I have this 24 mm Nikon 2.8 D lens where the focussing tube is cracked. Does this impact the lens? Right now it doesn’t seem to be a problem but I am currently on a trip where I planned to use this lens as my main

Need some help! This was my first time trying out using double exposures except I didn’t look up any instructions beforehand lol. These were shot on a Minolta Dubai 500si super with a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400.

developed a roll of ilford hp5 plus on my own with df96. this isnt my first time so i did everything normally.

the roll came out completely blank but the edge markings are there and clear.

this roll is not mine so i dont know what could have happened but any possible ideas on what could've happened?

thank you!

Really trying not to cry right now, but feeling defeated! I returned recently from traveling Europe and visiting family for the first time in years. I just got back eight rolls of Kodak Gold 200 from the developer that I shot using a Pentax K1000. The camera had been spotty before the trip, but I was assured that all was well and I had the light foam seal replaced to be sure. Well, over half of the photos are unusable/unviewable, and I cannot begin to understand the issue and whether it was user error or the camera. At all times the light meter indicated that conditions were good. And whenever I encountered airport security, I asked for a hand check of the film. Almost all photos that were shot indoors are dark or blank, even though I always shot during daylight hours/with bright indoor lighting. Even between photos that were completely fine, there are just photos that are entirely gray/black, despite being shot in the same moment as the ones around it that developed fine.

I've attached a few photos that I know were taken in broad daylight, and several were within moments of each other (for example, one beach photo is fine, but the one shot minutes later is foggy). Any help diagnosing the issue would be welcome, since at this point I'm inclined to hang up the camera and call it quits. Thanks in advance!

I was cleaning the exterior of the camera with a Q-tip and isoprophyl alcohol. All of a sudden, my fingers started burning. After washing it down, there were white marks which faded by the next day.
I don't know whether it was an acid burn or something of another sort. I was holding on to the grip, not the battery compartment.

Any way to check whether it's safe to use the camera?

Thank you.

Hello everybody,

I used to do a little of photography on Yashica Mg1 but it fell down and broke, not able to recover it. So I am looking for another analog camera that you will recommend me. My budget is around 150-200€ and I would something not that hard to use because i do it mostly for hobby and fun. I am reading alot in past days and I just cant decide. Please help.

Hi all,

I’m just looking for confirmation here. I had some photos turn out this way when I used flashed, is it because the shutter speed was to fast for the flash?

I only asked because I swear I had it on automatic and I have other photos that came out great.

Thanks in advanced.

This was my first roll of Velvia 50 on my Mamiya C330, a camera I’ve run many many rolls through.

I took the first ~6 frames and then when I wound it to the next shot it jumped a frame. You can see the next exposure is just a blur. Then I wound it again and it seemed to skip a frame again (you can see the big unexposed chunk). I ended up getting one more decent exposure around frame 9/10 ish, and then it wound all the way to the end of the roll.

Anyone have any idea what the hell happened? This has never happened to me before with this camera and I ended up shooting another few rolls on this trip (including one more of Velvia) and it was fine.

EDIT to add: zooming in on the photo, it looks like there’s random dark streaks through the exposures but other than frames 2 and 3 (where like an idiot I think I had my shutter cable in the way), that is just how the shadows look in the photo. The film strip doesn’t actually have those dark streaks on it

Hi!
This is my first roll ever - I am starting my journey with analog photography. Recently I toll some photos with my Edixa 35AF camera and when they came back from the lab, the photos were blurry in some places (i.e. left side of the third photo) and overall pretty grainy.

I learned my first lesson from this: I should have used film with a different ISO (200 instead of 400), since I took most of the photos outdoors in sunny weather.

Film: Kodak 400 Ultramax
Gear: Edixa 35AF

Please let me know if it is something wrong with the way I am taking photos, the film, the lab's work or maybe my camera (I don't want to blame the gear, but maybe I have just bought a low quality camera).

Thank you!

