Author Topic: So, what film-oriented thing are you doing this weekend....? (Read 7838 times)

Late Developer · « **on:** May 31, 2012, 02:26:03 PM »

Here in the UK, some people are marking the fact that the monarch will have been monarch for 60 years. On a positive note, we're all getting an extra day added to our traditional end of May bank holiday so we've got a 4 day weekend to enjoy.

Personally, I will be re-acquainting myself with my 'Blad kit and, hopefully, getting as far away as possible from the TV as I can manage, until the "celebrations" are all over. I'll be focusing (pun very much intended) on coming up with something for the Postcard Swap.

What about you guys (whether UK-based or otherwise)??

astrobeck · « **Reply #1 on:** May 31, 2012, 02:45:43 PM »

I'm ramping up for the transit of Venus on the 5th June, so I'm getting telescopes ready for that.
It's a big deal in my world of stars, so the telescopes are getting their final check ups before being packed in the truck to go mobile.

Cameras are all loaded and ready to go.

Also, I finally figured out where a tiny internal glare problem was in my old Diana that I've been using a lot lately.
A quick fix with black tape remedied the issue so I'm happy to have that sorted.

And like Paul, I'm going to decide on what print to make into a card for the postcard swap-which is never easy for me to do.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2012, 03:06:08 PM »

We're having our monthly photo club meeting this sunday and we'll hopefully get some old chemicals out and move around some furniture (continued work to fit in a photo studio of sorts).

girl friend out of the house so probably some scanning will be done too.

Might put in an order for that tetenal c-41 and misc stuff thingies I need.

hm... oh, and if I have the time I'll put up a sales thread! -so look out for that. I'm trying to raise some funds for a bronica C I've got my eyes set on~

Info Red · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2012, 03:37:15 PM »

It's been quite a while since I've posted anything here, so I thought I'd do that! And a friend of mine loaned me her Lomo 360 Spinner to play with, so I will load that in the truck with my regular gear to see what I can do with it.

My wife and I just got a new house, and for the past month or so it's looked like The Wreck of the Hesperous here, but I'm slowly finding my stuff again. The truly sad thing is I left my wonderful wet darkroom at the other place!

$:-\$ So, until I can figure out where to build a new one here, I'm going to have to scan my pix in and print that way. But I'll get along fine, I'm sure. Boy, do I miss my darkroom!

I also just saw an article about Afghan Box Cameras, and saw this video - How to use an Afghan box camera "kamra-e-faoree" on Vimeo - which has caused me to want to build one, so I am going to begin gathering the materials for that this weekend. I'll let you know if anything comes of it.

This whole selling of houses and buying other ones has gotten me quite off my normal photo game. I'm hoping to get back at it full tilt and become more involved with FW.com again.

IR

BTW, anybody know what's going on at Toycamera.com? I posted something there 5 or 6 days ago, and no response! Most of the posts there are at least 3 months old, with no activity. Have they gone out of business, but forgot to turn out their porch light? Just curious...

IR

hookstrapped · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2012, 04:05:21 PM »

I should put my stacks of sleeved negs in binders. But I say that every weekend.

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2012, 04:18:27 PM »

I'm off up to Suffolk at the weekend with my 5x4 and a bag of film. Then I shall be off into London on Tuesday as my son has only gotten himself invited to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee lunch at Westminster Hall, so we (his parents who didn't get invited!) will be standing outside hoping to get a few snaps.

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2012, 05:02:01 PM »

Fixing new bellows to new 4x5 rig, and testing it.

charles binns · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2012, 05:03:47 PM »

My wife is off on a hen week end on Saturday morning so I have four days to indulge my hobbies. A mixture of cycling, excessive alcohol consumption, curry and photography is on the menu. May well take my Harman Titan for a second outing and have 18 rolls of Efke IR820 in my freezer which need exposing.

Bliss!

jojonas~ · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2012, 06:03:08 PM »

Quote from: Info Red on May 31, 2012, 03:37:15 PM

BTW, anybody know what's going on at Toycamera.com? I posted something there 5 or 6 days ago, and no response! Most of the posts there are at least 3 months old, with no activity. Have they gone out of business, but forgot to turn out their porch light? Just curious...

IR

when was the last time you hung out there? it hit a slump and didn't really get up it seems. previous guy in charge tried to hot it up and it didn't go to well. now nic nichols of four corners dark runs it but it but when he got into that he had already slowed down with updating his own blog.
I don't know all the details so that's the short story kind of :/

patrick j. clarke · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2012, 06:11:57 PM »

My wife is competing in a hunter/jumper show in Del Mar, so I am heading down with her on Saturday with my Minolta Maxxum 7 and Sony Alpha 100 with some T-Max, Tri-X, and Delta 100 along with my Sony 50mm f/1.4, Minolta 35-70mm and 75-300mm Big Beercan.

