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46 minutes ago, Doc Henry said:

Hello everyone , Hi John , Hi Wayne, a revenant as you say

Yes I remember John .....   the film is the best in every way and as a practician , no stress when you take pictures , you take your time ....  thanks for this reminder John.

I will come back if I have more time because I put photography on stand by for the moment ... I promise I will come back and as you know I love poppies, here is a photo with Kodak Portra 400-Leica M7-90 Apo Summicron Asph (Portra dev in Tetenal homeLab)

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Henry

PS : Wayne it's Gary who told me you were asking for news of me

 

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Good to know (you were off line for over a year!). Good luck with your endeavors, and see you (and your pictures) soon. 

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Getting Ready for Winter

Leica IIIa / Summar 50 f2 / Fuji400

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Tahoe Afternoon.

Leica IIIa / Konishiroku Hexanon 50f1.9 / Fuji400

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On 3/8/2025 at 4:11 PM, Suuumm55 said:

digital photo - converted to film mode 

can it compete with real film photos?    thanks for your opinions......

While it is possible to apply filters or profiles to digital images which claim to emulate the "look" of various film stocks (I have yet to be convinced by any of them), the one thing that cannot be changed is the method of image capture.  An image taken on film means that the film was present in the camera when the image was taken and hence a primary contribution to the "look" of the final image is the choice of film stock.  No amount of digital manipulation can emulate this basic fact of film capture.  The closest that digital cameras can come to this is to compare how different sensors respond to light.  I certainly recall looking at images from an M8 and thinking they reminded me a little bit of Ektachrome whereas the images from the M9 were more like Kodachrome (perhaps no accident they were sensors made by Kodak) but that is not a subject for a forum about the use of film stock.

Compare using a film camera with (still) a range of film choices against digital where needing choice at the point of capture suggests owning a number of different cameras and one of the (many) attractions of film becomes apparent (unless your camera-purchasing budget is extremely generous).

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On 3/10/2025 at 5:02 PM, Doc Henry said:

Hello everyone , Hi John , Hi Wayne, a revenant as you say

Yes I remember John .....   the film is the best in every way and as a practician , no stress when you take pictures , you take your time ....  thanks for this reminder John.

I will come back if I have more time because I put photography on stand by for the moment ... I promise I will come back and as you know I love poppies, here is a photo with Kodak Portra 400-Leica M7-90 Apo Summicron Asph (Portra dev in Tetenal homeLab)

Best regards

Henry

PS : Wayne it's Gary who told me you were asking for news of me

 

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I love this photo, it has a calming quality and can happily get lost in it. Good to hear from you Henry.

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Analog strikes back
Here another on from the series of early Sensorpest-simulation from 1989.
Long before one even could think of that digital cameras like today will be around.😁

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Here some background for those that are interested: The Metol-sulphite developer I used has faded away without a clear indication. Normally you could see this if it get's a yellow color, but here it was only rather slightly. Since it was the first time that happened I couldn't hear the whistles.
So two films came totally clear out of the tank. Only the beginning of the film that was outside the cartridge shows a slight brown color.
I was not willing to accept this and dig into the literature if there was something could be done about it. I found that theoretically it is possible to first fix the film and develop it afterwards with an physically developer. But for this the film has to be overexposed 1000 times and needs to be absolutely free of fog. It was only used to proof the existent of the latent image. But what could I loose? So I mixed up this developer and treated the films with it for quite a while.
Thereafter I had rather thin negatives. So I go on with some mercury iodide intensifier and in the end a sulphide toning. In the end I had close to normal negatives, but with lots of traces of what went wrong. And it added the magic of something being rescued that was not meant to be to the picture.

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On 3/10/2025 at 12:02 PM, Doc Henry said:

Hello everyone , Hi John , Hi Wayne, a revenant as you say

Yes I remember John .....   the film is the best in every way and as a practician , no stress when you take pictures , you take your time ....  thanks for this reminder John.

I will come back if I have more time because I put photography on stand by for the moment ... I promise I will come back and as you know I love poppies, here is a photo with Kodak Portra 400-Leica M7-90 Apo Summicron Asph (Portra dev in Tetenal homeLab)

Best regards

Henry

PS : Wayne it's Gary who told me you were asking for news of me

 

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Welcome back, with one of your very best ever!

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fujifilm Superia Xtra400

m6TTL LHSA | 28 summaron

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rolleiflex 2.8GX

kodak gold 200

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Leica M6 | Voigtlander 35mm Ultron f/2.0 w/ orange filter | Kentmere 400 | Rodinal 

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Spent three hours in the darkroom with this one print. So close but discovered some water spots on the top of the film that were not evident when I scanned. Even tried to rewash the negatives with some photoflo but ended up scratching the corner of the negative, arghh... one of those days. At least I have this image and I'm still happy with the prints even with the watermarks (they are somewhat subtle) but you can't unsee what you've seen... 

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vor 13 Stunden schrieb fotomas:

But what could I loose? So I mixed up this developer and treated the films with it for quite a while.
Thereafter I had rather thin negatives. So I go on with some mercury iodide intensifier and in the end a sulphide toning. In the end I had close to normal negatives, but with lots of traces of what went wrong. And it added the magic of something being rescued that was not meant to be to the picture.

Great story! I had the same thoughts after using the wrong part of a two bath developer resulting in clear negative. Because I haven’t had an intensifier at my shelf that time I decided to throw away that failed negative. Now I would definitely handle that differently. Thank tou for the hint. Cool effect by the way

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incoming storm

m6ttl lhsa | 28 summaron

fujifilm xtra400, home souped

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House at the fjord

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M3 Elmar 50mm 2.8, Foma 100 Rodinal pull1
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On the upper Kaiserstrasse in Frankfurt, Germany

M1 with Summaron 1:5,6 /28 (New Version based on the old calculations), Kodak Ektar 100, f5.6, 1/125

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Is that a car? Of course, a Fiat. Always finds a parking space... . Frankfurt, Germany

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Frankfurt's new landmark in front of St. Paul's Church. Frankfurt, Germany

M1 with Summilux-M 1:1.4 /35 (V3) 2022, Kodak Ektar 100

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m6TTL LHSA | 28 summaron

fujifilm xtra400 | home souped

 

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