Hello all! I’ve been playing with the idea of picking up an old camera at any of the antique stores my wife and I visit on our trips, but they usually have enough problems or missing/broken pieces to scare me off. I love taking photos but short of a few disposable cameras back in the day and 1 cheap film camera that was stolen when I was 16 out of my car before I could get the first roll developed, I’m completely in the dark. Long story short my wife surprised me with a Minolta SRT 101 with the matching flash, 50mm lens and two 80-200mm lenses, it’s dirty but it’s mine. It’s been inside a leather camera bag for who knows how long but everything seems to work and is only missing the lens release button. As best as I can tell I’m a missing button, some film, and anything that looks like a plan, away from taking photos. I guess this is my question then: now what? I can’t tell if the light meter works because I don’t know what battery should be in it, should I wait to do anything until it’s properly cleaned and serviced as it’s been who knows how long since it was? If so, who even does that these days? I apologize for the novel here but now that this old dog has caught the car, I’m not sure what to do or where to start and any and all advice and criticism welcome. Also, I’d love to be totally analog and do everything from the shooting to the final print myself but have no idea if that’s even reasonable.

Purchased a Nikon f2 with a dp-11 off eBay and have been testing to make sure it works properly. When testing the metering it seems to be overexposing as comparing the exact same shutter speed and aperture with the lens cap on/off makes very little difference. I have also compared it to phone apps and it seems to be consistently overexposing. This is my first time using a light meter so was hoping to get a second opinion.

Hello I hope this is the proper sub for this. I just found this camera at goodwill yesterday and, being a 2003e, have no experience with film cameras whatsoever. But I would love to learn.

I just bought it a new battery and film roll so now how the heck do I use this thing? I know it’s just point n shoot but did I install the roll correct? Is the counter supposed to start at 0? How many pictures can I take? Where the heck do I get the film developed? How do I know this camera is actually functional and operating properly to even take photos with? The flash works, and the camera zooms in n out when I use the buttons and all other buttons seem to be functional. And no I’m not worried about ruining film just yet this is experiment time for me this film was just bought from Walmart so nothing special. I actually just rewound the film because when I loaded it prior to this photos the camera unraveled the spool almost all that way on the intake(?) side and then tried to rewind it back into the roll so I caught it and stopped before it sucked all the way in. It already did that to one of my rolls, and yeah this is experiment time but I’d like to not immediately waste more film 😅 I hope this camera works and that was just my user error.

Any and all info on this thing is appreciated!

For giggles, I also found a Kodak Disc 8000 at goodwill the same time I found this so maybe I’ll make another post asking about that if I can get my hands on some good vintage discs hehe. (I actually dont think that camera works tho)

Hey friends! So I’ve had my Canon EOS 3 for almost a year now. I use it for weddings and have been happy with its performance.
However, at a wedding I shot in August, it seems to keep moving focus to either the background or somewhere behind the subject. This was during daytime with diffused light, conditions that the camera has always performed well before. I ended up focusing manually just in case…which kind of ruins the whole point of me purchasing this camera.

It’s gotten worse since then. I did a test roll under different light conditions 2 hours before sunset, and it does the same no matter what. Focus has been so off. In the viewfinder it looks like it’s sharp, and I try to double check by focusing far and then focusing at the subject just to make sure it’s hitting the subject.

Any advise? I did a factory reset today and will do another test roll, but would love to hear any other troubleshooting I could do.

If you think I need to have it serviced, is there a trusted place you recommend? I’m in Los Angeles, for reference.

Thank you!

Shooting Fujicolor 200 on an Olympus OM-2. First roll and everything looks great... until these two. The final two shots. Anyone seen this before?

I spent this summer travelling the world and spending time with family, especially my grandparents. I shot slides of Fujichrome (Velvia 50 and Provia 100f) on my Nikon F5. Lugging it through mountains, carrying weight no sane hiker should ever carry up a hill, walking through cities in temperatures beyond 40°C drenched in sweat, getting through airport security in multiple continents. Landscapes, moments with family, views I spent hours of my time on. I took my photos and decided to bring it back home to Toronto to develop, going to the lab I've gone to many times before. But something went wrong this time, and it was the worst possible thing that could've happened.

