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Why don't you share some of your photos. Let us judge the quality of your work.Yes. I don't see any quality or aesthetic in them at all.
I doubt it, I don't say you are not right, but if I look in the groups 120 or Medium format on Flickr, the majority isn't shot on folders or Holgas.
I don't know if you count me to the young ones (I'll turn 30 this year) but I don't even have Instagram. I really enjoy to work with my Mamiya cameras just because the way they work, the feeling. Yes I do like to try different filmstocks, if I get the chance to buy something quite recently expired, I'll buy it. Just for the sake of having it tried out. When I could get Reala, Astia, Plus-X, Agfa APX100 (the real one from Leverkusen) I got really curious.
On the other hand, I also shoot lots of HP5+ and Fuji Pro 400H as my "go to" films.
Anyhow Instagram/Facebook compromise the pictures so much it doesn't matter if you use a Holga or a Pentax 67 II with the newest 105 f/2.4
Now there are two suggestions I could endorse.How about TMX-2 or TMY-3?
Now there are two suggestions I could endorse.
TMX-2 with less toe in XTOL 1+1 and TMY-3 without a rising curve in XTOL 1+1:
TMX 100 can very reliably be used at EI 100.
TMX 100 can very reliably be used at EI 100.
I do not care why you or whoever prefers one item above the other. Your choice of preference. That's legit. But bitching about film stock prices, or camera prices while holding at the same time $1,000 smart phone, is cheeky.
While I unerstand what you mean I think you are exaggerating, especially your other comment about social media. There are always the more extreme ones and the the bulk of reasonable ones. Basically you are complaining that things changed. Like everyone, in every generation does, eventually.
Anyway more to the point. A student on a typical student budget, say not starving but getting along, might well find a way to save up for or even be gifted a nice Rolleicord. A one off is always easier as you can do it whenever you are able to, than ongoing cost that can't be avoided if you want to keep going.
I bought Rolleicord Vb for €400 in late 2019. I think thats possible for many students, who are lucky enough to not just survive. I'd understand if they wanted to save on consumables.
And I would like to see some consumer emulsions in medium format to have another look available. From my experience so far I don't like what I got from Gold and Kodaks 400, but Fuji 100 and 400 would be most welcome in 120. Different saturation, and the 100 has very fine grain. I'd love to have them for large format, too.
And finally, film is a fashion for younger people. And the consumer emulsions are more likely to 'look like film' than a well processed and scanned Portra. Of course Portra will look sufficiently terrible if given it to a drug store chain. The low res scans at Cewe (mega lab), and the prints made from it, are truly Lomo.
PS: Looks like we're living in the same place. At least in our hearts.
I do not care why you or whoever prefers one item above the other. Your choice of preference. That's legit. But bitching about film stock prices, or camera prices while holding at the same time $1,000 smart phone, is cheeky.
I suspect that they knew it was so complicated to process correctly, that they did not trust anyone outside Kodak to be able to process it corectlyI wonder if they developed it so they would have sole ownership of a patented film and process. That way, they'd have complete control over development marketing.
You can very easy seperate them, because they will say 120mmUnfortunately, I know too many people who think sublimely about themselves and their 120 photos.
The snobbery in this here thread is giving me the vapors.
How about TMX-2 or TMY-3?
Now there are two suggestions I could endorse.
TMX-2 with less toe in XTOL 1+1 and TMY-3 without a rising curve in XTOL 1+1:
Both.Are you trying to say these two films have these characteristics in XTOL specifically, or just that you like XTOL?...
Perhaps your subject brightness ranges up there in Quebec's high latitudes are substantially less than those we encounter here in the southwest U.S.....I have not found TMX to very much toe in XTOL 1+1 (or D-76 etc.), and while TMY-2 has a small (practically inconsequential) upward kink in its otherwise very straight curve, it isn’t an XTOL 1+1 phenomenon.
It's been working for drug dealers for many, many years.A low cost introduction to anything can be beneficial.
If it is aimed at me... As an engineer I just can't stand that people don't stick to rules (in ISO732) It is called 120 and has been called like that for 120 years. Why do people suddenly find it not important enough to It might be very clear that a medium format roll film is defenitely not 120mm.The snobbery in this here thread is giving me the vapors.
The snobbery in this here thread is giving me the vapors.
Vapors? It that like Good Vibrations? Have you ever gotten high on the vapors, I do.
If it is aimed at me... As an engineer I just can't stand that people don't stick to rules (in ISO732) It is called 120 and has been called like that for 120 years. Why do people suddenly find it not important enough to It might be very clear that a medium format roll film is defenitely not 120mm.
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Their goal is to make photos. 120, 120mm, A hundred and twenty film, paper film. Doesn't matter to them. It goes into camera and comes out at the lab.
The 120 vs 120mm issue - I agree with you, because 120mm is both wrong and totally confusing.If it is aimed at me... As an engineer I just can't stand that people don't stick to rules (in ISO732) It is called 120 and has been called like that for 120 years. Why do people suddenly find it not important enough to It might be very clear that a medium format roll film is defenitely not 120mm.
I have mixed feelings about Holga and Lomography. There are great things done by some who use them. They have created inroads into communities that would otherwise never have used film. And they also have invoked elements of myth and mysticism that irritate me, particularly when those elements have high prices attached.
Being critical of the myths and those who espouse them isn't the same as being snobbish.
A good photographer is a good photographer, regardless of the camera.
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