Took some holiday snapshits with 35mm kodak ektar 100, just got them back from the lab and here is how they look...
Is this a problem with the lab? film? camera? scan?
I just started shooting film, and have taken solid photos using this camera before. Would it be worth taking the negatives to a better lab and having them look at them?
Second roll.
The photos don't seem badly exposed, and they all have different problems, some have a terrible red cast, others blue. Some are well exposed but have huge scratches or lines over them. All have massive problems with noise and dust.
>>2800413
Fuck off retard.
These are typical shitty lab scans with shitty autoexposure and noise control algorithms. Scan yourself for better results.
>>2800416
are you the OP?
>>2800420
No?
>>2800426
They seem so noisy and the contrast seems way too high
This is one of my kodak ektar shots for comparison
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>>2800421
then fuck off.
>>2800413
This is one of the cases where it makes sense to post full resolution images.
>>2800431
>literally "no u"
Resize Squad, everyone.
OP, like the other guy said, these are typical lab scans. On the bright side, people pay good money to get their photos to look even halfway like these do, so enjoy your free VSCO.
>>2800408
Love this one
>>2800435
Wait, so YOU saying "fuck off" is okay, but him saying "fuck off" is stupid?
"I don't have to resize" squad, everyone. Double standards and self importance abounds.
>>2800405
why use anything but UK film lab?
>>2800475
I went to a lab in a cheap shit shopping centre near mine. I figured it would be better than my local ASDA but turns out it's worse. Going to the specialist developers in my nearest town this weekend, gonna get them to look over my camera and lenses too make sure they're running fine, one of them keeps turning out the same small black line on every photo.
>>2800430
Hoping the film is good, I expected quality from the Ektar, was my first 'decent' film I used in the camera, as I'd been testing with pretty basic fujifilm until now.
>>2800405
OP, could you hold a couple of these negatives up to the light and snap a picture of it? The scans are crapola as mentioned by others, but I'd like to see your exposure levels. The best scans in the world won't save an underexposed negative, and this is especially true with Ektar.
Looking at your OP pic, it really has the look of underexposure and the scanner software/operator tried to make the best of it.
It's the scan but as had already been said the scan could be shit because its compensating for bad exposure
>>2800413
retarded nigger spotted
>>2800437
I only take 4k photos, won't resize.
>>2801086
That's 8 megapickles
good photo
OP here again, so I placed my negatives on top of an ipad screen and tried to take photos of them but couldn't get a decent exposure using my phone, I'm going to try with my dslr in a second. would you recommend trying it over a lightbulb instead?
>>2801137
LCD screen is better. Don't put your negatives directly on the screen though, leave some gap so that the screen itself is out of focus and you don't see pixels.
>>2801111
You too
>>2801152
holy fuck dude put two cardboards to block the parasite light. use your head, dummy.
>>2801160
Oh fuck why didn't I think of that before.
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>>2801167
they look promising.
>>2800405
>shoot film
>pay people to develop film
just get a sony.
>>2801172
I shoot digital too. But I made a decision to shoot film for many reasons. I'm just beginning in the hobby and am enjoying it despite these recent scans, but it was a different lab and film.
You mentioned these were taken on holiday, did the film happen to pass through any sort of x-ray scanner? I had some similar contrast/noise/cast problems with some film I shot on vacation. Thankfully, most of them were pretty bad anyway, as you can see here.
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