![]() Still - to take an astro shot and see what it might have looked it using a random film like Rollei IR 400 is a gift (even if there could be more processing done… it’s a great starting point for figuring out where I’d want to go next.) On the other hand, I generally like images straight out of the camera, plus lens corrections, lighting tweaks, denoise - and don’t normally go too far afield with this additional processing. Eventually I’ll find settings I like and build more of my own presets. But having more of the film presets available in PL than I could find easily upon first use is a good thing. Maybe it’s an issue of semantics or expectations. At any rate, the idea was that I appreciate being able to have some sense of what various films look like with a digital image, without having to bounce around between apps. (Unless, of course, I am missing something). I’ve done that - and have the DXO Filmpack settings in the sidebar, and to make changes to images I can go through and edit filter, grain, etc…īut other than the handful of presets, as a beginner trying to work my way through the wide variety of options, having the ability to browse “films” via the standalone (or presets in this case), is not as easily accessible unless I export my image to FP. Most brands of camera makers jumped on the bandwagon.Thanks Mark. ![]() It was squarely aimed at the mass market: simple folk could load the simple cartridges in equally simple cameras. For those unfamiliar with the 126 format, it was launched by Kodak in the 1960s. I use DxO Optics Pro 8, not the most up to date program but it does the trick for me. I’ve added it twice to make up the full complement of 24 frames (the original frame 5 came out blank) and to highlight the orange colour cast that you often get with film that is well past it’s date.Īll the photos here have required some post processing, most notably pulling the RGB white balance towards the cooler, blue end to compensate. You may have noticed that photos 5 and 6 are the same. Here it is then – a whole roll, in number order, shot over a few days in January around my home city of Medway, Kent… The results can be slightly unpredictable, although big grain and orange casts are usual features. ![]() So here is my whole roll of expired film, long expired film (Kodak Gold 200 dated 1992 to be precise), and even a camera from an expired format i.e the Agfamatic 200.Įvery now and then I like to go lo-fi and will shoot a roll of 126 or 110 cartridge, when I can find some. I have gone for a whole roll where all the photos have the potential to be mishaps or alike. In the end, I have chosen a sort of wild card. I feel this roll might fit into the second category of images too similar, so maybe save this one for now. Who wants to see 24 pictures of trees? I really thought my first ‘whole roll’ post would be of a 2015 trip to the Isle of Arran in Scotland. And as soon as the challenge was set to share a whole roll, I knew this something I wanted to do.Ī quick skim through the folders on my PC (all my negatives are scanned these days) and this appeared to be harder than I first thought: either there were too many mishaps per roll or too many comparable shots per roll. After all, it is all about seeing other peoples’ work, not just their words but in particular their actual images. As soon as I saw the post by Jeremy Strange on April 3rd, I thought what a great idea – a whole roll of photographs to look at.
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