Questions tagged [film]
Questions regarding photography using film.
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How do I shoot expired film?
I purchased some 75 sheets of 4x5 Tri-X that expired in 1981. It has an ISO of 320. The owner said it wasn't refrigerated but it was kept in a somewhat cold place (attic?). I've read that you're ...
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Filming in a steam room?
I plan to film in a steam room this weekend for a cover shoot.
However, I know for a fact there may be difficulties regarding the "steam."
Any tips for filming in a steam room?
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What is this old film and how do I handle it?
This looks like a roll of film and was found in an old house. It is from around 1908. It seems to be wrapped tightly and almost was mistaken for a spool of thread. A piece of metal foil was loosely ...
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Is it safe to keep your chemical (developer/fixer/stopbath) outdoor?
Is it safe to keep your chemical (developer/fixer/stopbath) outdoor? Like balcony? But inside a storage with lid.
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Help, Green fog on my photos?
I've just started using film cameras, so sorry for any terminology errors.
I picked up an Olympus OM-1 from a flea market and it works great, but every now and then my pictures come out looking like ...
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Olympus OM-10 35mm - Film not gone all the way back into the cartridge
I've recently purchased an Olympus OM-10 off ebay, seems to be in good condition, only issue is I've just tried to unload my first roll of film (Fuji Superia 400) and I'm not sure its done it right. I'...
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Long term storage of developed film?
In order to retain the developed film, is it recommended to put the developed together with the camera/lens inside a dry box?
Also, a stupid question: for a developed film, which side of the film ...
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What's the difference between Kodak's film lines?
Kodak has/had a few different lines of film. To name a few: Portra, Ektar, TMax. What is the difference between these? They're made by the same company, and have overlapping ASA.
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Accidentally reset film counter to 0, what to do?
I accidentally removed the battery from my Ricoh RT-550 camera and the film counter reset back to 0. I was in the middle of using it and still had ~10 frames left...
Does this mean I should just ...
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What makes a good film camera?
I have recently become interested in film photography. For now I have borrowed a Canon EOS 500n from a friend, but I am thinking about purchasing a camera for myself soon.
In digital photography I ...
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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 much ILFOTOL to use for wetting agent — and is it reusable?
I have the following Ilfotol concentrate:
After making a solution (1+200) suggested in the label above, my question is: how much should we use in our final development?
A drop or fill the tank?
And ...
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What methods can be used to remove remjet from the back of motion picture film?
Cinema film has a carbon remjet backing. If it is to be shot as stills the remjet usually has to removed in a home darkroom before processing. What are the best ways to do this?
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Can I develop Kodak Ektachrome 160 film myself, and if so, how?
I have three (3) Kodak Ektachrome 160 Super 8 (process EM-26, Type G) cartridges that are undeveloped. How difficult would it be for a complete amateur to develop these? If it is not very ...
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What are the dark room techniques used to manipulate the *local* contrast of a print?
What dark room techniques are used to achieve effects similar to those of unsharp mask or "clarity" in digital post-processing?
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(film) What can cause blue vignetting on sub-exposed or dark shots?
I recently purchased a 70's-something Canon AE-1 and started experimenting with film. I was using a Kodak Ultramax 400, and took some night shots hand held at 1/30 with a 50mm f1.8 lens. Those shots ...
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What factor does film speed play in developing time?
Say I develop for 15 minutes with a film that has an ISO of 100. If I were to use the same developer with ISO 200, 400, 800, etc how would the time (or amount of chemicals if so) change?
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What are the effects of developing film with an expired developer?
Developers, fixers, and virtually all chemical products commonly used in film photography (or not) are prone to expiry over time. Nevertheless it is not uncommon to use expired chemicals in the hope ...
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What happens if I develop a color film as black and white?
As the title says, what happens if I develop a color film exactly as I would do with a black and white film?
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How do I develop color negative (C41) film at home?
It's pretty easy to get color negatives processed for pretty cheap, but I'd like to learn about the process.
How do I process color negatives at home? What chemicals and equipment will I need?
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What caused these large white spots on my developed negatives?
I've shoot some Ilford HP5 + on a Mamiya 645 1000s for the first time.
I developed the film with Ilford DD-X (1 + 4), ilford stopbath and fixer on a Paterson tank.
After scanning the negatives i ...
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White ring around my analog photos
I bought a used Olympus superzoom 800s camera and this was the first time that I have used it.
There is a white ring around most of the exposed negatives and I would like to know what it is and what ...
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Best film and shutter speed for Mansfield Skylark
My daughter picked up an old Mansfield Skylark camera at a yard sale. Can anyone recommend a film type/speed and shutter speed for overcast daylight conditions? The shutter speeds are simply 'B' ...
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Why does blue sky gets rendered as black in black and white film photos?
I recently started using a film camera along with my digital camera. I took a picture with both the cameras. This one is from digital camera:
Left is the photo without editing and right after ...
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popular fd/canon ae-1 lenses/acessories
I'm giving serious consideration to switching from primarily shooting film with a Pentax K1000 to a Canon AE-1 (and/or AE-1 Program). Is anyone familiar with the model? What are the popular fd ...
