Questions tagged [film-grain]
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How to achieve an "are, bure, boke" look with analogue photography?
From The Photographers Gallery website,
Daido Moriyama (b. 1938, Japan), a pioneering figure in the world of
photography, has left an indelible mark with his distinctive style
often referred to in ...
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Why did my developed photos come out discoloured and grainy?
I recently had some film developed on my Pentax K1000 for the first time and my photos came out very strange. I’ve scoured the internet to find similar film photos to figure out why mine came out like ...
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Why are my recent film photo’s coming back grainy/blurry?
On my last three rolls of film I’ve had developed the pictures have been excessively grainy.
This is apparent on looking, but once zoomed in (even a tiny bit) all definition/detail is lost and the ...
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Why is there a strange tint and grain in my film photos?
I'm a complete newbie to photography, and I started out on an old Nikon FM10 that runs on film.
I got back my first roll after development and most of them are either over or under exposed. Two of the ...
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Which step/component of film photography matters most when trying to get a very vintage, grainy look?
In my experience with digital photography, I've been told (and believe) that the lens and post-processing matter far more in the process of making a desired photo than the camera used does. I've ...
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Why does grain increase acutance?
The Wikipedia article on acutance claims that a slight amount of noise or grain can increase acutance. Cambridge in Color gives the following demonstration.
No noise:
With noise, with more acutance:
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What causes grainy film pictures?
So I got a film roll developed, Kodak Colorplus 200. The results aren’t what I expected. Most of my pictures are either grainy, overexposed, or underexposed. I thought it was because I shot most of ...
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Film grain in negative film: is it equally distributed or in relation to brightness?
I was wondering whether film grain is depending on the incident amount of light.
There is the Schwarzschild-effect (link to Wikipedia), which will make a difference in very low light, that will ...
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How to produce nice looking analog (film) grain digitally with Photoshop or other applications?
There are some photographers like Michael ackerman, Daido Moriyama, Igor Posner, Jacob Aue Sobol, who shoot digitally but some also analog who very often achieve to bring a nice looking grain in their ...
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Why is high speed (ISO) film more expensive than low speed film?
And why is film much more expensive than paper?
Is it the silver content? Production volume? Does is it take more effort to produce larger grain?
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Wet photography: what's the second choice after silver halide?
All the film photography I know of - both colour and black-and-white - uses silver halide as the photosensitive component. I suppose that after over a hundred years of wet photography we have a good ...
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How to preserve detail when downscaling scanned photos?
I'm mixing analog with digital photography — I tend to take better photos when I can't look at a small digital screen, unconsciously forcing me to take the picture before I shoot instead of checking ...
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What's the most likely cause of grain in this photo?
I took this photo recently w/ an old Pentax K1000, using 400 ISO film, and an f/1.7 aperture. Is this graininess just inherent to shooting w/ this sort of film / lighting? Or, is it partially/largely ...
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What is the difference between digital high ISO noise and film grain?
What is the difference between digital high ISO noise and film grain? Why does one "eat detail" and the other does not?
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