Post wacky and wild setups?

The sliding rail has measurements on it that I used to take 6 consecutive shots that should all line up nicely when printed. I have the camera tipped 90 because the film back only likes going on one way. Found some cool flowing textures as a test shot for my idea.

Do not worry I used a lens hood to block the sun from the lens.

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>>4399720
we know you're eager to repost the meme you saw in the other thread but it has to apply to the context to be somewhat funny, poophead

Was scanning some old prints. Gretchen, San Diego circa 1995, hand printed on old Fotospeed Rembrandt paper that they don't make anymore. Cropped mamiya C330 medium format negative.

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First test roll with the Baby Crown Graphic I posted about in the last thread. I'm pretty impressed with this Ektar 101mm lens considering it's age and the fact that it's uncoated.

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>>4399731
Night shot of the local taco hell. These are all shot on Ektar 100 using the roll film back.

>>4399732
And a shitty still life of my coffee stand. I wanted to test it in a few different lighting conditions. It does a pretty good job close up. And confirms that my 3D printed focusing screen is designed correctly, I was worried that the ground glass might be off from the film plane by enough to throw off the focus.

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Why are film photographers so delusional?

>>4399737
I think you are delusional for thinking his post has anything to do with film photography or film photographers in general.

>>4399737
this >>4399740
but I agree it's hilarious someone thinks 75 fucking neon signs in a shitty american city is interesting enough for a book

>>4399755
If his name were lewis (((baltz))) and he knew a few (((people))) in the (((art world))) his project would have been gold(berg)

look up new topographics and have a laugh

If anyone sells shit on ebay this sinar lot has around 3k worth of parts in it... 0 bids starting at 800 bucks.

Copal shutter 450
Sinar tripod head 350
Sinar macro rail 500
Rail Extensions 200
Binocular viewer 250
Bellows 150
Hard case 150ish
Other random accessories 300 or more
Complete p2 kit 900-1200

It's also an excellent 4x5 kit for macro as well. Just need the lenses and tripod.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296940833598

Cheers.

>>4399760
I've seen these faggots and the idea is actually quite cool but it's amazing how at least 99% of them fucking suck at making any memorable image
earlier today on plebbit there was a faggot who posted a 3 enlargements he made of walls in his city
fucking walls
with nothing interesting on them, mind you
like, just a goddamn fucking wide brick wall painted white and some shit here and there
>https://www.reddit.com/r/Darkroom/s/4MaAwPW1Ls

>>4399723
Nice, is there any available equivalent for that paper?

>>4399731
>>4399732
That looks very good, what did you use to scan it?

>>4399760
is the new topographics in the room with us right now?

Do you shoot with more than one camera at a time? and if so do you load up different films or use different focal lengths or what? I have a 645 slr, bought a 35mm p&s for a concert because lol like $30 and just bought a rebel 2000 cause it was like $60 and I had an EF lens from a canon aps-c camera from college I wasn't using.

>>4399796
Lmao

>>4399814
I simply use my changeable backs I have for the RB67. Fast and efficient

>>4399816
I don't have changeable backs. well my 645 technically does, but you can't change backs mid rolls so its pretty meh and only makes sense with an assistant

>>4399814
I thought about taking 2 with 2 different films so I can decide on the fly which is most appropriate for the given situation but so far I've never done it because I am lazy and I like the simplicity of only taking 1 camera with 1-2 rolls of film with me.

>>4399796
Mirrorless camera in pixel shift mode.

>>4399818
>my 645 technically does, but you can't change backs mid rolls
wat
really? i always thought the 645 worked just like the RB or any Hasselblad
>>4399814
anyway, you were talking about shooting with more than one camera at a time like having more than one camera with me when I go out, or just having more than one camera loaded at a given time?
I usually go out with a 35mm in my everyday life and one or two extra lenses, sometimes 2 cameras having color film in one and BW in the other
and when I go out for leisure or for taking pictures I bring the RB with three backs and a 35mm and a couple lenses
and for large format it's only the LF camera because it's heavy and clunky as fuck

>>4399833
>really? i always thought the 645 worked just like the RB or any Hasselblad
my 645 is a pentax645 so its literally an entry level 645 camera intended for entry level wedding photographers. it doesn't even have half stop exposure comp for slide film, just full stop exposure comp, full stop shutter and half stop aperture. I'm pretty sure the MO was someone would be using their 35mm for most of the wedding and only use the 645 for moneyshots that needed to get blown up. hence not needing to change backs mid roll because especially if you had a 2 person crew one could shoot the money shots while the other set up the backup back (or I guess you start with the backs preloaded and then just switch them out yourself)

>>4399837
But who takes the back shots?

