I like film...(open thread)

[A miller]

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M-A, 28mm elmarit pre asph, Portra 400

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[stray cat]

Thanks Phil!  First I will be doing a road trip from Ontario to the Rockies, then spending the summer out in northern Alberta.  I plan to make a second trip to Jasper National Park in August for a few days of backcountry hiking, then I will drive back to Ontario.  I'm hoping to have a bit of time to stop at a few provincial and national parks to do some landscape shooting on the way out and back.  After that I will be aiming to spend 6 weeks traveling around Japan in October and November, starting in Tokyo and working my way down to Kagoshima and the island of Yakushima.

 

You're not kidding about these being extended trips! Both sound incredible and a delight for photographing. Look forward to seeing the results!

[stray cat]

Sometimes you get lucky, even if you completely mess up. With this roll of Tri-X (and the two that accompanied it) I decided to stand develop, then somehow managed to pour in two types of developer, Rodinal and XTOL, thereby doubling the dose. Still, this picture I think benefited from the error because it now has a gritty atmospheric edge rather than just being a fairly bland shot. In effect, the mistake made the picture:

 

 

Richmond, Melbourne 2015

M6TTL, Summicron 35mm, K2 yellow filter, Tri-X, screwed up stand develop.

Edited April 7, 2017 by stray cat

[STK]

Similar time/place etc to the SA21 shot I posted, this time with M/F.

 

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Wonderful picture, great!

[Wayne]

Sometimes you get lucky, even if you completely mess up. With this roll of Tri-X (and the two that accompanied it) I decided to stand develop, then somehow managed to pour in two types of developer, Rodinal and XTOL, thereby doubling the dose. Still, this picture I think benefited from the error because it now has a gritty atmospheric edge rather than just being a fairly bland shot. In effect, the mistake made the picture:

 

 

Richmond, Melbourne 2015

M6TTL, Summicron 35mm, K2 yellow filter, Tri-X, screwed up stand develop.

Outstanding. And talk about luck!!!! You know exactly what you did wrong. That never happens when I get an unexpected, desirable result. I just have to scratch my head and hope it happens sometime in future.

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Nice picture Coogee . You have taken from a building ?

Thanks for sharing

Henry

Thanks Henry. Yes, from the top of the high rise apartment building that immediately precedes the one the crane pictured has begun to build, and so it goes on...

 

Well I'm feeling very stupid. Only ever having used an enlarger for 35mm before, I was only dimly aware that I needed a longer focal length lens for bigger negatives. This ought to solve my vignetting issue. Thank goodness for eBay and the numerous brands of enlarger lenses made in Rochester in years gone by.

 

You are in for a treat with 75/80mm lens and medium format negatives when the new lens arrives I think Chris. I am loving printing my 6x6 negatives small at the moment, the resolution is astounding, like sparkling little jewels.

 

Kodak TMAX100-Leica R4S-Summicron 50 (1986)

 

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Kodak Portra 160-Leicaflex SL-Summicron 50 (1970)

 

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Which you prefer ? color or b&w or both ?

same wild cherry  in contre-jour

 

Best

Henry

 

Kodak Portra 160 dev myself in Tetenal at 38°C

Kodak TMAX100 dev myself in Kodak Pro D76 at 22°C

 

FWIW I much prefer the b&w here Henry, I really enjoy the abstraction of the flowers in black and white, it brings a little mystery to proceedings.

 

These are from a dawn in Mevagissey, Cornwall - these two smelly old local Tomcats joined me for the sunrise, then returned to furiously peeing everywhere.

 

 

Both with HP5+, MP, 28mm Summicron.

[Wayne]

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CL, 35 Summilux, HP5

 

All of the sudden, everywhere I go, I am being examined by cats. No sign of approval so far.

 

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[stray cat]

I personally am thrilled to see an onslaught of "stray cats" in this thread! Carry on!

[philipus]

I have Pan F on bulk so I think I'll bring two shorter rolls and shoot EI800 and EI1600. I have a feeling it will be a bit to a lot grainer than 120 but it will be nice to use HC-110 again. It's been a while since I, being lazy, usually default to Diafine (and even manage to mess that up sometimes by forgetting the film in one of the baths   Still it doesn't seem to affect the results much). 

 

 

1600? That would be 18 minutes at 20ºC, using 1+49. I haven't done that with 35mm, just 120. I did see a very big difference in quality between 120 and 35mm when I did 3200 (which I won't do again, as a tiny bit of further underexposure means an unusable negative). It will be interesting to see if 35mm holds up as well as 120 at 1600. This is another example of 120 XP2 at 1600:

 

Experiment in Push Processing 2 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Perhaps I should do a 35mm at 1600 as well.

 

C.

Edited April 7, 2017 by philipus

[philipus]

Speaking of grain, here are some...of sand (if one grain-peeps on the large version  ) Just two shells my daughter picked when we went for a walk.

 

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80 Planar+32E+16E Ektar 100

 

 

[chrism]

I have Pan F on bulk so I think I'll bring two shorter rolls and shoot EI800 and EI1600. I have a feeling it will be a bit to a lot grainer than 120 but it will be nice to use HC-110 again. It's been a while since I, being lazy, usually default to Diafine (and even manage to mess that up sometimes by forgetting the film in one of the baths   Still it doesn't seem to affect the results much). 