I might take the Bronica ETRSi for some portraits, and if my Orca film gets here, I'll throw my Pentax Auto 110 around my neck too.

- pjc

calbisu · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2012, 06:19:29 PM »

I want to get the Big Pentax and use the extension ring, shoot some portraits and use ultra secret developing skills to mess with the negatives; but the little ladies are coming from Europe this weekend so lets see at the end what I do from it

Carlos.

Steven. · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2012, 06:28:57 PM »

ive been making prints of my work lately with my friends enlarger.. im thinking of picking up one myself its addicting!

otherwise i'll be shooting some tri-x to work on a personal project.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2012, 07:25:03 PM »

My aim is to toast our queen with alcohol throughout the 4 day weekend. I have a stack of scanning to do if the weather doesn't play ball and if it's sunny and hot, well, I have just sorted out irrigation for the whole of the garden, so, I may just sit and watch that glug!

I do hope to wander with a camera or two at some stage as well.

Have a great one, chaps

jojonas~ · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2012, 08:10:13 PM »

oh! apparently me , lund and another friend will have a film developing get together. fun times~;D

Francois · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2012, 09:01:23 PM »

For me, it's going to definitely be finishing up the cleaning of the lab... hopefully.

DS · « **Reply #15 on:** June 01, 2012, 01:16:41 AM »

I'll be going home to Glasgow tomorrow, and thence to a friend's 30th birthday party in bonnie Doune.

I'm looking forward to getting some time to shoot- but the party will likely be fairly wild, & I'm trying to decide what camera I should take- do I take my precious or a cheap POS so that I don't have to worry about imbibing too much and dropping something expensive?
(so far I'm leaning towards sporting a Zorki 4 and maybe a Clack)

Regardless there'll be plenty of stuff to point cameras at. Doune Castle is very famous:
French Taunting - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(also in Game of Thrones and lots of other film / tv stuff with swords in)

moominsean · « **Reply #16 on:** June 01, 2012, 06:54:31 AM »

5 rolls of color 120 to develop...next week a day trip to a border town to shoot!

Miller · « **Reply #17 on:** June 01, 2012, 07:23:54 AM »

CJ's cycle racing Saturday under 8's and second in the series so hoping for a top 3... May take a camera but as I am part trainer/driver/sponsor/purchaser/masseur/donkey/mechanic/waterboy/fan/nutritionist and possible steward I may not get a 'click'...

Possibly Monday jump on the Superduke and hit a 'trendy ghetto' for some shots where I will be just as likely to see a street-fight or street-mugging than a Queen's Jubilee street-party.

Rgds

Mlr

BirgerA · « **Reply #18 on:** June 01, 2012, 08:14:58 AM »

See if I can use the 4x5 and test if filmdevelopment Taco-style works for me.

LT · « **Reply #19 on:** June 01, 2012, 10:10:47 AM »

I'll be mostly honing my Chamonix technique and ensuring the exposure index and dev times for HP5+ in my Divided D 23 mixture are nailed before I head north next Friday.

Excited.

L.

Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #20 on:** June 01, 2012, 10:41:54 AM »

I have a couple of rolls of Ektar to take images of red white and blue. Like Paul I'm heading for Suffolk....
Mark

sapata · « **Reply #21 on:** June 01, 2012, 11:45:54 AM »

packing time for me...

mickld · « **Reply #22 on:** June 01, 2012, 01:34:28 PM »

I have 3 or 4 rolls of film from my Holga & M645 to process & scan this weekend. I'm also determined to once-and-for-all figure out how to use Vuescan on the V700 properly. At the moment it's a nightmare to use 80% of the time, but the 20% that produces great results keeps me hanging in there in the hope that I can nail down what the optimum (for me) workflow is.

Not really looking forward to it, as I find I can get angry fast with scanning. Embarrassingly, screaming-at-my-laptop angry. Vuescan is a mystery that must be unravelled.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #23 on:** June 01, 2012, 03:58:13 PM »

Quote from: mickld on June 01, 2012, 01:34:28 PM

Not really looking forward to it, as I find I can get angry fast with scanning. Embarrassingly, screaming-at-my-laptop angry. Vuescan is a mystery that must be unravelled.

quote of the year, for me! good luck, brave soul

Ordinal · « **Reply #24 on:** June 01, 2012, 04:37:28 PM »

Quote from: mickld on June 01, 2012, 01:34:28 PM

I have 3 or 4 rolls of film from my Holga & M645 to process & scan this weekend. I'm also determined to once-and-for-all figure out how to use Vuescan on the V700 properly. At the moment it's a nightmare to use 80% of the time, but the 20% that produces great results keeps me hanging in there in the hope that I can nail down what the optimum (for me) workflow is.

