I Second That Emulsion (a film thread)

yeah depending on the light in the room, etc. i'd get it developed somewhere cheap anyway, see what comes out. no point getting too worried. try to feel neutral about the outcome and you might get a roll of interesting scars.

good attitude imo

if the rewind is really heavy in general it might be a sign that the m6 needs a CLA :(

it's not heavy, it's my brother

this is the best way to load a leica btw

http://nemeng.com/leica/000b.shtml

that's how I did it!

hmm. well it may need a CLA? or it might be really cold in duluth and the lubes may be slow because of the cold. my m4 had a really stiff rewind, I sent it in for a CLA and the guy fixed it.

The rewind isn't stiff tho is the thing

oh sorry, I completely misread what you had typed! sounds like your M is fine. and yeah, after the first few rewinds the film starts running real smooth (at least for me). I can usually feel though when it's released from the take-up spool

uhm, the worst that has ever happened to me was that the film broke on the last shot, so when I rewound, there was no resistance, and all the film stayed on the take-up spool. lost a roll *_*

oh man I wonder if that's what happened? it's fcking freezing here---the film could've gotten super brittle maybe?

so when you opened up the cam, was the film still attached to the canister?

honestly don't remember. it all happened so fast!!!

I wld probably rewind it a lot, then go into a bathroom and turn off all the lights and open it and see if it was rewound

I opened up the back on a Leica once - you'll probably get a kind of wavy pattern where light has penetrated through the three leaves of the take-up spool, just a bit.

I think whatever happened, the roll is lost so I should just open it up and do an autopsy

did you open it in broad daylight? i've salvaged rolls that I opened in daylight before

take into a store & get someone to put a bag on their head & poke around, it's fun to watch & will preserve whatever you've got as things are

so when you opened up the cam, was the film still attached to the canister?

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so i just checked this out, in the bathroom with just a sliver of light: canister and film have completely disassociated.

:( what kind of film was it?

if it was cold it could be that you wound too fast. film gets very brittle in the cold and a little caution is needed or it can snap.

fwiw the film that I had break off in the camera was kodak e100, and it was like 70 degrees outside!

Did the rewind lever slip to where the takeup spool wasn't disengaged? I had that happen once.

maybe, but i'm def thinking it was the cold. it was prob 18F at the time? maybe i can take what's out and stuff it in a sock or something? seems like its worth a shot, might get something interesting

Kodak getting out of digital, staying in film:

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2145203/kodak-phases-digital-businesses-film-alive

know your strengths

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2156493/kodak-discontinues-colour-reversal-films

:(

oh goddamn right when I'm itching to try working with chromes a bit. gotta grab some and do it now I guess.
back to the old film pessimism for me!

Is Fuji down to Provia and Velvia in E-6, or are they still making Astia?

oh damn. i have to recheck the negs but i think i shot some E100 recently and loved it, i was meaning to order some more online :/

no more Astia
schlump, if you have to check the negs, it's probably not Ektachrome!

lol

outside of kodachrome have rarely if ever shot slides. according to TOP, slides have always comprised single digit percentages of color film sales. :/

oh ha right, thanks, yes. i should look it up & find out what it was though. i took this w/it.

wow. like a stained glass window!

feels weird -I thought all the lomographers loved kodak slide films for x-processing. didn't think they were too hot on the fuji stuff.

not surprising about the rarity of slide film use. kind of a pain to use, more difficult to manufacture, more expensive to buy etc.
but the vivid and saturated colors can be a revelation. high saturation negative films don't really achieve the same effect, and it's hard to 'fake it' in the computer too.
if anything I think it's maaayyybe even easier to fake digital for chrome than it is to fake negative for chrome? exposing for the highlights with each etc.

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fake digital for chrome?

lomography in not saving the film manufacture industry shocker?

salty dog photographers always said digital was like shooting chrome - because of the decreased exposure latitude, the ease with which highlights are blown. it's not strictly true - clipped highlights look like ass in digital, blown highlights look more pleasing (to me) in slides

haha. feel like hipstamatic + instagram killed lomography

I mean that I think it might be easier to take a digital picture and try to achieve the "chrome look" than it would be with negative film. The "chrome look" being the exposed for the highlights deepened shadows thing.

xpost again

ie. salty dog theory

MJ's stash at the top of the thread is looking better and better each day!

I shot some fuji 64 tungsten balanced slide film last year. now there's a film that you probably won't see on the market for long!

so i am going to drop off films today (tri-x 400), and am gonna have them scan it---any rec'd instructions i should give? or should i just see what comes out? (this was all p much 'how do i shot film' rolls, so i'm not worried that they'll turn out weird or anything)

just check on the available scanning resolutions I guess? (usually there's a low and high res option) if you feel that you consistently over- or under-exposed you could ask them to push/pull, but I'd probably just let loose and see what you get. Everyone does it differently. Some labs are def. better than others for scanning, and the price seems to vary pretty wildly.

gbx send the rolls to me

...if you want to wait three months to get them back. but hey!

actually, I'd probably just ask what their standard B&W development process is - what developer they use being p important

see the problem is that I wouldn't know how to follow up on that question

and ty for yr offer!

haha well let me know what they tell you the answer is, and then I'd tell you my ~informed opinion~ about it

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