and bike trail that is about a mile away from the tallest building.

Fox Armored Car, Foulkes Festival 2019 in Wageningen

 

Graflex Anniversary Speed Graphic 4x5, 127mm f/4.7 Ektar, Fomapan 100

More photos from Brasilia. Leica IIIf, Summicron 5cm f/2 collapsible (1956), Ilford Delta 100, Kodak D-76 1+1:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by Xícara de Café

koni omega rapid, portra160

FED 50, Ilford FP4+, yellow filter.

 

 

Farm Trail 3

 

Farm Trail 4

From the archive - Pentax KM 50mm f1.8 TriX

 

From the archive - Pentax KM 50mm f1.8 TriX

 

I'm getting back into film cameras and black and white after some time away.

 

This image is the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument. Moskva-4, Industar-23 lens, Kodak TMAX 100, exposure not noted.

That line across the upper third of the image is a scanner issue. I had these developed and scanned at a local shop. Hope to do my own developing and scanning soon.

 

 

This is the Guadalupe River near Gruene, Texas. Rolleiflex 6006, 80mm lens, HP5 plus pushed 1 stop, exposure not noted.

I'm cheating a little here, by posting some images from a camera with an AF capability, but I'm justifying my misdeeds by pointing out that 90% of the images were taken in the manual focus mode. The camera is the Yashica 230AF, a design that heralded the first excursion into AF by Kyocera/Yashica, and the last family of SLRs before the long history of fine Yashica SLR cameras was brought to a close. The AF is typical of the era, a tiny rectangular zone in the centre of the viewfinder (think Minolta 7000, Nikon F801, etc.), and while it works well enough for uncomplicated scenes I find it totally inadequate for more demanding images, for example when DOF becomes important. Still, with a big bright viewfinder, manual focus is easy. The camera has a pretty much infallible metering system, but it's the lenses that really impress me; Kyocera must have pulled out all the stops in an attempt to get ahead of the competition, and I believe they succeeded. The "kit" 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 lens used for these images in my opinion beats similar offerings from the Big Names, hands down, while the bigger, heavier 28-85mm f/3.5-4.5 is a truly magnificent performer. The standard of construction and finish for all the lenses is very high indeed.

 

The film was Arista EDU Ultra 200 developed in Bergger PMK Pyro, scanned on an EpsonV700 using Silverfast SE software.

 

Starting Young

 

 

Scaffold

 

 

Dandelion

 

 

Dental Surgeon

 

 

Oli and Mi

 

 

Colonial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AF is okay on the weekly thread, Rick. A few years back I noticed that the companion thread for modern film cameras on the modern wasn't getting much participation. I suggested including them here. So this is for any film camera. I love the variety that we see here. I continue to be impressed with the work done with classic film cameras, modern film cameras (including AF), hybrids (modern body with classic lens etc), or what I call a modern film camera in the tradition of a classic (Yashica FX-Super 2000 which dates from modern film camera times, but has mechanical shutter and only uses batteries for metering like many classic cameras do.) Regardless, it's fun.

Thanks, Mike. I'd also like to see a little more information about the cameras used, the locations, and anything else that could flesh out the thread. This approach would tend to make the thread a little more of a "forum", and not just a gallery.

Every once in a while, I dabble in large format. Here’s a shot from March 2012 with my (since sold) 8x10 Burke and James Grover monorail with a 305mm (12 inch) f/4.5 Carl Meyer Anastigmat and Arista.EDU Ultra 100 film. It was processed in a motorized Cibachrome drum in straight D76 and scanned on an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner.

 

This is the original Crown Farm in Gaithersburg, Maryland before it was torn down and built upon with stores, condos, and townhomes.

 

This is the original Crown Farm in Gaithersburg....

 

Magnificent image, allancobb. It must be about 35 years since I last handled a 8x10 negative, but sometimes I feel a longing for the big format...