>>4399837
I thought you were talking about a Mamiya 645, which I believe can change backs mid-roll
if that's their target public it makes sense not having this feature
if that's something that bothers you or makes you wish you had a second camera with you, maybe it's worth it to get one with interchangeable backs instead of bringing 2 cameras
especially when we're talking about medium format
the RB is way bigger and heavier, but it can shoot both 6x4.5 and 6x7 too
if it's just a minor inconvenience just stick to the Pentax 645 and bring a backup 35mm for color film, for example

>>4399852
yeah I wasn't going to bring a second MF camera with me no matter what. I just wanted to see what people did about bringing my 120 and a 135 or m43 camera or even both 135s

>>4399852
oh also want to point out the reason people have pentax645s now is they have to 100% be the least desirable 120 format cameras on the market
>manual focus
>everything else is done via computer with super gay button controls
>exposure comp is only full stops so you can only shoot slides in manual
I only have the 80/90s automated cameras because they don't have hipster tax associated with them and the retarded
>but it could break
yeah, sure and when it does I'll buy another body for less than the hipster tax on the manual camera

is an epson v600 good enough to scan 35mm, cause I already have one for 120 anyway

>>4399814
my edc is usually only one camera but if i'm going out to shoot, i'll almost always have multiple cameras. usually one digital, one film. on my last shoot i brought a 645, a 6x6, and a digital compact to use as a light meter. i have two bessas Rs now as well so i will likely end up dual wielding those sometime

Why is the sky so yellow with Velvia? The fenders on the Beetle are properly white with minimal adjustment of the white balance.

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>>4399814
I usually have several cameras with film in them but I'm only bringing one slr with me at a time + my p&s that I carry every day

>>4399878
my EDC is a Nikon FM2 with a 50mm and a 105mm
sometimes a 24mm in place of the 50mm or I just bring them both with the 105mm
in leisure days i bring my RB67 with the 3 backs (two 6x7, usually one with BW and the other one with color or slide, and one 6x4.5 that i always end up using less frequently)
sometimes I bring the Nikon as well, or I just bring a Rollei 35 since it's small and quicker to use so I don't miss shots that I would with medium format
and then when i go out to shoot large format I only bring the LF because the bag with the camera, the monorail, the lens, the viewing glass, the 5 filmholders, the loupe, the cloth, the lightmeter, the cable and the whole tripod with the head weights 26,5 pounds
last time I brought the Rollei 35 along because the lens is 40mm, which is similar to the 180mm I have, so it helped me compose the shot before assembling the whole camera
the other day I wanted to take a photo of a building, assembled the whole camera and saw that the shot would be shit
I couldn't get further away from that angle, couldn't recompose it better with that lens, so i just lost like 15min getting it all up and then putting it back in the bag without even taking the shot
would have been easier to just grab the Rollei, point where I wanted to shoot and see that it would be shit right away
would love to have one of those director's viewfinders but there's no way I'm paying >$200 up to ~$750 for one of those

>>4399906
I have an app on my phone called Magic Universal Viewfinder which is great for previewing LF shots before setting up the camera and tripod. Lately though I've been using my Crown Graphic a lot more for location work, and that has a built in viewfinder that I can look through with the camera closed up. It also is a lot more compact than my monorail and can be mounted on a Bogen 3001 instead of the giant 20 lbs mega-Bogen I was using with the monorail. I do miss the movement flexibility of the monorail sometimes though.

>>4399794
No unfortunately they don't make anything like that anymore. Fotospeed used to make some fantastic specialty papers like their Old Masters which is even more textured than this Rembrandt paper. Wish they still made cool papers like this still but as the market shrunk we lost a lot of really cool shit.

>new years resolutions
Don't have any this year honestly, all I really want to do is shoot film more consistently.
Been broke since 2023, but that's finally beginning to change so this will finally be the year I can go all in.

