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Des Tuck

Des Tuck

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This is my first post, prompted by an email from admin. I'm primarily a film user and the digital stuff doesn't really interest me yet, although I confess when I want to take lots of pictures, I do use a 10 year old LUMIX bridge camera which does a good job. I use both SLR'S and rangefinders. Favorite SLR is still my Voigtlander Bessamatic, but also use Rolleiflex SL 35E, Olympus OM4ti, Yashica FX3 Super 2000 (Zeiss lenses). Rangefinders are Voigtlander VF101, Minox 35 GT-E, Rollei XF35 and Leica Minilux zoom. I'm interested to know what percentage of this group still uses film.
 
My problem with film is where to get it processed. All the convenient labs have disappeared, and waiting for the mail and poor colour or muddy b&w results were all too common.
 
Des Tuck said:
Yashica FX3 Super 2000 (Zeiss lenses)
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me too.

jnsteele said:
My problem with film is where to get it processed. All the convenient labs have disappeared, and waiting for the mail and poor colour or muddy b&w results were all too common.
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I agree. It is really tough. The last time I tried this was like 5 years ago. And the development (slide film) was really bad. So I gave it up. But the main problem for me is time. I often need to share images of the kids really fast for the parenst in law etc. I can not scan those images. So I am since around 2008 only 100% digital.
 
Processing is indeed a challenge. I've been using The Darkroom but it takes at least a week to get them back and sometimes the 'trackable' package is off the radar for longer than that until it gets miraculously delivered. But that's not the lab's fault. The bulk of my photography is done in Japan where I go annually to do karate, and I've found lately that the colors in the scan are a bit weird, possibly because of the heat and humidity there that surely affects the film. But I do enjoy it when everyone laughs at me when I whip out my clunker cameras, and then when I get my film scanned, they all want copies because the resolution and color are so much better than most everyone else's.
 
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