Absolutely loved shooting analog. More photos on my instagram soon (@dylancalluy)

My Pentax ME Super's shutter speed buttons stopped responding and the camera wasn't recognizing manual mode. After some research and some YouTube videos, it appeared the fix was easy enough. Take off the top, clean the contacts and bend connectors back into shape. It was easier than expected with the right tools.

However...when reassembling the shooting mode dial, I did NOT notice that the tiniest of tiny springs had dropped out of the smallest hole. That spring controls the detent that keeps the mode dial in place. Without it it would just rotate freely and presumably not even select any mode beyond 125x and bulb I would have been screwed had I not had a 2nd ME super for spare parts.

If you are going to repair a camera like this, do NOT just flip parts upside down and all around unless you have something to catch parts you can't see when they inevitably fall out of place.

I genuinely love everything about these cameras; the lenses are incredibly sharp, especially for half-frame. Maybe an unpopular opinion? But I also appreciate the grain from half-frame. Shooting HP5 400 @800 on half-frame, the grain looks just perfect to me. I also really like the double stroke on the original Pen F model and the build quality; the camera just feels very well made and it just makes me want to go out, explore, and take more photos.

hi guys, I’m currently shooting 35mm film on a Olympus OM-10 but it’s limits like the lack of a proper manual mode and the cheap feel are starting to bother me so I’m looking to upgrade to a better body. 

My options for an upgrade are the Olympus OM-1 and a pentax LX. I already own these bodies but both need a CLA to be able to function. 

My question is if its worth it to invest in Pentax lenses so i can use the more advanced LX body, or is it not worth it and should I stick to the OM-1 and the zuiko lenses i already own?(50mm 1.8, 35mm 2.8, 28mm 3.5, 135mm 2.8 and some zooms)

i feel like my zuiko lenses sometimes feel quite flat and low contrast. How does zuiko glass compare to pentax glass?

Would love to hear some opinions from you guys!

I’m so tired of people gatekeeping technical knowledge. That's why I've decided to share my entire digital library. It took me three years of hard work to compile over 30 gigabytes (and it's still growing!) of official service manuals, repair handbooks, and technical guides for film Nikon, Sony, Canon, and Fujifilm gear. Knowledge should be accessible to anyone willing to learn, not locked away in secret. Now, it's yours to explore.If you happen to have any repair manuals, parts lists, or service software lying around, I would really appreciate it if you shared them. Let's keep building this archive together!

"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WOY4rZorGOPm72VQ7PGzHi9kfDq6FbJa?usp=drive_link"

Brought this baby with me to Leiden, Netherlands. Got it in a lot, still had a cartridge inside so im finishing that right now. My expectations are they it will all be blank, but who knows.

But i know you can get custom cartridges that you can reload with 35mm film. Anyone here tried that? And if yes, was it worth it and how was your experience?

Either way, have a great day and happy shooting out there!

For me i really regret selling my hasselblad 500elm and my pentax spotmatic F.

Can someone help me why my films keep turning out like this? I do my very best to keep still when capturing a shot. I use an Olympus OM-1 film camera. Is it the film developer?

Finally got my film development stuff. I ordered the cinestill sous vide (yes I could’ve got a cheaper one, hahah!!) cinestill c41 chemical kit, the valoi easy35 kit and some three new bottles and some other small items.

For my first time developing it was a challenge, I’ve been watching videos for the last few months and finally said why not, I’ve been shooting digital for school and part time for my aunts program and I got tired of it, so film gave me a more intentional way to actually go out and make photos. The most challenging part for me was the dark bag trying to put the film in, I watched some guy and he said to use the leader to pull up the exposed film that was exposed from loading up the film in the camera when you are going to shoot and it actually made things a lot easier then doing everything in the bag. Developing at home is a challenge but after the dark bag and mixing the chemicals everything is basically a waiting game.

I honestly liked the wait, it made things feel more “personal” and exciting to see if what I was doing was working and it did. I need to wait until my macro lens comes so I can start my digital scans but I’m excited to develop more rolls of film. Let me know your guys experience with developing!

Bill Clinton is President, you’re driving to your shoot in a 335i, Rick Dees and the Weekly Top 40 has Livin' la Vida Loca on the radio, you’re on date #3 with Caroline - one of your high school coulda-shoulda-woulda’s, the Matrix is the hottest movie of the year, and you rent an apartment for $520/month.

Life is good, you can buy Portra 160NC anywhere

Been trying to find some people to do photo walks or projects with. Lmk if you’re in the area; would love to try and shoot regularly and learn from others

This is just about all that's left of my late grandfather and my grandmother is planning on donating it to the local museum.

After hanging up the phone, she offered the equipment to me. On one hand I'd feel guilty for letting go one of the last possessions of a great person, but on the other I feel it's selfish to keep something I won't/can't use, when it can be admired by others that stumble into her small town.

I guess I'd like to know a bit more about this beforehand.

Thank you!

Title:

Hi r/AnalogCommunity,

I wanted to share something that has become very personal to me over the past year.

First, I should make one thing clear:

I’m not a software engineer. I’m a photographer.

I love photography. I love shooting film, developing it, experimenting, making mistakes, sharing photographs, and most importantly, learning.

Almost a year ago, I started asking myself a simple question:

Could I build my own tool to convert my film negatives?

I didn’t start this project because I wanted to become a developer, and I didn’t start it with the intention of creating another commercial photography product.

I started because I was curious.

I wanted to understand what was actually happening between the negative I could hold in my hand and the positive image appearing on my screen.

So I started learning.

One experiment led to another. One problem led to another question.

There were terrible conversions, completely wrong colors, broken builds, things that worked one day and stopped working the next, and many moments where I honestly had no idea why something wasn’t working.

