Scanning = bane of my existance

[Stealth3kpl]

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No. You need to slightly over expose and under-develop to get TriX negatives that are dead easy to scan.

 

C41 just goes through the machine. Decent processors are hard to find these days and I don't know whether it is possible to fiddle with the machine settings to improve negatives. Getting them back clean and unscratched would be a good start...

 

I imagine over exposing C41 giving a dense negative rather than a thin/low contrast negative, hence my question - as the colour neg is to be developed by a lab at a particular temp/time, would under exposing the negative give a thinner/low contrast negative? Surely over exposing a film (eg rating TriX at 320) shifts what would be a mid tone to become a lighter than mid tone in the print/scan because it's a denser negative? Am I getting things mixed up?

Pete

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[Stealth3kpl]

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/digitale-nachbearbeitung/113742-kannste-mir-mal-einige-dias-scannen.html

 

These scans are great.

Pete

[andybarton]

It's the under-developing that is the key (with reference to the TriX)

 

It means that you retain the highlights and open up the shadows ~at the same time~

 

This might only work on C41 colour if the person doing the processing under-develops the film. I know nothing about processing C41 as I have never done it,l but with E6, it is possible to change processing times and get different results, although it's best to stick exactly to the instructions.

[Xmas]

Hi

 

C41 film is wider range then E6 cause of the integral masking, and yes you could reduce the dev time but I dont, (it would shilft the color balance as well)

 

If you expose it more to get the shadows out of the film toe non lineraty (only necessary on high contrast sceanes) then the high lights may be more difficult.

 

So on bright (i.e. contrasty) days I use SC coated lenses, to tame the contrast like I had a digital camera, I'm 'more' careful with exposure as well. I'd use my meter... I carry a lot of equipment...

 

Noel

[Don'tknowmuch]

Any recommendations for developer, time and temp to achieve lower contrast HP5 & Tri-X negs?

 

Andy's Tri-X experience and knowledge is well known and so for Tri-X you could do no better than start with his regime although I myself rate at 200 asa and go for Dil H for 10 mins, with inversions on 0,1,2,4,6,8 mins, at 20 degrees. The difference in our regimes may be small in actual fact by the time one works out the concentration/time factors, and I would guess how one chooses to interpret one's meter probably makes more difference than the difference between 200 and 320 asa.

For HP5 I'm a great fan of it at 200 asa developed in neat Perceptol for 13 mins with inversions at 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,11 mins, at 20 degrees. There's practically no grain and the tones are wonderful. HC-110 is a lot cheaper than this, though!

I've not gone into C41 apart from with colour film, and I've only used colour film once in living memory. I have to say, though, that the scans of the colour negs to which I refer (Fuji Superia rated at it's box speed of 200 asa) developed in the mini lab in my local Boots were very good. But I tend not to bother with colour and am happy enough to leave that to a digital camera.

Jim.