Questions tagged [film]
Questions regarding photography using film.
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Why would using eight cameras filming in parallel be an advantage in "budget" 8mm film production in the 1960's in Japan?
My Movies SE question What devices are this Japanese director(?) and his coworker looking through? If they are small format cameras, then why four right next to each other? includes several references;...
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I accidentally opened the back of my camera after taking 9 pictures. The count now says zero and the camera is stuck. What should I do?
I accidentally pressed the button to open the back of my camera but held the cover so it didn't open and no light got inside. It winds automatically and I could hear the sound of film winding but not ...
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Accidentally opened back of analogue camera while rewinding film, are all pictures lost?
I shot an entire roll of film on a Yashica FX-3 Super. While I was rewinding the film to remove, I thought I had rewound it all and opened the back. However, the film was not completely rewound and so ...
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How can I use a Ricoh 35 FM film rangefinder to take photographs at night?
Recently I thrifted a cool little rangefinder camera: a Ricoh 35 FM. I am new to photography, and am planning on shooting in the night. However, the camera does not have as many settings to change as ...
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Difference between Spectral Sensitivity and Spectral Dye Density, and how are they linked?
I read on a paper from kodak the differences between the two, but I'm still not sure if I understand it correctly. I'm pretty certain I understand the spectral sensitivity of film, as it is pretty ...
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Can I continue shooting APS film if I think the roll isn't fully exposed?
My new APS film says it is fully exposed after taking just one photo.
Can I continue shooting with it?
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Viable way to adopt ~20mm lens to Olympus Pen F/FT film camera?
I am interested in Olympus Pen F/FT film camera system (APS-C on 35mm film).
My largest concern is availability of wide angle lenses. I would like to have something like 28mm in 35mm equivalent, and ...
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What are these straight bright lines in the negative and scans?
I ran a test roll of Fujicolor C200 through a newly acquired Voigtländer Vito II.
Upon closer inspection, all the photos have bright straight lines (take a look at the top 20% of the picture where the ...
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Why am I missing photos?
I got my photos from my disposable cameras and I’m missing about 18 of them out of 52. I was just wondering if I could get the rest of them back.
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How can I digitize very dark film?
A while ago I had the chance to try out analog photography. Due to unknown reasons in development (likely a problem with one of the liquids) the resulting film negatives are very dark. That is, if I ...
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How do I tell if my camera has film in it?
I recently acquired a Pentax ME that has been sitting on a shelf for at least twenty years. It may or may not have a partially-exposed roll of Kodak Gold 100 film in it. How can I tell for certain, ...
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Pentax ME every other roll is blank, is this one too?
Every other roll I’ve used on my Pentax ME this year has come out blank. Current situation is I got to 36 but no resistance to signify roll is finished. Instead, I am able to keep taking pictures and ...
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Testing out an old camera - why have the scans come out like this?
Found an old Goldeck medium format camera which I tested with a couple of rolls of film. Nearly all of the scans have come out this way even using different focus lengths. The last shot of the second ...
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Why doesn't film advance stop knob stop after the next frame?
I bought an old 35mm film camera online. I loaded the film, turned the knob that advanced the film. Looking at the dial on top, as I turned the knob, it turned past one, went to two, went to three, ...
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What ISO should I use on unbranded film?
I bought a bag of unbranded film. It was 60 dollars for 15 rolls so I couldn’t pass up. But obviously I don’t know the exposure or the ISO. Does anyone have a suggestions on the ISO/ASA I should shoot ...
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What do I do if my film camera doesn't have a setting for the ISO of my film?
I am fairly new to analogue cameras and bought a new 35mm film camera and bought some film to go with it. It's a refurbished 1950s Voigtlander camera.
I recently realised that the 35mm roll I bought ...
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What would cause part of this exposure to be blank?
I have some Kodak Gold 200 shot on a Canon AV-1 where one exposure in the middle of the roll (#17) has a portion of the exposure missing with sharp line. None of the other exposured (on this or any ...
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Flash and camera shutter not in time
I’ve searched far and wide but cannot find an answer. I recently purchased godox ct-16 to trigger my flash off the camera (canon a1). It worked perfectly on my digital camera and I copied the manual ...
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Olympus Trip 35 - focus problems
I have an olympus trip 35 film camera, and I just had 2 film rolls scanned and developed. Most of the results are blurry or out of focus. The photos that are taken with flash are sharp, and some close-...
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What was the cost of photo development in the ’60s, in France?
Could anyone tell me how much it approximately cost to develop a roll of film and its photos onto "standard" paper format in the ’60s in France, for the general public?
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Did I get scammed buying this "vintage film negative"
I purchased a "vintage 8 x 10 film negative" of Shirley Temple on eBay supposedly from someones collection. I had assumed that by film negative it must be the actual film used in the camera ...
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Canon AE-1 mirror stuck but can wind film and take photos
My Canon AE-1 camera's mirror is getting stuck in the up position after taking a photo. I can wind the film with the lever and the mirror goes back down but once I take a photo, the mirror stays in ...
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Exposure meter's result EV relative to the film ISO density threshold
Let's take a film with properly measured ISO speed. It means that there is some threshold exposure where it's resulting density (if developed to a specific standard gamma) raises just slightly (there ...
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How should I affix 35mm film inside a picture frame?
I recently bought a few strips of tidbits from a movie, on 35mm film. (17 strips of 6 frames each, about 11x3.5cm a strip)
I know this isn't "photography" per se, but I think it still counts ...
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What caused this splotchy pattern in my Portra 400 Scans? (Epson V600)
I recently started using a Fuji GW490 with Portra 400 film. Having got the film developed, some of the areas out of focus (or smooth gradient areas) appear to have a 'splotchy' pattern of lighter dots ...
