I’ve recently started experimenting with shooting (black and white) film and received my first set of scans back.
I’ll go ahead and state the (“cliché“)obvious – “I’ve got a lot to learn”.
But so far, I like it. The whole experience is so much different from digital. The photography process is way slower and more intentional.
Manual-focus lenses mean slowing down even further, and there is no instant feedback like you have with digital. You don’t know what you did or didn’t capture (correctly) until you develop the film.
The anticipation and agony (lol) are all part of the fun.
I used the Sunny 16 rule for all of these and only took about 4 exposures using the camera’s Aperture priority mode. The rest of the pictures were captured in full manual mode.
Out of 36 frames, I kept 24, and I am very happy about that!
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The next two pictures have light leaks/streaks in them. When I was rewinding the film, I thought I was finished, but when I cracked the back of the camera, not all of the film had wound back up. Oops. Oh well, it adds a bit of character.
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Camera, film, and development info: 📷 Minolta X-700 + Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 lens / 🎞 Ilford HP5 Plus 400 /🧪 by The Darkroom
