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< on 3/28/2011 5:46 PM >
|  | | | So, PrivateJoker and I just got a Rebel EOS X, it's a really really nice 35mm camera. I'm really excited to start shooting film.
I was wondering if anyone could point me towards a good beginners guide to shooting film, our camera can change any setting or variable imaginable, so the more in depth the better! I know the basics but want to learn more.
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yokes
 
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| |  |  | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 1 on 3/28/2011 5:52 PM >
| | | | http://www.guidetofilmphotography.com/
They key is to learn your camera. Shooting pictures is pretty much the same as digital, though you'll have more dynamic range to play with.
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yokes
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| | | | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 2 on 3/28/2011 5:53 PM >
| | | | Is there something specific you want to learn?
http://www.uer.ca/...id=1&catid=1000189
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| | | | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 3 on 3/28/2011 9:47 PM >
| | | | It's tedious, but invaluable to write down all your exposure information. It helped me a lot back in the day... these days I don't bother.
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| | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 4 on 3/29/2011 12:16 AM >
| | | | Should this be in UE Tutorials? Looking at the forum guidelines seems it's not meant for asking questions but informative articles.
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| | | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 5 on 3/29/2011 1:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by dsankt
It's tedious, but invaluable to write down all your exposure information. It helped me a lot back in the day... these days I don't bother.
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I used to piss off my photography professor when I said I never saw the need to. I trusted my camera's light meter, bracketed about one stop each way, shot in aperture priority, and kept it under 30". I also didn't see the need to shoot in manual, if I was using my cameras light meter anyways, EV+/- 3 was always sufficient and the EOS-3 has an excellent light meter. It was consistently more accurate than the reflective mode on our photolab's incidence meter (if the reflective mode was 2/3 stop off the incidence reading, the EOS-3 would only be a 1/3 stop off.)
I get where shooting in manual and keeping logs is useful in the studio, where you have full control, but in the field where the natural lighting can completely change mid exposure (clouds) I always found myself wasting more time than was worth it writing down exposure data.
I can look at the DOF and FOV of an image and make a pretty accurate guess at the focal length and aperture used. ISO is easy because the film lists the sensitivity right on it, you could probably guess given the size of grain, if you lost the film and only had scans/prints.
You can apply almost all digital knowledge to film and vice-versa.
http://stopshootingauto.com/
In fact, in the 80's and 90's a lot of pro's were still shooting film but scanning and doing their darkroom editing in computer. We're talking pre-Photoshop here.
The transition to digital cameras on the professional market has only been in the last 10 years of photography, digital backs never really caught on for 35mm, though many of the studios used and still use medium format backs which are being traded in favor medium format dslrs.
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complexity1022
Location: Eatontown, NJ
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| | | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 6 on 5/25/2011 7:30 AM >
| | | | I cant really help you because i dont shoot film very often. I can tell you that i have the same 35mm and i LOVE it, have fun with it!!
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The Anti-Paradigm
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| | | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 7 on 8/20/2011 7:21 AM >
| | | | It is really similar to digital. Except actual ISO is not changeable on a whim. You can use ISO100 film and tell the camera it is 400, which just changes your exposure factors (law of reciprocity) but other that that you just have to make sure you get the shot right the first time. Just shoot it like Digi and you will be ok.
And actually film has Latitude and CCD's and CMOS have Dynamic Range. Digital is a lot more accepting (let it in) of stray light, where as with film it is not always as visible, inless you get into the Base section of the curve.
I learned how to use and develop film mostly in Radiography school,which really is parallel to photography, but we use up to a 14' x 17" piece of film and not 35mm. Some of my coworkers have made photographs using xray film and making a pinhole camera. Cool stuff
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The Anti-Paradigm
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| | | Re: 35mm film advice
<Reply # 8 on 8/20/2011 7:24 AM >
| | | | As i have told many film snob people before, there are many things you can do with film that you cannot with Digital, but the same goes the other way. I have discovered a few techniques that work with a Digital, and not on film.
Digital has outdone the resolution of film, which on the best film is equivalent to around 14-16 megapixels at best. But there is something to be said about it's aesthetic.
Sorry i will stop rambling.
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