Recent content by sednoid

I've had a Scan Dual III and then switched to IV (not a big difference in image quality, but the IV is much faster), overall nearly 6 years of use and I'm very happy with the results. My tray has broken latches so I have to close it together with some strategically placed double sided tape but...

All right, I figured it out and embarrassingly I made up the problem all by myself. Turns out the "full opening" isn't actually that, as the optical element nearest to the aperture has a smaller diameter. So without the glass installed the blades should be visible even at f/1.8, they simply...

I'm having a strange problem with the lens in question. This is specifically the somewhat rare Carl Zeiss Jena Prakticar 50/1.8, not the more common Pentacon Prakticar. I cleaned the oily aperture by full disassembly, cleaning individual parts. Very simple, the mechanism seems well designed and...

The consensus I've seen is that Kodacolor 200 is ColorPlus and 100 is the emulsion they use for Lomo 100, different than Pro Image. This would check out as Lomo 100 was long assumed to be derived from the old Kodacolor line (that ColorPlus evolved from as well) anyway while Pro Image is more...

Probably something lost in translation, wouldn't be the first time with them. I think they meant that the versions differ in their packaging but not the name - as in, when you look for P30 you can only distinguish them that way.

Hold on, they're not reformulating the film now - it already happened a while back, under the old ownership. In this post they're simply telling us how to tell the two versions apart based on the packaging.

I recently picked up an Agfa Selectronic S and it's mostly working (I already shot two rolls with it) but it has a small problem with the electronic shutter. In theory, everything works - the battery test always lights up, the lightmeter is always showing a readout in the viewfinder so those...

I thought the same thing, streamlining the branding a bit could make sense. Ultramax would be more logical as Gold 400 though, as it's evolved from that line of film anyway and it wouldn't leave the Gold 200 as an outlier in the lineup.

And something that Orwo had to outsource all the way to China. In that regard the common ownership could be very beneficial for both the company and the consumers.

Right, it did sound weird to me in the Kodak suggestions and I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be some secret method I wasn't aware of.

I'm preparing to get a new C41 kit and I'd like to make sure about something before I commit to the idea. I've been using the 5L Fuji Hunt C41 kits for 4 years now, with the widely shared method where you mix the whole 5L of developer and split it into absolutely full 1L bottles. This way one...

Last year I found a bottle of ORWO R09 (the East German equivalent) from the 80s among my dad's old photo things. It sat in the attic for over 30 years, under an uninsulated roof which means it got cold in the winter and hot in the summer which I'd expect would be more likely to kill it than...

Maybe it's Red in 120...

In my (limited) experience it behaves almost like a tungsten balanced film, which makes sense as it's supposed to be derived from one. Haven't done it myself yet but I've seen some good results from other people using an 85B warming filter with it for a bit more "normal" colours.

I recently got a Praktica BX20 and discovered that it most likely has some kind of issue with focusing. After a test roll it became apparent that the focus I see in the viewfinder doesn't match with what I get on the results. The actual focus is further away than what the viewfinder shows. I did...