Discussions of 35mm film photography gear

Cool!

I havent been here since the change of the site and now come here and find this forum about shooting film.

I´m new to film. I got myself a Nikon fm2n a few months ago and been shooting with it and learning to develop, have developed about 10 rolls now and I love it, now have 4 rolls waiting to be developed.

The fm2 seems perfect, theres nothing useless. Only electronic is the meter for exposing. The body seems solid and firm, have already took a dive in the puddle, but still works.

I have 50mm 1.8D and 85mm 1.4D, other lenses I have are for DX format, but I dont feel needing more, maybe some wider lens in the future, but the fm2 with a 50mm lens seems the perfect kit, you just need zoom with your feets :)

I really feel that since having the film equipment, my photography has improved. You really need to think what you´re shooting. You might see something and you really have to look what you see to make the decision will it make a good picture, you dont look at it from the back of your camera afterwards. I also noticed this few days ago, when shooting portraits of my friend, shót with film and digital, didnt take so many shots with digital either, only the ones that needed, but I´ve been heading in this direction with digital also before the film though.

Not entirely about gear, but I hope to get forgiveness :)

p.s waiting the postman to bring me Mamiya RB67 ProS :)

 

Welcome to the Group Janne, have you some images shot with the FM2 to share? I use a FE2 a lot and also have a F100. I have a wide collection of Nikon prime lenses going from 20mm to 300mm, most are AiS but a few are AF-D.

I recently started doing Film photography, I'm 20 years old so I do remember film, but never really used it myself.

 

I'm a Leica shooter, I normally shoot the M9-P Digital Leica Rangefinder camera, but I wanted to start doing film photography as well, so I bought a Leica M6TTL, this camera is basically the same as my M9-P the only difference is that it takes film instead of SD cards. They have the same lens bayonet so I can use all my lenses on both cameras.

 

I started to do home developing of B&W film a few months ago and have been happy with the results!

 

I do the scanning with a Nikon Coolscan 4000.

 

I hope to learn some here of other people shooting film.

 

Thanks!

 

Jip

 

Welcome here Jip! Share some of your work in the Gallery and then link to it here to share and discuss please.

http://1x.com/photo/120828/group:26

Here is one picture I uploaded, I wanted to put more in the group but I can only put one in per day.

 

I shot this with the Leica M6TTL and ILFORD HP5+ I think :) should double check tomorrow in my negative archive.

 

Great!! Thanks Jip for including the details in the "Info" section!!

 

Is she making tea? I love the moment you captured! The reflections and her had gesture add a lot to an already nice scene!

I added one image yesterday in the group. Will share more, when I get them scanned and edited.

 

Cool! Please "Edit image details" under the Cog wheel to include the details about gear and film stock. Thanks!!

Oh, i put the info under description first, but noticed now the equpment slot under :)

Here is another picture I shot on film, and uploaded to the Film Gallery,

http://1x.com/photo/120823/group:26

 

It's my mom on the left, and my little brother on the right, waiting at the dentist, on a early morning.

 

Thanks for watching.

 

I like it. I like the subject and the moment. The big expanse of white is a bit dominating...

 

Thanks for including the image details!!

 

Clyde

Hi everyone

I'm a newbie to film. Well actually I used film many years ago, but wasn't doing anything interesting with my photography. Now I've developed a taste (and a small amount of skill) with my DSLR, and so I've been tempted to go back and buy myself a film rangefinder (Canonet QL17)!! So excited - just shot my first roll of b/w film and am waiting to see the results (especially since I metered using my eyes and the Sunny 16 rule, which I have never done). I hope I can seek your advice as I delve more into film photography. Thank you!