Film and Alt-Process Photography

[brasslens]

I bought a 10x8 camera last year and this was my first contact print from it. Printed on some Art 300 paper and toned. An Anglo-Saxon church from a couple of miles away where I live. St Gregory’s Minster they call it though it’s a tiny church.

[Hovercraft]

Cool–guess I’m not the only large format user around these parts–haha. I love shooting 8x10, although it takes some physical training to wrestle that stuff down a trail. Print looks beautiful–that Art 300 paper is incredible. What toner did you use?

[brasslens]

I mainly use a Wista 45 for hiking - 10x8 not too far from the car! The toner was Fotospeed ST20. This is the 10x8 - a Bender self assembly camera. I had to do some additions to it to keep it (fairly) solid! I added a Sinar shutter but it added too much weight so went back to counting ‘elephants’ with a lens cap shutter! I picked up a nice 450mm brass lens from eBay so portraits was my plan but then music took over for a while! I’ll get back to the photography soon.

[Hovercraft]

Whoa-I’ve never seen a Sinar shutter and front frame mounted to a Bender, but I guess there’s a first (and last) for everything. You might try a Packard shutter on the back of the lens board. Simple, not too heavy, and surprisingly useful. It looks like the SE-20 is a thiourea-based toner, which is what I mix up for sepia toning, too.

[brasslens]

Heh! It was too heavy but worked ok - seemed like a good idea at the time!

[lijnenspel]

Gorgeous! Love the colour!

Another former large format (4x5) user here! Unfortunately I don’t have the patience and interest in photography at the moment

This is made with a Shen Hao PTB45 and a Schneider Kreuznach 90mm. Crappy negative scan.

[brasslens]

Thank you. Lovely feel and dof to your photo. My photography is taking second place to music at the moment!

[jacobino]

Two crappy polaroid scans, the first one is from Yosemite, when the fog kicked in.
Second one is northern Spain, sculpture by Chillida.

[simondemeule]

The best of my third roll (I accidentally destroyed the second one). Shot on Lumography 400 on a Pentax Spotmatic II, mostly with a SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4, direct from the scans.

I did something a bit crazy a few days ago. If all goes well I should receive two rolls of Kodak Aerochrome just in time for a trip to Iceland. I love the idea of shooting a different color spectrum, and I love the look of the film. I also figured this film will be unobtainable in a few years, so I might as well try it before it completely disappears. It feels a bit intimidating to shoot though, because you can’t meter for infrared exposure, the film has unforgiving dynamic range, and the film is expired and may yield varying results. And it’s stupidly expensive. Hopefully a few nice shots come out of this!

[timp]

Worth noting too that focus is different for infrared - the lenses on my XPAN have a second set of focus marks for IR…

Infrared Photography, Part 3: Focusing with Infrared Film | Apogee Photo...

[simondemeule]

I’ve read some conflicting things about that — some people’s advise compensating for IR focus on Aerochrome, some people don’t. There’s a valid argument to be made for both sides — it makes sense not to compensate since the film is also sensitive to green and red, but the infrared component is subject to focus shift. I guess the answer is to shoot with a small enough aperture so that it doesn’t matter.

[baleen]

say what you want but there’s a lot of feel in these “crappy scans”

[andrew]

do video8 stills count for this thread ?

rlly lo-fi blurry ancient aliens vibes

[jacobino]

means a lot, thank you

[Cementimental]

This week I found an expired roll of Ilford P5 in a drawer and put it in my old Olympus OM10, also bought two rolls of Poundland “power geek” own-brand 10-exposure (!!?) colour film which is apparently A Thing in 2019… :-/

will post results if any. Probably in like 6 years time if my usual rate of using, processing and scanning 35mm film is anything to go by

[ecfike]

These are a few of my more favorite photos I’ve taken.

[ecfike]

I recently explored an abandoned education outreach center of some kind. Here are some of my favorite shots.

I also vlogged a walkthrough of the place. Here it is.

[simondemeule]

Aerochrome shot in Iceland. Nikkormat FT2, Nikkor-S Auto 50mm 1.4, and Nikkor-N Auto 24mm 2.8 with orange 21 filter. A few shots came out great, but the vast majority is terribly underexposed (it seems clouds absorb infrared light more than they absorb visible light, and I should have compensated for that). I’m still very happy with the good shots. It seems the film I got is distressed — it has some red scratches and patches, but I like how that looks.

[Cementimental]

screenshotted stills dfrom my otherwise mostly-unusably-blurry 16mm footage of Alexandra Road Estate shot at a no.w.here lab workshop years back to post on the stupid Facebook brutalism group, thought people here might like to see too

[jacobino]

Like all of them, but especially love the light on the 4th picture; the intensity/contrast and how it wraps around the pillars?