2020/21 film challenge - photos and discussion

Second four of my first 1/3 of my first roll of 24 exposures (all data from : DS-100 datasaver)

1.5 Had to have one capture our new(ish) home on film

Minolta Dynax 7 - Minolta 35-105 f3.5-4.5 - Ilford FP4Plus - ISO125 - 1/400 - f7.1 - 35mm

1.6 The March Hare Bakery & Tea Rooms

Minolta Dynax 7 - Minolta 35-105 f3.5-4.5 - Ilford FP4Plus - ISO125 - 1/125 - f8 - 35mm

1.7 The Village Children's Play Area

Minolta Dynax 7 - Minolta 35-105 f3.5-4.5 - Ilford FP4Plus - ISO125 - 1/500 - f7.1 - 35mm

1.8 St John's Church

Minolta Dynax 7 - Minolta 35-105 f3.5-4.5 - Ilford FP4Plus - ISO125 - 1/250 - f8 - 35mm

Next roll will be from Dynax 7 Limited Edition, the first ever roll of film in the camera!


Edited by bonneville - 15 September 2020 at 16:56

I'm not a participant and don't know anything about film.
But I'm curious - why are all pics B&W? Is it because it's easier to process pics at home?

Black and white is a different kind of film from colour. As Bob said, it is easier to do yourself then colour. I just brought my colour film to the local shop to get it developed.

pegelli wrote: Is anybody shooting colour slides?

Yup. Got a roll of Velvia 50 in my 9. Planning to shoot it on a trip coming up.

I'm not in, but if I were it would be b/w for me. Ilford FP4 probably. I don't recall using any other film for black and white although It was Kodak Vericolor for colour prints and Agfa for slides (transparencies).

It would be purely for nostalgia. My first steps into developing and printing my own pictures were black and white. I still have many of them in a box somewhere, and one or two in an old fashioned album. I must admit to being tempted to put a roll in my old Olympus OM1 although I'd have to send the film to a lab for processing these days.

Ian

My second roll was Rollei 'Superpan' 200 in an old Rolleiflex - as there are only 12 on a roll of 120, I can fit them all into one posting!

Processing was in R09, digitising was done with my a7ii and the trusts Minolta 50 macro...

bob2.1 frame 1 - getting the frame level with a TLR can be a bit of a challenge - if I wasn't using the negative edge as a border I would have cropped. River Gates at the Naval College, Greenwich.


bob2.2 frame 4 - Interior of the chapel at the Naval College - more levelling problems, but quite happy that the tricky exposure got sorted.


bob2.3 frame 5 - The dome of the Naval College over the Painted Hall - I used the sports finder for this shot (hence it is not all out of 'wonk').


bob2.4 frame 9 - Derelict crame and jetty at Erith on the Thames.


Edited by Bob J - 17 September 2020 at 18:02

OK, so here's some colour and my first batch of four from twelve keepers on a 36-exp Kodak Gold 200 film with expiry in 2014. Processed at Snappy Snaps in Oxford - develop and scan with delivery by wetransfer of the JPGs within 30+ minutes of dropping off the film.

I used a Dynax 7 with 50mm F1.7 for the first 3 shots and a Tamron SP 70-300 USD zoom for the fourth. Exposure info at Flickr. All pictures taken in Cornwall last weekend.

1.1

Bench

1.2

St Michael's Mount

1.3

The cottage at Frenchman's Creek

1.4

The Lizard Lighthouse

Gosh, it's nice to be using film again, and I'll post 5-12 tomorrow.


Edited by Howard_S - 18 September 2020 at 00:57