Buying various films.. Suggestions please?

Oh, also, forgot to mention, best place to get 600 pola film right now is probably boots. 30 euro for a twinpack (20 shots). There's not much you can really -do- with 600 film, except wince every time you hit the shutter button as you realise you've just spent 1.50 :-) I actually have an sx-70 sitting unused because I just can't bring myself to spend that much on film. Although ironivally enough a roll of 120 provia probably ends up costing me almost as much by the time I've had it developed ...

sineadw wrote: »

Hi all. I'm hiding from assignments again..

Wait until you're hiding from your thesis.

I've been wandering about online for a bit trying to decide where's best to buy some film for new christmas toys I need some colour 35 film for an Oktomat. Fajitas (I think!) recommended 1600iso for that. I also need some polaroid 600 compatible stuff - any suggestions on that (and funky stuff I can do with it! ). I also need some nice (maybe 50iso) black & white 35mm and some IR 35.

Yep, I reckon the Oktomat is about f/16 in reality, and shooting at about 1/200... which isn't very practical in our fantastically dull climate

You can get Fuji Superia up to 800 and 1600 iso, and B&W film up to 3200. You can push them all even further. You will be getting plenty of grain though.

As Daire said, Boots is probably most practical at the moment for T600, I'm not sure if the newer Fuji films have the batteries in them, which may leave you a bit short. Personally, If you haven't bought a Polaroid, I'd be buying one of the Fuji cameras, film is easier to get your hands on. Not cheaper though.

I've just gone and ordered a box of 25iso film 35mm (Rollei), there's plenty out there, but you're going to have to buy online - The slowest I've seen in Eire is 50 slide film. As Daire said, that'll need another thread.

http://www.freestylephoto.biz/index.html is my favorite resource for buying film, it's probably not as cheap as 7dayshop.com, and postage is more expensive, but there's a lot more in the way of supplies and stock.

And I've been told posting IR is a big no-no anyway as they're shipped in metal canisters which the postal services (not surprisingly really) now routinely x-ray the living daylights out of. Is that true?

I've heard that about IR film myself. Though, tbh, I'm sure most things coming through borders is x-rayed at some point. Maybe talk to Gunns and see if they can order it in for you? I wouldn't bother with the SFX stuff... you're going to have to invest in another filter(s) and are still stuck with slow shutter speeds. Real IR film can be rated at anything from 4 to 6400 and still get good results as long as your metering is spot on, no filters required. Before you use it though, make sure your camera can be used with IR film - It's very finicky, anything from having a window in the back of the camera, to the paint inside the camera can fog the film.

Going back to the Polaroid film... 600 is boring if you intend on manipulating it - It just dosn't do much. You're looking at the older films, medium format films and large format films for the transfers, manipulations, and so on. There's a few limited edition 600 film types (Nearly all expired at this stage - Polaroid dosn't last very long), try unsaleables.com for'em.

Really? I've quite liked the Superia rolls I've put through, gotten some decent results. I must give Porta 800 a bit more of a go though.

Will pick up some Portra next week so, see what I can do with it!

My box of 25iso should be arriving this week... Going to try push some of it to 800 for the laugh