Hi Dmitri, first of all thanks for your blog! I’ve decided to get back into film photography after trying it a few years ago and I’ve found your guides and articles incredibly informative and helpful in brushing up on my rusty photography knowledge.
Regarding this post, I love the muted look of the “pulled” photos here, and especially the next-to-last one — the foliage looks incredibly pale, which is great! Is it mostly due to the filter chosen, or does the “pulling” also contribute to that significantly? I assume that using an ortho film would create a much less pronounced effect, is that right?
The last 13 #website updates were focused on content and messaging around GOLD memberships. I’ve also added links to contact me in more places so it’s easier to get help in case something isn’t working.
Meanwhile, many small changes to numerous articles are being pushed this week. Some of them are typo corrections and updated links. But most notable are the new tables of contents blocks.
I’ve seen Google digest my tables of contents and display parts of them in the results. I’ve also noticed that TOC links are getting used by the readers. I’m happy that many of you find them helpful.
I am working on adding more TOCs but the process is manual so it’ll take time to complete.
Thanks for the article, had one delivered yesterday.
You can set the date to 2024.
Just tell the camera it is one minute before midnight on 31st December 2019 and wait until it ticks over past that minute. The 2020s then become available and you can set the correct date.
I’ve got a few film-tested cameras with free shipping to the US and Canada for 20% OFF: filmbase.etsy.com
Konica Recorder — a half-frame, pocketable point-and-shoot camera with a very wide & sharp lens.
Olympus PEN FV with H.Zuiko Auto-S 1:2 lens — the only half-frame SLR ever produced with an incredibly fast lens.
Olympus XA2 RED — a classic tiny full-frame camera in a rare red colour with a matching, working A11 flash.
Mamiya U — a mint-condition camera with a very sharp lens and a very unusual design. This is THE ONLY CAMERA you’ll ever find with the original working shutter button.
Also, there is a 250mm (~375mm equivalent) super-telephoto lens for Olympus PEN and a 150mm (~210mm equivalent).
All of these cameras and lenses were tested extensively with film, they were the subjects of my reviews on Analog.Cafe. Please read the detailed descriptions for each with my notes from the real-world tests.
Hi, I found this camera to be good for both cases. For landscape, I appreciated its wide lens and weatherproofing. For close-ups the brilliant finder was indispensable. If the repairs are possible and reasonable in price, I would attempt. At least you’ll know that if the camera isn’t to your liking after all, it’ll still hold value if you choose to sell it after.
Really enjoyed reading through here as I am planning on shooting my first roll of Phoenix through my FE soon and you got me wondering as im relatively new to the whole processing and developing part. Your samples shot at Iso 100, where they pull-processed or was it standard procedure ? From what I’ve understood is due to how Harman measured Phoenix at 123 ISO, it should do fine at normal procedure, right ?
I’m about to put my “new” (original purchaser) T4 Super D into service. I read an article on this or another website that made a convincing case for using cameras like this for close-ups or close-in scenes, and yet you used it for landscapes with decent results. I would appreciate your thoughts.
Circling back after a few more rolls and experiments. I think I prefer the binder method. Not only does it keep all the pages together and is easy to flip through, but allocating a sheet per roll falls apart in my case with unusual film lengths. I’ve been running a few experiments that yielded rolls of just a few exposures and other rolls that are longer than 36 (which is actually quite common).
Can a film photo be “Made with AI”? Yes, and Instagram is quite good at detecting that.
PetaPixel has recently shared reports of Meta adding “Made with AI” labels automatically to certain photos: petapixel.com/2024/05/28/i…
Which made me wonder, what about film photos? I routinely clean up dust and scratches (analog.cafe/r/how-to-remov…), which may prompt the software to make up significant parts of the image below those scratches.
So I ran a few tests, uploading a few scans I remember to be the gnarliest when it came to the clean-up. No label.
Then, I used generative fill to create a hilarious background fill fail. As expected, this photo was labelled. instagram.com/p/C8sU7skyh2…
What about the same Spot Healing Brush I use to remove scratches, but this time to remove a part of a lamp post and a pipe? Labelled! instagram.com/p/C8sXShmSBS…
I’m neither a Meta fan nor am I into the AI hype. But I’m quite happy that there are finally tools out there that can detect image manipulation this well. Particularly in my tests, where clean-up passed but destructive or significantly altering changes did not.
I’m curious how this will work for collaging (digital and analogue) and double-exposures.
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