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I shared a version of this shot a couple of months ago that I took with my M3 and 135 tele elmar and tmax.  It was ok but nothing to really make a decent print from.  I have gone back to this place a couple of times since then with my 6x9 film and have concluded that the best film to take this shot with is.....PORTRA 800....

Why?  Because the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian path it wobbles like a trampoline!  :angry:

So any photograph taken early or late in the day (which is when the good light comes) taken with film requires serious speed, even with the best ripped (like my Gitzo). Couple this with the long focal length that is needed to capture this scene (which is rather far away) and an even faster shutter is needed (I used a 180mm MF lens and shot this at 1.250, which sounds really fast but I think was just fast enough).

I had nearly every kind of color film in my bag and when it came time to pop one open, the Portra 800 won out.  

The shot is grainy...but so be it...and embrace it!   :)

 

From the Brooklyn Bridge on a early evening

PORTRA 800

 

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And now more NYC wall art spam (which no LUF premium membership will filter out)... :)

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Detail of a sculpture made from scrap metal.

 

Portra 160

IIIb, Summar

 

James

Abstract but not abstract - if you see what I mean!  Well seen & taken.

Also like your snow scene - very atmospheric.  Brrr!

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I picked up some BW400CN today. Is anyone else still shooting this stock?

Yes, I use it occasionally and still have about a dozen rolls in the freezer. It seems a bit less contrasty than XP2 or Neopan 400 CN (an XP2 clone) but I'm no longer so bothered about its discontinuation because, for C41 black and white, I quite like using colour C41 film and converting in post. [emoji55]

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I picked up some BW400CN today. Is anyone else still shooting this stock?

I played with a few rolls of this last year, but came to the conclusion that it gives pretty much the same results as XP2.

 

Your mileage may vary on that, but then again Kodak may have came to the same conclusion before they decided to discontinue it.

 

The pickies below are of a similar tree, but with different exposure ideas. And the second one taken a year later. See what you think.

 

Ric

 

15970447744_8d95a5dbab_o.jpgHütten - Kodak BW400CN by -Ric Capucho-

 

25060469584_e73636bc0d_o.jpgFinstersee - Ilford XP2 film by -Ric Capucho-

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Here's a try I did. Same subject shot in three different ways: Leica with Summaron 3,5, Fuji X-E2 with Summaron 35mm (though it becomes a 52mm) and Fuji X-E2 with the infamous Voigtländer 21mm (a 31mm in full format).

I used the medium yellow filter with the Leica and I've set up the Fuji in the same way using the Voigtländer lens.

The second has a different FOV, obviously, and I've shot them about the same time, with one hour difference more or less.

Which one is better? Hey Doc? :D

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Yes, I use it occasionally and still have about a dozen rolls in the freezer. It seems a bit less contrasty than XP2 or Neopan 400 CN (an XP2 clone) but I'm no longer so bothered about its discontinuation because, for C41 black and white, I quite like using colour C41 film and converting in post. [emoji55]

 

Thanks, Ian.

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I played with a few rolls of this last year, but came to the conclusion that it gives pretty much the same results as XP2.

 

Your mileage may vary on that, but then again Kodak may have came to the same conclusion before they decided to discontinue it.

 

The pickies below are of a similar tree, but with different exposure ideas. And the second one taken a year later. See what you think.

 

Ric

Thanks, Ric. I like both shots, but particularly the ground tones in the BW400CN.

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So the film seems to have survived the the baggage X-ray exposure - well at least the 100 ISO stuff has as I'm yet to scan the 800 Cinestill

 

 

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R7, Ektar 100, 28-90 Vario-Elmarit-R

 

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Fitzroy, Melbourne

 

R7, Ektar 100, 28-90 Vario-Elmarit-R

 

 

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I picked up some BW400CN today. Is anyone else still shooting this stock?

 

 

I've still got about 30 rolls of this in the freezer that I got from Boots when it was discontinued and was discounted to half price  :D 

 

 

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Leica R4, Vario Elmar-R 21-35, Kodak BW400CN

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