Hey everyone! I'm new to APUG but a long time lurker. I love photography and everything about it.
I'm a Phoenix, AZ. native that recently relocated to lovely Sonoma County in California. I've always been a photography enthusiast and part time pro photographer. I mostly do landscape and in-studio product type photography, though by trade I'm a professional geek in the tech industry.
As a kid, I exclusively shot 110 film. Those where the days. I still have most of that developed film, though have lost the prints. I'll have to get it digitized at some point. I fully embraced the digital revolution and for a really long time, film went by the wayside for me.
All that changed for me a few years ago. I still shoot digital for paid jobs simply because that type of work expects a fast turnaround time (especially product photography), however, for my personal stuff, I've re-discovered film and am loving it.
I started off shooting B&W with a used Hasselblad 500C/M, and pretty quickly moved to doing my own development at home using purchased chemicals (Kodak D76, 1:1 and Kodak Fixer). This pretty quickly moved to 2 medium format film cameras (6x6 and 6x9), a monorail 4x5 studio camera, a Toyo 4x5 field camera, and a 35mm point and shoot that goes everywhere with me. I additionally have 2 DSLRs, and 3 video cameras.
In addition to shooting B&W Film (which I really love to do), I've also started shooting C-41 using Kodak Ektar 100. At first I used a lab, but after a couple dozen rolls realized that I could do it a lot less expensively if I did it myself. Since I already had most of what I needed from doing my own B&W, I bought a Unicolor C-41 press kit, and the rest of the things I'd need to reliably do C-41 and haven't looked back.
I use Vuescan Pro software and have a dedicated 135 film scanner (Pacific Images PrimeFilmXE, excellent 35mm scanner, most of my shot film is 35mm), a Canon 9000FMkII flatbed scanner that I use as a dedicated medium format/large format scanner (this will soon be replaced with an Epson V850 pro because the 9000FMkII can't actually scan a whole 4x5 frame in one go), and a hybrid copy-stand/lightbox/DSLR/Macro lens setup that I use to quickly digitize a roll of film with. Say what you will about it, for quickly getting 3600x2400px scans of 35mm film, it is more than acceptable quality and lets me then quickly get to looking at the frames and picking which ones I want to scan at a higher resolution with the dedicated scanner.
My current film project is investigating and doing my own DIY C-41 processing from bulk chemicals.
I'm a Phoenix, AZ. native that recently relocated to lovely Sonoma County in California. I've always been a photography enthusiast and part time pro photographer. I mostly do landscape and in-studio product type photography, though by trade I'm a professional geek in the tech industry.
As a kid, I exclusively shot 110 film. Those where the days. I still have most of that developed film, though have lost the prints. I'll have to get it digitized at some point. I fully embraced the digital revolution and for a really long time, film went by the wayside for me.
All that changed for me a few years ago. I still shoot digital for paid jobs simply because that type of work expects a fast turnaround time (especially product photography), however, for my personal stuff, I've re-discovered film and am loving it.
I started off shooting B&W with a used Hasselblad 500C/M, and pretty quickly moved to doing my own development at home using purchased chemicals (Kodak D76, 1:1 and Kodak Fixer). This pretty quickly moved to 2 medium format film cameras (6x6 and 6x9), a monorail 4x5 studio camera, a Toyo 4x5 field camera, and a 35mm point and shoot that goes everywhere with me. I additionally have 2 DSLRs, and 3 video cameras.
In addition to shooting B&W Film (which I really love to do), I've also started shooting C-41 using Kodak Ektar 100. At first I used a lab, but after a couple dozen rolls realized that I could do it a lot less expensively if I did it myself. Since I already had most of what I needed from doing my own B&W, I bought a Unicolor C-41 press kit, and the rest of the things I'd need to reliably do C-41 and haven't looked back.
I use Vuescan Pro software and have a dedicated 135 film scanner (Pacific Images PrimeFilmXE, excellent 35mm scanner, most of my shot film is 35mm), a Canon 9000FMkII flatbed scanner that I use as a dedicated medium format/large format scanner (this will soon be replaced with an Epson V850 pro because the 9000FMkII can't actually scan a whole 4x5 frame in one go), and a hybrid copy-stand/lightbox/DSLR/Macro lens setup that I use to quickly digitize a roll of film with. Say what you will about it, for quickly getting 3600x2400px scans of 35mm film, it is more than acceptable quality and lets me then quickly get to looking at the frames and picking which ones I want to scan at a higher resolution with the dedicated scanner.
My current film project is investigating and doing my own DIY C-41 processing from bulk chemicals.
Welcome!