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< on 11/5/2007 7:28 PM >
|  | | | I normally shoot with a Canon 300D but a friend had recently convinced me to purchase a film body and experiment a bit. I got a hold of a Canon Elan 7E and purchased some Fujifilm 200 speed film and headed south west with a friend.
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I'm still on the fence if I like the look of it all or not, I still have 3 rolls on the shelf ready to be developed.
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msgsudz
 
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
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| |  | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 1 on 11/5/2007 8:52 PM >
| | | | i like 2, 3 and 4.
3 looks like a cool location to check out...is it an old diner?
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suicidepactphoto
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| |  | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 2 on 11/5/2007 9:49 PM >
| | | | Very nice first roll. The colors are great.
It was nice to meet you.
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JuiceBox889
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| |  | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 3 on 11/5/2007 10:52 PM >
| | | | I like number 4. The first one seems a bit muddy, and the rest after 4 are a bit dark.
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| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 4 on 11/5/2007 11:54 PM >
| | | | Posted by msgsudz
i like 2, 3 and 4.
3 looks like a cool location to check out...is it an old diner?
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It's a sales ticket booth for a closed stadium.
Posted by suicidepactphoto
It was nice to meet you.
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Aye, though it was brief and I don't think we ever actually were formerly introduced to one another! I would have liked to stick around longer but my ride was leaving and so was I.
Posted by JuiceBox889
I like number 4. The first one seems a bit muddy, and the rest after 4 are a bit dark.
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I concur.
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Air
 
Location: Canada
| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 5 on 11/6/2007 12:46 AM >
| | | | Your first shot is far to red. Were all your shots that hue or just that one? If its not the film check your battery, your metering seems off. If you bought an old camera, an old battery might be giving you screwy/inaccurate readings.
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Boffo
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| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 6 on 11/6/2007 1:05 AM >
| | | | Posted by Air 33
Your first shot is far to red. Were all your shots that hue or just that one? If its not the film check your battery, your metering seems off. If you bought an old camera, an old battery might be giving you screwy/inaccurate readings.
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It was just that one shot that's kinda red, the original shadows on all the photos were faded so I adjusted the curves to darken the shadows. That's all I did in post processing. I had to buy batteries when I got the camera so I doubt that's the issue.
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Jeff!
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| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 7 on 11/6/2007 1:14 AM >
| | | | nice exposures
nice colors
you lens gives me a headache tho
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Lord
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| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 8 on 11/6/2007 2:46 AM >
| | | | nice!
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
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| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 9 on 11/6/2007 5:12 AM >
| | | | Do I even need to say I love Detroit??
The last couple shots are too dark, but you are doing a good job for someone who has just started shooting film. I demand to see more.
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seicer
Location: New York
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| | | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 10 on 11/6/2007 5:32 AM >
| | | | I would get an external light meter (mine was $30 on eBay) to get better exposures (some of that you showed were underexposed). But they are great first steps with film! Shoot more!
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 11 on 11/6/2007 2:37 PM >
| | | | Aside from exposure, these seem to be suffering from poor scans. Are these grocery store scans, or flatbeds of prints? Or just not-too-great neg scans? If there's details in the shadows that you pull out in post, try getting that detail in the scan instead, it will give you much cleaner results with the final product.
It's nice that your wide angle is now actually wide (1.6x doesn't seem like much until you go 1x), but be careful with pointing the lens up too much - the converging lines get over-emphasized with wide angle, and a few of these have that falling over backwards look. Try moving the tripod to keep the lens as parallel to the ground as possible, it will work wonders.
Don't worry about getting an external meter, just learn to work with yours - generally, try overexposing by 1 stop with print and slide film, and figure out from there how you tend to meter each scene (are you reading the overall scene, or taking meter readings from dark areas, light areas, both and split the difference, etc). Increase your shutter time with longer exposures too (10 seconds+), you're going to have to deal with reciprocity failure with film.
As for the first pic, that's my favourite of the bunch. Don't worry about the slightly red tone, it's a bit of underexposure, but it's also because there's no white balance with film - bright sunlight that's leaking in from behind boards is going to appear warmer in most cases, especially when everything it's reflecting off of is either yellow or red. It's just the way it is, you're probably just used to your digi 'correcting' it.
My only real advice - shoot a few scenes with both film and digi under different kinds of light, so you can get a sense of what similarities and differences the cameras have. Direct comparison is really the fastest way to learn a new medium, at least if you're really comfortable with anther one already.
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yokes
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| | | | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 12 on 11/6/2007 2:43 PM >
| | | | Does the camera have a spot meter on it? If so, you won't need an hand held. You could also just use your digi as a test shot and then dial in those settings into the film body until you're comfortable with it.
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 13 on 11/6/2007 2:51 PM >
| | | | In days past, when zoom lenses were first invented, old-fashioned folks (the ones I learned from) used to joke that they used a 'shoe leather zoom,' same theory goes here. Even if the Elan doesn't have a spot meter, you can just walk around metering part of the scene up close with centre-weighted metering. It's not like your subject is going anywhere.
And if you use the digi to meter, keep in mind that the digi rebel is about 2/3 of a stop higher than the iso it claims to use (ie: says iso 100, is actually closer to 160), older Nikons are about half a stop off. The newest dslrs are generally pretty dead-on. Just some food for thought.
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Boffo
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| | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 14 on 11/6/2007 5:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by mortimer
Aside from exposure, these seem to be suffering from poor scans. Are these grocery store scans, or flatbeds of prints? Or just not-too-great neg scans? If there's details in the shadows that you pull out in post, try getting that detail in the scan instead, it will give you much cleaner results with the final product.
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Scanned by my friend on a negative scanner, they're pretty awesome scans besides the faded shadows.
And yes the 12-24mm is a bit crazy wide now. But my choices for EF lenses is limited to the 12-24mm and a 50mm f/1.8
Thanks for the good advice everyone. I have lots of playing around to do with this camera, so far I'm still shooting mostly digital everywhere I go.
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| | | Re: First roll of film
<Reply # 15 on 11/6/2007 5:23 PM >
| | | | Nice set! I think 1 is my favorite. the decor reminds me a restaurant my family would take me to in the early 80s
Edit- minus the crumbling ceiling.
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