Thank you!!!

You may enjoy the Leica Discord group where Leica users chat and share pictures. Lots of film shooters. It’s a bit of a younger crowd, but very global and lots of diversity. Thanks for posting.

X-Mind

FP4+ at EI of 1000 … pushed about 3 stops … and then contrast boosted in Capture One with a set black and white point.

@@DanMars27 Thank you. Pulling a roll out of the freezer now.

Here’s a quote from him: I started out working with negatives with a medium-format Pentax camera. About halfway through, in 2008, I switched to a digital camera because I was in constant fear that security machines at airports could destroy my films. A friend assured me that digital images were now of good quality. When I went digital, I switched to a Canon camera and I found the quality was much better than the medium-format negatives. In the final prints, you can see no difference because I have worked with one film, Kodak Tri-X film, all my life, and we were able to reproduce the exact grain of that film in the digital image. We also created a way of working that was no different from how I had always worked. I recorded everything on digital cards just as I did with film and, from these images on the cards, contact sheets and prints were made for me. Those I selected were then made into negatives.

You may want to tell Kodak, who is hiring 200 chemists and engineers so they can grow their film division. … and Pentax who is releasing a film camera. … and Ilford and Ferrania who are barely keeping up with orders … and the new film labs that are opening their doors in 2024 … you are right, it’s hard to just quickly figure out how to do it cheaply, but it can be done

Check out Royal We Film Lab in Oakland … their film prices are about as low as it goes, and I can get you 27% off lab services, if you want it … and they are already one of the cheapest, if you want scans … there are cheaper places if you don’t care about high-res scans.

Check out Royal We Film Lab in Oakland … their film prices are about as low as it goes, and I can get you 27% off lab services, if you want it … and they are already one of the cheapest, if you want scans … there are cheaper places if you don’t care about high-res scans. … but that’s also partly why I home dev and bulk load film off of big rolls … I’ve got the price down…. citizens Photo in Portland is maybe the cheapest if you don’t want high-res scans

Artists EDU 100 is like $5.99 a roll, and is an excellent film

Go buy another $5.00 coffee and think about if you are a serious photographer.