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I recently got an old Canon 35mm film camera from a colleague who was planning to throw it in the ban. It sparked the interest to get some film rolls again and head out to the streets. I am particularly interested in monochrome street photography, but can't seem to find B&W film rolls anymore. Even Amazon only seems to have some generic Kodak colour film.

@sertac and other analogue guys, any idea where to buy some Kodak T-Max or Tri-X ? I remember long time back shooting in color, scanning it, and reverting it to monochrome on the PC, but this process loses a lot of the original quality and contrast.

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1 hour ago, Frederic said:

I recently got an old Canon 35mm film camera from a colleague who was planning to throw it in the ban. It sparked the interest to get some film rolls again and head out to the streets. I am particularly interested in monochrome street photography, but can't seem to find B&W film rolls anymore. Even Amazon only seems to have some generic Kodak colour film.

@sertac and other analogue guys, any idea where to buy some Kodak T-Max or Tri-X ? I remember long time back shooting in color, scanning it, and reverting it to monochrome on the PC, but this process loses a lot of the original quality and contrast.

@Frederic I know a shop in SHZ road which used to sell analogue films. You can call them. His name his Fahim. ‎0 50 194 9516 and shop telephone number is  ‎0 4 338 9234. Its near to Hashtag cafe. Forgot the name of the shop. They repair cameras and sell 2nd hand gear too. I bought my Canon 5D Classic from them. By the way they do the analogue film processing too.  

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Hi Fred.

It is great to see now you have an analog camera. Which model of Canon is it and what type of lens it has? There is an amazing analog community in Dubai. We are on facebook and group name is Analog Photography in UAE. You can join there. We are making photo walks and sharing lots of good information.

Places you need to know are

GPP Gulf Photo Plus; They are selling variety of films and equipment. You can find a Trix or Tmax from here.

https://gulfphotoplus.com/products/category/10/Film/

For developing and scanning film. He is a friend of mine and does this as secondary job, he is very good at it. 

https://filmoticon-spacelab.com/contact

If you are in to printing your photos to the paper yourself via enlarger you can use Tashkeel. They have an amazing dark room with all the equipments you may need. 

https://tashkeel.org/artists/analog-photography-uae

 

Some other links below

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/is-analogue-photography-making-a-comeback-in-the-digital-age-1.56348

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2021/05/29/dubais-analog-photographers-dont-mind-spending-on-their-love-for-film/

https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/glimpses-of-life-in-the-uae-1.63607835

https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/mindful-photography-1.2249848

 

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Thanks @Niki @Thomas Varghese and @sertac for the quick help !

It's a Canon 3000, which came out in 1999 and luckily due to the fact it's a EOS model with EF mount, i can use my existing lenses which i have already:

- 14mm f2.8 Samyang

- 24-105mm f4 Canon L series with I.O.S

- 50mm f1.8 Canon Nifty Fifty

- 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 Canon Ultrasonic

and a few others.

I would mainly use the 50mm f1.8 due to its versatility and the fact i like the 50mm for candid photography. Secondly the 24-105mm L series Canon might be a good walkaround lens as well but is having a slower aperture.

Thanks @sertac for the info on the analog group, i will definitely look into that, but want to practice a bit first with different types of films (ordered some Ilford HP5 Plus and Ilford Delta 3200 film today). As my main purpose is to shoot in low-light conditions in late evening, i will need to find out which film works best ( and get into the whole push-pull theory a bit).

Thanks guys ! 
 

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I personally doesn`t like the HP5 much. I found it bit greyscale. Also Delta3200 is too grainy i suggest you to pull it 1600 it gets better. Next time you can try to get a Tmax400 and push it to 800 than you will be amazed with the deep blacks. I also have one Delta3200 with me we can visit Deira one night to catch some street photos.  

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