Some digital pics with an inexpensive Samsung digital camera

Some photos I took with an inexpensive Samsung digital camera:  for the "fence" photos I didn't have any film cameras with me; for the "rainbow/yard" photos, the light was too low for the film I had in the camera.

For this one, I imagined the vandal writing "PEACE NO..." -- and then getting interrupted.

I like the sentiment -- but it's uncool to paint on other people's fences (someone has since painted over the fence).

The color of the sky was indeed this color.  Funky.

 

A bit later -- as it got more towards evening -- there was a bit of a rainbow.

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SLR 35mm Kentmere pan 400 - Foreshore

 I just realized that I like the crunchiness of the Kentmere pan 400.  I'm pleased that it's also among the cheaper (if not the cheapest) rolls of film available over the counter.  I'll be buying more.  ;)

As usual, you can see the photos better if you click on them. Also, no digital adjusting afterwards:  this is how they came back from the lab.  ;) 

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Kodak H35 half-frame point-and-shoot - Ilford XP2 - Alley and stuff

 Loving my Kodak H35 half-frame (no sponsorship -- I'm just enjoying it). I intentionally removed the battery (I don't like the "front-lit" looks) -- so I just take photos if it's outdoors and daytime:  black and white film is oddly robust (can get away with 2-3 stops over- or under- exposed).

This is the Ilford XP2 (400 ASA), which is cheaper to develop than "normal" B&W, because you can process it with standard C-41 color processing (which more labs have, now-a-days).  It's not as crisp and gritty as I like -- but sometime here I'll try push-processing it, which should harden up the blacks a bit.

Taken indoors:  am surprised that it came out at all....

Can you see the airplane?  (I waited for the right placement, before taking the shot.)

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Hanimex D35 with expired color film

 This one is with a Hanimex D35 (hat-tip to Arthur).  Expired color film (I should've written down the brand; ah well).

I would have over-exposed it by two stops, just to hit the stale chemicals with enough light to "do" something.

Faint and ghosty.  Sure.  :) 

These are the three more interesting shots:  the rest were exposed okay, but the framing wasn't as solid as these three.

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Color film with a Kodak Box Brownie 620 Model D

 Even though shooting on box brownies is even less cost-effective than most shooting with film, I enjoy it.

With 35mm film, you get 24 or 36 exposures per roll.  When shooting a spool of 120, on a lot of cameras you get 12 or 16 exposures:  halfway decent.  

But with a box brownie, you get eight.

The below is with a Kodak Box Brownie 620 Model "D".  It actually takes 620 format film, not 120.  But I use the trick of using toenail clippers to make the roll of 120 fit into the "feeder" slot that's sized for 620.  But you need an actual empty 620-sized spool of 620 for the film take-up position, because the end of the rod that turns the take-up spool doesn't grip the roll of 120 sufficiently (the bar at the end of the bar is shallower and narrower than what the roll of 120 is designed for -- so it slips).  So you either have to ask the lab to save the 620 spool for you -- or you can go into a super-dark room and roll the film (once you've shot it) back onto the original roll of 120, and label it "EXPOSED"... and rubber-band it shut.  Which is what I tend to do.

Anyhow, since it's the same film-purchasing, developing, and scanning costs for shooting 8, 12, or 16 exposures -- only shooting 8 exposures costs twice as much as shooting 16... and 1.5 times as much as shooting 12.  But -- you do get some oddly large film negatives -- which is pretty cool.

 

Anyhow!  Here's what I have.  I forgot to write down the brand of film.  Obviously, color.  Probably Kodak?

Am now taking better notes on film types.  ;)

More pics of that house.

 

 

A building in downtown Brisbane.

 Straight off the presses -- no retouching. 

 

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Color film from an SLR

 Nothing fancy for this one:  two shots from a roll of color film from a SLR.

Here's that house again: I do like that house....

I'm averaging about 1.5 rolls of film a week... I think.  

Having fun.  :)

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Pentona II - Color film

 These photos were shot with a Pentona II -- a simple but fun camera:

Just a bunch of fun pics.  

This was from early in my "photography logbook" days -- so i wasn't properly recording the type of film.  Ah well. 

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Kodak Box Brownie 620D - Ilford XP2 - Wizard and farmer

 Goofing around with a Kodak 620D box camera.  I'm not certain that the slight "softness" to the tone is due to the film (Ilford XP2), or the camera.  But I suspect that that the camera lens determines the focus, and the film does the coloring.

I'm a wizard, Harry -- and also some sort of old-timey farmer.  ;) 

(See also the YouTube link that "Future Me" posted:  I play a wizard that's an office temp.  A co-worker and I did it for a 48 hour film challenge. It's mostly his vision: he and I and his partner came up with the concept, and then he, his partner, and her brother brainstormed some more -- but he wrote the script, defined the shot list, directed, and did all the editing and visual effects. (But it's my camerawork.)  ;)

 

This one is the "un-altered" version -- more typical of the "look" (contrast, darkness) of the Ilford XP2.

Whereas this is the edited version, where I bumped up the contrast a bit.

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Canon Demi - Ilford XP2 - Various urban

 The last of that round from my Canon Demi:  I love that I can get 72 shots from a 36 exposure roll (economical!), yet still have control over the aperture and shutter speed.  Even though the aperture and shutter speed are "ganged" together -- I don't mind that.

I'm declaring that this (and the last two posts) were on the Ilford XP2 film:  I'm starting to see the difference in the "flavors" of black and white film, so I'm posting the film type when I post the photos.

I'm also declaring that I've digitally "massaged" the photos a bit -- played with the brightness and contrast a bit -- just to make them "pop". Usually XP2 isn't quite as contrasty as this.

Ayep!  :)

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Canon Demi half-frame -- Trees and a train interior

More from the half-frame.  As usual, click to enlarge.

 

The interior of a train:

 

Various trees:

 

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Canon Demi Half-Frame -- An old house and a rural road

 More from that 72 exposure roll on the half-frame 35mm camera.

Here are some photos of a local abandoned house that is apparently my "muse":  I keep going back to take photos of it.

 

 

And here's some of a rural road. 

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