Shoot In Film? Post Some Of Your Works Here, Along With Camera And Film Type!

LEAP?

Shot with a Nikon F6 on Kodak Portra 160.

I made the leap about three years ago and haven't regretted it. What camera are you considering?

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This is my favourite film photo so far. Nikon F6, Fuji Neopan 400 (now unfortunately discontinued)

Brian, it will be a somewhat intimidating experience going from the instant feedback of the digital viewfinder and the virtually never-ending availability of shots to take. But that's what makes me get a film camera all the more.

Dean, I love your captures! I am considering a "starter" film camera, just to practice on, either a Pentax K1000 35mm SLR or a Konica C35. All that I know is that I want the sharpest 35mm I can get for under 100$.

I read you already shoot Nikon. If it's a full frame you might want to consider a Nikon F100. That way you can just continue using the lenses you already have. There is a mint copy up on ebay for $280. Near mint for $150.

Whatever floats your boat Gregory (icon). Personally, I like not wasting film. I also enjoy processing my own images with software and adding my own creative touches. Less and less places are supporting film cameras. Even Kodak stopped making cameras years ago. All the best!

Thank you Dean, very much!

"Whatever floats your boat Gregory (icon). Personally, I like not wasting film."

Disregard my comment. I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. At any rate, thank you... I think.

I shot many a picture using film, even the single sheets that you had to load in holders while in the dark.

Today I received this Phlearn letter and it tells you things I was ready to say:

Hey CHUCK,

This week I bought my first film camera — a Hasselblad 500C/M. In addition to being a beautiful piece of machinery, this camera brings something special to my life — a sense of mystery.

I am from the “New School” of photographers who grew up using digital cameras. I wasn’t really interested in photography until my early twenties, and at the time DSLRs were already popular.

I learned on an Olympus E-510 Digital Camera. I don’t think there is anything wrong with learning on digital, but I am beginning to understand that the digital experience is incomplete without the film experience.

Digital cameras offer you the ability to take thousands of photos and review them on the spot, and each photo is free.

A roll of 120mm film gets me 12 photos. From the minute you load your roll of film you have no idea if any of the photos you take are any good. Did you get your exposure right? Find out in a week.

Film sounds like complete a pain in the ass, and to be honest it is a pain in the ass. Everything is more expensive and takes longer to do. Literally nothing about shooting film is easier than digital.

So why am I so in love with shooting film?

Shooting film forces you to slow down and pay more attention to each photo. Remember, those exposures are expensive and you don’t want to waste them on poorly composed images.

Also you only have 12 photos per roll, so you wind up choosing your photos more carefully. Is this really worth a photo? Should I save this exposure for something better?

Welcome to 2015, when shooting with a film camera is done out of nostalgia. Just seeing a film camera these days is rare. Digital portraits are labeled as “selfies”. Film portraits are labeled as “important”.

I love shooting film because it forces you to bring intention into your photography. You hunt for the right photo instead of over shooting and choosing later. Each exposure means something, each one has the potential to be special.

I don’t recommend throwing away your digital camera, and I don’t think one medium is better than the other. Digital and Film are simply different. They are like different flavors of ice cream, both are good. If you like digital, there is a good chance you will like film.

Use your camera to connect with new people in life. Find a stranger who is curious about photography and make a friend. Bond with your father over shooting a roll of film together. Use a photo shoot as an excuse to hang out with friends. Make memories and spend more time with the people you love.

And take plenty of pictures.
Aaron Nace

Chuck, that was a beautiful summary of why I want to go into film. That was so powerful, and dead on. Oh, and a Hasselbland for their first camera?? That is sensational! I am shooting for the Pentax 1000 to start with. Thank you very much!

Timing is everything... That applies to shooting pictures as well!

Yeah... a Hasselbland! Wow!

Here are some early 35mm Kodachrome shots. One shot for each location.



And so on...

This was done a while ago. I not only shot the film, but I developed the negative and made the print myself. I was in photography school and learned to do it 'old school' there. Shot with an old Canon AE-1 probably on Tri-X film (not even sure if Kodak makes Tri-X anymore), printed on Ilford paper.

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this was shot on a Nikon F4S and it was shot a few years back. It has had some photoshop work done on it but yes it was shot on film. I am pretty sure it was Ilford 400 ASA. Now I am still using nikon and yeah even the same lens. But the camera body is DSLR rather than SLR.
And as another poster added I developed the negative and did the original print myself

I love the Cat Man Joy! I love the photos Chuck, especially the Arc one! Wow! BTW, I just got offered a free Minolta XD 11, so I will be picking that up tomorrow night, and starting my new film adventure :)

Shot about 40 years ago with a Pentax Spotomatic and scanned from a slide. This is still my most popular image.

Great photo Mike! Yes, I definitely want to learn how to use a darkroom...

Gregory - actually since you are looking for a film SLR i would think going used would be the route. The film cameras used are going almost dirt cheap for some pretty good models - i am talking 35 mm SLR here not medium format just to be clear.

That is an absolutely incredible photo Jim - in film no less!! That has me really jazzed to get this going!

Mike, yes, I think the Minolta XD 11 is an SLR, good tip, thank you!

Much of the work we do on film gets digitalised.






All shot on 35mm Fujichrome (transparency film) with Nikon cameras.

These pictures have been used in magazines, guidebooks or syndicated through a picture agency and published in Japan.

Machu Picchu - First published in APA Insight Guide (Peru).

Sydney Opera House - Used on the cover of Nomadic Gatherings.

Skiing in Crans Montana - Won a ski photo competition and published on the cover of The Good Ski Guide.

Camping in Iraq - My Kurdish refugee series was syndicated by Rex Features, who even sent me a tear sheet from a Japanese magazine.

Now that I cut out the middlemen and shoot digital, I use Canon.

Shot with a Rolleiflex TLR (the one in my profile image)

Dave, that is just stunningly gorgeous! Has such an eerie quality to it and I love that inky blue! :)

Gregory, I'm happy you like my Cat Man! And I'm glad I had the opportunity to learn how to print in black and white...and color as well (a more automated process)...using the old school chemical dip and dunk methods. I think you learn so much when you use a manual camera too....things that can definitely be transferred over to working with a digital camera. I loved going to the New England School of Photography in Boston...it opened up a whole new world for me, and I cherish the time I spent there. Good times...good times! :)

long - long time ago nikon fm2 and ilford film ( now I only shoot digital )



nikon fm2 and kodachrome

Grigorios - Did you develop the Ilford film yourself?

Yes I was developing and printing by my self b&w. That was 25 years ago. I was buying the Ilford or the Kodak T-Max in 30 meters roll package. I had empty 35 mm cartridges that I was loading in dark room. I remember each 30 meters roll was giving me about 16 or 17 cartridges with 37 frames each. I still have somewhere in basement 2 developing film tanks , trays and other dark room equipment.

That was great days ( only because I was young - so everything in my memory has a romantic glow )
I will not do the same today ( shoot film and developing ) for work. Maybe when I retire I will do it for fun.

Grigorios Moraitis
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