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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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Thank you Chris! Good to know a presoak will help a bit. I'll make a note of that for my next rolls. I'm looking forward to your pictures. 

 

For anyone who have difficulty imagining what I mean by pink, here's an example.

 

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Nicely done, Philip! Yes, they will be pink or purple, but that doesn't affect scanning. The base colour is why XP2 negatives require longer exposure in the darkroom than silver halide films. One reason for a presoak of three minutes or so is to try to remove some of that colour, and it works better on 120 film (which pours out purple) than 35mm (which has but a little tint to it).

 

I'm on my way home today after a trip around Cape Breton, so there will be some developing to do when I get back. I hope some of Henry's ancestors were at Fortress Louisbourg, as I should have some photographs...

 

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What fool would shoot landscapes with an ISO 400 HP5+? Er, emm, well - me.

On a recent weekend trip to the Swiss Alps, I mostly used my digital Ms for B/W and tended to give some of the images a clean digital look, yet others a somewhat ‚filmy‘ look (posts #1045-1048 & #1052-1055 in the black & white thread

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/257654-black-and-white-image-thread/page-53 .

 

I also had my trusty but underutilized M7 with me, which I mostly used for portraits (not shown here) but also for occasional vistas. Technically they are not the best, and my hybrid workflow needs much more finetunig, but the experience led me to rediscover film, and I will give meterless (M3) a try in the future. Actually, I liked the film portraits much better than the digital ones; with the landscapes, my mileage varies…

 

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[ M7, Summicron 50 (V), Ilford HP5+, Adox Atomal, Reflecta Pro RPS 7200 @ 3600 dpi ]

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[ M7, Summicron 50 (V), Ilford HP5+, Adox Atomal, Reflecta Pro RPS 7200 @ 3600 dpi ]

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Ok well, I am officially amazed.

 

I decided yesterday to try my new lens, the 40mm Distagon CFE and to do that with a roll of XP2 and to develop that roll in HC-110, just to see if I'd get anywhere near the nice results Chris showed earlier in the thread.

 

The lens performs beautifully and is a joy to use. I decided to challenge it a bit in the second photo and it came out ok. The development went well too, with the exception that the negs are, for lack of a more accurate description, completely p.i.n.k.

 

After re-fixing for a long time and re-washing for an even longer time, I can conclude that the negs will remain pink (in honour of which I am today wearing a pink shirt). In any event, they scan beautifully.

 

I shot these at the native ISO 400 and like a lot what I see. There's virtually no grain, which I guess isn't so strange, but the tones are quite nice too. The scans hold up amazingly well in post, too.

 

I'll be bringing XP2 in both 135 and 120 on my vacation the coming two weeks, and will try it at EI800 and, perhaps, at EI1600 too.

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These are beautiful, Philip. I hummed and haa-ed about whether to go down the 40mm Distagon or SWC route, and ended up SWC, largely because I'd always wanted one. The 40 is still creating some GAS, with the ability to use the waiste-level finder. You're not helping to alleviate that GAS!

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Does anyone have a view in whether the Hasselblad 2XE tele-converter would be a good buy for my 250mm superachromat? I am looking for a longer focal length and am wondering whether the versatility and optical quality are worth it. Thanks in advance for any thoights!

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Thank you Chris! Good to know a presoak will help a bit. I'll make a note of that for my next rolls. I'm looking forward to your pictures. 

 

For anyone who have difficulty imagining what I mean by pink, here's an example.

 

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FYI - I decided that I didn't need Google to tell me whether or not I could treat BW400CN the same way as XP2 by B&W developing instead of C41. I should have used Google. I ended up with extremely faint images only just showing through the almost opaque orange-brown base. I'll pull them out and try scanning some this weekend to see if there is anything salvageable.

 

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Thank you Chris! Good to know a presoak will help a bit. I'll make a note of that for my next rolls. I'm looking forward to your pictures. 

 

For anyone who have difficulty imagining what I mean by pink, here's an example.

 

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I think the negatives would look good framed on a vertical lightbox, Philip - That pink has a certain something quality.

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What fool would shoot landscapes with an ISO 400 HP5+? Er, emm, well - me.

 

On a recent weekend trip to the Swiss Alps, I mostly used my digital Ms for B/W and tended to give some of the images a clean digital look, yet others a somewhat ‚filmy‘ look (posts #1045-1048 & #1052-1055 in the black & white thread

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/257654-black-and-white-image-thread/page-53 .

 

I also had my trusty but underutilized M7 with me, which I mostly used for portraits (not shown here) but also for occasional vistas. Technically they are not the best, and my hybrid workflow needs much more finetunig, but the experience led me to rediscover film, and I will give meterless (M3) a try in the future. Actually, I liked the film portraits much better than the digital ones; with the landscapes, my mileage varies…

 

All these pictures are outstanding. They are composed well and they are technically terrific. The deep blacks, sparkling whites and great separation of the middle tones are wonderful. Good on you and HP5. 

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Very cool. Where did you find this thing?

 

 

Delightful. Which developer did you use?

 

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Philip, I sent this roll to Ilford US for processing, haven't developed a roll myself since high school but I need to start doing so, it's an expensive habit otherwise!

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