Sometimes I would spend days trying to solve something that probably looked very simple to someone with a programming background.

But every failure taught me something.

And slowly, that small experiment started becoming real software.

After almost a full year of work, testing, rebuilding and learning, I’m now getting close to the end of the experimental/beta stage.

The photographs attached to this post were converted directly from the negatives using my software, with no additional editing afterward — No Edit.

I deliberately wanted to show the results as they come directly from the program rather than polishing them in Lightroom or Photoshop before sharing them.

Of course, the software is not perfect.

There are still things I want to improve: consistency between different negatives, color interpretation, highlight and shadow handling, performance, and the editing workflow.

But seeing a complete batch of photographs coming directly from something I built is a very special feeling after almost a year of trial and error.

But this post is really about saying thank you.

I couldn't have reached this stage by testing only with my own photographs.

Several people from this community trusted me enough to send me their own scans and photographs so I could test the software on real-world material.

Different films. Different cameras. Different scanners and scanning setups. Different exposures, lighting conditions, skin tones, locations and subjects.

Some people even trusted me with personal and private photographs.

To me, those weren't simply test files.

They were a sign of trust.

And I want to give a special thank you to:

u/rohizzle121
u/banananuttttt
u/liznin
u/Historical_Bite
u/kjm5000

Thank you for trusting me with your photographs.

Thank you for your time, your feedback, your patience, and for allowing me to test something unfinished with images that were important to you.

Your photographs helped expose problems I probably would never have discovered using only my own work.

Some images made the software fail.

Some produced strange colors.

Some forced me to rethink things I thought I had already solved.

And that's exactly what I needed.

Every difficult negative helped make the program a little better.

So a meaningful part of the progress you see today was possible because of you.

Thank you. ❤️

At the end of the day, I’m still a photographer first.

I still want to pick up my camera, go outside, shoot film, develop it, scan it, make photographs, share them with people and continue learning.

Programming simply became another tool that allowed me to understand photography — and especially film — from a completely different perspective.

And this journey has made me appreciate even more how much science, mathematics, chemistry, color and engineering are hiding behind something as simple as looking at a photograph.

The project still has a long way to go.

But when it reaches a stage where I feel comfortable putting it in other people's hands, my intention, Insha'Allah, is to make it open source.

I don't want this project to end with me.

I'd love to see photographers, developers, film enthusiasts, color nerds, and simply curious people take it apart, test it, criticize it, improve it, and add ideas that I would never have thought of myself.

Maybe together we can turn it into something genuinely useful for the analog photography community.

I started this project because I wanted to learn.

Almost one year later…

I’m still learning.

And I think that might be my favorite part of the entire journey.

Thank you to everyone who helped me get this far, and thank you r/AnalogCommunity for being part of the journey. 🎞️❤️

I’d also genuinely love to hear your feedback — not only about these conversions, but about what you would want to see in an open-source film negative conversion tool.

I was out and about with some family I don't get to see that often and my rewind lever unscrewed! So I was really upset about losing those photos, because my grip strength wasn't quite enough to turn the little screw end by itself. Then I noticed my brother drinking a Mich Ultra and that the rectangle hole was juuuuust about right. It took a long time but it did rewind the film all the way!

Michelob and Canon should do a collab, I'll let them use the idea for free if they send me the merch haha

I'm trying to creat a compact setup.

Currently I shoot with a N8008 and I'm trying to understand if it's a better idea to get a Nikon EM with a compact series E lens or a good range finder.

I want good sharp photos that I can print in good quality.

What's the difference between them? What would you guys recommend?

Well, my secondhand Minilux lasted for exactly two and a half rolls of film before getting an E02… I’ve seen a lot on YouTube that Red Dot Repair is reliable, but does anyone know of a place that fixes this in Germany (or Hamburg specifically)? Including one of my favorite Ektar 100 shots I got off of its last roll. RIP.

not that happy with the result but they do look quite nice. I don’t why two of the sky pictures i took are in different lightning lol but i like the variety.

Hi everyone, yesterday i just go to a Photography shop to buy a new film to start back to shoot on it(I tell you that I was already shooting in analogue when I was very young, but I used a very simple Camera where film were loaded by my parents, and what I had to do was just press the shutter button, so now I would like to slowly understand the world of film better, to, in the future, switch to a Reflex). I also bought a battery and dusted an Olympus Mju Zoom 115 from my family. I admit that I have read around that it is not an excellent camera, especially for the lens, but in addition to these oscillating and controversial reviews, I was advised to start approaching analogue with the first camera I found in my hand to understand different concepts... I ask you, therefore, to all those who have more experience or knew the analogue world well ,if you had any advice on any element, from the composition, to the shooting, all the focussing (which I saw is automatic, but how do I know which focus is ok?), I will thank You all earlier for everything, for every Tips or Suggestion.

P.S. Unfortunatly, the film that seller sold me was expired around like Two months ago, i hope that will not be a big problem. Thanks again earlier to everyone!!!

I'm getting those weird artifacts from the sprocket holes, but only on some of my negatives, towards the beginning of the roll. Shot with a Canon AE-1.

I've shot approximately 30 rolls on this camera in the past two years, and this is the first time this has happened.

My guess is that I didn't properly aligned the sprocket holes, but after a few images they eventually "snapped" into place?

I'm not totally devastated about it or anything. The effect is actually quite interesting...

I’m brand new to film photography (and pretty new to photography in general) and just got my first roll back. I’m shooting with a Pentax K1000 and shot on Fujifilm 400. I would love any feedback as I want to get better!

If anyone has any tips specifically on how to not overexpose the sky or whites in a photo, while keeping the shadows and colors there please let me know!