Posted: 1/2/2011 6:32:16 PM EDT
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Do any of y'all still shoot film?
I recently picked up a really nice Olympus OM-4Ti with a bag full of Zuiko lenses. I'm wanting to start shooting with it, but I have a few questions. It has been several years since I've messed with film, and even then it was just the cheap stuff from Wally World, in a hand-me-down Minolta (my mother gave it to Goodwill before I could make it back home, I don't want to discuss it  ), and I just got it developed atWalgreen's or something. This time I'd like to do a little better, and try some experimenting. Are there any different brands/types of film that you recommend over the others? Where are some good places to get them developed? I heard about the last Kodachrome developer calling it quits recently. What about scans of the negatives? I've heard that the scans offered at the retail stores are really low-res images. Is there somewhere I can send them to get decent quality scans? Thanks, Popov |
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Not at the moment. What's left of my 35mm film gear has been boxed and in storage for years now. Hopefully within the next few months I'll get to those boxes and see what I still have left. (Pretty sad - not even sure exactly what I have left that I hadn't sold ) Back when I used film, I used various Kodaks (incl Kodachrome), FujiFilm Velvia, and Kodak T-Max and Tri-X for the little bit of B&W I shot. Don't know about current film labs. Not sure about there being any Kodachrome developers left. There are places you can send film and slides to be scanned that are supposed to be better than a bigbox store, but I haven't used any so I can't make any recommendations. Once I get my stuff out of storage, I'll probably spend some time checking it out, and probably run some film through just to see if they still work OK. Don't know if I'll send anything in for work seeing as I probably won't use them much - if at all. But who knows? One of the things I miss is the better veiwfinders and the feel of a quality manual camera. |