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coldkennels

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Professional skateboarder, not-so-professional photographer.

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elkarrde, to BelieveInFilm
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I've been thinking about the Ilford's announcement the next week, and I've realized I'd be happier with Kentmere films in APS format than with the return of Ilfocolor.
Sure, color negative film is nice but realistically, there's no way it would be under 8€ (in my local retail stores), and if it's over that, it'll fall in Two-Rolls-Per-Year category (and I'd rather shoot slide film, then!), and APS film would make all those small APS cameras usable again. 🤔

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde APS was a system that never should have existed in the first place. Overcomplicated, overpriced, and with a ridiculously small amount of film in each cassette, it can be best summed up as Kodak being Kodak: trying to get more money out of the customer while delivering less.

Bringing it back in any form would be nothing short of madness.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde I heavily disagree. For one, I am eternally amazed by how easy 35mm cameras were to load in the 90s... and some 35mm compacts are shockingly small.

Also, the scan or print quality of APS is laughably bad compared to 35mm. I recently found my album of APS prints from the 90s, and I genuinely suspect that the low quality of APS was a big reason why the early low-quality digital compact were considered an acceptable/viable alternative to film.

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@elkarrde On that last point, I really think that if the industry stuck with 35mm, film would have seemed higher-quality and more appealing than digital for a lot longer than it did.

If we're talking about "ease of use", I think there's a much better argument for bringing back 126 film than there is for APS - but the issue with film flatness would have to be solved first.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde There is some new 220 film: https://ntphotoworks.com/product/shanghai-gp3-220-roll-film/

I'm quite tempted to pick some up; I always liked Shanghai GP3 and have a Yashica 24 that I usually have to pay close attention to the shot count on!

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde You can probably get it direct from China, I imagine. That might be the best option.

coldkennels, to BelieveInFilm
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Someone on RFF mentioned he was seeing a lot of film photographers posting black and white images straight from the scanner with no adjustment - meaning there were no real blacks to speak of, and everything was a mix of flat grey and white.

Now I can't unsee it and it's everywhere, so I'm writing this in the hope I can infect someone else.

coldkennels,
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@Gargron I never want to be That Guy and point it out myself, but it makes such a huge difference to the finished product. I guess maybe pointing it out is the kinder thing to do? I mean, I’ve seen your work lately and a lot of it is beautiful. We can’t learn if no one speaks up.

coldkennels, to Leica
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Not going to lie: leaning out of the window of a moving steam train, desperately clutching a Leica so I don't drop it, and hoping I've got the zone-focusing and exposure right to make this shot work was a whole lot of fun.

( Ic, Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5, Rollei Retro 400S in LC29)

coldkennels,
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@kboyd “…but if you’re using a Canon, feel free to wave that thing outside the window as much as you want.”

coldkennels,
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@kboyd Oh, that is a particularly beautiful bit of scenery to be hanging out of a train in!

The only times I've visited BC I was going to an event in Cloverdale. I definitely got the short end of the stick looking at this shot - what a lovely part of the world.

coldkennels, to Leica
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Note to self: when using orthochromatic film for still life photography, remember it's going to be a lot less sensitive to indoor light than you think... and this can be a real problem with 6ISO film.

( Ic, Summar/ZWTOO-HESUM, Eastman 5302 in Rodinal, )

elkarrde, to BelieveInFilm
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Hey community, is anyone else having issues with images on KosmoFoto.com website, or is it just my ad-blocker aggressively doing its job and for some reason Stephen's website has all the images piped through an ad network?

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde Honestly, KosmoFoto is so loaded with ads and bloat that I actively avoid it these days. Even with ad blockers running, it brutalises my browser.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde Web designers & developers have gotten lazy (not optimising anything), greedy (too many ads), and generally forgotten that not everyone is using high-end workstations on super-fast broadband all the time.

Couple that with the inefficiencies of modern web browsers and you have a perfect storm.

...I miss the old internet. It was great.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde I actually don't mind Wordpress; as far as a CMS goes, it's totally possible to produce something comparatively stripped-back and simple. But you look at the output of things like Wix... yikes.

I remember being forced to use Dreamweaver at college. I hated that thing then, and Wix, Squarespace et. al. are the modern equivalents.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde I was having a similar problem on a WP site I run - it got so bad that I was writing the posts in TextEdit and copy-pasting them into the classic editor. It was a plugin that was causing it, but it was so long ago that I can't remember which - YoastSEO, maybe?