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Samoca 35 II Film Loading
I recently inherited a Samoca 35 II camera (a small scale-focus camera with a view finder from Japan). It seems to work well mechanically, but I can’t get the film to load and close the back. The ...
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Why are my film photos coming out so dark, even in bright sunlight?
I shoot with an Olympus OM-1n, 50mm Zuiko lens on Kodak Gold 200 film.
It was a bright, sunny day so I was shooting with the following:
Aperture: f/16
Shutter speed: 1/1000
ISO: 200
The photos were ...
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How to carry film through airports?
I had a business trip with some free time in the evening, so I took my photo gear with me, but on the last moment, decided to leave my film camera at home because I did not want to ruin the film with ...
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Why are all my photos shot with a M38 Kodak Film Camera coming out super dark?
I bought the Kodak M38 off of amazon for an easy point and shoot, but all my photos came out super dark and I obviously can't control the exposure. Can I do anything or is it just a bad camera? What ...
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35mm Film through airport security [duplicate]
I recently put some 35mm film in my checked luggage bag that I was taking on a trip. Basic Fuji Disposable Camera you can buy at Walmart/Target. I had not used them yet. I’ve been taking a bunch of ...
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Can I shoot a multiple exposure with more than 2 exposures without manual intervention?
I’m considering the Nikon F75 for a film project requiring multiple exposures per frame.
Does the Nikon F75 have a mode where the frame does not advance, for an arbitrary number of multiple exposures ...
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What is the best focal length for using a DSLR to digitize film negatives?
I have 24-85mm zoom lens with Nikon D750. I am planning to use this setting for digitizing my B&W negative film.
What's the preferred focal length to use for this purpose?
People talk about ...
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Light leaks all over the photos
It is my first time using a film camera and I've developed my first roll of film, Lomography CN 400. The camera is a Fujifilm MDL-9.
I know that my problem is light leaks and it's coming from the ...
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Pentax K1000 settings question
I have a Pentax K1000 and 400 film that I’ll be using with it. I wanted to take some photos of my newborn in the hospital and was curious of the recommended settings I should use. Really want these ...
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Why were some of my 35mm film photos developed blurry?
I am using a Nikon Nikkorrmat FTN camera with 35mm film. Some of the images, once developed, came out fine and some were blurry. Is this down to the developer or my camera. If it is the camera how do ...
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Does the amount of liquid used in each development matter to the total capacity?
For example, the Jobo tank states that 240ml of liquid is needed for rotation development, while 485ml is required to submerge the film fully.
I've seen many people saying that the rotation method ...
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Blank circles on BW film
I just developed a film that came out with transparent circles placed randomically on it and transparent edges.
Example showing the beginning of the film, the shots that always come out totally ...
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Is there a limit of the stops of overexposure of film before pulling fails to compensate?
This question stems from the observation that my E6 chemicals tend to develop the film about a stop underexposed, and overexposing the film for one-stop during shooting seems to make the final image ...
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How do I go about fixing this strange dark line blocking my Minolta XG-1's viewfinder?
I recently bought my friend's Minolta XG-1 which looks super well maintained cosmetically. He did mention to me that it was sitting in his hot attic for about a year.
I noticed that there is a weird ...
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Can I fix my Nikon FE's issue of auto firing after advancing (bottom curtain doesn't come up)?
Video description of the problem:
https://youtu.be/DdRkNx93_rc
Without pressing the shutter release button, the camera auto fires. The bottom curtain doesn't come up at all. Mirror is locked up too.
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How to make photographic film at home
I am working on building my own camera. For the first part I made a simple lens design and crafted the lenses out of acrylic glass. My lens is a rough 100mm lens with 3 elements and I used a 3d ...
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Has anyone experienced these lines on your film?
I noticed these parallel lines/streaks across my film. This was shot on a Mamiya RZ67 and I've never really experienced these lines before. Got the film developed at a local film lab, and self-scanned....
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Push-develop a film shot at box speed
What happens if I shoot a film with ASA 200 at ASA 200 but develop it at if it was rated ASA 400 (push 1 stop)?
Push-developing is used for compensating underexposed film, but what happens if I don't ...
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hole punch for old type 126 and 110 film
New film has holes down both side like the old school tractor feed printer paper.
Older type 126 and 110 film only has 1 hole on 1 side approx every photo.
Are there any kind of hole punches to ...
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Why are there white smudges on some of my film scans?
I just got back the negative scans from the first few hundred shots I took on my Minolta TC-1 with kodak gold. I've noticed that on some photos there is a white smudge near the bottom left corner of ...
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Can I use Canon EF lenses on an EOS 600? [duplicate]
Maybe it is a dumb question, but my camera store has a Canon 600 for €25. I have some ef-lenses at home by canon, I'm not sure if I want to invest in the camera if I can't use the lenses. The owner is ...
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Scanned film show bright border around the edge
My scan result (using the Epson 600, the film is Fuji Pro H 400, not expired) showed the top and bottom of the film strip significantly brighter than the middle:
And here is a more extreme example:
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Is the space between frames on film standardised?
Is the spacing between frames on different film formats standardised? I suspect it is not, but not sure.
I'm trying to figure out as much as possible about the dimensions of different film formats (...
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120 film wasting and Hasselblad 500CM
I've been shooting with Ilford HP5 Plus (B&W) 120 film with my Hasselblad 500CM. As far as I know this specific camera and model only shoot 12 shots. However, the reel extends to what appears to ...
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Ricoh Autohalf - Can i change the ISO setting half-way through a film? [duplicate]
I owned a second hand Ricoh Autohalf, I'm new to film camera and before this I washed a few roll of my films without knowing that my camera ISO setting should set according the the film ISO. It all ...
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