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Love vintage Hifi, too!
Happy to hear, it's clear! 
Biggles
My cup runneth amok.
One shot per roll this well-exposed, meterless, is something I'd be over the moon about. I can barely expose properly with a meter. You nailed the exposure and the lighting. Not to mention aggressive but perfect use of shallow depth of field. Nice shawt.
Your other low-light pictures suggest to me that you may be erring on the side of underexposure. Muddy, compared to the picture above and the Subway shot.
NicoM
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Yeah, I see the difference more now. The colors in this one also pop more compared to the other ones. I guess I was too excited after seeing the scans that I failed to look at the flaws of the other photos
I guess trying to overexpose a little might serve me well. Thanks for all the feedback!
lam
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I'd say you're on your way. Very nice.
Classique
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Very nice shots. Your guess of exposure seems very good already.
One advice for expired rolls: rate the film to be about a stop slower than the box speed (especially for fuji color films; for kodak, 1/3 stop should be enough). Film loses sensitivity as it ages so that is one of the reason for the hazy/heavy grain look of underexposed film in a few of your indoor shots.
One advice for expired rolls: rate the film to be about a stop slower than the box speed (especially for fuji color films; for kodak, 1/3 stop should be enough). Film loses sensitivity as it ages so that is one of the reason for the hazy/heavy grain look of underexposed film in a few of your indoor shots.
crispy12
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Yup better to err on the side of overexposure. The scanner makes up for underexposed shots by increasing the gain, and the result is muddy, noisy photos with colour shifts.
Keep shooting~
Keep shooting~
NicoM
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Thanks! Yeah, I can see that in some of the shots. Some of the photos have nice shadows, while other have lighter shadows that look a little grainier. Question: when you scan a whole roll at once (flatbed), does the scanning software make adjustments for each individual image?
Tijmendal
Young photog
Wow, great job at the guessed exposures; those all look really good!
I saw your other thread and this looks MUCH better!
I saw your other thread and this looks MUCH better!
NicoM
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Thanks! Hopefully my next rolls get better than these!
Frontman
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It's ironic that I began my shooting without a meter (due to not beinfpg able to afford one), and my exposures were hit-and-miss. But then when I got around to getting a meter, I could read the light fairly well, and used the meter only to make sure it agreed with my guess.
Great photos, by the way. I agree with the post which mentioned that your Summicron might have haze. This is quite common, but a little hard to see yourself unless you know what you are looking for. Both DR Summicrons I have had suffered from haze, but they still worked well enough.
Great photos, by the way. I agree with the post which mentioned that your Summicron might have haze. This is quite common, but a little hard to see yourself unless you know what you are looking for. Both DR Summicrons I have had suffered from haze, but they still worked well enough.
NicoM
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I looked closer and there was a little something in the inside part of the rear element. I guess it was no surprise as the previous owner had it sitting on a shelf for more than 10 years without use. I don't know if I did the right thing, but I opened the lens and used a lens pen to wipe it away. The haze stuff is gone now. I just hope I didn't somehow damage the lens!