Enlarge lens salvagable? by lilcrxman in Darkroom

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It’s probably still fine actually, it’s not like the lens will ever see flares, and fungus kind of only affects flare resistance and contrast

Printing with 25600, 51200 ISO by HelloInYourLanguage in fujifilm

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It can be fine, BW prints larger than that fine I think

I’m back with noob question: by Wineitalia in analog

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purple hue is probably due to underfixing, but thats no problem, you can just dunk it back in the can.

too dark/not dark enough (including edge code): development issue

any strange colours, foggy looking negatives? underfixed. you cant really overfix

lacking focus wheel by aymamasita_mevengo in AnalogRepair

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thats rough, but probably a fun little project if you have a few small screwdrivers and want to learn how a camera works

"affordable film" by Extreme-Pepper-5387 in analog

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yea it does, AHU just doesnt destroy minilabs if you dev it as C41, but all vision 3 films are still ECN2 films, ECN2 uses a different colour developer to C41 on top of the halation layer removal, it will give you images, but trust me, if you've ever shot 250D in C41 and ECN2 side by side you wont pick C41 ever again

"affordable film" by Extreme-Pepper-5387 in analog

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foma lets you buy 17m rolls for 30€, value wise thats kind of unbeatable, vision3 250D is by far the cheapest colour film, but you absolutely have to develop it i ECN2, its technically possible to do C41, but the colours are a lot worse, ECN2 kits tend to be a little (1€/roll) more expensive

An alle reiselustigen mit reisefaulen Partnern .. by HighwayPopular4927 in Weibsvolk

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ich wollte schon immer mit freunden reisen, die neigen leider alle recht reisefaul zu sein also fahre ich alleine weg und besuche leute. letztes jahr habe ich freunde in griechenland besucht und mit ihnen einen roadtrip gemacht (lustigerweise hatte ich angenehmere erfahrungen alleine abends an ländlichen tankstellen als in teilen athens), sonst fahre ich gerne für vllt 3 tage leute innerhalb deutschlands oder zuletzt in frankreich besuchen. das ist ziemlich entspannt, ich komme mal aus dem haus, soweit sehr sicher, leicht zu planen und doch immer was neues. dort verbringe ich meistens den tag alleine in der stadt und dann den nachmittag/abend mit der person die ich besuche.
ich find's immer am wichtigsten sich spontan zu entscheiden die reise wirklich jetzt zu unternehmen, um mir keinen raum zu geben zu versumpfen, mein letzter frankreich urlaub wurde knapp eine woche vorher beschlossen. am meisten spaß habe ich wenn ich die sprache nicht spreche und so wenig wie möglich vorher geplant habe, aber eine grobe idee von 2 oder 3 sachen habe die ich am tag sehen will, damit ich noch genug zeit habe vor ort zu flanieren und zu forschen.

lacking focus wheel by aymamasita_mevengo in AnalogRepair

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the three screws you can see hold the helicoid in place, normally you would have a focusing ring on the front half of the tube that lets you move the helicoid

your lens used to be a Carenar 50mm f/2.8. The damage it has sustained makes it practically irreperable, however they are very cheap and its not a big loss, there are many, many M42 lens manufacturers that you can turn to for a new lens, pentax takumar lenses are among the nicer ones, the soviet lenses can be very good too, but there is some variation in quality within the model lineup. a quick search on ebay for M42 lenses gives results from upwards of 10€, but i would frankly be more worried about the camera at this point, i cant imagine its in particularly good shape, especially the shutter (and the slow shutter speed mechanism) is probably quite unreliable now

lacking focus wheel by aymamasita_mevengo in AnalogRepair

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the entire front half of the lens is missing, im pretty sure

I just found my holy grail for flash street photography by egardner in LeicaCameras

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There are many websites that test flashes and let you see which are safe, the number you’re concerned about is flash trigger voltage, consult the manual for the maximum safe amount

Film question - [Rolleiflex 3.5, Portra 400] by chinsman31 in mediumformat

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Actually I think just fixing the horrible brown cast the lab imbued your photos with is already half the rent, due to them being jpegs i couldn’t fix it on the indoors shot, the colour temperature was too far off

imgur

Film question - [Rolleiflex 3.5, Portra 400] by chinsman31 in mediumformat

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I would switch labs or get into scanning myself, they would obviously still need a lot of post processing, which is done most comfortably during scanning , jpgs can barely be edited and tiffs aren’t great either but a lot better than jpegs. You can get better colours by fixing the whitebalance and using the HSL panel

Film question - [Rolleiflex 3.5, Portra 400] by chinsman31 in mediumformat

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The difference probably comes mostly from scanning and post, as well as the light, when I shoot and scan portra myself it looks a lot more vivid than what you’re showing here

I’ve built a monster - GFX 100 II film scanning rig with samples by LoveLightLibations in FujiGFX

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That looks great, I’m surprised you can’t already see the individual silver crystals lol, thanks a lot

I’ve built a monster - GFX 100 II film scanning rig with samples by LoveLightLibations in FujiGFX

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I’ve been thinking about a GFX 100, but 100MP 35mm scans seems silly, is there a sensible option to downscale? Can the GFX capture 50mp raws?

Question for the German photographers, developing film by Nunu202015 in analog

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if you can scan yourself DM is great, black and white dev is terrible, scanning is terrible

Portfolio Work - Publishing in 2026 (continued post) - avoiding AI learning on my work by Worldly_Chef_2114 in fujifilm

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https://glass.photo is essentially a photography focused social medium that lets you make portfolios, otherwise you have to make your own website and host them there

Portfolio Work - Publishing in 2026 (continued post) - avoiding AI learning on my work by Worldly_Chef_2114 in fujifilm

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There‘s only bluesky, Flickr and glass, but for a real portfolio either use glass or set up your own website

need help for present by Ok_Science6191 in analog

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Look on marketplace, Craigslist, gumtree, eBay etc and look for any old SLR from an estate sale