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How accessible is gas hypersensitisation today?
Gas hypersensitisation, as you may know, is a method which was regularly used by astrophotographers. It included baking or soaking a film in a gas mixture, with this gas oftentimes being nitrogen.
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Tri-X compared with HP5 plus, grain
I have used Tri-X for a long time as my general-purpose 35mm film. I use it at 400, process in Rodinal (or a clone in fact) 1+25 and using the massive dev chart times (which agree with Kodak's), and ...
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What's causing this orange light leak, vertical band, from an Olympus OM-1? [duplicate]
My Olympus OM-1 typically doesn't have problems, but these two shots seems to show some kind of light leaks.
What I gathered with light leaks is that orange ones are probably from behind the film. ...
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Flashgun for Nikon D60 and F5
So, I'm a massive fan of Nikon gear. I've got a D60 which is pretty lovely, and I've recently bought a 2nd hand F5.
However. The flash on the D60 is feeble, and there's no builtin flash on the F5. ...
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What kind of photography is this?
Digging through a file of (very) old family photos, I found a couple of photos like this:
The thing is about 10cm (4 inches) height, and it looks like a film glued to a fairly thick cardboard.
This ...
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Uneven tank development
I've had a similar problem before with tray development, but I've since moved an hour away and switched to tank development. Tank development seemed to fix the problem for the past >100 negatives ...
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My developer went dark quickly — what went wrong?
My developer went dark in a few days, without using it... I recently change my storing pots. Is it the air or the darkness where I failed?
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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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Is my film ruined? Turned on light with film in bag
I realize the only way to get a definite answer to this question is to develop and find out, however I am inquiring more along the lines of the light-proofness of film holding bags.
I was loading ...
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What's the best way to clean dust from film negatives? [duplicate]
Every time I scan my 35mm negatives, there is always a lot of dust, even after using a rocket duster and wiping with a microfiber cloth. What sort of equipment exists in order to get rid of the dust? ...
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How can I hack 35mm film into a 120mm camera and have it safely received?
I can simply put 35mm spool in place of 120mm one. Spring will hold it all right, and I can get it to wind on the receiver spool. Of course I can't know frame number and need to do it "by the feeling",...
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Minolta srt101 (SLR) trigger jam
I've done a lot of searching but haven't found much regarding film Advance lever/trigger errors. Symptoms: lever will advance once or twice, with the firing sound being a dull "krk", not the bright "K-...
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Accidentally opened film camera, film ruined?
I accidentally opened the back of my film camera while trying to advance it for the second time. I have not taken any photos yet and the film counter currently shows a "S". Is my unused film ruined ...
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My negative is completely black and opaque — is this a camera problem, my mistake, or the lab's?
This is the second roll I took with my Minolta X-700 which I recently started using. The first roll came out completely fine but the second one I finished came out completely blank.
I didn't open the ...
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What does the temperature specification on a roll of film refer to?
I got hold of an ancient film SLR, and have purchased a couple of rolls of film. One of then, a roll of Ilford Delta 400, has an indication about maximum temperature of 24°C. It also has an indication ...
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What is the meaning of "stock" dilution on the Massive Dev Chart website?
I'm looking at the Massive Dev Chart website. It shows a table like this:
What's the meaning of stock dilution there? How should we prepare the developer on that condition?
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Why image does not fill all area in Polaroid film backs
Here is what I am using:
Camera: Mamiya 645AF
Film: Fuji FP-100C Polaroids
Polaroid Back: 645AF Polaroid Land Pack Film Holder HP402
And the image below is how they turn out. See the image is so ...
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Why aren't the 35mm film scans I got back from a lab at a 3:2 aspect ratio?
I let my film get developed and scanned at a Fuji Lab in Japan and always receive a DVD with images of 4336x3036 pixel resolution, which is an aspect ratio of about 1.428194:1.
I always thought 35mm ...
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I'm new to developing film at home — how should I assess my results for grain, tonal range, and etc.?
I'm starting shooting film and develop it at home.
For my first roll of film i've used Fujifilm Acros 100 on a Olympus OM-1n with F.zuiko 50mm 1.8.
Please see the attached image (straight from the ...
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Math of EV numbers
I am trying to fully understand EV (exposure values) as used in photography. This is a system intended to simplify camera shutter speed/aperture combinations using a single value instead of two.
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First film roll just got developed and all my pictures have a white fog on them?
I recently got an olympus om10 and shot my first roll of film,
The film is fujicolour c200.
I got my film developed and when I picked it up, the guy in the shop said some of them were really dark. ...
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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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How do disposable cameras work without exposure and focus control?
Before I got into photography, I used to use disposable cameras with ISO 400 film. I've gotten some decent results in various lighting, both inside and outside and at different focus distances. How do ...
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What happens if I take too many shots on a film?
I finished what I thought was a 36 exposure roll of film earlier, but once I got it out of the camera I realised it was only a 24. I am using an old Ricoh XR2 camera which has manual film advance so ...
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How do I go about choosing film for an old LOMO camera?
I have a old LOMO analog film camera with four closures.
How should I choose film for my camera?
What ISO should I select? Is there anything else I have to be aware of when choosing film for this ...
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