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just found out about the Nikon FG and now I've got a serious case of GAS for the black version with a pancake lens

*SpongeBob sweating -"I don't need it".jpg*

>>4399971
keh has one for $66

>>4399973
I saw but that's the chrome one, I like my Nikons like I like my women

>DARKROOM EDITION
oh yeah
tried split grade printing, great success

>>4400005
Are those square prints?
I don't understand why they don't sell square and panoramic paper
I need to come up with some kinda jig to cut, I am sure if I just use a scissors they'll all come out crooked. And make some easels.

>>4400008
i got one of these
if you wanted to get them even id leave a margin and cut them right after printing

>>4400008
You just print the square on a rectangle sheet.

>>4400005
Nice. Split grade printing is pretty addictive.

Some october shit backlog.

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goodnight sars

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>>4400067
Your pictures always make me feel home. Very good moods.

>>4400069
Thanks man. I've been struggling lately, so I appreciate it.

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>>4400069
Do you live in a shack in the woods? Pretty based.

>>4400033
paper's expensive, I ain't just gonna throw that strip away and waste perfectly good sheets on test strips
even worse for panoramic where I could get two prints from one sheet

>>4400033
Pardon my ignorance, but what's split grading?
i'm using my "i don't wanna google that" pass today, sorry ):
>>4400091
>paper's expensive
>I ain't just gonna throw that strip away and waste perfectly good sheets on test strips
test strips make you waste WAY less paper, that's its whole purpose
how do you use your test strips?

>>4400133
X amount of time at contrast 0, and x amount of time at contrast 4(max). It let's you control the contrast of your prints in a really convenient and useful way.

>>4400134
hmm that's interesting
might try that next time I go to my local darkroom
went there about 5 days ago and made a couple 35mm enlargements and some 4x5 contact prints
but to be fair I wasn't quite content with the 4x5s, it seems like the ones I've been printing in my bathroom tend to come out better
contrast is sometimes hard to deal with at my make-do bathroom pop-up lab
I made a few contacts today and left them to dry tonight, will post results tomorrow

btw, warmer lightsources make images more contrasty when printing?
i've been getting this impression

>>4400135
Magenta is what most papers use for higher contrast.

When I'm doing split grade I'll start at a 0 filter and do a test strip, pick a time I like for the highlights and mid tones and then I'll do a second test strip where I expose the paper for my 0 contrast time then do a contrast 4 test strip over that.

It's a good way to get a baseline for fine tuning.

>>4400135
Oh yeah, something to keep in mind is that higher contrast filters result in less exposure, so if you did 3 second test segments at c0 you may want to do 5 or 6 second segments at c4.

>>4400136
>>4400137
thanks, man
when I went to the lab earlier this week I used a #2 filter, but didn't think of alternating between filters on and off
Yesterday I made some more contact prints at the bathroom and I feel like there's a great loss of image quality
of course there's gonna be some unless the paper has finer grain than the negative itself, but I wanted to know if this looks acceptable or if I should use better paper for this purpose (it's fine for enlarging, though)
>my phone's camera is shit btw

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>>4400156
another sample image

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i've got an MJU ii on the way lads for a daily shooter, pretty excited for it to arrive. currently only have an OM2n and Trip 35 so something fully auto and AF should be fun

>>4400157
>>4400156
Those are contact prints? If so you need to use a lot more pressure to sandwich paper and negative.

>>4400133
If I cut an 11x14 paper into 11x11+11x3 before printing I can use the 11x3 as a test strip.
Or I can do like you're saying and cut that 11x3 strip off after developing, and throw it in the trash, and have to cut up a perfectly good 11x14 sheet to make test strips.
You can do the math and see that paper is basically the same price per square inch no matter what size you get. So I don't see why they don't cut it at the factory into more interesting shapes.

