Some portraits with my ME Super

Got my ME Super down from the loft and took a few portraits of friends and family.
I was very impressed with the depth of contrast and grain - I think it makes digital look a little bit sterile in comparison, so I'm going to keep on using this camera for B/W work, I had forgotten what great results film can give.

All shot on FP4 with 50mm f1.7 lens.

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Film, eh? That first one is excellent. Great detail and contrast.

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What did you scan (negs or prints?) and what with?

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Thanks Andrew.

Chris, negs were scanned in and I worked on them a little in Photoshop.

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+1. Love that first shot. I like the 2nd one too, unusual use of DOF.

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Thanks alien, I was aiming for the dog tags

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Really like the skin tone in number one, and a good subject, but for me number 2 is excellent and well taken.
Is it possible to recreate this grain with pp using silverex or similar?
Nigel

Thanks. Do you mind saying which scanner you used?

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Well the thing is Nigel I am not sure but I have also thought about it. Perhaps anyone with experience of Silverex etc could shed some light.

However, as I said these results have really got me interested in using film again, I love the quality you get with it.
I have also noted that these have turned out pretty grainy for a 125 asa film.

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Chris, I don't have a scanner so I paid for them to be done at a local photography shop in Ilkley. I would assume they have a commercial quality piece of kit and at £3 for a roll of film I am happy for them to do it.

They were scanned at 300 dpi

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Ah ok. I'm interested since I have a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED, with which I've been gradually working through my collection of about 10,000 negs from my pre-digital years.

£3 for a roll of 36 is pretty good value actually - do they do it before cutting the roll into strips?


I sincerely hope you mean 3000 dpi !!

The Nikon scans at 4000 dpi. It also generates images that are quite grainy at the pixel level, which was why I was interested in your comment about your 125 ASA film.

I find it's quite easy to remove the grain, if not completely then to a level where at normal enlargements it's more or less invisible.

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Chris - I am told they were done at 300 dpi. Don't know when they cut the film.

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Karl these are fantastic. I agree, they've a lot more character than digital. Not just the grain and tones, the dof is nicer too.

Perhaps your lab scanned at a higher resolution, and output the files at 300dpi. That would be too low a res to scan something as small as a negative.

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These are great and a good example that good things can be achieved on a limited budget. #2 is by far the most exciting of the lot, imho.

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I like the unusual focus point of number 2, and number 1 is pretty good too.

I'm surprised how marked the grain is. My Neopan 1600 (RIP) images have less than that, although in this case I think the grain contributes to the atmosphere of the images.

You can mimic film quite closely with Silver Efex Pro but I still prefer to use the real thing. At the moment, I don't really have a choice as the K20D is off at the repairers.

K.

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