Questions on shooting film

On 2012-02-19 13:01 , PaddleHard wrote:
Hello gang,

I'm in between digital cameras and have decided to shoot film for a
little while. I have a Canon Rebel 2000, I believe Canon's last
version of 35 mm film cameas. My questions....I've worked very little
with film and want to know how large an image would one be able to
blow-up for printing? Also, what suggestions would you have on types
of film to purchase?

Debate bait?

See billboards on the highway? They can be from 35mm film - because
they are far enough away that you can't see the blowup artifacts.

So how large you print depends on how close people will look at the image.

Generally - for 35mm - I put 15x10 (inches) as an upper limit on
anything I would hang on the wall. The largest print I made from 35mm
film was about 8x6 (feet). Never went too close however.

Type of film depends on what you're going to shoot and what the light is
and what you intend to do with the image. Tell us more.

--
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Douglas Adams - (Could have been a GPS engineer).

PaddleHard wrote:
On Feb 19, 3:00*pm, Alan Browne
wrote:
On 2012-02-19 13:01 , PaddleHard wrote:

Hello gang,

I'm in between digital cameras and have decided to shoot film for a
little while. I have a Canon Rebel 2000, I believe Canon's last
version of 35 mm film cameas. My questions....I've worked very little
with film and want to know how large an image would one be able to
blow-up for printing? Also, what suggestions would you have on types
of film to purchase?

Debate bait?

See billboards on the highway? *They can be from 35mm film - because
they are far enough away that you can't see the blowup artifacts.

So how large you print depends on how close people will look at the image.

Generally - for 35mm - I put 15x10 (inches) as an upper limit on
anything I would hang on the wall. *The largest print I made from 35mm
film was about 8x6 (feet). *Never went too close however.

Type of film depends on what you're going to shoot and what the light is
and what you intend to do with the image. *Tell us more.

Alan, I shoot a variety of subjects from landscapes to wildlife to
architecture. Since I do a bit of paddling, I shoot mostly as a result
from my travels. I live in the south, so when I say landscapes, I'm
not talking big, mountain vistas. Most of my 'landscapes' would come
from the rivers I paddle.

I have a 20" by 30" print made from a 6MP digital image that looks
quite good, but it was taken with a good lens and a steady hand.

Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.

--
Ray Fischer | None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
| Goethe

On 19/02/2012 20:52, Ray Fischer wrote:
wrote:
On Feb 19, 3:00 pm, Alan
wrote:
On 2012-02-19 13:01 , PaddleHard wrote:

Hello gang,

I'm in between digital cameras and have decided to shoot film for a
little while. I have a Canon Rebel 2000, I believe Canon's last
version of 35 mm film cameas. My questions....I've worked very little
with film and want to know how large an image would one be able to
blow-up for printing? Also, what suggestions would you have on types
of film to purchase?

Debate bait?

See billboards on the highway? They can be from 35mm film - because
they are far enough away that you can't see the blowup artifacts.

So how large you print depends on how close people will look at the image.

Generally - for 35mm - I put 15x10 (inches) as an upper limit on
anything I would hang on the wall. The largest print I made from 35mm
film was about 8x6 (feet). Never went too close however.

Type of film depends on what you're going to shoot and what the light is
and what you intend to do with the image. Tell us more.

Alan, I shoot a variety of subjects from landscapes to wildlife to
architecture. Since I do a bit of paddling, I shoot mostly as a result
from my travels. I live in the south, so when I say landscapes, I'm
not talking big, mountain vistas. Most of my 'landscapes' would come
from the rivers I paddle.

I have a 20" by 30" print made from a 6MP digital image that looks
quite good, but it was taken with a good lens and a steady hand.

Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.

It has also been officially discontinued for almost a decade now. Even
if you had a roll in the fridge I would be surprised if you could find a
lab able to process it today. Fujichrome Velvia is pretty decent now.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

In article , Martin Brown
wrote:

Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.

It has also been officially discontinued for almost a decade now. Even
if you had a roll in the fridge I would be surprised if you could find a
lab able to process it today. Fujichrome Velvia is pretty decent now.

there are no longer any labs that will process kodachrome. the last lab
that did was dwayne's, and they ceased kodachrome processing in
decemeber, 2010.

Martin Brown wrote:
On 19/02/2012 20:52, Ray Fischer wrote:
wrote:
On Feb 19, 3:00 pm, Alan
wrote:
On 2012-02-19 13:01 , PaddleHard wrote:

Hello gang,

I'm in between digital cameras and have decided to shoot film for a
little while. I have a Canon Rebel 2000, I believe Canon's last
version of 35 mm film cameas. My questions....I've worked very little
with film and want to know how large an image would one be able to
blow-up for printing? Also, what suggestions would you have on types
of film to purchase?

Debate bait?

See billboards on the highway? They can be from 35mm film - because
they are far enough away that you can't see the blowup artifacts.

So how large you print depends on how close people will look at the image.

Generally - for 35mm - I put 15x10 (inches) as an upper limit on
anything I would hang on the wall. The largest print I made from 35mm
film was about 8x6 (feet). Never went too close however.

Type of film depends on what you're going to shoot and what the light is
and what you intend to do with the image. Tell us more.

