There’s a lot you can do to clean up even the worst examples of scratches on film.
I’ve recently fixed an image that came out appallingly bad. I needed it for my review article (analog.cafe/r/peak-design-…) and couldn’t re-shoot it in time.
Cleaning this frame up was a gruelling process, but I wanted to document it on video to give some context for what the process may be like for whoever is about to attempt something similar.
There’s a ton of choice out there. Mju II is a versatile camera that can shoot anything with a DX code.
If you prefer to use the built-in flash as little as possible and have the least motion and lens blur in your photos, an ISO 800 film will work well. I really enjoyed Portra 800 (analog.cafe/r/kodak-portra…) although it is on a pricey side.
This was a perfect and uncanny timing because I just purchased this camera for myself for a trip to San Diego. I have not received it yet but I can’t wait to start to use it.
Do you have any recommendations for 35mm film I could use out in California or for daylight and night?
Hi Dmitiri, many thanks for your review. Your comments on the dynamic range are very interesting because I think I found the exactly the same while doing film testing with a densitometer.
I wanted to find the base ISO (Zone I) and development time for a Zone VIII exposure of Delta 400 in Adox XT3 (similar to Kodak XTOL). I used replenished stock (i.e. not 1:1 / one-shot).
Using my setup and development practices, and contrary to ‘popular belief’, I found a base ISO of 320. So, at least in my case, XT3 is not…
Yeah I feel that way sometimes about Lomo films too, particularly the effect ones, like Purple. I’m usually happier when I approach the shoot as an experiment with an eye for the palette I know the film can give, kind of like shooting black and white.
They’ve actually just released a new colour film. Do you think you’ll try it?
Dmitri: I don’t know if you already talked about this, but here is my comment. Every time I’m shooting a lomography film the results are far from what I expected. I don’t know if it is because I’m not doing it right or if there is something wrong with this brand.
Here’s a step-by-step of how I got to the image that I felt was good enough to headline the review:
1) First photo, where the lens is in focus (you can see the serial number clearly), but the body is out of focus due to the narrow depth of field.
2) Second photo I took of this camera with the body in focus (notice the light meter bubbly texture above the lens — it’s in focus, whereas the lens is out of focus/writing is blurry).
This photo of the Kowa E camera I reviewed recently is my first attempt at focus stacking with Photoshop.
The process is very simple if you have the app. There are just two steps:
1) Edit > Auto-Align Layers
2) Edit > Auto-Blend Layers
Focus stacking is a technique of combining multiple images of the same thing taken at various focus settings. This is useful for photos of objects taken up close with large apertures as those factors combined create a very narrow depth of field (more about it here…
Both are tiny full-frame zone-focus foldable point-and-shoots that cost less than they are worth. I’ve had them for many years, and the articles had to have a bit of a refresh in terms of sample photos and some spelling issues (Balda is hard to spell).
I don’t, but I’m certainly planning to in the near future. I’m hoping it’ll help me refine what I wrote here and maybe come up with a more systematic colour correction step.
Here’s another YouTube video. This time, it’s a promo for ONDU Ekian large format camera: youtube.com/watch?v=Y3xKfd…
I’ve seen a lot of Kickstarter videos for many photography-related products. Naturally, larger businesses can afford better footage, but the producers and Elvis Halilović, the founder, seem to have outdone most — if not all. He literally takes a flight at the end of the video.
All to promote a (beautiful) camera. Kinda badass.
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