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Greetings APUG.
I have not shot film, for gosh, 10 years. Back then I shot a lot of E6. Since then, my N90s has been in a box while I went on with life. My wife has been a serious digital photographer and I have been helping her out with the technical side (computers, lighting, etc). Being the technical end for my wife's business, I see her scrolling through thousands of thumbnails. My wife loves it, but all I see is so many pictures lost among countless bad exposure, lost focus and badly composed scrap digital files. Obviously some great ones in there too, but who wants to go look for them?
Anyway, I got kind of jealous looking at her pictures and decided I wanted to take some of my own. We have a new baby and what would be a better subject? Being a little scared of a computer crash, there is something about filling an old shoe box with real pictures. So, I found the N90s, put in some batteries, and bought a 5-pack of Portra 160.
What a great time! It took me a full 36 exposures to stop looking at the back of the camera after every shot! It was really exciting to not know what I had! About half way through the second roll, I started to slow down and watch my shutter speed and aperture. It is so easy with digital to just click and change the ISO. With film, you need to pay attention. After I shot the five rolls, I sent them to INDIE film labs. About a week later, got the link to the digital files.
WOW!!! They took my breath away! All of the exposures were dead on. No dark, not blown out. I was amazed at the latitude of the Portra. Sure I had some out of focus or blurred, but all the exposures where dead on. I ordered a bunch of prints and am so happy with the results.
I ordered another 5 rolls of Portra 400. So much fun!
I have not shot film, for gosh, 10 years. Back then I shot a lot of E6. Since then, my N90s has been in a box while I went on with life. My wife has been a serious digital photographer and I have been helping her out with the technical side (computers, lighting, etc). Being the technical end for my wife's business, I see her scrolling through thousands of thumbnails. My wife loves it, but all I see is so many pictures lost among countless bad exposure, lost focus and badly composed scrap digital files. Obviously some great ones in there too, but who wants to go look for them?
Anyway, I got kind of jealous looking at her pictures and decided I wanted to take some of my own. We have a new baby and what would be a better subject? Being a little scared of a computer crash, there is something about filling an old shoe box with real pictures. So, I found the N90s, put in some batteries, and bought a 5-pack of Portra 160.
What a great time! It took me a full 36 exposures to stop looking at the back of the camera after every shot! It was really exciting to not know what I had! About half way through the second roll, I started to slow down and watch my shutter speed and aperture. It is so easy with digital to just click and change the ISO. With film, you need to pay attention. After I shot the five rolls, I sent them to INDIE film labs. About a week later, got the link to the digital files.
WOW!!! They took my breath away! All of the exposures were dead on. No dark, not blown out. I was amazed at the latitude of the Portra. Sure I had some out of focus or blurred, but all the exposures where dead on. I ordered a bunch of prints and am so happy with the results.
I ordered another 5 rolls of Portra 400. So much fun!