 

Just to be clear, the time/dilution etc I was talking about was for XP2! But if you want to try Pan F at 1600......

[chrism]

Lovely, Chris.  I like the last in particular, although to my eyes it is a bit flat.  

 

Agreed. I find myself dragging down the highlights on snow scenes as I don't like blank white (even if it was blank white).

[Doc Henry]

Gulfport, Florida, 2017, IIIf, 50/2.8 Elmar, Tri-X, Ilfotec DD-X, BEOON, Fuji X-E2, 50/4 Componon

 

I was pleased that I not only got a shot of the pelican as he was taking off but also that he is fairly well centered. What I don't like is that black line at the top of the frame. It appears on all of the images on the roll. (The line is parallel to the edge of the negative. I rotated the scan a little because I didn't have the camera quite square with the opening in the BEOON 35mm mask.) The line doesn't not appear on the next roll I shot with the same camera so I don't think it was the camera. Any thoughts?

 

--Doug

 

Superb shot , well done , at the right moment ....with an old IIIf

and b&w tone beautiful ! bravo film !

It's great Doug ... more please

Thanks for posting

Regards

Henry

[Doc Henry]

There a rather pretty little forest here in The Hague which goes by the name of the hyacinth forest (hyacintenbos) Ockenburgh due to the very large amount of blue hyacints that grow there. This is from a few weeks ago when they evidently hadn't come out. I thought this interesting tree was worth a shot.

 

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80 Planar Ektar 100 (wet mount)

 

Wonderful color Philip , really wonderful (i repeat myself a habit when it's too beautiful)

Best

Henry

[Doc Henry]

 

1600? That would be 18 minutes at 20ºC, using 1+49. I haven't done that with 35mm, just 120. I did see a very big difference in quality between 120 and 35mm when I did 3200 (which I won't do again, as a tiny bit of further underexposure means an unusable negative). It will be interesting to see if 35mm holds up as well as 120 at 1600. This is another example of 120 XP2 at 1600:

 

Experiment in Push Processing 2 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Perhaps I should do a 35mm at 1600 as well.

 

C.

 

Chris , the grain is really beautiful , very fine with a great natural contrast

definition and tone

I'll PM you for details of dev.

Thanks for sharing

Best

Henry

[Doc Henry]

 

 

 

Thank you Phil!

 

Since I have decided to only shoot film on two major trips that I have coming up later this year, I decided that is was finally time to buy a Leica with a built-in meter.  I found a nice M6 classic over the weekend, and just got around to developing the first results from it.  Here are a few from the first roll!

 

M6, Voigtlander 35/2.5 Color-Skopar, HP5, D76:

 

Untitled by Brendan | Toews, on Flickr

 

Untitled by Brendan | Toews, on Flickr

 

Untitled by Brendan | Toews, on Flickr

 

Brendan congrats for your new M6 acquisition

It's a nice camera with nice pictures

Lightmeter is sometimes useful when you shoot at the right moment "à la manière de Henri Cartier Bresson"

Nice series specially the last one .... abandoned house worthy in a movie

Thanks

Henry

[Doc Henry]

Sometimes you get lucky, even if you completely mess up. With this roll of Tri-X (and the two that accompanied it) I decided to stand develop, then somehow managed to pour in two types of developer, Rodinal and XTOL, thereby doubling the dose. Still, this picture I think benefited from the error because it now has a gritty atmospheric edge rather than just being a fairly bland shot. In effect, the mistake made the picture:

 

 

Richmond, Melbourne 2015

M6TTL, Summicron 35mm, K2 yellow filter, Tri-X, screwed up stand develop.

 

Phil this picture is great , the grain is superb

Yes good result with TX here !

and Summicron 35 is a great lens. Is't a version III ?

Thanks for posting

Henry

[stray cat]

Phil this picture is great , the grain is superb

Yes good result with TX here !

and Summicron 35 is a great lens. Is't a version III ?

Thanks for posting

Henry

 

Thank you so much Henry. Yes, there is no substitute for delicious GRAIN!

 

I love using the Summicron lens, Henry - in fact I am planning on using it for the Melbourne Challenge tomorrow - should be fun. My copy is a version IV - it is just a wonderful lens and I never ceased to be amazed at how the pictures from it look. Mind you I have recently acquired a couple of Summarons, one goggled and one non-goggled, and these are lovely lenses too.

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[stray cat]

Speaking of the 35mm Summicron, I used the same lens at the Top of the Rock in New York last August (I don't think I've posted this picture before, apologies if I have). It is so small, which makes the combination not so threatening-looking, it makes for a wonderful candid lens.

 

 

Top of the Rock, NYC, August 2016

M6TTL, Summicron 35mm, Tri-X

[Wayne]

Speaking of the 35mm Summicron, I used the same lens at the Top of the Rock in New York last August (I don't think I've posted this picture before, apologies if I have). It is so small, which makes the combination not so threatening-looking, it makes for a wonderful candid lens.

 

 

 

Top of the Rock, NYC, August 2016

M6TTL, Summicron 35mm, Tri-X

The "Grand Final"s children visiting New York ? It has the same charm and character as that great photo of yours. Great shot.

Edited April 7, 2017 by Wayne