Not really looking forward to it, as I find I can get angry fast with scanning. Embarrassingly, screaming-at-my-laptop angry. Vuescan is a mystery that must be unravelled.

Oh, I use Vuescan a lot - and yes, it can be a complete mare. Actually I try to just use it for the scanning bit these days and do as much as possible in Aperture afterwards. Very happy to at least try to answer any questions about it though.

Ordinal · « **Reply #25 on:** June 01, 2012, 05:17:37 PM »

Myself, I said that I would take some pictures at a friend's band's gig on Saturday, which isn't something I've done before. I think I'm going to use HP5+ pushed to 1600 in a Praktica MTL3 with an f2/55mm Super Takumar lens - although, you know, for something more unusual, a long exposure on 6x9 would be a lot more interesting. Hmm.

I suppose I should take some pictures as London celebrates having had the same queen for a long time, but not of the flotilla and stuff, there will be millions of pictures of that. Maybe of people being sick in the heat with flags in the background.

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #26 on:** June 01, 2012, 05:28:30 PM »

My wife's recovering from surgery and my daughter from the flu. If I can get them both to nap at the same time, I swear I'm going to dev the first roll of Acros from my Great Wall. I'm half-tempted to dev the two rolls of 35mm I've had waiting for a month, just for the shot-to-free-time ratio. Plus, I need stock for my postcard possibilities!

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #27 on:** June 01, 2012, 07:41:16 PM »

Well I fitted the bellows, now I just have to wait a few days for the sun to come back. What the 'eck happened to our summer already?

Info Red · « **Reply #28 on:** June 01, 2012, 10:55:22 PM »

"...when was the last time you hung out there? it hit a slump and didn't really get up it seems. previous guy in charge tried to hot it up and it didn't go to well. now nic nichols of four corners dark runs it but it but when he got into that he had already slowed down with updating his own blog.
I don't know all the details so that's the short story kind of :/..."

Thanks JoJonas.

I haven't been checking there for quite some time - nor here, for that matter - since we've been shuffling houses around. But I'm delighted to find Filmwasters.com in full sail! Now that the dust has settled - mostly - I should be able to get back to wasting lots of film!

IR

Aki · « **Reply #29 on:** June 02, 2012, 01:26:06 AM »

There are a couple of buildings going up in my neighborhood, and I was trying to do time-lapse photos of the construction with my Mamiya C330.

Problem is, I've been a little lazy and the last ones I took was a couple of months ago, so I'd better take a few shots before they finish building....

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #30 on:** June 03, 2012, 12:47:43 AM »

So far just chasing little baseball players around with my camera and some Tri-X. Good clean fun

mickld · « **Reply #31 on:** June 07, 2012, 02:32:44 PM »

@Ordinal @jojonas I discovered over the weekend that a recent update to Vuescan actually addressed my main issue! The auto-cropping feature (where it identifies and crops out each image on the 4 strips of negatives) now works for me. In the past it semi-worked, but if I manually tweaked its best guess, then things would go crazy and start auto cropping in random areas which made the promise of batch scanning a nightmare. Works like a charm now.

I also discovered that setting the colour balance to TMAX400 (forget the exact feature name - I'm not at my laptop at the moment) made a big difference. It's gives me a much more accurate tonal representation than using the 'GENERIC' profile in the past.

I also played with adjusting the high of the film holder to find my scanner's optimum focal point.

So I've not exactly mastered scanning, but I'm much more comfortable with it now.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #32 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:51:05 PM »

mickld, that sounds great! yay for progress

ok, new weekend coming on! what's up?
me.. I'm going to give this bad boy some action

(traded from urban hafner)

testing it out with some good old kentmere 100 now. might pop a roll of colour after that~
hm... to redscale or not to redscale? the shutter feels so smooth that I think I can hand hold it on pretty slow shutter speeds. plus its weight giving confidence in a steady shot!

that and I've hopefully put up >10 cameras on the local auction site.

saving up for that special someone<3

haha

LT · « **Reply #33 on:** June 07, 2012, 04:18:20 PM »

I'll be driving for 750 miles, then taking a 30 mile ferry trip with a 5x4 camera, 100 sheets of HP5+ and 2 parents. I'll then be in photo Valhalla for 7 days, after which I get to drive home again.

