Having bought myself a Canon AE-1 earlier in the year I have now (finally) got through the first B&W film and received the processed film today…

The package I went for was to process the film and scan the negatives to high quality TIFF files so I could edit them as required…

Ended up doing a little editing to tweak them up a bit but was mostly limited to a bit of cropping and tweaking exposure. For the most part they were pretty good exposure and composition wise so was happy that I had got a handle on the technical aspects of taking pictures with film…

Here is a 50/50 of the editing I did on one picture… TIFF’s were imported into Lightroom and used controls in the Basic tab to enhance the exposure.

While I realise I do shoot manually in digital I do have auto focus and decent metering functionality plus the ability to review shots as I take them in case I have exposed the shot incorrectly… I found taking pictures with the AE-1 quite challenging at first but I am happy with the results…

One of the images had an artefact on it that was initially a bit of a concern… wasn’t sure if it was from the scanning process or a problem with the camera… as you can see in the image below there is an obvious light line going from top to bottom on the image…

On looking at the negatives it would seem that it was the last shot on the reel and there was a pronounced crease in the negative that would have caused this when scanned… guess that means I need to either void the last shot of each film to be sure I don’t lose a potentially useful exposure…

Happy with the results and really did enjoy using the camera… next will be the film in the Nikon I borrowed from my Dad but I am going away in July so will get another film for the AE-1 and take it with me 🙂

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