I bought a Hi-Matic. I am not a hipster, just someone looking for advice...

giftgrub

First time in these parts of Boards. Hows it going everyone...

Anyway I picked up a Minolta Hi-Matic G2 in the Liquidators shop in Tallaght the other day for 8 quid.

I used to do photography in school in the 90's so i though it looked like fun.

Anyway Its in great nick, havent got around to putting film into it yet.

I'd appreciate any advice, tips, knowledge about it and also whats the story with buying film and getting it developed in Dublin these days.

I am not a hipster.

Honestly, I'm not.

pete4130

Go to Gunns in Wexford Street for film. Family owned and run, really great, great people in there. Helpful, knowledgeable and just down right nice. Their film prices are probably some of the cheapest in Dublin too, with a good selection as well. They can develop colour and B&W but not slide film. They can also scan your negs too onto CD if you want for an extra cost.

If you're going to be shooting lots of film then it works out cheaper in the long run to buy a neg scanner, something like an Epson V500/V600/V700 etc... After 30 rolls or so you'll break even on the cost of the scanner (or at least I did with my scanner). You can also control how you scan them, adjust them, have a higher res file if you want/need. They can scan medium format too which is a bonus.

There is nothing hipster about shooting film. I shoot film almost all the time for personal stuff as do many users on here (anything from 10 year out of date 110 film, 35mm, medium format etc..). I find it more exciting and enjoyable and love the difference in texture, quality and tonality of it.

Good luck with the new camera!

Effects

pete4130 wrote: »

There is nothing hipster about shooting film.

I'd have to disagree. Shooting film is totally hipster. It doesn't mean that's why you or I shoot film.

magicbastarder

pete4130 wrote: »

(anything from 10 year out of date 110 film, 35mm, medium format etc..)

i still have a couple of rolls of orwo that john gunn gave me a few years ago - best before date of january 1973.

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

i still have a couple of rolls of orwo that john gunn gave me a few years ago - best before date of january 1973.

I got a roll of agfapan expired 1974 from pullandbang. It was a bit ... fogged ...

This was shot at about 200


This was shot at about 50, so heavy overeexposure seems to be the key :-D

magicbastarder

the stuff john gave me was fine; nominally 80 ISO, but i exposed as if it was 80, then 40, 20, and 10. between 10 and 20 seemed to be the sweet spot.

giftgrub

Its been such a long time since i've done film photography.

I picked up some colour film in town today as i passed Conns

Its 200...If i change the camera settings to a higher or lower setting how does that affect the picture?

magicbastarder

this is an example of a shot i got on the orwo:

DaireQuinlan

giftgrub wrote: »

Its been such a long time since i've done film photography.

I picked up some colour film in town today as i passed Conns

Its 200...If i change the camera settings to a higher or lower setting how does that affect the picture?

if you change the camera settings to higher (i.e. 400) you'll underexpose the film, by one stop in this case. Setting it to lower, 100 say, will overexpose the film, again by one stop. In general if you're shooting negative, overexposure is vastly preferred to underexposure. Underexposure will over saturate the colours and result in grainier prints and loss of detail in the shadows.