As part of the Analog April Challenge, here is a good old fashioned analog 35mm film image......
Or is it? The original image was taken on a Canon EOS 500 camera (not 500D) using Ilford HP5 400asa 35mm B&W film and was developed by my own fair hand and then printed as an 8" by 10" print in my home darkroom. Completely analog.......
But then how do you get it online to share with other film enthusiasts? Ultimately, it has to be digitised in some way either with a negative scanner or by taking a digital photograph of the print. I tried scanning the 8x10 print on my flat bed scanner at it's highest resolution..... this resulted in a 32mb file which caused the 365 Project upload program to go into spasm.
So I therefore had to reduce the size of the image by 30% to get it to upload.
Now you may be wondering why I am relating (waffling on and on about) all this but it all seems a bit odd to me. The reason I have become interested in film photography is that it is capable of producing images with far more depth and warmth than even the most expensive and advanced digital camera can achieve. Then sadly we have to digitise that image (thereby stripping out it's depth and warmth) to share it online.
So anyway, here is a shrunken digitised version of my original analog image. Hope you like it, but I can assure it doesn't even come close to the original 8x10 print. :)
A marathon day for you then but well done on managing to join the past with the present! I think your image has come through beautifully with lots of detail! I think perhaps you would get the very best out of this film camera is if you use it for proper prints to hang & not on a modern devise like a comuter. You must be enjoying the challenge!! Well done!
@happypat One day digital technology may actually catch up with it's analogue predecessors, but sadly that day is still a way off. As we move into the digital age, we seem to constantly sacrificing quality for convenience.
The EOS 5Ds R coming out in june will give film a run for its money methinks...