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<p>Hi, and thank you all for the contributions. I discussed it with the lab on the phone, and I reported the different points highlighted here. They are supporting the idea of developing the roll as it is without any change in development times (against their own interest, because they could make a few extra bucks for the additional service). <br>

They believe that the film has enough latitude to compensate for the "wrong stop" of exposure. <br>

I will keep you posted when I have the negs to give you my impression.<br>

Thanks again.</p>

<p>Hi Wouter,<br>

the lab is excellent, the best in town and tested several times, I'm sure they can provide a tailored service. <br>

So you'd recommend an adjustment in development time, correct?</p>

<p>I shot by mistake an entire roll of Fuji Neopan Acros 100 at 50 ISO (I forgot to change the ISO settings on the camera).<br>

Shot at the seaside last week, half a roll of pictures on a cloudy overcast morning (no sun), the other half at the end of an afternoon (people portraits with sun).<br>

My question is what to ask to my lab:</p>

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<li>to develop it normally, hoping that the latitude of the film will be enough to compensate</li>

<li>to ask him to adjust, during the development process, in order to compensate for my initial mistake.</li>

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<p>The purpose of the first half or roll was that to convey the "moody" atmosphere of that particular morning, and the purpose of the second half was to plainly to shoot decently exposed portraits.<br>

What will you do? In general I prefer slightly more contrasty pictures, but first of all I would prefer to have a negative that is not so bad from the start</p>

<p>Jim, I went for a family trip to Dubai and brought my Mamiya 6 together with two rolls of E100G and two of Provia 400X. A recipe for disaster: a notoriously difficult camera (exposure-wise) + four rolls of disappearing (or disappeared) slide film + pictures mostly taken at dusk.<br>

I received the rolls today and I was amazed. Obviously not everything went right, let's say that one out of four pictures was way less than perfect, but for the rest I was once again blown away by the richness of the colours and the quality of the images. Slide film it's also easier to scan than negative film. You are going to a wonderful location and I'm sure you'll be taking great pictures with your Mamiya.</p>

<p>I've been using it for some time but I can't exactly recommend it for 35mm scanning. Even if you use the betterscanning holder and ANR glass, images are definitively not sharp: they are ok-ish for putting them on the web, but barely so, and you need to use a decent amount of work (especially sharpening) in post-processing. I use Nik Sharpener with Lightroom (or sometimes even the Lightroom sharpener in the Develop section), but you can also use the sharpening functions in Photoshop Elements if you are on a budget. Slides in particular are suffering a lot, black and white and colour film a little bit less. It gets much better of course with 120 negs. Optimal film height for my scanner is between 0 and 0.5mm from the glass, but it could change for other examples. <br>

I have switched to a Nikon LS-50 for 35mm and I am still keeping the 9000F for medium format. I will probably upgrade to a different scanner since I am scanning more of this latter format. I have browsed a bit, and a good compromise for both 35mm and 120 without affecting too much the bank account could possibly be an Epson V700 or a V750.<br>

Jose, if you use the search function in Flickr you can find many examples of scans with different brands and models.</p>

<p>Michael: did you apply any significant post-processing to your Flickr pictures? Any relevant sharpening in particular? Or are they, say, just "out of the box"?</p>

<p>I personally don't like the results of the Lomography concept / idea. Having said that I popped in recently in the Lomography shop here in Milan, not too far away from my office, and I found a very buzzy and fresh atmosphere. Lots of ideas, discussions - they showed me their brand new 6x12 camera and we chatted about whether a large format camera was in the pipeline.<br>

Everything centered around film photography, and I myself like it very much if people are still shooting film. Only negative point: all the people in the shop were half my age - I'm 50 next year. Well, not <em>that</em> negative, some girls around were definitively pretty, but let's say I was a bit puzzled..</p>

'Anyone who cares about photography as an art-form, should also care about preserving the medium of film'.

 

Anthony, a sharp and passionate post (ugly brides included): very good stuff indeed.

An 100% increase above the current broad price range (different films of existing brands) would make me feel uncomfortable.

<p>I recently bought a brand new Nikon F75 (N75) for € 150 (US$ 180) - new old stock: a truly superb little camera. I'm sure you can find another one - or another of the latest generation of Nikon cameras - for the same price or a used one in excellent condition for a fraction of this price.<br>

Add a Nikon 50mm f1.8D new lens for US$ 135 and use the spare cash for filters / case etc.. There's a massive amount of nice cheap new or like-new lenses around you can choose from.</p>

I agree with Craig that processing it's going to be more and more in the hands of centralized rather than local labs: it is

already the case here in Milan, Italy. The quality hasn't suffered (very good for 35mm and 120), and the speed and price

of service are ok: three, max four working days and € 3.5 for a roll (mount included) from the centralized lab. No shipping

cost: the local lab takes care of it.

 

Slides are great: I hope that they're going to be staying around for long.

RF - Contax G2

SRL - Nikon F100

MF - Fuji GA645

 

Very easy to use, but very performing.

<p>John, excellent trip and cameras review indeed. I have a Fuji GA645 and I am toying with the idea of buying the GA645W as well - basically having a "poor man's" kit similar to yours.<br />What B&W film did you use?</p>

I just picked up a roll of E100G just shot during the family skiing week: superb colours, landscape and people. Will be really missed (well, at least until all the stock in my mother-in-law freezer runs out..)

What are the E-6 survivors then? Fuji, Lomo and...? Has anyone tried by the way the Lomo 100 with E-6 processing? Any

good?

<p>My current favourites are Superia Xtra 400 and Portra 160, with Nikon F75, F80 an F100. <br>

But the problem is...</p>

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<p>all photos are straight from NCPS without any need for adjustments of any sort - I think they're pretty good at scanning...</p>

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<p>Duncan, these are definitively very good scans of very good shots. If you do your own scans (as I do) it is very difficult to get the same results as NCPS. I am finding the learning curve a bit steeper than expected with C-41. Slides are way easier.</p>

It's a positive and assertive statement. Very good idea to do it for their customers in this context.

<p>I have just used the F75 / N75 for shooting during a skiing week-end (minus 10 °C to minus 19 °C !)and I can confirm it's a real joy to use: small, light and with a decent viewfinder as well.</p>

 

 

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<p>I thought this thread was going fine even though I staterd in my first statement I figured it would go bad. Well some of you did not let me down. Photography is not Ivory soap and even it is not pure.</p>

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<p>It seems almost inevitable. Any reference to "the other ones" is taken very badly: even because "they" are reading and listening and replying...<br>

(I am half joking of course.. :-) )</p>

 

 

 

<p>I think it's so nice and refreshing to read these positive comments about film. But I don't see so many purists around here: everyone (including myself) uses mainly film for shooting but does not have anything against taking some pictures from time to time with a digital camera. Or to scan negatives or slides.<br>

I believe that's the main difference with the largest part of digital users: they slam film no matter what, while we can praise the positive features of digital.</p>

<p>First post, first question: does anybody have an idea of the size of the film market worldwide? Just camera film, without movie film. How many rolls are sold on an annual basis? Or total gross revenue? 2011 figures or the most recent ones. The only information I've found in this post is that around 25mln rolls were sold last year in the US alone.<br>

(not that I'm thinking about buying Kodak film business, it's just a curiosity..) </p>