Film Photography

I have recently started getting into film photography and I'm still learning the ropes. After buying a variety of color and black and white films to experiment with, I noticed that I somehow accidentally bought a couple of rolls of very high speed Ilford Delta ISO 3200 film. At this point, all I have is a Kodak Ektar H35N and an Olympus Pen-EES 2 which has a max ISO of 400. Is the Ilford film useless to me, or can it be used at lower speeds in certain conditions?

EDIT: This is tangential, but I was originally going to ask this question on Reddit instead of Lemmy because the conventional wisdom is that Lemmy isn't useful yet for more niche topics, but I thought "why not try Lemmy first anyway," and I'm glad I did. I found the most active film photography community on Lemmyverse.net (which hadn't yet even federated to my small instance) and it paid off. How nice!

Feets [Pentax K1000 | 50mm F2 | I forget what film stock]

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Day 23 living under US fascist dictatorship. Civil war on the horizon. [Rollei 35 | 40mm f3.5 Tessar | Kodak Gold 200]

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Art imitates art imitates life imitates art. [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak 500T]

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Kitty's reaction to suddenly living in a fascist dictatorship [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak 500T]

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Billionaires are dismantling the United States before our very eyes. Who will do anything about it, if not us? Here are some shelter cats. [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak 500T]

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All growed up. [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak 500T]

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abandoned car out in the desert

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we came upon the car on a camping trip to see the saguaro cactus out in Arizona near the Mexico border

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Took a photo of a flower with my Nikon F60, Tamron 24-200mm and some Kodak Gold 200.

I snapped a pic of some local graffiti and after developing the film but while it was still drying, I snapped a pic of it to do some light editing to check how the roll came out.

This was one of the shots, the quick pic had glare on it from my bathroom light and it got all funky when I started doing some edits.

I just had to share it when I saw it.

First time using an analog camera and very happy with the results.

Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 | Kodak Ultramax 400

Soon these trees will be private, too. [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak 500T]

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Doom 2024 [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak Portra 400]

#trump and #ElonMusk are #fascism #womensrights are lessened
#genocide in #gaza is glorified #climatechange and #xenophobia rage #profitsarepreferable to #people , convenience and security to #freedom opinion bests reality
compassion cedes to indifference

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Fall walks [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak 500T]

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I think it was on a 50mm? Dev FlicFilm Black White & Green, 13 min w/3 agitations per min. Scanned XT4 and XF80mm macro.

Tippy-toes [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Portra 400]

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Most recent of my few outings with the Intrepid! Coming to terms with 4x5 I think.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/18380473

October has long been associated with ghosts – from ancient Celtic festivals to ward off restless spirits after harvest time to the modern standby of using an old sheet to make a last-minute Halloween costume. In the middle of the 19th century, however, popular portrayals of ghosts became a year-round staple, in part because photographers discovered that they could depict them.

The first ghost photographs were accidents. Early cameras required 30 seconds or more to take a photo. If someone wandered briefly into the shot, the resulting picture would contain their ghostly trace superimposed over substantial furniture, buildings or people who had held still for the full exposure.

When shrewd photographers realized that the inconvenience of long exposure time could become an asset, detailed directions for creating these illusions proliferated. Photographers could cut ghost figures from transparent material and place them onto glass negatives or inside camera bodies. Or they could make real people half-transparent through tricks of double exposure.

Argus C3, 50mm, Ektachrome, but way under exposed. I still think it came out cool. Looks like a car picture to me, but it's better for the environment and the city 🙂 Scanned on an Epson V600 using xsane and gimp.