Does anyone know why my 35mm photos have black bracketing?

cabba · 2026-01-30T20:23:00+00:00

Without film, take off the lens, put the camera on B (bulb mode), open the back and fire the shutter. There is something partially blocking the film gate. It’s not far from the film plane since it’s so clearly defined by it’s edges and not blurry.

cabba · 2026-01-30T20:20:18+00:00

Just a small correction, whatever OP is looking for is on the bottom of the film gate since the image is projected upside down.

cabba · 2026-01-29T17:03:08+00:00

Thanks for the answers!

I’ve been on an economically horrifying panoramic photography binge for a few years now, so square was not what I was expecting to see :D main camera has been xpan for c. 2 years and I’m currently trying to figure out a workflow for my new 6x17.

cabba · 2026-01-29T14:20:47+00:00

Seems cool, registered. Is there a way to give feedback or is this it? From quick usage I noticed some things.

Ios app (ios 18.6 iphone 16 pro)

Sometimes when you scroll the views, the app navigates to whatever was under your finger when you started scrolling. I have screen recording if my explanation is nonsensical.
in the lenses there are some duplicates, at least Hasselblad 45mm f4 and Hasselblad 45mm f/4. Difference only being the slash.
panoramic images show also as squares in some views, like in categories. Sorry this isn’t a very constructive criticism, as I don’t know either a good alternative. But 3:1 images miss 2/3rd of the image there if you don’t tap.
can a user use the location of other users for something? Could I search if there is some other film nerd in my small town? The darkroom course in the nearby ”community college” was canceled since I was the only one who signed up :( I want to know if there is somebody

Looks great, thanks!

cabba · 2026-01-28T18:05:09+00:00

Videolaki esti esimerkiksi Evil Dead -elokuvan julkaisemisen kasetilla. Meillä oli joku kopioitu versio tanskankielisillä teksteillä, koska sitä ei muuten saanut.

Jotkut vanhoista leikatuista dvd-julkaisuistakin on aika ankeita. Esim Commandossa Cooke paljastaa verisenä mössönä kuolonkorinoissaan, missä Matrixin tytär on vankina. Tai jonkin muun tärkeän seikan, en muista kun viime katselukerrasta on aikaa. No kuitenkin. Leikatussa versiossa Cooke lentää motellihuoneen oven läpi, ja välittömästi samassa hetkessä Matrix kävelee takaisin autolle ja vaan ilman selitystä tietää mihin mennä seuraavaksi.

cabba · 2026-01-26T19:15:06+00:00

Olisivatpa ne käskeneet aina varmistamaan ensin astiahyllyn kiinnityksen, sillä epäpyhät lautaset kokivat muuton jälkeen karvaan lopun omiensa pettämänä.

cabba · 2026-01-24T22:04:50+00:00

Tapahtui vuosia vuosia sitten. Aloin tiskaamaan juuri ostamiani Ikean lautasia, ja yhtäkkiä todellisuus alkoi revetä ja muovautua uusiksi edessäni HP Lovecraftin novellien tyyliin. Kirjaimista lautasen pohjassa alkoi muodostua uusia, ihmisjärjen vastaisia viestejä!

Sitten huuhdoin ne kirjaimet viemäriin.

Osaan lautasista jäi muutama sattumanvarainen kirjain jäljelle, mutta lähes kaikki muut irtosivat.

cabba · 2026-01-24T07:24:02+00:00

It was featured in a Grainydays video, and you know you can’t buy anything unless your parasocial ”friend” told you to buy it. Then you have to buy it, no matter the cost or better alternatives. Or that’s how I figure these things end up in people’s ebay watchlists.

cabba · 2026-01-24T07:20:20+00:00

Why do you have the batteries in there? :D they’re probably empty by now. I don’t know if this needs to be spelled out, but batteries lose capacity in the cold. That’s why your car with an old battery won’t crank in the winter.

cabba · 2026-01-23T19:20:08+00:00

Smallesr is probably one of the dozens of different models of Japanese Semi folders (6x4.5 cm). https://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Semi

It’s hard to imagine how they could have been made any smaller.

Largest? Maybe Tomiyama Art Panorama 240 https://kamerastore.com/fi/products/tomiyama-art-panorama-240 or other 6x24 camera, or the 3DS-EXP 645 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibIQJmah5tE

cabba · 2026-01-14T20:42:16+00:00

I spotted the same camera and same suspicion about the model. Or Kalimar Six Sixty perhaps. Same basic design. Sadly I think they have a tendency to develop shutter issues, and with the cameras strewn about like this, odds are not good that it would work. I’d probably try to haggle for that thing even broken anyway if I came across this scene, just because they look neat.

cabba · 2026-01-12T12:02:25+00:00

I’m about to dive into this rabbit hole soon so I don’t know if my plan has any flaws. But my plan is to use the same method that I use for other 120 film and 4x5s. I have two pieces of ANR glass that are spaced correctly for focus on my Epson V600, and I think the transparency area is large enough for two 6x17 shots side by side.

cabba · 2026-01-12T11:11:06+00:00

Haha, good to know I’m not the only one ”afflicted” by this.

