Canon AE-1, FD 50mm f/1.4

Just so you know, these are the last photos taken with our faithful vintage beauty the Canon AE-1 before it drowned. Seriously, nobody thought that there would be a flash flood for in mere minutes, the car and everything inside was almost entirely underwater. 

Now, the car fortunately was salvaged but among the casualties were this poor AE-1, eleanorrigby236’s Zorki 4 and an iTouch. Yeah yeah, don’t start babbling about how you shouldn’t leave valuables in the car etc etc since it was only parked for about 15 minutes while we grab something from the office and then came the fateful storm.

Never underestimate the wrath of mother nature.

On a brighter note, the FD 50mm f/1.4 lens is still ok and a new Canon A-1 body (CLA-ed!) is currently on it’s way as we speak. 

But we won’t ever forget you dear AE-1. (and you too Zorki 4)

R.I.P

-delusiana

Canon EOS 300, Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6; Canon EF 50mm f/1.8; Canon EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Christian said:

As I have constantly gone on about (hehe) I have been very lucky recently to have Pit access to the main stage and dance tent at Kendal Calling - a moderately big UK festival, so I have had the chance to shoot some pretty well known bands - in this set the stand out being Echo and The Bunnymen.

I obviously took a lot of digital, but also thought I would try some more film shots and for working in daylight thought I would try some of these C41 process Black and white films. These were taken using Ilford XP2 ISO400.  These films when processed through the standard C41 line and printed to colour paper exhibit this lovely colour cast - sepia-pink in the highlights and olive-green in the shadows.  

Basically (from what I understand) it is because the standard C41 process expects the negs to have a cast to them (the orange background of Colour Neg film) the machines adjust for this as standard. Normally you are ‘supposed’ get the lab to either use a special channel on the machine, or just dial down the saturation to take this out.

So just asking them NOT to colour correct leaves this effect in - I think this looks lovely on these images, giving a really old-school look - the crowd shot with the girls dancing just makes me think ‘Woodstock’! I took these with my modern SLR so I could have the autofocus, but I will definitely be putting some of this into one of my Prakticas to get a more retro look sometime…

These are really lovely! Now I can’t wait to shoot with the Kodak BW400CN or XP2 and get the lab to not the dial the colors out! Yay for vintage film effects!

-delusiana

Canon AE-1, FD 50mm f1.4

Again, more beautiful portrait photos by one of our favorite photographers from Northern Borneo, Nurul Khairunie. Remember her beautiful portrait shots? You can also check out her flickr stream here.

I think I’ve mentioned before that Solaris 100iso is a firm favorite of mine for color negatives. It favors reds & orange hues so if you’re looking for some sweet summer tones, this is the film for you. Cheap too.

Of course, one can never dispute the beauty of photos taken with the FD 50mm f1.4 lens. Sure it isn’t tack sharp but the photos have that soft, ethereal look to them with the buttery bokeh and in my opinion, an excellent portrait lens (gets rid of those unsightly pockmarks on your face too, if you’re lazy to photoshop them off, lol.)

-delusiana

Canon Canonet 28

These pictures were actually taken by J.K but the reason I put them up is because of that odd green light leak in the first pic which really reminded me of those Revolog Lazer films, don’t you think so?? This is the first roll from the Canonet 28 rangefinder and I’m impressed by it’s clarity! Also, we must thank Minaharker80 aka Freewheelinman for supplying us with this never heard before Kodak Supra 400ISO which he bought during his last trip to Indonesia. 

J.K will be posting more from this particular roll, and not just pretty pictures I might add.

-delusiana

Canon AE-1, FD 50mm f1.4, Lomography Color Splash Flash

Just wanted to share a few gig pics, taken with the AE-1 & the Colorsplash flash. 

