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Taking pics and developing film
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:12 pm
by mstangmom
So I have always wanted to try taking pics and developing my own film and thought I might finally give it a try.
Any of you picture buffs out there have any recommendations?
I need everything starting with the camera
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:24 pm
by kantuckyII
I'm kinda curious why you'd want to develop your own film (I'm assuming you're talking B & W as it's very hard to get into color developing) in 2008 with the HUGE strides in digital cameras which have now exceeded (upper models) the quality of 35 mm?
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:39 pm
by mstangmom
Just something I always wanted to try. YEAH BW is what I mainly wanted to try then maybe some color later on if I can get good at it
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:46 pm
by The Instructor
Color is very difficult and expensive to develop.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:47 pm
by kantuckyII
If you look into color, you'll see it's not really practical to develop your own and it's very complicated and expensive.
If you're convinced you're still wanting to do this, you can pick up used 35 mm's for a dime on the dollar, they are everywhere. Any camera shop can sell them to you at crazy low prices now except for the flagship models of the major brands.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:37 pm
by kantuckyII
Hey, here's a website that shows some video on how to develop that looks pretty good. At the bottom the page there are a bunch of them
HERE THEY ARE
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:41 pm
by mstangmom
Thanks for the link Kantucky, still loading the video though. slow speed ya know.
This is just something I always wanted to do and figure I will never know until I try.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:10 pm
by orange-n-brown 365
I can make my pic 's black and white on my computer... with my digital camera
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:26 pm
by mstangmom
Not the same O-N-B just not the same. I wanted to do this before there were digital cameras. and yes to all the young ones there was a way to takes and develop pics before digital.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:43 pm
by noreply66
I did this quite often in the service.It wasn't my equipment but it was rather easy. Spent a lot of my free time on it . If you can get into it you will enjoy it.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:55 pm
by orange-n-brown 365
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:31 pm
by kantuckyII
It's not the same, B & W film has far more latitude than digital does but...many times, most wouldn't notice.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:13 am
by mstangmom
Man the internet is great. I posted on chillicothe freecycle last night that I wanted a 35mm camera, different lens', strap, case whatever. and here this morning I went from having none of the above to having 2 one is a point and shoot and the other is an SLR.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:08 pm
by orange-n-brown 365
mstangmom wrote:Man the internet is great. I posted on chillicothe freecycle last night that I wanted a 35mm camera, different lens', strap, case whatever. and here this morning I went from having none of the above to having 2 one is a point and shoot and the other is an SLR.
isn't freecycle nice? I have given away many things on the Athens freecycle
I started taking my daughters senior pics Tuesday with my new digital I got for Christmas this way we get to keep all the pics and I can take them to Wally's to have them made
My eldest daughters turned out great!
And we spent under $100 for them!