Alan, I shoot a variety of subjects from landscapes to wildlife to
architecture. Since I do a bit of paddling, I shoot mostly as a result
from my travels. I live in the south, so when I say landscapes, I'm
not talking big, mountain vistas. Most of my 'landscapes' would come
from the rivers I paddle.

I have a 20" by 30" print made from a 6MP digital image that looks
quite good, but it was taken with a good lens and a steady hand.

Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.

It has also been officially discontinued for almost a decade now.

But it's a benchmark for determining the best result possible from film.

--
Ray Fischer | None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
| Goethe

On 20 Feb 2012 03:49:34 GMT, (Ray Fischer) wrote:
: Martin Brown wrote:
: On 19/02/2012 20:52, Ray Fischer wrote:
: Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
: are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
: for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.
:
: It has also been officially discontinued for almost a decade now.
:
: But it's a benchmark for determining the best result possible from film.

Some of the bullhockey that gets thrown around in these newsgroups really
ought to get preserved for posterity. ;^)

Bob

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:00:54 -0500, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2012-02-19 13:01 , PaddleHard wrote:
Hello gang,

I'm in between digital cameras and have decided to shoot film for a
little while. I have a Canon Rebel 2000, I believe Canon's last version
of 35 mm film cameas. My questions....I've worked very little with film
and want to know how large an image would one be able to blow-up for
printing? Also, what suggestions would you have on types of film to
purchase?

Debate bait?

See billboards on the highway? They can be from 35mm film - because
they are far enough away that you can't see the blowup artifacts.

So how large you print depends on how close people will look at the
image.

Generally - for 35mm - I put 15x10 (inches) as an upper limit on
anything I would hang on the wall. The largest print I made from 35mm
film was about 8x6 (feet). Never went too close however.

Type of film depends on what you're going to shoot and what the light is
and what you intend to do with the image. Tell us more.

The largest I used to print was 20 x 16 (in) which was the largest dish
size I had. For that size print I always used Ilford microneg pan
developed with diluted FX1a (made at home from Geoffrey W. Crawley's
recipe. I rated the film at 12 asa which worked well.



--
Neil
Reverse ‘a’ and 'r' then delete ‘l’ for address.

(Ray Fischer) writes:

PaddleHard wrote:
On Feb 19, 3:00*pm, Alan Browne
wrote:
On 2012-02-19 13:01 , PaddleHard wrote:

Hello gang,

I'm in between digital cameras and have decided to shoot film for a
little while. I have a Canon Rebel 2000, I believe Canon's last
version of 35 mm film cameas. My questions....I've worked very little
with film and want to know how large an image would one be able to
blow-up for printing? Also, what suggestions would you have on types
of film to purchase?

Debate bait?

See billboards on the highway? *They can be from 35mm film - because
they are far enough away that you can't see the blowup artifacts.

So how large you print depends on how close people will look at the image.

Generally - for 35mm - I put 15x10 (inches) as an upper limit on
anything I would hang on the wall. *The largest print I made from 35mm
film was about 8x6 (feet). *Never went too close however.

Type of film depends on what you're going to shoot and what the light is
and what you intend to do with the image. *Tell us more.

Alan, I shoot a variety of subjects from landscapes to wildlife to
architecture. Since I do a bit of paddling, I shoot mostly as a result
from my travels. I live in the south, so when I say landscapes, I'm
not talking big, mountain vistas. Most of my 'landscapes' would come
from the rivers I paddle.

I have a 20" by 30" print made from a 6MP digital image that looks
quite good, but it was taken with a good lens and a steady hand.

If that's image size, I have something very similar (24x36 paper size).
Winter scene, anow, tree branches, animal footprints in the snow -- in
other words LOTS of high-res high and low contrast detail.

Ah, here we go -- this one
http://dd-b.net/cgi-bin/picpage.pl/photography/gallery/minnehaha-20060312?pic=ddb%2020060313%20010-027.
EXIF seems not to still be present in my web image, but I remember this
as having been shot with my Fuji S2, 6MP. It might have been the Nikon
D200 though, I forget exactly when I upgraded; if so it's a monumental
10 megapixels!

Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.

Not really; grain artifacts tend to limit enlargement of film before
resolution limits do.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

Martin Brown writes:

On 19/02/2012 20:52, Ray Fischer wrote:
wrote:

Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.

It has also been officially discontinued for almost a decade now. Even
if you had a roll in the fridge I would be surprised if you could find
a lab able to process it today. Fujichrome Velvia is pretty decent
now.

Last processing line shut down at the end of December in 2010.

http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/newsite2006/images/T-shirt-art/tshirt-500px-2.jpg
--
David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

Robert Coe writes:

On 20 Feb 2012 03:49:34 GMT, (Ray Fischer) wrote:
: Martin Brown wrote:
: On 19/02/2012 20:52, Ray Fischer wrote:
: Kodachrome 25 is roughly equivalent to about 18MP. If your negatives
: are sharp and properly exposed you could make a similar-sized print
: for your home, or billboard-sized for the side of a freeway.
:
: It has also been officially discontinued for almost a decade now.
:
: But it's a benchmark for determining the best result possible from film.

Some of the bullhockey that gets thrown around in these newsgroups really
ought to get preserved for posterity. ;^)

It is, see groups.google.com

--
David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info