Photos with 35mm Skopar and Efke 25

[MadMan2k]

Taken around my college. Loved the gloomy sky and light that day, and shot the lens wide open for most of the roll, where it looks best. I love this film's tones when it's processed with dr5, but I won't be getting their scans of the roll again - 9 bucks for a 768px file of pretty poor quality.

 

[srtiwari]

Very nice ! love the creamy texture. Where is this film available ?

 

[MadMan2k]

Thanks. Freestyle photo and B&H both sell it.

 

[BigSteveG]

gotta get some 'o that stuff....

 

[Seele]

This film is also repackaged and sold under other names, for instance Maco UP25 Plus; shop around and find the cheapest supplier and you're laughing.

 

[EmilGil]

I got to try DR5 someday; it looks really, really good.

Nice pics Jon, really gloomy with a great tonality.

 

[lZr]

Amazing tonality. I liked most the last one with so interesting light spread in the sky

 

[rpsawin]

Madman,

Nice work...very good composition and excellent results in the darkroom. I just picked up some of the Efke 25 last weekend and have not had a chance to shoot it yet. I'm going to find time because I really like the look.

Bob

 

[Abbazz]

Superb pictures, Jon.

Efke 25 delivers gorgeous tonality, even when processed as a negative. If those are the scans from DR5, they look fine to me, although a bit small for the price 🙁

Cheers,

Abbazz

 

[David Murphy]

Fine work -- so many classic elements we love here coming together nicely: composition, film, light, camera gear and lenses used, etc.

 

[visiondr]

Absolutely gorgeous! Well done. I'm really impressed by the last two, their composition and tonality.

 

[MadMan2k]

Thanks for the comments. I got two rolls of Velvia developed at the same time, and the scans from the efke look great compared to those, but that's not exactly saying much. The results I typically get having them scanned with a Frontier scanner are better, which aren't even close to what I've seen from good dedicated film scanners.

I can't seem to save up the 600 bucks for a scanner, and now that I looked at the pictures of Gabriel M.A.'s Hasselblad in the classifieds, I don't even know if I want to invest in a 35mm-only machine 😛