It's further than bloody Copenhagen from here!

L.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #34 on:** June 07, 2012, 05:08:50 PM »

Leon, whatever you do, don't use a SatNav or the trip may be lengthened by hundreds of miles and you may well end up in Copenhagen!

astrobeck · « **Reply #35 on:** June 07, 2012, 05:18:48 PM »

I'm going to get my postcards ready this weekend. My husband helped pick out the "one" I'll use last night so I'm happy to be moving closer to sending them out.

My other weekend project is to find the owner of an old lot of vintage cars that sits on the side of Route 66 so I can "trespass" and get some closeup photos of his collection.

Andrea. · « **Reply #36 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:11:06 PM »

Hopefully, I am going to continue to enjoy the warm sunshine we are having :-) by snapping at will around the village with whichever camera comes to hand !

sapata · « **Reply #37 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:30:41 PM »

Quote from: jojonas~ on June 07, 2012, 03:51:05 PM

mickld, that sounds great! yay for progress

ok, new weekend coming on! what's up?
me.. I'm going to give this bad boy some action (traded from urban hafner)

testing it out with some good old kentmere 100 now. might pop a roll of colour after that~
hm... to redscale or not to redscale? the shutter feels so smooth that I think I can hand hold it on pretty slow shutter speeds. plus its weight giving confidence in a steady shot!

that and I've hopefully put up >10 cameras on the local auction site. saving up for that special someone<3 haha

That looks pretty cool!

Nick Moys · « **Reply #38 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:14:51 PM »

Don't envy you that journey Leon, just the destination.

Off to London on Saturday (only a 2 hour train ride) for the Film Photography Podcast meet up. Should be fun if last year is anything to go by. Also hoping to catch a bit of cycle racing at the London Nocturne before I head back to the country. Nick.

DS · « **Reply #39 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:25:10 PM »

Quote from: Leon on June 07, 2012, 04:18:20 PM

I'll be driving for 750 miles, then taking a 30 mile ferry trip with a 5x4 camera, 100 sheets of HP5+ and 2 parents. I'll then be in photo Valhalla for 7 days, after which I get to drive home again.

It's further than bloody Copenhagen from here!

L.

Ah, but you'll be there during the Simmer Dim- your journey will be totally worth it. Will you make it to Unst? I'm planning to run away to Unst.

charles binns · « **Reply #40 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:28:31 PM »

On Saturday, I shall be rewashing some negatives processed in Rollei Digibase C41 kit that came out covered in white sediment (I shall stick to Tetenal kits from now on) - other than that probably wading through the backlog of scanned images & doing abit of Photoshopping. Then on Sunday I shall be riding in an Audax with my Vivitar UWS in my back pocket. 100 miles in the pouring rain (if the BBC weather forecast is to be believed). Can't wait!

Late Developer · « **Reply #41 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:37:40 PM »

On Saturday (09/06) I'll be taking a few rolls of 120 film to be processed. On 16/06, they should be ready and, hopefully, one of them will be the postcard entry. However, by way of an "insurance policy", I'll shoot something on 35mm this weekend that should, almost certainly, produce something worthwhile. Not 100% sure yet - but I have a couple of ideas.

I envy Leon both the journey and the destination. Getting to travel the entire length of Scotland is a joy. I haven't been to Orkney (yet) but what I've seen in photos looks beautiful.

I'm actually trying to convince Lara that we should head for Lewis and Harris when the Olympics are on (we have those weeks booked off as we have zero intention of commuting through Stratford twice a day, every day when that lot is in full swing). There's always Clacton, though......

Scott McClarin · « **Reply #42 on:** June 09, 2012, 09:37:38 PM »

Framing out a Traditional Darkroom in my basement so my Beseler 4x5 MCRX can sing the tones on tale as it were. planning out the lighting and ventilation, a cool looking but expensive Hood Vent or just some cheap inline wall vents? lots of decisions and time to make something special to grow old in. By the way, the Door had to be Taken apart and built in place standing vertical, it was a construction Hat Trick but well worth it. It required drilling out the rivets and re riveting it in place. Fun stuff!

Francois · « **Reply #43 on:** June 09, 2012, 10:55:58 PM »

Nice (expensive) door you have there. For the ventilation, I'm a big fan of well installed bathroom vents. If you want a hood over the trays, why not simply mount a regular bathroom exhaust in a wood and plexiglass hood (DIY). You could build it so it comes down lower than your nose so all those smells are out before you even know it?

Author Topic: So, what film-oriented thing are you doing this weekend....? (Read 7838 times)

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