Hello!
I've just found this forum after looking for user experiences with Foma 200 roll film.
I am a fairly recent returner to film photography having retired last year. I started taking photos when quite young (10 years old) when my uncle gave me a Kodak box camera. I started developing b&w 35mm when I was in my teens (using equipment at school) and after university I acquired my own basic equipment (basic means loading films and bulk loaders under the bedclothes with the lights out), did some evening classes and eventually acquired a changing bag and a Mamiya C33 to do medium format. After moving to France in 1990 I continued using b&w for mainly family stuff before giving equipment away to friends, using commercial labs and eventually using a cheap digital camera (the first of several) in 2004.
Since retiring I have come back to film through having found a very basic quality slide scanner in a jumble sale and started scanning family slides from the 1960's on and my own negatives (b&w and colour). My wife must take responsibility for pointing me in the direction of a local photography club which is devoted to digital (and, since I am the only one interested in film, this is a very good way of finding equipment at very low cost!) so I still have to concentrate a bit on digital, although post-processing is more inspired by the need to correct poorly scanned film than to do fancy digital stuff. I am not a geek, that side leaves me cold, give me an enlarger any day of the week! I am starting to re-explore medium format with a box camera and a recently acquired pre-war folding camera. I will probably try to recover my C3 from my daughter since she has never actually used it but if not I am very happy with what I've got, I love 6x9 negs!
I live in a house with a large dog, three cats and a rabbit and at present no specific darkroom space. Dust and hairs are my enemy but still ever present! And I am devoted to doing things without spending money!
Equipement: Lumix TZ-82 compact, Pentax Kx with a nice 70mm DA (thanks to Pierre in the photo club for that lens) and a 28-80 Powerzoom (non-working Powerzoom, like all,of them) which also goes on my Cosina CT1G fim camera (over 40 years old, bought new and now with non-functioning meter!), Nikon RF2 compact 35mm (found during a flat clearance and saved from the bin), Kodak Brownie Six-20 Model D and a Lumière Lumirex (1934 model which uses 120, not 620 like apparently most of that model). On the developing side I have a Durst F30 for 35mm which also converts into a copy stand and adapts to become a camera scanner with either the Lumix or the Pentax. I also have a second Durst F30 head with a melted condenser tray and half a lamp housing that I plan to convert to medium format (6x7 is just possible I think) with a Schneider Comparon 105mm lens that I was given a long time ago. For the dishes I still have a Unicolor colour drum which can be used in daylight. (I am hoping to acquire some dishes from someone in the club!). For film loading I still have a changing bag (that is getting on for 40 years old but still going strong).
I've just found this forum after looking for user experiences with Foma 200 roll film.
I am a fairly recent returner to film photography having retired last year. I started taking photos when quite young (10 years old) when my uncle gave me a Kodak box camera. I started developing b&w 35mm when I was in my teens (using equipment at school) and after university I acquired my own basic equipment (basic means loading films and bulk loaders under the bedclothes with the lights out), did some evening classes and eventually acquired a changing bag and a Mamiya C33 to do medium format. After moving to France in 1990 I continued using b&w for mainly family stuff before giving equipment away to friends, using commercial labs and eventually using a cheap digital camera (the first of several) in 2004.
Since retiring I have come back to film through having found a very basic quality slide scanner in a jumble sale and started scanning family slides from the 1960's on and my own negatives (b&w and colour). My wife must take responsibility for pointing me in the direction of a local photography club which is devoted to digital (and, since I am the only one interested in film, this is a very good way of finding equipment at very low cost!) so I still have to concentrate a bit on digital, although post-processing is more inspired by the need to correct poorly scanned film than to do fancy digital stuff. I am not a geek, that side leaves me cold, give me an enlarger any day of the week! I am starting to re-explore medium format with a box camera and a recently acquired pre-war folding camera. I will probably try to recover my C3 from my daughter since she has never actually used it but if not I am very happy with what I've got, I love 6x9 negs!
I live in a house with a large dog, three cats and a rabbit and at present no specific darkroom space. Dust and hairs are my enemy but still ever present! And I am devoted to doing things without spending money!
Equipement: Lumix TZ-82 compact, Pentax Kx with a nice 70mm DA (thanks to Pierre in the photo club for that lens) and a 28-80 Powerzoom (non-working Powerzoom, like all,of them) which also goes on my Cosina CT1G fim camera (over 40 years old, bought new and now with non-functioning meter!), Nikon RF2 compact 35mm (found during a flat clearance and saved from the bin), Kodak Brownie Six-20 Model D and a Lumière Lumirex (1934 model which uses 120, not 620 like apparently most of that model). On the developing side I have a Durst F30 for 35mm which also converts into a copy stand and adapts to become a camera scanner with either the Lumix or the Pentax. I also have a second Durst F30 head with a melted condenser tray and half a lamp housing that I plan to convert to medium format (6x7 is just possible I think) with a Schneider Comparon 105mm lens that I was given a long time ago. For the dishes I still have a Unicolor colour drum which can be used in daylight. (I am hoping to acquire some dishes from someone in the club!). For film loading I still have a changing bag (that is getting on for 40 years old but still going strong).
