Focal length Average/ Film Shooters

misterbmisterb Banned Posts: 601 Major grins
edited October 8, 2010 in Street and Documentary
I've went through my SmugMug and averaged the focal length of my best street shots- and I came away with ~ 54mm (100mm in 35 for Olympus)

I had been saving for a 25-30mm 1.4 (Sigma or Pana/Leica) so I won't have to crank up the ISO to 3200.

For those who shoot real film, where can you get the film developed and get back *digital* files instead of prints. Does such a developer even exist?

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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2010
    Misterb,
    I don't shoot film really.
    Only on my holga camera which takes 35mm film.
    I have it developed at Target and they put the photos on a disc. for me so I can tweak them.

    BTW I love doing my street shooting with my pancake 25mm f2.8.
    Liz A.
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  • misterbmisterb Banned Posts: 601 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2010
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    Misterb,
    I don't shoot film really.
    Only on my holga camera which takes 35mm film.
    I have it developed at Target and they put the photos on a disc. for me so I can tweak them.

    BTW I love doing my street shooting with my pancake 25mm f2.8.

    I was torn between the 25mm and the 50mm.. then I just said "look what I have shot and see *exactly* where I was focal-wise". It averaged around 50mm- so that's where I am.

    If I can get a good price on the OM camera I saw online, I might shoot some film. Just want to be able to manipulate the image via software..
  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2010
    misterb wrote: »
    I've went through my SmugMug and averaged the focal length of my best street shots- and I came away with ~ 54mm (100mm in 35 for Olympus)

    I had been saving for a 25-30mm 1.4 (Sigma or Pana/Leica) so I won't have to crank up the ISO to 3200.

    For those who shoot real film, where can you get the film developed and get back *digital* files instead of prints. Does such a developer even exist?
    On the last question, when I was still doing film I used Seattle Works film. You could get both prints & slides and negatives from the same film as well as high Rez Scans on CD w/ your negatives

    At the last that is all I was doing. The CD and the Negs. If they are still out there it would be worth a try. They had 100 & 400 ISO film.

    Don.
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  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2010
    Anywhere that develops film will do it. I take my film to a specialty photography store here in the dc suburbs, but cvs does it too. I scan my own film because their maximum scan is 2400dpi and I scan at 3200dpi. But the scans you get from 2400dpi will allow you to blow up to 8x11 so it's no problem really.
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