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde Did you try swapping to one of the default themes (the ones named after a year)?

To be fair, one major benefit of typing up the copy locally instead of in a browser is that it's much harder for something to go wrong. I just had the UPS website glitch out when I was trying to book a shipment, and not only did I lose all the information... but I'm now locked out of booking a shipment at all. FML.

GeWilli, to BelieveInFilm

Film or digital?

Thought exercise not a poll.
(proper edit and comparison from last night's photo)
2023 digital SLR 📷 28-105mm
1965 film SLR 📷 55mm 1.8
🎞️ Ilford HP5+

1/10s on the K3 mono and 1/15s on the Spotmatic

Scanned on an Epson V600
Edited (levels only) in Lightroom
yes I still






Stark out for a ride Pentax Asahi Spotmatic, 55mm 1.8 HP5+ film

coldkennels,
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@GeWilli To be honest, that's not the fairest of comparisons; the scan from the V600 is significantly softer than what you could probably get from the same negative.

One of these was shot with an X-Pro 2 set to 400ISO and the XF 18/2; the other with a Leica IIIf and a Voigtlander 28mm Color Skopar on APX100, then scanned with a Plustek, and it's surprisingly close. Film has more tonal range but more grain. Detail is comparable, though.

Either a scan of a 35mm negative or a matching shot from a Fuji X-Pro 2 - I can't tell from the small preview I get to write the alt text with!

analog_cafe, to random
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It's a little disappointing to see the first comment on an article that explains that removing rem-jet before packaging film is exceedingly difficult and has only been successfully done so far by CineStill (+1 their competitor of what they say is inferior quality) to say "I hope they go bankrupt."

At this point, I wonder if a "perfect" image of how a business should operate in those people's eyes is more important to them than actually having film to shoot.

coldkennels,
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@analog_cafe The problem is that bad business ethics - especially in a small niche space - ends up causing larger problems (like Cinestill forcing rivals out of business, or scaring people out of stocking film, or leaving a bad taste in people's mouths and causing them to leave the film ecosystem).

As such, given the choice between letting bad actors go unchecked and driving them out of business, I choose the latter.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde @analog_cafe honestly? I think they took bad advice from someone who knew Jack shit about film photography or the film photography community, and the biggest mistake they’ve made is doubling down on that advice instead of realising they’ve been massive idiots. If they’d put their hands up and said “we did a stupid” immediately, there’d be no issue.

coldkennels, to Leica
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I don't usually carry a tripod when I'm out hiking; I should get into the habit, because shots like this are just bloody lovely.

( Ic, Voigtlander 21mm Color Skopar, Ilford XP2 in Rodinal)

coldkennels, to random
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@tapasinthesun out of interest, what are you using to scan your medium format negs? I bought some Fomapan 100 in 120 for the first time in at least six years only to realise my old Canoscan 9000f is, frankly, trash.

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde @tapasinthesun My 9000f ended up full o' fungus, and I had to strip-clean it completely. That wasn't fun.

I'm legitimately thinking of shooting medium format and wet-printing everything then scanning the prints. It says a lot about how much I hate the Canoscan that this seems like a viable option.

mattblaze, to random
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Someone yelled at me for posting monochrome photos again.

That's kind of annonying, but this place still has fewer Nazis than that other place, so I'll be sticking around (along with my dreary monochrome photos, devoid of all color and joy as they may be).

coldkennels,
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@mattblaze That is the single most stupid thing I've ever heard.

TechConnectify, to random
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I'm going to irritate a subset of electricians with this new video...

https://youtu.be/vNj75gJVxcE

coldkennels,
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@TechConnectify I absolutely lost my shit at the “throw the knives at the wall” section. Laughed so hard I cried, and it’s been a while since anything on YouTube had that effect on me.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a cutlery drawer that needs emptying.

elkarrde, to BelieveInFilm
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Aww shit. I've just finished a roll of Agfa APX 400 in a scruffy Praktica PLC2, only to realize it's APX 100, and I've been exposing it full two stops under. 😬
I'd like to avoid standing it in Rodinal 1+100, but I'm low on options for the development…

coldkennels,
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@elkarrde It could be worse; it's when you're doing it with standard store-bought film cans that you need to have a good hard look at yourself!

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