Photo of the Week - 11 March 2010

[AJLynn]

It's been a while since we've had one of these, maybe I should say "photo of the last 2 months" Anyway, here's a piece of dead monitor and the crocus nearby. Cause it's spring and that's... poetic or something. Yeah, death and rebirth. That's it.

 

I used my F75 and the lens I got from Tim, some Plus-X, Rodinal and a Minolta film scanner I just scored on Craigslist for something like 25% of market value.

[neil poppleton]

Heres my contribution for the last couple of mopnths. Ruptured achilles tendon......

[Dave Buchhofer]

Neil! that sucks, hope you feel better soon on that one!

 

here's my shot from the other day of a street market at dusk here in philly

[neil poppleton]

Neil! that sucks, hope you feel better soon on that one!

 

Cheers Dave, been in plaster for 8 weeks, only 2 or 4 maximum left......at least I wont miss the summer..

[alias_marks]

Taken by one of my favorite SF pieces of architecture. Cesar Pelli's JP Morgan Chase Building.

 

Noting fancy camera wise. Canon G9

Edited April 9, 2010 by alias_marks
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[WAcky]

I thought I'd post this despite the fact its not "digital photography"

 

I just bought myself a fisheye 2 and was trying out some kodak gold that expired in 96. This and one other photo were the only two good ones.

 

I also tried a box brownie I have at home but they were disappointingly under-exposed. oh well!

 

This is a shot of federation square in melbourne btw.

[AJLynn]

Excellent. BTW you don't need to use a digital camera to have a POTW. My post was a film scan. Now I'm going to have to shoot with something really old for the next one, I've got a TLR and a Soviet made folding camera around here somewhere...

[WAcky]

Ah very nice!

 

Ive been looking at getting a new scanner with film scanning capabilities as the old one im using is super noisy and scanning negs would be great for corrections.

 

I also borrowed an old olympus slr but it jammed the $25 film i was using so I got no pictures from the shoot I did that took me about 2 hours to do I also tried a box brownie that I had lying around with some slide film to try out this whole cross processing thing but they came out underexposed.

 

I managed to find a ilford b&w film that expired in 1984 which I bought for 50c pretty excited about using that one

[AJLynn]

$25 film??! What film costs $25?

[WAcky]

professional slide film.

 

the camera shop I frequent's site is down at the moment so I cant tell you exactly which type.

 

Velvia, sensia or elitechrome probably.

Edited April 9, 2010 by WAcky

[AJLynn]

Wow. So here a few of the slide films are expensive - Provia 400 and Kodak 64T for example - but the rest of the Fuji films and the E100's are all under $8. Does the $25 at least include a processing mailer?

[WAcky]

So basically there are some slide films that are expensive which doesnt include processing (Im talking AUD btw which isnt too disimmilar to USD atm)

 

fuji astia

chrome 64t

provia 100

veliva 50 are all $25

with veliva 100 and provia 400 being about $27.

 

The reason Im looking at these films are the cross processing results.

 

Take a look at this page which link so some flickr searches of how the different films result in different xpro result. Very cool. Very interesting.

[AJLynn]

None of those are expensive in the US except the tungsten film (which is still a lot cheaper than it is for you). Unless AU import duties are bizarrely high, you could save a lot by ordering from a US web store. The best ones are bhphotovideo.com, adorama.com and freestylephoto.biz. For example, 10 rolls of Velvia 50 with shipping to AU would be $106 from Freestyle.

[BrianKitts]

I'll throw in a contribution this week. Pretty standard shot for San Francisco, but being as I just moved here somewhat recently, had to get out and shoot my own.

[WAcky]

None of those are expensive in the US except the tungsten film (which is still a lot cheaper than it is for you). Unless AU import duties are bizarrely high, you could save a lot by ordering from a US web store. The best ones are bhphotovideo.com, adorama.com and freestylephoto.biz. For example, 10 rolls of Velvia 50 with shipping to AU would be $106 from Freestyle.

 

unfortunately the boutique stores, although cheaper than the high st chain stores, are still very expensive.

 

Thanks very much for those links, I will definitely have a look as I think the US > AU import taxes are very relaxed. I've brought back musical equipment worth $k's and have never been stung with any taxes.

 

Thanks!!