>>4400194
yep
i'll try pressing the glass harder next time, but that's weird, I always press it a bit
not hard, though, just a little pressure
i'm using just a regular glass I took from a cheap portrait frame, but it's pretty clear regular glass, I don't think it can be the glass fucking up my resolution
>>4400199
oh, ok, i thought you were just not making test strips at all
of course I cut the paper before printing and use those unused strips as tests
>I don't see why they don't cut it at the factory into more interesting shapes.
you don't see why a niche product isn't sold in an uncommon format that is easily achievable with a blade?
A format that is pretty much only produced by 6x6 medium format cameras, which are a niche within the film photography niche, with the target audience being people who on top of all that do darkroom stuff
and who very very probably also shoot and enlarge other formats and that would buy regular format paper so that they have the option to simply cut it down to the desired format
you don't see why?
don't overcomplicate things, it's paper
just cut it

>hey I haven't used this camera since before coof
>there is film in it
I have like half a roll just sitting in another camera since before coof, no idea how bad that will be if I try to develop it and a bunch of expired film that I had in my fridge from 2019 that I just moved to my freezer

>>4400209
>since before coof
the fuck is coof, nigga
be clear if you want help

>>4400208
Try for 20lbs+ you need a lot of pressure.

>>4400208
Oh yeah, and try using a piece of felt under the paper.

>>4400210
>not knowing what coof is
are you fucking retarded?

>>4400212
>>4400214
oh, I was just pressing it a bit lol
will get a black felt as well then, i was doing it over one of those cutting mats
but just to be clear, the borders in these photos look shit bedause of my phone camera, I'll take a decent shot and post here asap
they look as sharp as the sharpest part all across
The thing is: i don't know if that's as sharp as it gets

>>4400209
That's just 5 years, I don't see why that would be a huge issue. You're weren't storing your camera in a greenhouse, were you?

>>4400219
the one I opened the back off I can't imagine isn't fucked up now. my apartment gets hot as fuck so IDK about the other but it was like random beach photos I think

>>4399814
I carry around a 200 iso and an 800 iso and just use whichever suits the light situation.
If I had a camera with 1/2000 shutter maybe i could get away with one with 400 but eh, I just prefer to use what got from parents for free.

>>4400221
you know ND filters are a thing?

>>4400222
I refuse to buy anything new besides film (for now)
Also just forces me to use different types desu

>>4400208
>you don't see why a niche product isn't sold in an uncommon format
It is though
Like who the fuck is printing 8.5x11 in the darkroom?
Who asked for 20x24 (5:6 aspect ratio)?
All I'm saying is they should have called me and asked for my own personal formats of choice, and everybody should have to use those.

>>4400243
Just get a 4 foot roll and cut your own paper.

jesus fucking crhist what have I done I am such a god damn reatard
>made fresh batch of 1L of XTOL, in warm water
>sealed the bottle tightly
>wanted to left it outside the windowsill for a while to cooldown
>forgot the windowsill was angled
>the bottle FUCKING FALLS
>live on the FIRST floor
>most of it spills on a pavement anyway
>some of it right under some poor fucking italian's window that lives under
I tried to wipe off some it but fuck, its gonna fucking freeze overnight and I will have a fucking frozen XTOL puddle under my window, some pigeon will drink some of it when it melts and will shit itself to death because of me
don't play with chemistry if you're a fucking retard like me

>>4400247
if it freezes it's gonna smell shit for weeks, possibly
congrats on creating pigeon aids btw

Just got some 65mm kodak 250D.
What iso do you shoot it at?

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>>4399689
why'd you angle it like this? do you not have a revolving/rotating back?

just got a tachihara fiel(d) stand(ard).

lovely camera. i already got linhof boards and starting to mount them as we speak.

there are a few knobs missing. is there a way i can find the parts? one of the rise/fall knobs and one of the rear standard movements.

>>4400322
The film back only likes going on one way with that configuration and I wanted to shoot portrait.

>>4400323
Very nice looking camera. Red bellows always look great with wood.

Bring it to a hardware store and figure out the thread size and order some brass wing nuts and whatever you need. May be tough to find original looking pieces, but at least you'll know the thread size if something comes up.

May be obvious to you, but from personal experience do not use heavy lenses on a wooden field camera. Firstly they're usually not strong enough to be usefully rigid with a heavy lens, but more importantly you'll wear out the wood to metal joins and the camera will lose rigidity even with lighter lenses.

May be worth going through every screw on the camera and double checking they're tight also.

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>>4400324
the heaviest i have is the fujinon 180mm 5.6 which is around 500g or 1.1 pounds. idk if thats heavy or not

also found this online, i know its an m3 screw but i still want to make sure about all of the other ones. the diameter is a little off (by 5mm) but honestly anything works at this point.

