Rec | WEIRD FILM FOR CAMERAS

📸

i first bought a film camera at an antique shop last summer and i immediately fell in love with it. despite the cost of film and development, i love it so much more than most cameras. i grew up accidentally collecting cameras from thrift stores and my mom’s friends, including one of the very first popular models of polaroid camera! when i bought the film, the man who owned the store gave me some free 18-exposure (i think ?) film. when i got the film developed, i realized that there was this blue hue to the photos. i am not sure why and didnt think to google it but for whatever reason, the next set of developed photos had that same hue, but ONLY FOR THE FIRST 8 EXPOSURES i was so confused but i dont care honestly it looked good while it lasted

@ylianna

Mar 12, 2025

see likes

Comments (0)

Make an account to reply.

No comments yet

Related Recs

📸

new film

I got a used camera from a family member for Christmas. I was excited to try it and shoot a test roll, but I was unfortunately Too Dim to load it properly. The test roll was a total wash! I properly loaded it with an expensive roll of film that I had laying around and am trying it out now. Nevertheless I would like to discuss the opportunity available to consumers that is called Harman Phoenix 200 - a new brand of color film. For some reason the fancy scanners cannot deal with this film. I had a lab scan it and it came back all orange. My roommate has a scanner so I also scanned it at home and that is ultimately the image I have attached

@renott

Dec 29, 2024

2️

16mm Film development and hand processing

Alright here’s a quick look at hand processing 16mm motion picture film. The stock I shot for this film is called Kodak 3378, it’s a high contrast black and white reversal film stock, which basically means it doesn’t develop as a negative but as the actual viewable image. The process of “hand development” is an interesting one. First 100 ft of film are loaded into a light proof tank. The chemical process I used is called E6 and it consists of a few steps that can be performed at room temperature: first developer, second developer, rinse, bleach, fixer, photoflow. Exposing the film to these chemicals four particular times results in the final image. This step is the rinse, the 3378 stock is the slightly purple film. Hand processing creates strange patterns and aberrations, disturbances created by a process that is inherently imperfect. It allows the artist to play with the parameters of 16mm image making but maybe more importantly, its results are a direct effect of the artist’s hand on their work. This is why we shoot film in a digital world: it’s something we can physically affect as true human beings.

@gnomes

Mar 19, 2025

📸

Fujifilm X Cameras

I used to love shooting 35mm film on my little point-and-shoot Canon, but my local film developer closed. Then the price of film began to skyrocket, which led to me dropping all types of photography for years. Two months ago I reignited my enjoyment of photography with the vlog-girlie-approved Canon G7X, but something was missing. I found myself giving the photos a film-look in post. There had to be a digital camera that could do a film look in-camera right? Enter the Fujifilm X Series, which have this insane thing called "film simulation" that I was completely unaware of until the algorithm started serving me tons of videos about it. This gives one the ability to essentially pre-edit a photo automatically in camera. Have you ever wanted to shoot 8 different film stocks in one day that you can then zap directly into your Photos app afterwards? Seriously, get Fuji-pilled like me and check out these cameras.