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Bonjour Henri,   I still prefer black and white film (I use almost no colour). The advantages of digital don’t mean much to me. Seeing instant results is not so useful, since what comes out of a cam

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You're a brave man, Gary. The prolific display of good photo's, EKTAR repeated in large font, and my happening to be in a shop with a tempting stack of the filthy stuff, made resistance futile. Since then, I have indulged in more serious non-prescribed abusive behavior by purchasing Portra 800 and Cinestill 50. I can foresee lying in a gutter in my not too distant future.

 

It all starts with "one roll couldn't hurt..."

I'll stay strong the Eoin, as long as I can. Got too much B&W in the fridge and freezer to deviate. Not even one roll, yeah right.

Plus Mr Ektar producing what he is at present, how can I compare? LOL.

Wonderful thread, many thanks to the Doc for this. Little or no bitching or bickering, just great pics, good company, and advice if/when asked for.

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One week to go then I will be home! I don't think the weather will be as fine as it is in this image.

M7 with Zeiss 21mm lens, I believe.

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On the same day.

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And no doubt I will venture to Llandudno Pier for another long exposure attempt of the pier. 

Mamiya C330 on FP4.

 

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 No thought police yet, but getting closer. Just whisper as we are in serious danger "careless talk costs lives".

These people sell at really good prices, no connection, I picked up a Phase One back really cheap ex rental elsewhere.

http://shop.fotopartner.de/epages/Fotopartner.sf/de_DE/?ViewAction=View&ObjectID=11843&Page=2#.VtsvEH2LSt8

All H models with the latest firmware allow a film back there you go on topic!!

 

Note the 203 needs a factory mod for a digital back Hasselblad or Phase, I have run a digital back on a 501 and would not recommend it, the mirror slap is a killer, it restricts you to 250th minimum if hand holding. The H series have a programmable delay from mirror up to fire, milliseconds and you hardly notice but makes a big difference. The CF adapter allows me all my V glass on the H, a little ponderous but that's medium format anyway.

 

 

How thoughtful that you can retrograde your digital camera to take film. I never knew that. Clever these Swedes !

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Oh I'm so happy! Turns out my Minolta scanner does work!! The last time I tried to use it, I could not get it to take my film holders. I though it was broken, and it sat for years. On a whim, I tried it again today, planning to see what I could do about fixing it. When I plugged it in and opened up VueScan it gave me a message to calibrate. Huh? So I looked within the menu of VueScan and sure enough there was a Calibrate function. That did it!

 

Anyway, my first scan in a long time  - this time color neg - which I have very little experience shooting and no experience scanning or printing. I usually shoot slide film or B&W negative film (or Digital lately). I can't get my Portra shots to look like I want. Some of the examples posted here are really great (recently the medium format shot of a guy fishing posted a few pages back - the colors in that are fantastic)

 

 

Mexico-girl-icecream.jpg

 

Leica M6

Summicron 50

Kodak Portra 160 VC

 

Glad see you back :)

Lovely picture and nice color

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Lower Manhattan

M-A, 28mm summaron, Portra 800

 

Superb Adam as usual :)

at the decisive moment

Kodak Portra 800 seems more sensitive and color is warmer in comparison

with KP 400. Not too much grain for a 800 Isos film.

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OK, after a brief hiatus (work, and the immediacy of digital) I am back, sort of.

Shot a roll of Foma Retropan, more out of curiosity. Not sure if it is me to be honest, I was bought up on "soot and whitewash", and the less grain the better. I'm old enough to be retro, and I don't recall any of my early B&W looking like this. Maybe I am getting old.

I'll deposit a few shots here and there over the next few weeks.

All with the M6, all with either the old collapsible 50 Summicron (so a softer/older look to start with).

Processed in Rodinal 1:50.

Next roll will be something slower/sharper I reckon.

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Nice Gary , glad see you back for posting pictures :)

Beautiful grain . I'll add a little contrast with your new scanning system

to highlight more sheep :)

Thanks for sharing Gary

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I'll stay strong the Eoin, as long as I can. Got too much B&W in the fridge and freezer to deviate. Not even one roll, yeah right.

Plus Mr Ektar producing what he is at present, how can I compare? LOL.

Wonderful thread, many thanks to the Doc for this. Little or no bitching or bickering, just great pics, good company, and advice if/when asked for.

Gary

Thank you Gary for your support.

I also learned many things in this thread

Thanks to all contributors :)

 

A magic thread !

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One week to go then I will be home! I don't think the weather will be as fine as it is in this image.

M7 with Zeiss 21mm lens, I believe.

This picture is superb :)  : b&w  tonality , contrast  and great perspective

clouds perfect

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Kodak Portra is stil a good film

a bit expensive but a really fabulous film color  :)

I am not surprised that it is selling well

by local people this pure and transparent green color is due to algae and reflection of blue sky
the beautiful combination of natural elements :)

 

Granville coast and the Channel

(Normandy)

 

Kodak Portra 400

Leica M7

35 Summilux Asph

 

 

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Street Photos

(Marseille South France)

 

Anxiety ? and solitude of a nice lady :)

 

 

Ilford HP5

Leica MP

28 Summicron Asph

 

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Landscape in our region

 

 

Kodak Portra 160

(dev home Tetenal 30°C)

Leica M7

35 Summilux Asph

 

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and for the pleasure to see just nice color.

 

In comparison with pictures from my two digital cameras ,  it's really

far from what I get in film !

 

Film is not dead !

 

Mondial Air Ballon

taken at about 100 m

almost in sunset

 

Kodak Portra 400

M7-50 Summilux Asph

 

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For Adam

Sunset not in NYC but on the Channel

Opale Coast near Calais precisely Dunkerque :)

 

 

Fuji Superia

Leica MP

50 Summilux Asph

 

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I spent a lot of time balancing the whites/luminances such that the highlights would be popping strong while retaining the detail and naturally surreal colors in the clouds.  

As for print size, the negative is 6x9 so I am confident that I could get a very large print on Fuji Flex paper.  The Tiff file is approx 600MB and LR gives a size reading of 13018 X 7323, according to which at a full 300 pixels per inch (PPI) I could easily make a print that is 48" wide without any loss of resolution.  And 1-2 feet wider than this should be achievable with acceptably professional results.

Indeed, large prints are entirely viable, then!. Apologies, my assumption was that you had used a smaller format. Fujiflex is an amazing material, my Fellowship panels for BIPP and MPA (a few years ago) were printed on Fujiflex mounted onto 3mm acrylic sheet for flatness and then in turn mounted onto 20x16" double bevel-cut matts. As you know the glass-like surface finish of Fujiflex accentuates every undulation of whatever it is mounted on and to get the best from it, the mount surface needs to be as as flat as possible. My advice that you find a good mentor (for want of a better term) stands. I think you are beginning to create an interesting body of work with you NYC urbanscapes and it's worth nurturing this without getting dragged into life wasting arguments over equipment and technique on other parts of the forum. This work is your strength photographically and I do think you could take it far.

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Agree, Marc.  And, of course, you would have made this photo sing with any film.  I'm simply stating how much I like the result of the portra 400 (not to imply that it was the only way to go here)

Thank you very much Adam. I think especially for theses cases, the Portra is very well-tempered. By the way, concerning "wrong" film: it reminds me of a saying of my old chief: he always said: if you can not swim, it is almost never the problem of your swimming trunks. Thats why I use the Portra, these trunks work very well  ;)

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