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New to APUG & to Analog Photography

jaydebruyne

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Hi Everyone,

I'm Jay. I'm new to analog photography. I literally just shot and developed my first roll of film yesterday

I've been shooting digital for about a year and wanted to try film, as digital (even though it's great) just never seemed, well, authentic to me. It was quick and less hands-on.

Anyway, so I bought myself a cheap little Canon EOS 650 from eBay for £25 which also takes the lenses I have for my 5dmkII digital - perfect!

To say I loved the process of shooting film, developing it and scanning & editing it would be an understatement. I fell in love with the look of film instantly. The softness. The grain. The lack of an LCD at the back of the camera. Forgetting what shots you took until you take out the reel of film from the tank and looking at it drying. *gush*

Anyway, just thought I'd come and say hi. I've uploaded some of the shots I took on my first roll. Shot on Ilford FP4 125 on the Canon 650 with a range of lenses (50mm 1.8 / 85mm 1.8 and 100mm 2.8 macro). (I think, I hope, I've managed to attach one of the shots to this post).

Hope to chat to you all sometime.

Cheers
Jay
 

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Hello and a warm welcome Jay!

It's always great to see people getting "hands on" with the film thing.
 
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jaydebruyne

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Thanks so much, Jerevan.

I'm trying to get used to this site, it's quite hard finding answers to questions I have. Anyway, I'll figure it out

Yeah, I can't wait to shoot another roll!

Thanks for the warm welcome

Jay
 

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The search function is pretty good (upper righthand corner) but in case you don't find what you're looking for even then, just feel free to ask around.
 
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jaydebruyne

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Cool. I will give it a bash Thanks for the tip!
 

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Welcome to APUG
 

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jaydebruyne said:
I fell in love with the look of film instantly. The softness. The grain.
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By softness, do you mean resolution, or contrast? Resolution should be comparable to digital. Contrast can be altered easily by different methods with black & white.

Your pic does look a little grainy, did you expose and develop to intentionally get that grain? Different film choice and exposure and development techniques can be used to alter the amount of grain.

You can learn a lot by reading the archives. You can access them at the bottom of each page.
 

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Welcome!

jaydebruyne said:
I'm trying to get used to this site, it's quite hard finding answers to questions I have.
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Well, I got the problem that it repeatedly turned out that the answer to some question of mine was given by an old posting that turned out to be by me too.

So much about amnesia, not only related to some forgotten photograph turning up again in the darkroom.

Or, to put it differently: one can drown in information here at Apug.
 
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Welcome to APUG Jay, looks like you're off to a good start
 

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Welcome to APUG! It's nice to know there are people who started using film for the first time.
 

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Welcome to APUG , Jay . I Think I know what you mean with softnes. Many digital immages are so perfect all over so they give an unnatural feeling. Anyway it is really nice to see a new person become an anlogue silver adict. As Jerevan wrote you can find many answers through the search function, but be ware that it may also make you even more confused sometimes. If you don't find the answers there are many members who are willing to give you one. Just don't expect them to be unanimous. Have fun and enjoy your phorography.

Karl-Gustaf
 

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Welcome from a fellow Brit.
 

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Welcome aboard, Jay. I've been shooting film for probably a hundred years now, and I'm just new to digital. Digital is OK for color, but making B&W images with digital is an abomination, IMHO . But I confess, I do look at the back of my Nikon FM2 after taking a shot from time to time. It's amazing; there's nothing there.
 
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jaydebruyne

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K-G, Christopher Walrath, cliveh,

Thanks so much for your kind words

Hope to catch you around!

Cheers
Jay
 
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jaydebruyne

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mfohl,

I love not being able to see an image. Although, at times is really is handy
 

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jaydebruyne said:
mfohl,

I love not being able to see an image. Although, at times is really is handy
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I never got into digital photography because I could never find a good class on chimpin'. Besides that I do not need to look because I already know whether or not I got the moment, even in sports and nature photography.
 

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Hello and welcome to APUGland!
 
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jaydebruyne

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Black Dog, Jeff,

Thanks so much for the very warm welcome and kind words

Jay
 

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Welcome to APUG.

As you wander around you may just stumble across a forum which is designed for just this sort of introduction: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

You will, however, be forgiven for not finding that in the first place.

Enjoy yourself here.
 
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