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MMMMMM Flim
By ravsitar | May 19, 2008
As most of you know I’m a digital shooter. As a matter of fact, I never seriously shot a film camera. Sure, I had a point and shoot film camera (who didn’t), but I didn’t get into photography until after digital cameras were mainstream. My first experience was playing with a Ben’s Nikon Coolpix 990. And then a bit later, Lane bought a Nikon Coolpix 995 (a huge improvement). So with the last bit of my student loan money, for my graduation from college, I bought myself a Nikon Coolpikx 4500. That worked great until I got deeper into photography and bought a DSLR. Back to the point. Last year I was looking around for a new photo toy and found a Nikon N80 on craigslist for cheap. Bonus that it would work with all my lenses (though it can vignette with DX format lenses) and it functioned almost identically to my D70.
So after running a plain old roll of color film through it. I bought a couple rolls of Kodak Tmax 3200 black and white film. This stuff is ISO 3200 and grainy! But it gives photos a pleasing look without any processing. These photos are all pretty old (from last October), but I didn’t have a good way to get them from the film to my computer. I don’t shoot enough film to make a scanner viable. In the end, I sent them off to Scancafe for scanning. It took a long time, but they results are good and the price isn’t bad either. I did very little work on the scans after getting them back. Mostly just an auto-levels and straighten in Bibble.
Here are a few examples
Topics: Photos | 3 Comments »
May 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Very nice! There is something about film B & W that is appealing. I used to shoot 1600, but never seen 3200, cool!
I wonder if its possible to duplicate this affect digitally in PS.
Ah, the memories. My buddy had a darkroom at home, we processed hundreds of rolls of film ourselves. Tried color, but way too expensive for high schoolers.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Actually there is a good way to reproduce some of this in photoshop. Chris covered in in TFTTF112 (http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2006/04/11/tfttf112-psc13-adding-real-grain/)
June 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Here is a side by side comparison of scanning services.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phRG-JoD0f6N8DrY8b8ZGLw
Things have changed so you might want to see who is the cheapest and best now.