Is anyone still using film ?

Originally Posted by bikeramy

I still use film, still have my old darkroom kit, such a good medium . Really should get back into it. The medium formats such as the Bronica are especially nice.

True, but the bronica's were never that good, I'm cutting me throat you understand but I'll give you £20 for the bronica ...... actually, always loved the bronicas, wish I had the money to go med format, and film, or should I say, analogue or traditional photography isnt as dead as the digi companies would have you beleive, check it out http://istillshootfilm.org/

[anna]

yes,.... and if someone wants to throw any dark room kit out please let me know first

Originally Posted by anna

yes,.... and if someone wants to throw any dark room kit out please let me know first

I was at a local charity shop this evening seeing if they had any old cameras, and they had a darkroom kit in there, it was an enlarger plus one or two other bits an bobs, would you like me too check it out it for you ?
Stew

[jambo]

I would really like to shoot more film this summer (I have some Ilford black & white, and some IR film, together with a Canon A1)

The problem in my house is this "dark room" thing. I think I might need to just do my processing elsewhere, as none of my rooms are windowless, and most of the windows are tricky to cover too!

Jambo

How about the loft ? unless its like mine with no height to it at all, IR film eh ? thats a bugger to load up, you're supposed to use one of those black bags that use for transferring undeveloped films but I gather most bods do it in subdued light and dont worry too much about the first few shots on the roll, it can be tricky stuff anyway, good luck with it though, Ive gone and bought another Nikon this morning, its an F50 but it came with a nikkor 28-80 f3.5 lens all for the princely sum of £25 and I only wanted the lens

[jambo]

Originally Posted by stewie

How about the loft ?

The Loft has 2 skylights, and a window at one end. It's one of the lighter spaces in my house

Jambo

[anna]

Originally Posted by stewie

I was at a local charity shop this evening seeing if they had any old cameras, and they had a darkroom kit in there, it was an enlarger plus one or two other bits an bobs, would you like me too check it out it for you ?
Stew

yes please.

Originally Posted by anna

yes please.

I'll see what i can do

Use to shoot weddings and portraits on a Hasselblad - 12 to a roll! Would do a wedding on just 48 shots and everyone printed to 8"x8" so had to be careful that's why I worked on a tripod. Mamiya C330 before that and Yashicamat before that - all 6x6. When I went digital - weddings often went up to 700 images - mainly hand held with iso 6400 in the church on a Nikon D300 and 2.8 17-55 lens. The main difference professionally between film and digital is the speed of work. Did I miss the film cameras ? - not at all. But I do remember with affection hundreds of hours spent in the darkroom on B/W years ago. I had a studio with a cellar which was great for a darkroom but at home I worked after dark in the kitchen or bathroom and once built a darkroom in the loft but it was intolerably hot in the summer (40 degrees!!). The value of film gear has plumetted (apart from some collectors' classics like Leica) so good bargains are to be had if you are so inclined. You'd be hard pushed to tell between a digital print and a bromide mind. Modern mega pixel images are vastly sharper than even 5x4 film and have transformed commercial work. In the 60's my dad use to retouch giant images for Top of the Pops but they were pretty grainy compared with your average supermarket mural of today - time moves on! The advent of the digital darkroom (Photoshop) removed the mistique for millions. For me digital is light years ahead professionally but I can see the pure pleasure to be got from low volume high quality film d+p (developing and printing). Have fun!

Originally Posted by anna

yes please.

Ok, just popped up the BHF charity shop and the enlarger is still in, its a Jobo C6600 colour enlarger like this one http://www.novadarkroom.com/product/..._Enlarger.html
it comes with what looks the power supply/transformer, a nikon enlarging lens, colour analyser and various bits and bobs, sorry I cant be more specific, its going for £40 all in and if you fancy it I can pick it up for you, it looks in not bad nick tbh, if you want to contact them direct to get some more info the the no,s below

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