-J.K

Canon FTb, Canon FD 50mm 1:1.8

Street art is among one of the most common subject matters for street photographers these days. We received some photos from an aspiring photographer, Evan, who’s interested in documenting the local street art scene in his hometown through his photographs. For once, we’ll let someone else do the talking ;)

Hello, I’m Evan, a 17 year-old highschool student who is still new in the realm of photography. I’m quite nervous as I don’t know if you’ll post these photos on your blog or not, because I still find myself as an amateur, poser-driven analogue photographer :)) .

Well, these photos are captured in downtown Bandung, Indonesia, and shot on the Kodak Gold 200 color negative film. I prefer shooting street art because in my opinion, the movement in my city is getting better every day. The artists are getting more creative than ever. The photo I like the best is that box-shaped purple walrus. That artwork was created by stereoflow, one of my favourite street artists.

Exit Through the Gift Shop anyone? That first photo up there is pretty cool! Love the motion blur. Keep shooting Evan!!! 

Canon AE-1, FD 50mm f1.4

I think people are amusing. 

-J.K

Canon AE-1, FD 50mm f1.4

Old is gold. See, that’s a pun intended. I’m just posting these as a filler since everybody else are either busy with their work/studies or out touring and doing touristy stuff. Heheh.

Enjoy your backpacking trip minaharker80!!

-J.K

             Canon EOS Rebel 2000, Sigma 28mm f/1.8 Prime Lens

Another roll from my expired collection, and this roll was 7 years expired! Nothing experimental, and I didn’t use any special settings, but I found out this film is very dependent to the weather and lighting situation. Sad to say, only 5 out of 24 frames survived this shoot.

-minaharker-

Canon AE-1, 50mm f1.4 FD

It’s amazing how this redscale film is able to adapt under various low light conditions, giving out the most beautiful hues I’ve seen on any redscale film. With sufficient light the shots turned out salmon pink while adopting a strong orange cast when taken at night. A great film indeed, especially during those drunken nights with your friends and with nobody appreciating lights flashing in their faces :D

-J.K

Canon AE-1, 50mm f1.4 Canon FD Lens

As you can see, the above were taken at 2 separate occasions: at a sleepy town called Muar in the southern most state Johore and a so-called “art gallery” in the elitist hub of Mont Kiara. I like how the clash between modern & rural managed to blend so well using this redscale film. 

-J.K

Canon EOS Rebel 2000, Sigma 28mm f/1.8 Prime Lens

I got this film a month ago, while I was in my hometown, also from an old photo lab which had given up hope on film and analogue photography. The seller told me that it was part of the last ten rolls he had, and they’re already expired for three years. I bought two rolls at a reasonable price. After I got the film developed, I was surprised to see the strip was thicker than the rest of other post-processed films. I was wondering how the shots looked after being scanned and found out that most of the shots taken in broad daylight and near dusk have a violet tinge to them and the rest of the images showed unexpected colors under various types of available and low light conditions (different lighting bulbs). The only thing I didn’t do was to overexpose any of the shots taken. I guess this expired film is still worth shooting on if you like something different from the regular fresh film results.

-minaharker80-

Canon EOS Rebel 2000, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

This was my first roll shot on a full auto-focus SLR camera, also my first Canon shoot! Up to then I was very loyal to Nikon, but after perusing photo blog after photo blog, I started to see small differences between both cameras, not very significant, but there, in terms of color pop and overall image look. Of course the film type used plays a big role in the outcome of your photos too. Using the AF feature takes away a lot from the creative composing front but it sure is great when you have multiple cameras on you and you simply want to get that shot as you are going through one scene to another briskly.

This expired roll Fujichrome Astia was shot under broad daylight, except for the shot at the beach which was captured closer to dusk. This film is known to really bring out cyan, magenta and yellow in your photos, which is very evident in the photos above. I found my results to be very similar to my Tungsten roll shot in Japan some time back, with the pinkish overcast. Apparently Fuji has discontinued the 35mm Astia but the film is still available in medium and large format. I have another roll in my Nikon EM (the Nikon camera made for girls!!) and will process that in E6 just to compare results.

-eleanorrigby236