>>4400327
i found some golden aluminum ones for so much cheaper, gonna get that one instead

>>4400327
Should be okay just keep an eye on it and be gentle with her. I used an 800g lens on a wista field and that was much too heavy. Your camera appears to be built stronger than the wista field, but it is still riveted in some places, and brass.

Any tips on metering? I shot a roll of harman phoenix in daylight but didn't realize how much the sky affected center weighted metering, resulting in mostly all-sky photos. Maybe it's more to do with the film I was using, but generally I think if the photo is bad it's my fault. So how should I do the metering in camera for situations like this?

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>>4400344
These are adjusted with shadows +50-100 in lightroom btw

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>>4400344
1. point camera away from sky
2. meter
3. ?
4. profit

>Kentmere 400 +1 and Rodinal 1+25: 9 minutes development
>APX 400 +1 and Rodinal 1+25: 19 minutes development
Can this be right?
I am kinda new to home developing but such a difference seems wild to me.

>>4400354
mix 1+100 and they'll be the same
I think often this is the result of lying about ISO i.e. selling a 200 iso film as 400 but putting the +1 push times on the box as standard. But there may be other technical reasons. In the end, iso is just a number.

>>4400354
massive devchart says 11:30 for APX 400 and 7:30 for Kentmere 400 in 1+25 rodinal at 20C
you'r point is still valid though
i was under the assumption that APX is literally Kentmere sold under a different name

>>4400379
you are looking at the wrong rows, I pushed both of them to 800
>i was under the assumption that APX is literally Kentmere sold under a different name
will be interesting to compare those 2, shot them under the same conditions, have yet to develop the APX roll tho

>>4400384
do both for 14 minutes and then compare, not much of a comparison if the dev is completely different

Just picked up a Lobster Holder, pretty pleased with it

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>>4400416
>Lobster Holder
fuck it's cheap and it actually looks well engineered
I bought Essential Film Holder and I feel scammed by that fucking brit
this shit does not hold the negatives flat in the slightest, the fucking mask sandwiched between is just too fucking thick like 2 or 3 times, and the fucking place to slide the film in is too wide. These dimensions doesn't even need super tight precision it's just garbage engineering.
it's a piece of shit to use and I got convinced by reviewers online and retarded redditors so it's my fault

>>4400420
The LH does feel flimsy as fuck as it's lightweight 3D printed plastic but it actually stays put and holds film flat so whatever. My only gripe is the non-sprocket film mask is a little too tight on the frame (it fits perfectly, meaning there is very little tolerance for human error in alignment). Also the bundle doesn't include any film masks so you're paying extra for 6x6, 6x45, and 6x7 if you need those.
I don't have any experience with other film holders but they all had some dealbreaker for me in one form or another (price, technical compromises, mixed reviews etc) and this was the first one to actually tick all the boxes.

>>4400424
>the bundle doesn't include any film masks
any medium format film masks beyond 6x9 (the 'default' configuration of the holder without any masks), I meant to say

Still learning the kinks of this sovietshit. This whole roll is blurry. Maybe it's the scan or the film, but this retro 80s is supposed to be real sharp.
I have a theory: I shot it all at 1/60s which is the slowest of the "high speed" shutter speeds. I believe it rotates the same speed and shutter speed on this camera is really shutter angle, and since the film is curved, the edges of the slit would be more out of focus the wider the slit is. I think I should do a test roll using different shutter/apertures to see for sure.

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Nikkormat FTN 35mm Tri-X 400

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>>4400420
I’m halfway through designing my own scanner tray contraption that actually holds them little shits flat and lets you scan beyond the frame into the sprocket holes & lets you adjust the angle with precision control when it’s in place.

>>4400507
You should get a vibration isolating table for the whole rig.

>>4400509
This. I set mine up on a short 5lb cutoff of 2” thick granite countertop slab I bought from the quarry for $20. It sits on a dozen conical audio equipment feet. The extra mass of the slab just floats ever so lightly. That + a 3sec delay before the bracketing sequence kicks in does the job pretty well.

Kentmere 400 pushed a stop looks a lot worse than Fomapan 400 pushed, who would have thought.

>>4400528
What dev? I thought it pushed well. More reason to stick with 5222 @ 800.

>>4400530
Rodinal at 1+25 dilution

>>4400532
Pushing with rodinal is kinda spooky, especially with a higher contrast dilution. Is that all you had? Xtol naturally gives you like a quarter to a half stop for free.

