Color pictures, an aficionado insisted on 3M film, and Mitsubishi paper.
Fuji still makes it, it is getting difficult to find.
B & W, Orwo was good, Kodak Tri-X is still found...for paper the local 'Indu' brand was about the only one easily found, though I have seen European and Japanese paper in India long back.
Fuji still makes it, it is getting difficult to find.
B & W, Orwo was good, Kodak Tri-X is still found...for paper the local 'Indu' brand was about the only one easily found, though I have seen European and Japanese paper in India long back.
I've recently gotten back into film again, and I've been doing my C41 with CineStill CS-41 two bath chemistry. It's inexpensive and easier than black and white, I think.
I have a good place for a darkroom, but I'm appalled at the cost of enlargers, so I just got a scanner instead.
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There are print shops here who will do 'pigment' (durable ink) prints, even ink sublimation prints from scans, and I think the result is better than the color laser prints offered by labs.
The labs scan and print using ink jet printers at low resolution, due to cost reasons they do not do it the old fashioned way from film to paper.
I used to get the film scanned to CD, then ask for prints from the CD, the lab used to print those at higher resolution than the 'all good ones' at the time of film development.
I last bought film in 2009.
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Chrome says Win 7 is obsolete, so looking for a i5 board, been offered one for $75 with 8GB RAM, have to see what is going on.
There are print shops here who will do 'pigment' (durable ink) prints, even ink sublimation prints from scans, and I think the result is better than the color laser prints offered by labs.
The labs scan and print using ink jet printers at low resolution, due to cost reasons they do not do it the old fashioned way from film to paper.
I used to get the film scanned to CD, then ask for prints from the CD, the lab used to print those at higher resolution than the 'all good ones' at the time of film development.
I last bought film in 2009.
No ties to any companies named above.
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Those color developing chemicals were offered as kits, you need to use it up all at once, cannot store after mixing.
Some people refrigerate the chemicals, I found it a bit complicated.
So please read the instructions before purchase.
And see if alternate styles of chemistry are available.
Some people refrigerate the chemicals, I found it a bit complicated.
So please read the instructions before purchase.
And see if alternate styles of chemistry are available.
Film cameras in my house still used occasionally; I have quite a number of Pentax Spotmatics, and a range of SMC Takumar lenses and various Pentax OE accessories from the 1970's. My 20-something son also has a Spotmatic, a Nikon FM2 and an Olympus Trip 35, and my daughter, a Pentax ME Super.
I also have a Fed 2 (Leica knock off) from Kiev, a Nikon F601 I got for nothing, and my Dad's old Agiflex Agimatic that our childhood photos were taken on, still working. I had more but sold them.
My favourite is a basic early Spotmatic in black, all brassed up on the edges, that I bought from Japan a few years back. It's seen a bit of action!
On topic, today I bought a Wiim Mini wifi DAC/streamer online that I should get in a week or so.
I also have a Fed 2 (Leica knock off) from Kiev, a Nikon F601 I got for nothing, and my Dad's old Agiflex Agimatic that our childhood photos were taken on, still working. I had more but sold them.
My favourite is a basic early Spotmatic in black, all brassed up on the edges, that I bought from Japan a few years back. It's seen a bit of action!
On topic, today I bought a Wiim Mini wifi DAC/streamer online that I should get in a week or so.
Not so.
I use the 500ml Cinestill CS-41 kits, and find they keep several months at room temp as long as you use containers that don't have much air space.
I get 7 to 8 rolls out of 500 ml in that amount of time. I use about half and half 24 and 36 exposure rolls.
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I use the 500ml Cinestill CS-41 kits, and find they keep several months at room temp as long as you use containers that don't have much air space.
I get 7 to 8 rolls out of 500 ml in that amount of time. I use about half and half 24 and 36 exposure rolls.
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C41 processes at 102F, so room temp is "cool".
I use a darkroom changing bag to roll my film, and an ordinary film tank. I think it's a Jobo brand. It practically loads itself. It's orders of magnitude easier than those old steel reels.
My only experience in the last few decades is with CineStill chemistry - both color and black and white.
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I use a darkroom changing bag to roll my film, and an ordinary film tank. I think it's a Jobo brand. It practically loads itself. It's orders of magnitude easier than those old steel reels.
My only experience in the last few decades is with CineStill chemistry - both color and black and white.
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