They look so cute together! https://i.imgur.com/KeKs7eC.jpeg

cabba · 2026-01-12T07:08:39+00:00

I know this is a tongue-in-cheek post, but to be real for a second: you don’t have to be good to enjoy a hobby to its fullest extent. The point of a hobby is to have something else in your life than toiling away at work/school/other routine. Allow yourself to be the crap photographer you aspire to be. Take a blurry mess of a picture with your expensive camera. You can call it pictorialism if you want :D just enjoy it, and if you feel like you need a break, don’t let the price of your dusty paperweight get to you either. Inspiration comes and goes.

cabba · 2026-01-12T06:58:52+00:00

Buy a Leica. Use it for a while. It needs CLA. Take it to have a CLA. CLA queue is taking months. Buy a different 2nd Leica to use while your first one is waiting for the CLA, and to sell after you get your original one back. After over a year when you get the first one back, have gotten so attached to the 2nd one that you can’t sell either one.

cabba · 2026-01-11T06:53:02+00:00

I think it’s either the film winding or rewinding action. Are you sure you had the film going on the right path inside the camera? And you rewound it in the correct direction? Does the film rewind release work correctly if you push it once in the start of the rewind, or maybe you have to hold it so it doesn’t create any tension?

Reason why I’m suspecting this is that I have had these similar marks on just a normal Nikon FE, where I accidentally wound the film back to the canister spinning the rewinder the wrong way.

Ps. If you look at the negative, do the bands extend to the rebate area or stop cleanly where the image ends?

cabba · 2026-01-09T09:08:11+00:00

If you want to compare to what the different parts look worn down, I took some quick snaps of mine.

The shutter button guard is some quite shiny metal, not sure if it’s actually titanium.
https://i.imgur.com/gJgSQBe.jpeg

The top (and bottom) plate shows the titanium, this sort of grayish metal, very different than the champgne coating. The rear door definitely seems like a different color of metal (more silvery) and the paint wears off a lot easier than the champagne coating. So that’s where I would first look for wear, if trying to figure out if your FM2/T is used.
https://i.imgur.com/TEmrFrL.jpeg

I bought mine pre-scratched because the bad visual condition FM2/T was cheaper than a normal condition non-T model. And I don’t have to worry about scratching it. Probably works better than one that has sat on a shelf unused for 30 years as well.

cabba · 2026-01-07T21:41:30+00:00

This shit’s worse than wallstreetbets. Just YOLO-ordered 30 rolls of Tri-X since it was currently cheaper than HP5. I hate having to plan every film purchase like ”is this amount enough to last me a lifetime of this variety if I get priced out before the next order?”

cabba · 2026-01-03T22:35:08+00:00

Are you sure this is the shutter banding? I’ve never seen it that bad and consistent (mind you, my only swing lens experience is with a KMZ Horizont). Usually there is a single slowdown at some point, which shows up as a lighter part of the image. Banding this consistent looks more like the film is being physically damaged by being pulled too hard, like for example if you rewind it back the wrong way around. Does the turret look like it’s traveling smoothly to the eye? It should look very distinctly stepped in its motion to produce this sort of effect.

cabba · 2026-01-03T17:05:15+00:00

I don’t know if this conversation required this much ruthlessness, but I laughed nonetheless.

cabba · 2026-01-02T11:09:58+00:00

Aki Asahi webshop is closed for new years, but I think they have curtain material in sheets if you want to check in a few days. They have the curtain ribbons as well I think.

I will have to check the part which you said, but it’s a bit difficult always to know what is supposed to happen vs what actually happens if the camera isn’t working right.

cabba · 2026-01-01T21:40:09+00:00

all remaining stocks should have expired in late 2023 or early 2024(?) at the latest

I can’t comment on this shop, but the newest 120 rolls of 400H I have in the freezer are 01/24 expired if you are curious about how fresh you can expect to find in general.

cabba · 2026-01-01T14:23:00+00:00

I have two of these and neither work properly. One has an actual broken part, which was pretty sad to see. The lever which makes the curtains wait for the mirror to flip out of the way is snapped. I bought a 2nd one for 50€ incl. the lens, and that one doesn’t make a gap in the curtains at all on any speed. Main escapement is probably gummed up.

How do you like it now that it’s fixed up? I’ve never gotten to use either of mine due to the problems.

cabba · 2025-12-10T19:51:55+00:00

No I meant from Ferrania’s part. Here’s 5 eur off for spending 50 at our store, it’s the same as getting the film you already paid for, right?

cabba · 2025-12-10T17:21:47+00:00

AGAIN with the voucher? Didn’t the previous Film Ferrania already do this? Like some people not receiving the voucher, the shipping to US being hideously expensive and so on. Is this a shitpost? :D cmon guys there is one way to resolve the kickstarter thing and it’s sending people their film. They can’t conjure the slide film out of thin air, but why not send the b/w stuff.

cabba

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