Delilah’s First Roll of Film
Before we get to far into this and I forget please check out the Film section of the Portfolio Page!
Delilah’s first time ever shooting on film and her gear was the Nikon N65 SLR with a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 lens, settings on automatic.
I think personally not knowing what had been shot was one of the coolest things. An entire roll (almost) that I would see her full point of view.
Delilah - I just wants to say it was not fun… it was wonderful.
I love shots on film because you don’t know if it was good or bad. It was like a movie coming out and not watching the trailer so it’s not ruined.
I am happy they make film cameras because when you use a ‘‘real camera’’ you take it and see it and it ruins the surprise.
I love love love film, taking photos at Memaws on film on Sundays was so much fun and I can not wait to go back with more film and do more, insert a smiley face at the end; can you do smiley face on that? :)
I know that with shipping time and waiting it took about a full week to get 4 rolls processed and sent back; that is pretty amazing time. As of scanning and color processing the negatives I think I had this one roll of 36 exposures knocked out in an hour. Also pretty amazing I think. Especially for not being used to scanning yet.
I think this has been an overall good experience for us both with learning how film really works and seeing Delilahs reaction to the process and being apart of the scanning and processing negatives is really something I will cherish. She is so willing to learn and I love it.
I also forgot to mention and don’t feeling like going back and addling it in so I will just add it into here. The film she was shooting with was Fuji400 and I have to say after seeing my first processed roll of Karmir 160, I really appreciate Fuji400, but more to come of that at a later time.
So the company that developed the negatives was Reformed Film Lab and they did such an amazing job all around! Awesome communication, awesome updates, very active on YouTube. Their pack your order videos are super awesome Delilah and I love them! I will have my referral link so you can go check them out and get a $10 coupon!
Oh and their rewards program is crazy! You really should check them out!
I could not be more happy and proud of how good this kid did with her photos and with how much she really enjoyed it and got into it. I am just so amazed and happy to have these moments that she captured that will forever be frozen into a memory.
Also, I did help with the last little few of the roll so we could get a new roll in and off to a friend to use. Delilahs roll was used for over a month before completed. Was one hell of a time.
