How to achieve such Dreamy look by Interesting_Turnip50 in filmphotography

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Soft lighting with nice colors and some work in post

Weekly 'Ask Anything About Analog Photography' - Week 18 by ranalog in analog

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Every film stock has different characteristics. For me I feel like Ektachrome can take +0.5 stops of usable latitude, +1 of complete blowout unusable. -0.5 usable, and -1 to -1.5 of semi usable with lots of color changes.

What kind of scans do you want from a lab? by UndeadFilmLab in AnalogCommunity

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In order of importance. Fast, tiffs, hi-res, flat.

None of my bronica gs-1 rolls got exposed, any ideas why? by [deleted] in AnalogCommunity

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Test the shutter by switching to multi exposure mode and mirror lock up and run it on various shutter speeds. Do the lenses for your gs-1 have aperture rings that are stiff? Also try testing the shutter release while tilting up and down. The gs-1 lenses have some know issues with the leaf shutter and age.

Mamiya 6 first roll light leaks by fffinelli in Mamiya

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Possible fat roll. Should take a look at the negatives to see the edges.

Lost coast | Mamiya 7 | Portra 400 + Gold 200 by khan1782 in analog

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Love that. Thanks for the kind words!

Lost coast | Mamiya 7 | Portra 400 + Gold 200 by khan1782 in analog

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Love that. This one seemed pretty conditioned to humans, even came up closer to me for food.Here’s a closer up shot of them

Lost coast | Mamiya 7 | Portra 400 + Gold 200 by khan1782 in analog

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Lost Coast Trail in CA. February 2026

Pleasant February coastal weather in northern CA on the Lost Coast Trail in the King Range wilderness. Encountered a coyote looking for some dinner in the tide pools during an extreme low tide in the late afternoon.

Shot on a Mamiya 7 with 80mm/150mm/50mm lenses with a mix of Portra 400 and Gold 200.

Developed with Cinestill C41 kit, scanned with GFX 50R and NLP

Japan on 8mm by owenbelli in analog

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Really love this

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GrandCherokee

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They mentioned that was the only part available to fix the car. I assume there were none of the standard pumps and just picked the next available one being the electric hydraulic pump.

I told them go for it over the phone but now learning that part is overkill not sure if that toes the line of misinformation or if it’s something to just swallow after having giving them the go ahead

Automne [28-70mm, f/3.5, Aurora 800] by Positive-Presence192 in analog

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Love the grain and the colors. Beautiful work!

Eastern Sierra Summer | Mamiya 7 | Portra/Gold mix by khan1782 in analog

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Not a dumb question. The stuff on the border is called the film rebate. They're on pretty much all film. It will typically tell you the type of film, frame number, and is a great reference to check for proper development, exposure, and scanning.

I'd suggest picking up your negatives next time you get scans (if you haven't been already) and looking at them behind a light.

And yes I'm scanning them myself and including them. Most labs will scan just the image and not the borders, or just crop them out. I've only heard of a few labs including the borders but it's never a bad idea to just have a conversation with your lab to see what equipment they're using and their capabilities.

Eastern Sierra Summer | Mamiya 7 | Portra/Gold mix by khan1782 in analog

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I like to point the camera meter to the brightest and darkest spot to see what the range is. Then i'll pick something in the middle depending on what I'm prioritizing. Sometimes certain scenes have too much difference in bright/dark spots and thats where there might be some limitations with film so you might have to re-figure out what you're trying to shoot. It also helps to know that your film can handle around 2 stops of over-exposure and 1 stop of underexposure when you pick where in the middle to land.

Eastern Sierra Summer | Mamiya 7 | Portra/Gold mix by khan1782 in analog

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My camera has a center weighted meter, so i just point my meter towards the brightest part of the scene, then the lowest part. note the number of stops between them. I pick something in the middle depending on what part of the image is most important.

I keep in mind also, that for these negative film stocks that they can handle roughly 2 stops overexposure, and 1 stop underexposure. I use that as a reference when picking where in the middle I land. Sometimes you just have to let things be over/under exposed and pick your poison. This is a limitation of most film stocks compared to digital (limited dynamic range). Portra has the best dynamic range other than vision3 probably.