Analog film photography and cameras

Those are all really nice!

Thanks! Its all down to the lighting tho...

Its all down to the lighting tho...

The rarest of beasts, non-flat Birmingham light ! Nice photos.

non-flat Birmingham light

I’m more west than West Midlands but yeah ... “skies like living in Tupperware”

Anyone got any suggestions for somewhere that'll develop E6 film that isn't excruciatingly expensive? Probably a postal type thing, I'm based in Leeds.
Here's a couple of random ones from a recent roll anyway.

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Yeah. Spectrum Photo Labs
http://www.spectrumphotolabs.co.uk/ They also run e6processing.co.uk

Based in Plymouth. Not just cheap ... but also available on a phone and super knowledgeable and helpful in my experience.

With mailing rolls ... it usually pays to send bunch of rolls at a time... and pay for special delivery. It’s heart breaking if they go missing.

Love the bottom one.

Feeling very excited about developing some film at home, fingers crossed all the necessary bits have arrived, then I’m booked in to do an induction at a darkroom on Wednesday! Haven’t been this excited about photography in ages.

Thanks! Quite pleased with it considering it was shot from a moving train, ha ha.

I really need to get back into developing film, it's good fun and I've still got most of the gubbins. Just expect your whole house to stink of chemicals for a while.

Thanks for the recommendation!

Anyone used a Pentax lx before? Got a chance to pick one up for a decent price and like the look of it.

Yep my mate has one. Theyre great, super easy to use and have almost every feature you could think of

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I took a really similar photo last week. Was using it as a test to see if a lens speck was going to give jip on the ETRSi I had bought.

a couple of others from the ETRSi

Love the 4th one!

2nd last is absolutely spot on.

Yeah. 4th shot is awesome.

I like the plant and the end of terrace. Great light. What film?

Nice.
Fourth is also my favourite!

Get the LX ! I've owned one for 1.5 years now, in my opinion its the best 35mm SLR i've owned/used (compared to the Nikons: F2, F3, FM2n, Canon: F1 & A1).

Just a superb camera, light, small and very easy to use - somewhat comparable to the Olympus OM-3/OM-4.

Decided to use them in the end, much cheaper than anywhere else!

Get the LX !

second this @GDCadam - if you can get one in good shape for a good price now is definitely the time

Cheers all. Film is Portra 160!

Just developed my first roll of B&W in many years. Do people reuse stop and fixer? I made up 1L of each and put into glass bottles, then realised that I probably won't need that much. The guide I was using said to reuse so I've put the "used" stop and fixer back in the diluted bottles.

Reuse stop, you get stuff that indicates when it's exhausted.

For fixer do a clearing test, drop a small clipping of unused film into the fixer and time how long it takes to "clear" I.e. become transparent. It becomes less effective over time and per batch.