Post your film and pre-digital documentary and street images

[Gardyloo]

Lots of us have some compelling documentary or "street" (whatever that means) images captured on film media, either recently or in the past. Here's a place to post some of these that you think fits in with the forum theme.

I'll start with a couple of examples.

Market day, western Ireland, 1972

What have you got?

 

[WhiskeyBeforeBreakfast]

New York City, 1980





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[jaggedhorizon]

Here's one. From 2016, but taken on a "film day"

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[el tute]

1983 Frankfurt/M federal elections

1983 Bremen, shipyard workers about to loose their jobs

1986 smoke alarm in Hamburg

1983 Bremerhaven, bystanders watch peace demo

1991 Vienna, 10.Bezirk

 

[Art Jacks]

Mid 1970's in the days when smoking was allowed in coffee shops, bars etc. Leica M4 with a 35 mm lens, negative copied using a Nikon camera

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[EOS GUY]

Very nice photos.

I have one small 5x7 print from film I did not destroy that I would consider decent. No access to a scanner though. If I photographed it with my x-t2 would that work...? I'm thinking maybe not but IDK. I have a 23mmf 2 and also 18-55... maybe 55mm! Only 30cm close focus distance though whereas I believe the 23 is 10cm aprox.

I also have 5cm macro mode on my lx100 24-75mm range at 12mp.

If you had only one what would you choose if it would even work in carrying across any kind of fidelity..?.

A friend has a Nikon attachment for FX lenses for doing that with negatives and slides but he doesn't live nearby and anyhow mine is a print.

Cheers

 

[EOS GUY]

New York City, 1980



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That's a very good one too

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[KCook]

My bet would be on the lx100. Unless you get set of cheap extension tubes for the Fuji (then shoot manual).

 

[clackclack]

Mid 1970's in the days when smoking was allowed in coffee shops, bars etc. Leica M4 with a 35 mm lens, negative copied using a Nikon camera

..have seen this many times even though you only posted it once and a long time ago. Is an astonishing photograph, have never forgotten it. Is amazing and just as fresh to see it again.

I hope the negative is safe, it should be preserved and shared as many times as I had stared at it

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[clackclack]

New York City, 1980

If this thread is the only reason I am seeing this then I am grateful to the OP more than I am to the photographer ..

This is great, truly ..look at the way the stain leads to the lead (and look at her).

so lovely.

ant

 

[clackclack]

Here's one. From 2016, but taken on a "film day"

there is a huge sadness in this ..I think I need a chocolate to cheer me up.

Gee this is beautiful, so emotional ..maybe I need a whole chocolate cake

ant

 

[clackclack]

1983 Frankfurt/M federal elections

1983 Bremen, shipyard workers about to loose their jobs

1986 smoke alarm in Hamburg

1983 Bremerhaven, bystanders watch peace demo

1991 Vienna, 10.Bezirk

Oh wow.

am trying to pick a favourite, I just can't. If I was forced under lights and with current applied to body parts, I would have to say #3 but then then they would shock me again because I would change my mind and say #1 and #2 ..and #4 and #5

Gee these are good.

ant

 

[clackclack]

I like all three ..but this one is stunning.

ant

 

[Art Jacks]

Local keep fit class giving a demonstration in the park

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[Decisive Comment]

Excellent photos, all of them throughout the thread!

 

[Gardyloo]

Some more market scenes

Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, 1974

Helsinki waterfront, 1973

Old Covent Garden, London, 1972

 

[WhiskeyBeforeBreakfast]

Known as Little Queenie. Her band were the fabulous The Percolators. This night, around the late 1970's and playing at Tipitina's, was transcendent.


New Orleans, Louisiana

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[WhiskeyBeforeBreakfast]

Somewhere in Louisiana, early 1990's



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[EOS GUY]

Lots of us have some compelling documentary or "street" (whatever that means) images captured on film media, either recently or in the past. Here's a place to post some of these that you think fits in with the forum theme.

I'll start with a couple of examples.

Market day, western Ireland, 1972

What have you got?

Wow they're officially old enough to be archival. I mean the world just does not look like that anymore. It;s good they are captured. Makes em wonder will people really look at our current street photos and think they look like another era in 48 years time from now? And how different will they look?

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Above all else, peacefulness, love and harmony.
- Noel Shoestring

 

[The Davinator]

Nice. Great photos. Thanks for sharing these film shots!