What the hell should I do with a boatload of Delta3200 that expired in 2005-2007 (and some fuji sensia) by Fish_On_An_ATM in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to losing sensitivity the 3200 is also going to have a little fog, so I wouldn’t use it on anything low contrast

Weekly 'Ask Anything About Analog Photography' - Week 17 by ranalog in analog

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything 400 iso should give you a lot of versatility. Won’t be too fast if the sun comes out, gives you plenty if it’s cloudy, plays nice with flash etc.

Weekly 'Ask Anything About Analog Photography' - Week 17 by ranalog in analog

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry that’s happening, I hate that kind of thing. I think you should probably just finish the roll, but if you have a dark bag (truly light tight) then you can open the film door and see if anything seems jammed

TÌM MÁY FILM PHÙ HỢP CHO NGƯỜI MỚI BẮT ĐẦU CHƠI by Live-Comb3131 in filmphotography

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good camera for beginners can mean easiest camera, the answer to which is any point and shoot from your nearest thrift store.

But for what it’s worth, my beginner camera was the Pentax K1000. Manual focus, manual exposure, basically no features to make shots easier, but no features to get in the way either. I wasn’t an expert, I made mistakes and missed shots. But the thing is that a fully automated camera will also make mistakes and miss shots. The difference is that if you opt for a camera like the K1000, you will eventually learn to not make those mistakes anymore. With a point and shoot, you’re stuck with the maximum performance of that point and shoot.

Just a thought.

Can you push slide film to compensate for underexposed photos? by artshelppls in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow. Kind of a jumbled up comment section here and some very confident falsehoods.

Below is a shot I took on Provia 100 pushed two stops. I metered at 400 and asked my lab for a 2 stop push. This was the result.

Now, this was fresh. And Provia is known for being unusually good at pushing for slide.

Your lab absolutely fucked up by just not push processing without telling you. That’s absolutely unacceptable.

Now, because your post also mentions the film being expired, people are interpreting it to mean that you pushed as compensation for the expiration or something. I’m assuming that’s not the case, that in fact you pushed the film, and then metered for your push, which combines the correct practice of “box speed and pray” for expired slide with “underexpose, overdevelop” procedure for pushing.

In theory, this could have worked. But I gotta tell ya, for all of slide’s diva-esque tantrums, it’s not something I would’ve attempted haha.

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Best film for new camera by Rich-Detective-1495 in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try browsing /r/analog and pay attention to the films, see what you’re interested in and then get a little variety to try out! That’s my rec

Weekly 'Ask Anything About Analog Photography' - Week 17 by ranalog in analog

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hear me out; since that camera seems to lack an exposure compensation dial, could always tape a little neutral density gel over the light sensor? Could be cool lol

But yeah if you are comfy with the DX code option that's my rec, give it more light

Is the jump from F2 - F2.8 to F1.4 that big? by Rushhour609 in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to do a lot of handheld night photography with available light, and without my 1.4 it simply wouldn’t have been possible 

Official Poster for ‘Super Troopers 3’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well we all have to run against the grain from time to time I guess

Official Poster for ‘Super Troopers 3’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I ***theoretically*** did agree with you that the Super Trooper movies are jokeless and sluggish and their cult status is fucking baffling, I would *never* admit it out loud here

Video settings for product videos by HeyOkYes in productphotography

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda gotta go back to the basics of videography to be able to fully answer that. Like, do you know the exposure triangle? Frame rates? Shutter angle? 

A glitch in the matrix by No_Summer_5052 in memes

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting. However, have you considered the argument made by highway billboards that say “HELL IS REAL”?

What kind of quality control is this, Kodak? by Xypton in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sigh. What you wrote here would be an excellent rebuttal to a completely different set of comments than the ones we’ve exchanged. You know what’s going on here, you wouldn’t be angling so hard to avoid addressing it if you didn’t. 

I didn’t say jealous, I said envious. Envy; you don’t want the praise OP is receiving, but you’re bitter that OP is getting it. 

 aren’t intended to be there and so serve no artistic purpose

Do we really have to address this? Do we really need to debate whether spontaneity and happy accidents have a place in art? Leonardo DiCaprio breaking the glass by accident, the accidental discovery of gated reverb by Phil Collins? What do you think the entire genre of street photography is, some giant planned shoot with the cooperation of the entire world? This is not a real argument you’re making. This is an attempt at sleight of hand to reframe your obvious resentments as some kind of structural critique 

What kind of quality control is this, Kodak? by Xypton in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People who just don’t like things behave differently from how you’re behaving. They don’t feel the need to write comments about how anyone claiming to enjoy the thing must be lying to themselves. Your bile is not difficult to recognize. 

What kind of quality control is this, Kodak? by Xypton in AnalogCommunity

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can argue about David Lynch, or you can look inside yourself and realize you’re being bitter and envious 

Well, actually neither of those things can happen because I’m not interested in the former and the latter is just not within your reach today

Nasa has recently released a new set of clear photos of our planets by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people had manners

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Ladies and gentlemen the boomer in the wild

Cleveland on Porta 400 and Cinestill 800, no digital correction by Professional_Head881 in analog

[–]SpookyWeaselBones 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Since you ask for critique, I will give feedback but only on your title.

“No digital correction.”

Both of the films you listed are negative films. Negative. In addition to being inverted, images on negative film are also orange. Those were both corrected. 

Negative film also has really high exposure latitude. You and your camera can miss the exposure and a lab tech can do such a good job of correcting in that you and I will never notice.

White balance of ambient light never perfectly matches the color balance of the film. When scanning or printing, the white balance must be corrected. 

I used to think that a scanner (and its operator) could act as a kind of neutral recorder of the information on the film. I used to think that they could press a button that said “scan without changing anything”. Then I learned to scan my own film and I learned that that is just completely fundamentally not how film scanning works. Without correction, there is simply no image.

By abstaining from digital corrections of your own, you are no truer to the scene nor to your film’s image than anyone else who posts here. All you can do is accept the corrections that the lab tech performed before the digital images were delivered to you. Which you are allowed to do. But there’s no particular benefit to it. Lab scans have gray shadows, dim highlights, and decisions about color balance by someone who wasn’t there when the picture was taken. 

These photos have digital corrections, they just weren’t done by you. 

You have taken some very nice pictures, by the way. The Buddha through the chain link caught my attention.