My first rolls of 35mm film in more than a decade.
In a previous post, I mentioned purchasing a Minolta X-700 35mm film camera. Yesterday, I finally got 2 of my rolls of negatives back from the lab and scanned them. I'm still waiting on 2 rolls of black & white. These are the first film images I've taken in over 10 years. I've scanned a lot of old film, but haven't shot any. It's definitely a strange (yet familiar) experience. I feel like I have to kind of figure out how to get comfy using film again, but here are some of the results.
(This is also the first post I've made since the new image drag/drop feature was introduced.)
All pics shot using my Minolta X-700 with a standard 50mm f/1.7 lens on Agfa 400 speed color negative film.
The negatives were then scanned using a Wolverine F2D-Super+ Film Converter.
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I love what you are doing! Looks like you are having a blast and capturing some great shots.
Glad to hear it man, enjoy yourself!
love it :)
do y develop yourself?
I don't, actually. Never did get into doing that, in fact. I got into photography in 1999 working in a photo/video store which had its own lab, so I used them a lot. Then I found digital and never found the need to learn the chemicals.
Time to bring out the Nikon f401s!!
Mmmmmooooorrrrrreeeeeee...
Resteem
These are awesome!
Wow amazing! I like feeling of grain.. is ISO 400?
That's right. The Tri-X b/w film I'm still waiting on is also 400. I'll have those posted when I get them scanned. ;-)
How do you like that Wolverine film converter? I have a bunch of slides from my Grandfather I'd like to scan and am looking for something like this.
I've found it depends on what you're converting. The converter digitizes straight to 8-bit JPG, so right off the bat you're limited.
Black & White film = awesome.
Color negative film = acceptable.
Slide film = wouldn't recommend it.
I'm not sure what it is about slide film that it doesn't like, but there's so much detail in a slide yet only so much detail the converter can capture, so it ends up fairly flat. I'm convinced that digitizing a slide might take either a scanner or camera that can capture either in RAW format, or a high enough bitrate that it can get those details.
Thanks for the input. Looking around, it looks like in the price range I'm willing to pay, the Epson V600 might be my best best: http://amzn.to/2kUyirQ
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That's exactly the unit I've been looking at as well since I bought the Wolverine.
Great photos!