Film Photography

[TapeDeck]

I just got a Canon T50 body (I have a lens in the mail) and I'm getting a Canon Rebel G tomorrow at school. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Canon-T50-35mm-Camera

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/rebel-g.htm

I'll post scanned pics within a week or two.

Discuss/post pictures regarding film photography.

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[Night Fox]

you know what will suck?
When places like Wal-Mart decide to be ignorant and do some "digital age" stuff and stop processing film.
But then again when that happens you get to practice in your darkroom.
Assuming you have one.

[Swholli]

I think this is the camera my mom still owns. If I were more of a photographer and less of a motion picture kinda guy, I'd go out and buy/develop film for it.

Though, there is something much more satisfying when shooting film compared to just flashing a digital image. Perhaps it's the permanence of it. The need to get it right the first time, else waste that precious and limited film roll.

[TapeDeck]

I'm probably gonna get my first few rolls developed by like Costco or something.  I'm gonna put an ad up on craigslist titled "student needs darkroom equipment" and I'm sure people will be willing to get stuff like that out of their garages. 

[Frontrox]

I got this beast a few days ago.
I've got a scanner so we will see how that turns out....
I wonder how the scanner will effect the pictures.

[JAW959]

I got this beast a few days ago.
I've got a scanner so we will see how that turns out....
I wonder how the scanner will effect the pictures.
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*affect
And probably no.

[Frontrox]

*affect
And probably no.

forget, i always get them confused...

[Illidan]

forget, i always get them confused...

affect is a verb, effect is a noun

so like

"This affects this"
versus
"This is the effect of this"

[TapeDeck]

I got this beast a few days ago.
I've got a scanner so we will see how that turns out....
I wonder how the scanner will effect the pictures.

I hope you aren't running pictures through the scanner before developing them...

and honestly, if you're not developing your own film, just have them scanned when they are developed.  They probably have a better scanner and they'll just dump the pics on a CD for you.

[Frontrox]

I hope you aren't running pictures through the scanner before developing them...

Um what?

and honestly, if you're not developing your own film, just have them scanned when they are developed.  They probably have a better scanner and they'll just dump the pics on a CD for you.

That would be wonderful.

[TapeDeck]

You can't just take the film out of the camera and scan it.  It would cause all the images to be white because they haven't been developed as negatives yet.

This is what goes on at the photo developing place, except all in a machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_processing

Basically, when you take a picture, it is recorded in the chemicals in the film.  There's nothing to see.  Developing is the process of exposing the film to chemicals to make the latent chemical image a permanent visible image.  Before developing, the film is still sensitive to light therefore unscannable.  Even if you used some sort of back magic, there would be nothing for you to scan.

[KadeBL_ID12958]

Almost read "Film research"

I'm sorry for my dirty mind ._.

[TapeDeck]

My lens for my T50 came in today, here's the cameras:

[Frontrox]

-snip-

Ok first i'm as not stupid, as you seem to think. What made you think i was taking film out of the camera (Without developing), and scanning it?

Maybe it was the wording, or do you think i am handicapped?

[Fredulus]

I hope you aren't running pictures through the scanner before developing them...

and honestly, if you're not developing your own film, just have them scanned when they are developed.  They probably have a better scanner and they'll just dump the pics on a CD for you.

Honestly people's images I've seen that have done this were horrible, horrible quality. If you don't have access to a good scanner meant for things like scanning negs and photos then it's your only choice, but if at all possible avoid doing this. And honestly there's not any really convincing reason to scan negs for output, just print wet if you shoot film. If you want to output digitally shoot digitally.

Edit:

 in my film days I used this. Wonderful, wonderful camera.