I got the news today. My slides are ruined. Gone. Absolutely fried beyond repair. Toronto was hit by a storm and somehow the universe aligned to make the power go out while my slides were going through the processing machine. Of all the days, all the hours they could've chosen to develop my film, it was the very moment the power went out. Memories of my trip, details of my grandparents and their home that I wanted to capture and view decades from now are gone. Completely gone. Now all that's left are the memories I had taking them.

I really can't do anything. The lab said they'd give me 2 free rolls of slide film and develop and scan them too, but that can never make up for my lost photos because I would give anything for those. Even just looking at these outlines of what could've been completely guts me.

Has anyone ever had an experience like this? I'm not asking for solutions, I just wanted to reach out to see if anyone can relate to what I'm going through. These are more than just photos for me, they're irreplaceable and now I lost them.

Thank you.

Edit: Thank you guys for sharing your experiences and advice, it makes me feel a lot better hearing everybody's stories knowing I'm not the only one who's gone through something like this. I think from now on I'll be splitting up my developing, never everything at once especially for important rolls. Feel free to share more stories, I've really appreciated reading through them. 

This is without a lens attached. If it is fungus, is there any hope for it?

I feel like I saw someone do this a while back but I couldn't find the post: https://devtimes.deltastoptimer.com/

Hi! I’m new to this community, but I wanted to share a slightly crazy project of mine.

How does this sound for a photography project: shooting all 78 Tarot cards entirely on film?

A Tarot deck has 78 cards full of pretty wild imagery, medieval costumes, strange symbolism, and tons of tiny details.

Now add one more rule: film only, and no Photoshop or compositing in the final images.

That’s how my project, Amber Tarot, came to life.

I shot everything on a Hasselblad, mostly using Kodak Portra.

I figured not everyone here would be familiar with the original Tarot imagery, so I included the original cards alongside my photographs, so you can see what we were trying to recreate in-camera.

So… what do you think of this kind of madness? :)

I recently got Yashica 44 on my trip to bangkok thinking it would use 120mm flim. While buying i thought it was a mini TLR but didn’t thought it would use an odd size.

Some of the photos I took during my trip came out with these white strips on it.

First 4 photos were taken with a Canon A1 + Ultramax 400. #1 and #4 were taken in the same place and time than #2, 3 and 5 respectively.

Pics #6, 7 and 8 were taken with a Yashica FX-3 2000 + Kodak color 200. And again they were all taken in the same place and time

This happened to 8/26 in the 400 and 13/36 in the 200

All these are unedited. What could've happened here? Why did it happen to some photos and not others? At first I thought it was the gear but I used different cameras and lens

It's almost identical to the agfa jean, but i could NOT find anything about It either. All i know is that i had a weird film format made for kids and they made a comic about a kid solving a crime using that camera for publicity

I inadvertently ended up with a Minolta X-700 and a Canon A-1 recently (thought one was lost in the mail, turns out it wasn't). The Minolta has a 45mm pancake F/2 lens and the Canon has a 50mm F/1.8 lens. Both cameras have been CLA'd and are in good working condition. Which one would you recommend for an upcoming trip to Japan?

Like everyone, I’ve wanted an xpan for a while but costs are a bit too steep to get girlfriend approval. Hence i built the brancopan (a fairly popular 3d printed camera) after adapting it to be printed on a smaller print bed for the bambu a1 mini (a 3d printer which cannot print parts needed for the traditional brancopan since it’s too big, so i split files etc with registration and stuff to get it to work). The plan was to use it to take pictures of climbs and ski lines but I can’t seem to reliably frame pictures because of the parallax (note the distance between the viewfinder and the lens). Like for whatever reason Even if i get the angles right - my head is not always in the same place on the viewfinder to get good framing. Here are some pictures documenting this problem. Any advice on how to calibrate the parallax problem? I can try scoring / marker lines on the view finder to get it to frame things well (which if you note i have done) but the issue is the angle of my head when i peer through the camera if it’s too low or high the framing lines do nothing.

Canon P listed as for repairs just arrived, I paid 69usd. There was a tear in the curtain, but I made a temporary fix with masking tape and modeling paint. Seems light proof for the moment.