>>4400533
I just started doing this shit, I will experiment with other developers but rn Rodinal is all I have.
I kinda remember now that I heard it's not that great for pushing but I think it gave good results with Fomapan.

>>4400534
Rodinal is a high accutance(sharpness), large grain developer. Pushing film also results in larger grain, so the combo may produce overly grainy images.

If you just started it is a good developer to work with before branching out.
Good job taking development into your own hands. :D There's a lot you can do to hone into your "look" by finding a good developer that suits your work.

nice find at the thrift store yesterday. the sides are peeling off and the shutter is really stiff but it all seems to work

>>4400344
well this >>4400353 and shield the lens from direct sunlight. i also see most people recommend shooting harman at like ~125 iso

>>4400551
Cute. Where's the pics?

>>4400553
i just got it anon...
i also want to give it a good cleanup. the shutter speeds don't seem right and the lens is a bit filthy

>>4400555
Shit. Good luck with that. Do you have the proper lubricants, or are you going to Yolo it?

I'm waiting on a film back for my new camera. Tuesday and I will finally get to shoot film with the dang thing.

>>4400556
i have all the proper stuff. I spend this weekend learning to disassemble a modly hasselblad lens. it's still easy to fuck up, especially if there's no good videos on it

I want to get a Bessa R, any recs for a nice m39 lens that isn't overpriced? I shoot 50mm 99% of the time.

>>4400558
industar 61 l/d

Just bought a box of 120 Fuji 400H for $100 leafbux. First time shooting it, should I know anything important?

>>4400697
>should I know anything important?
yes
use the water you cooked your pasta in to make the sauce

>>4400724
Based

>>4400724
Want my easy and delicious tomato sauce recipe? You use pasta water to thicken and emulsify evoo as a finishing step.

>>4400724
For Bolognese sauce, root celery is the key. Don't use too much tomato, it will dissolve the taste.

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>>4400728
>>4400729
>>4400730
>tfw it's snowing here in new orleans but it's snowing too much for me to go anywhere cool to take pics
I went out and took a few outside the house but it's not the same. I also feel like I'm "wasting" the cinestill 800t in the camera on day shots

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Does this looks like infrared photography, or nah?

Just screwing around with a red filter with Rollei Retro 80S

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>>4400878
naw, looks really soft too + dirty negatives

>>4400923
>really soft
yeah, I had to shoot that wide open lmao
>dirty negatives
I thought that was the kind of thing /fgt/ liked!

>>4400067
that's cool, very moody

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>>4400858
>cinestill 800t in the camera on day shots
don't you need a filter to color correct for daylight over tungsten..?

>>4400939
ideally yes, but I don't have one. they'll come out with a bit of a bluish cast but it helps that it's overcast and I think it'll look cool with all the snow. I probably should have loaded up my point and shoot since it's weatherproof and tried to walk down to bayou st john, but I don't really have the clothes for it.

>>4399723
Nice. I wonder if it's worth trying to do your own coating on speciality paper.

>>4399814
I'm really bad about this. I try to use one lens per roll for consistency and so I end up with 3 or more bodies loaded with film because I load each film for a specific lighting condition but then don't finish the roll.

>>4400878
Not nearly as dramatic but you still have a nice effect there.

>>4400878
concrete doesn't look that different in infrared
try leaves or people

tried out lomo turquoise, can't say i'm impressed with the look from this roll. then again maybe I shouldn't have shot it at 100iso, a lot of the stuff i've seen online has people shooting it in the 200-400 range, but the can says 100-400 and that's what my p&s defaults to with no dx code. ah well, I also picked up a roll of the purple chrome at the same time so maybe it'll be better, I'll try it in a real camera at like 250 or something.

>>4401015
really disappointed in this roll desu, if the purple shoots better at a higher iso maybe i'll revisit this stock as well. some pics i've seen online have been very cool but then I guess they may have had a lot more (and more competent) editing

>>4401016
>>4401015
Still better than snow colors.

>>4401016
PRESENT DAY
PRESENT TIME

>>4401025
HAHAHAHAHA
>>4399906
consider getting a pocket zoom compact to use for quick metering/framing purposes alongside the slower cameras

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Can blotter books/blotter paper be reused? Looking for some way to stop my prints curling up but that shit costs more than the actual print paper. Could cheap watercolor paper be used as blotter paper?

