I think I have lurked here for a while but not been active so thought I had better put my head above the parapet.
By the way if you are not sure where Keighley, pronounced Keethly NOT Keely is then check out the following films: Testament of Youth, Yanks and the Railway Children. There are dozens of other films and TV shows where Keighley Station and the Keighley and Worth Railway is used. Note: Worth is the valley up to Howarth, which is Bronte country.
So if you now add us to the tourist trail there is a small photographic shop selling real film. There is also a budget shop called Poundland, where everything was £1 (inflation is making a few changes) however they are still selling Agfa 200asa 24 shot film at £1 a go and currently Keighley Poundland has plenty in stock.
As for cameras: well 35mm, 120 and 620 have all been tried in the past 12 months. Bit of a collector of odds and sods and a Lomo type fan. Occasionally I do my own monochrome processing.
When it comes to prints though I am definitely grateful for the invention of the scanner and ink jet printer. An epson V300 is aenough for my needs. While it only scans 35mm film it manages a strip of six in one go. So 120 film can be scanned in two passes and Photoshop Elements 7 panaoramic feature does an excellent job of mating up the parts.
My trusty Olympus mu2 tends to still get a lot of use. Automatic and fits nicely in the pocket. But going manual means a 35mm Rollie LED (although LED has been dead for years - a Johnson calculator does nicely)), that also fits in the pocket. My Rollies 2 and 5 do nice 120s. The 620 are an old box and folder and the less said about their picture quality the better.
Well off to post four Agfa slide fils off for processing. First transparency film I have used for years so results awaited with interest.
By the way if you are not sure where Keighley, pronounced Keethly NOT Keely is then check out the following films: Testament of Youth, Yanks and the Railway Children. There are dozens of other films and TV shows where Keighley Station and the Keighley and Worth Railway is used. Note: Worth is the valley up to Howarth, which is Bronte country.
So if you now add us to the tourist trail there is a small photographic shop selling real film. There is also a budget shop called Poundland, where everything was £1 (inflation is making a few changes) however they are still selling Agfa 200asa 24 shot film at £1 a go and currently Keighley Poundland has plenty in stock.
As for cameras: well 35mm, 120 and 620 have all been tried in the past 12 months. Bit of a collector of odds and sods and a Lomo type fan. Occasionally I do my own monochrome processing.
When it comes to prints though I am definitely grateful for the invention of the scanner and ink jet printer. An epson V300 is aenough for my needs. While it only scans 35mm film it manages a strip of six in one go. So 120 film can be scanned in two passes and Photoshop Elements 7 panaoramic feature does an excellent job of mating up the parts.
My trusty Olympus mu2 tends to still get a lot of use. Automatic and fits nicely in the pocket. But going manual means a 35mm Rollie LED (although LED has been dead for years - a Johnson calculator does nicely)), that also fits in the pocket. My Rollies 2 and 5 do nice 120s. The 620 are an old box and folder and the less said about their picture quality the better.
Well off to post four Agfa slide fils off for processing. First transparency film I have used for years so results awaited with interest.
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