Chilehaus and Alsterarkaden

[StS]

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Good morning,

 

I planned to try out a new film, SPUR DSX32 @64ASA, however, it turned out I simply found the limits of my Quato 5000 film scanner.

The idea of the film is to show extremely high resolution in combination with 14 stops exposure latitude, so I was looking for suitable subjects.

 

Image 1 - Chilehaus (Fritz Höger 1922-1924), almost black brick in the sunlight the second image shows a detail (looking closely, the pixels of the scanner can be seen).

 

Image 3 and 4 - Alsterarkaden (Alexis de Chateauneuf, 1842-43), bright sunlight and shadows, also a detail image.

 

Thank you for looking

 

Stefan

[christer]

Good afternoon,

 

I have tried most of the high resolution films, and must say that they are _generally_ much easier to scan than to print. This may be an advantage or a disadvantage

 

Scanning is a nice way to review negatives before deciding what to print, but I still make contact sheet. It is much quicker to find a negative after some years looking through contact sheets than searching the hard disk. I scan my negatives with a Canonscan 8800F, it scans 12 negatives in one go. 1200 dpi takes less than 10 minutes for twelve negatives

 

My ultimate goal is a b+w print on old fashioned 12x16 inch (30x40cm) photographic paper. TMax films, both 100 and 400, in a standard developer like Xtol, will deliver more than adequate quality for this.

 

The disadvantage of high resolution films is the low speed and high price. They are not general purpose films, which you will probalbly need too. Playing around with too many films has never improved anybody's pictures.

 

(BTW, starting Wednesday, 4th November there is a René Burri retrospective in the Chilehaus (Pumpen 8, that is the last four bow windows on the ground floor on the left) which you have pictured above. I bet he never used high resolution films. He just made great pictures.

 

Rgds