FINALLY got some scans back from my local lab
they closed on december 20th and came back just recently, so when they came back I dropped i think 7 rolls with them and 12 sheets of 4x5
can't wait for the rest to come
will maybe make a thread of my own if there are enough good photos
there's some cool shit for now tho
>picrel

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I just picked up a Plustek 7200 for a very good price. This is my first attempt at a scan in Vuescan professional. Excuse the dust.

>>4401119
i tend to dislike double exposures but i grew fond of this one

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>>4401149
big clouds are fun

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A solution for using filters with old press lenses. I assume Graflex at one point must have made filters specifically for these cameras, but I've never run across one. However, a Cokin P filter holder and a 3d printed adapter that presses onto the lens works pretty well. This is the Mk.II, with witness holes so I can actually see what my aperture and shutter settings are without pulling the adapter off the camera.

>>4401198
Extremely based.

I could sell all my cameras and lenses and it STILL wouldn't be enough to buy just an M6 body on its own.
What's the next best Leica M I can get for a somewhat reasonable price? The M4? And what's the best lens I can get for it that isn't unbelievably expensive?
I do have an X100V I could probably sell for a retarded amount of money which would cover a good chunk... But it's my only digital P&S and it's a pretty good camera but admittedly doesn't get used outside of holidays.

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>>4401204
Why not get a bessa instead? Rangefinder are fun but you could get something with much better output for similar money. Don't spend too much on 35mm film cameras. Basically any MF camera will out perform it in everything except AF capabilities, and size, and you are getting a manual focusing camera.

>>4401205
Do they take Leica lenses as well? I guess I'm just looking to downsize considerably and have one camera that can produce stunning (35mm) images.
I've owned 35mm SLRs, a Contax G1, medium format rangefinders, a C220 and an RB67. A 35mm manual rangefinder is the last thing on my list to own and try out so I figure why not go for the best one and maybe make it my last camera. Only thing that's putting me off is how a camera body alone, which is just the vessel for the actual thing that makes it special, costs more than my entire collection combined.

>>4401206
Yeah they do take leica lenses. Honestly, if I had to have just one 35mm film camera it would either be a 1v or a contax T3. Fast shooting, flexible, with good AF and zoom lenses, or something ultimately compact.
35mm Rangefinders are very fun cameras, but you don't get all that much benefit while giving up a lot. M4 are not too expensive, a decent one is about the same price as a nice 1v. It really isn't difficult to just carry around a tiny incident meter...

>>4401206
Olympus 35RC my nigga

>>4401211
>1v or a contax T3.
Imagine being this meme brained

>>4401204
>I could sell all my cameras and lenses and it STILL wouldn't be enough to buy just an M6 body on its own
you cannot afford a Leica then
and you will not be able to afford its lenses either
and the repairs and services it will eventually need

it will also not make you take better photos
will probably make you worse from being constantly worried about being robbed or breaking a camera you cannot afford to have or replace

keep your cameras and use them
stop being a broke trendchaser bitch and actually focus on improving your skills

>>4401206
>have one camera that can produce stunning (35mm) images
people make stunning images, not cameras
also the camera itself is just a lighttight box
lenses will be responsible for image quality, but if you can't afford even the body alone, how do you think you're gonna afford top-quality M39 glass?

work with what you have, there's nothing you could do with a Leica that you couldn't with what you already have

if you want to get a Leica at least just admit and say "I want a Leica" instead of trying to rationalize it, because the rational decision would be not to exchange everything you have plus even more money to get an overpriced lightbox

but then just say you want it
there's nothing wrong with wanting stuff

>>4401223
An F5 or F6 or that one minolta AF would work as well. The 1v and T3 are both fantastic cameras. Sorry if that upsets you, buddy.

>>4401225
3 months ago you would have said Contax G2 lol

>>4401228
Wrong person, but I know you're the guy who irrationally seethes over contax. Pretty funny. I only brandfag over Sinar so you're wasting your time with me. Get any of the other nice point and shoots that fit in your pocket for all I care... good AF + fast shooting or compact, that was my point.

I've made excellent looking 16x20 prints with images from my T3 btw.