Hello you lot, long time no speak just nipped on for a browse and thought I'd shar some piccies. I have been shooting a bit of film with my Nikon F80 and here are a few of the results.

This is Shugborough Estate .... kitchen, school room and outside shot.

This is the mental puppy! he grins at you when you are about to throw his ball!

and him chilling in the house

Rufford Old Hall... I added some vignetting on this one by using a lens that doesn't work with the camera. I like adding it in post processing sometimes, so thought I'd see how it came out!

Sunset at the beach

Edited 9 July, 201115 yr by Loz

Some good pics there! You can defo tell its film though, can't you? It doesn't have the same dynamic range and black detail that digital does.

Did you develop yourself or send it off?

Some nice shots Lorraine.

Some nice shots.

Film still has better dynamic range and shadow detail than digital, unless you post precess the digi files. The digital world is juuust about catching up with 35mm film. Any lack of dynamic range (and I've got to say I'm not seeing it) will be from the scanning or processing that's been done to get them online. MY only comment is that most of them look slightly overexposed to me. Did you dial in any exposure comp? If not, your camera is slightly overexposing. Especially on the sunset one - if you want the sky to have any detail, expose for that, not the shadows on the grass. Depends if it was a good sky or not I guess. It looks like a nice daytime shot to me.

I think film looks really nice when film scanned like these, and yes, film is still technically better than digital. It just makes a nice change and you have to think about what you are doing a bit more as any silly mistakes and you have ruined your shot!

Interesting comments about exposure, can't say I've thought that about them, and no one on the camera forum mentioned that, many of them having owned F80's. I do tend to like more exposure, like if I'm in lightroom (which is rare as I cba post processing) I always up exposure! I have no idea why lol! Perhaps just a preference thing. I can always mess around with these in lightroom with the digital image from the scan, see how they look with less exposure.

As for the beach one, I was after the colour and detail of the grass, which would be underexposed and rubbish I I'd gone for sky. Can't have both without my ND filter or post processing.

I had it processed at boots as it was cheapest, but I have just send a black and white film off to be developed and I will be processing that in my darkroom, which is nearly ready! Can't wait!

Nice shots Loz Slightly over exposed IMO but still good stuff ... F80

Which do you think are over exposed? I can have a play on lightroom to see his they come out, but to me they all look like the places did in real life lol! the one of the puppy prob is a bit, but it was very sunny (for once!!)

Infact, I'm surprised the indoors ones came out with shutter speeds of about 4th or 6th of a second! I'm glad I tried now though.

Loz, if you're short of any darkroom stuff give me a shout - I've got loads of stuff in the loft that I've not used properly for years and years.

Lozkins! Blimey it has been a while

Nice shots there. Lovely dog too! Spaniel?

Can see the over exposure issue myself too (sorry!) In shot one, around the area of the dresser - where the tea towels are?! Can see what you're saying in the others, in wanting detail in other areas. Beach photos are always a classic for this I think; especially when you want the dune details included like the one above.

Could be our monitor settings though, to be fair! Very difficult to judge exposure and colour setup properly really, without a properly setup and calibrated monitor. Which I haven't done in a long, long time myself - I have to admit.

Good on ya for shooting with 35mm though

Yeah the White looks quite White in that one, but the shutter speed was low and aperture wide as it was actually quite dull lol! I tended to have it aperture priority, sometimes manual. That one was A though, so it was the cameras metering that picked it. Will be more interesting to see the medium format pics as that has no metering! haha!

He is spaniel x collie like my old dog he is a proper monkey!!

As for darkroom stuff I shall send a pm