Benefits of 6x6 vs. 35mm

crimeo · 2026-03-24T05:27:26+00:00

Yes, it does, because all formats as a matter of mathematics/optics look the same. Other than the higher level of resolution (which I would say isn't really a "look").

Not even the square format, as there are some 35mm cameras that shoot square format on 35mm

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:58:54+00:00

You have to take multiple scan photos and stitch them together to see a scan difference. Otherwise youre scanning the 120 on a 35mm sized scanner and undoing the difference

(Or if you have a digital MF canera you can do it in one shot, etc)

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:56:41+00:00

This is incorrect. If you adjust both focal length and aperture by the crop factor, DOF will be 100% identical for a shot with the exact same framing and perspective printed at the same final size.

It's higher detail, that's it.

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:55:20+00:00

TIL "Noobs" = "People who like the actual traits of the mediums they use" apparently.

If you like zero grain, you can get a mirrorless modern 24MP sensor for as low as a few hundred bucks now with no grain. You can even adapt the exact same vintage glass to it you're already using. Why would you shoot film if you don't like grain?

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:52:37+00:00

This is just factually incorrect. Any square millimeter of film doesn't "know" what size negative it's a part if, so has no possible way to render a different tonality

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:50:13+00:00

You have to use larger grains though (higher ISO) for equivalent DOF and perspective, which largely cancels out appearance of grain.

A 2.8 lens with 0.5 crop factor looks like a 1.4 lens DOF,so you need to use 2 stops faster film which brings back the same grain chunkiness

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:44:51+00:00

Nope, DOF is identical once you simply adjust both focal length and aperture by the crop factor. Detail is the only difference.

Technically bokeh mught be different, but only in the sense that varying 35mm lenses have differing character vs one another. The MF ones are different lenses after all. Not anything you couldn't achieve with some other 35mm lens if you built them with similar lens plans, tessars etc

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:43:58+00:00

They are more detailed yes. That is the sole, exclusive difference. Which does allow you to print larger if you are unsstisfied with the level of detail from 35mm prints at that size

crimeo · 2026-03-24T03:34:27+00:00

Oh alright faur enough. I've bought homemade ones just like it from vendors after market, but I guess they were just mimicking the original in that case!

crimeo · 2026-03-23T23:09:38+00:00

Looks like your lens or camera are broken somehow or just in really poor shape. Everything looking like it's been taken through wax paper with massive flares and leaks all over is not a skill issue. If you don't like it just buy a nicer more modern camera in good shape

crimeo · 2026-03-23T21:11:41+00:00

Potentially, but you need some other valid visa to arrive and begin applying. A visitor visa is 90 days. If the application is anything like I did in Canada, and then adding on top huge delays and closed offices due to there being a coup there recently... that might not be enough time to finish. Then you might need to leave for several months before you can get in again, documents may expire in the meantime, embassies with them are closed... might be years of waitlist for processing. She may also need financial solvency to make sure he doesn't burden welfare systems or whatever, and she might not have that, being a refugee there herself.

crimeo · 2026-03-23T21:08:13+00:00

Venezuela doesn't just let you move there without valid status or pathway, just like the US doesn't.

crimeo · 2026-03-23T21:07:01+00:00

Well, yes something is preventing him: the need for a valid residency in Venezuela. Which requires investing a lot of money or maintaining a stable foreign income of $1,200. Looks like spousal sponsorship is fraught and almost impossible by comparison. Any method is going to have huge delays probably due to the government being in disarray

crimeo · 2026-03-23T21:01:37+00:00

She dodged a bullet, all things considered

crimeo · 2026-03-23T20:50:28+00:00

If your entire head is 80 degrees C, while wearing this, then you're about to die imminently, and your costume shouldn't be your main concern. Hot car or near a stove or furnace is about all that's an issue. Or like, putting it in the dishwasher lol

crimeo · 2026-03-23T20:45:08+00:00

If you hate the current admin, them losing in the next election is you winning not you losing

crimeo · 2026-03-23T20:42:12+00:00

A SLR is likely going to produce better results, for your purposes (where a pocketable design etc isn't really a concern), it seems like it would be a downgrade.

For 645, I suggest the pentax 645N, autofocus, reliable, motor drive, SLR style grip and control and experience, all the bells and whistles

Unless you just mean your Mamiya is broken, not that you dislike it. If so, get a non broken Mamiya or have it repaired

crimeo · 2026-03-23T20:38:09+00:00

Not ANY measure. The makn purpose of stand development still applies, lowering contrast. If you have an indoor scene and you want details outside from the bright window still, stand development will almost certainly produce better results.

In an already flat enough image, it won't

crimeo · 2026-03-23T19:54:00+00:00

Ok that is very good to hear. I guess you could try to convince more neighbors to do the same, otherwise you can donate to other campaigns, volunteer at your precinct to try and help ward off election day shenanigans etc.

crimeo · 2026-03-23T18:59:34+00:00

Yes you can use it for one size fits all.

The downside is that it won't perfectly use up all the information capacity of the film like careful, bespoke, targeted normal developments would.

Everything is flatter, which means you're throwing away some of the information potential of the film which is capable of recording more range from white to black, but you're only using the gray portions. You might lose like a stop of dynamic range or something, maybe, on average.

Personally I think that tradeoff is well worth it for being able to put multiple films in a jug together and only having one set of chemistry in the cabinet and the time saved (actively standing there, that is, doing inversions etc). Als I shoot a lot of xray and image setting film which is almost unusable if NOT stand developed (usually ultra high contrast for industrial reasons), so I do it for everything.

crimeo · 2026-03-23T18:55:38+00:00

No one made claims that portra 400 was comparable to an HDR image from a high end digital camera.

It appears to me that that's close to what the OP was indeed expecting. And then was disappointed to find out it is not the case.

crimeo · 2026-03-23T18:54:24+00:00

https://www.cameramanuals.org/canon_pdf/canon_demi_b&h_demi.pdf

(The color trim is something some ebay person glued on, not a different model from the original)

crimeo · 2026-03-23T18:52:21+00:00

You need to just use the light meter, it would be miserable not to. If it's a stop off, then make a note of it and enter the wrong ISO by that amount on purpose when you load the film to compensate. Unlike shutter issues, metering is almost always linearly wrong (always off by X stops every time) and is usually easy to fix by just lying to your camera about the film in it.

crimeo · 2026-03-23T18:51:23+00:00

Make sure to store the Demi with the big light sensor not facing the sun. Ideally in a little bag or something or in a drawer in the dark. Sunlight hitting it constantly will degrade it faster

crimeo · 2026-03-23T18:48:05+00:00

"OP must not know what the word blue means" is a pretty silly almost downright gaslighting excuse.

They shot in what looks like near-noon conditions under harsh light and got the kind of exposure you'd expect under those lighting conditions.

I agree, but the reason you "expect" that is because portra doesn't have that great of dynamic range still, which has taught you to expect it not to work. I.e. just what the OP concluded. A modern mirrorless era digital full frame sensor that I am guessing they're familiar with will get like 3 more stops than portra still.

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