I like film...(open thread)

[MT0227]

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Early morning sunrise at the north end of Central Park's Reservoir, looking south east.   You have the second tallest building (1,400ft)  in NYC to the left, 432 Park avenue. Something about the blending of the colors in the water keeps me going back to this one, so I figured it made sense to post it here.

 

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 Central Park Reservoir - North End by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

Edited November 29, 2017 by MT0227

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[Keith (M)]

 

Early morning sunrise at the north end of Central Park's Reservoir, looking south east.   You have the second tallest building (1,400ft)  in NYC to the left, 432 Park avenue. Something about the blending of the colors in the water keeps me going back to this one, so I figured it made sense to post it here.

 

Hasselblad 503CW

80mm Planar CFE

Ektar

LS-9000

 

  

 

 Central Park Reservoir - North End by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

Gorgeous light and colours.

[Keith (M)]

Avebury Manor in late Nov sunshine. 21-35mm Vario Elmar, R5, HP5Plus.

 

[Wayne]

 

Early morning sunrise at the north end of Central Park's Reservoir, looking south east.   You have the second tallest building (1,400ft)  in NYC to the left, 432 Park avenue. Something about the blending of the colors in the water keeps me going back to this one, so I figured it made sense to post it here.

 

Hasselblad 503CW

80mm Planar CFE

Ektar

LS-9000

 

  

 Central Park Reservoir - North End by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

This is a gorgeous photograph.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

[Suede]

Expired unknown film.

 

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[spero pa]

Okay I agree great photo, you’re very good with your Leica camera - I will in the near future and would also like too take a series of

Street shots in and around New York, it will make a great change, at the moment I’m always swanning around the back streets of London with my M6 loaded with B&W film. But I’ve got no complaints.

[Keith (M)]

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Linhof 4x5, Schneider 120mm 5.6

Love the detail there, Wayne.  Quite some range of formats you are using - half-frame to 4x5 and seemingly everything in between! 

[Wayne]

Another "interesting" shot I found of the lab scans that were emailed to me yesterday. This is using a way out-of-date and poorly stored roll of Cinestill 800T that I'd found recently. I just love that nexus between the colours and the gritty grain. When I receive the negs in the mail, I'll be tempted to scan this and make a large print:

 

 

Clouds 2017

Canon F1N, FD 80-200mm F4L, Cinestill 800T (lab scan)

My grandfather painted cloud scenes on the walls and ceiling of one of the bedrooms, the one I slept in while visiting, in his house. For some reason this scene immediately triggered memory of that room. Simply beautiful. Also very relaxing.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

[Keith (M)]

More from Sunday morning in Avebury - and yes you guessed it - 21-35mm Vario Elmar, R5 & HP5Plus    (finishing off the roll).

A thatched theme for these two:-

 

[Wayne]

Love the detail there, Wayne.  Quite some range of formats you are using - half-frame to 4x5 and seemingly everything in between! 

It is true. I am fascinated by all of it. I believe, with 4x5, I have come face to face with a real issue related to film negatives: I lack digital capacity and/or /knowledge to fully enjoy what the negative could provide in the way of visual reward. I scanned the negative with an Epson V800 flat bed scanner, at 2400, and as tiff, and am pretty sure something is still lacking. Of course, the image posted here is nowhere as good as the tiff....................But, not even the tiff provides what appears to be in the negative. It fascinates me, the negative. I suppose, on top of everything else, I am going to have to try my hand at enlarging and printing. Before this, I have never beheld a negative that compels as much as these 4x5 negs do.  

 

I tried to scan at higher than 2400, but received a message, from scanner, that document was too large to scan at higher resolution.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

Edited November 29, 2017 by Wayne

[Steve Ricoh]

Another "interesting" shot I found of the lab scans that were emailed to me yesterday. This is using a way out-of-date and poorly stored roll of Cinestill 800T that I'd found recently. I just love that nexus between the colours and the gritty grain. When I receive the negs in the mail, I'll be tempted to scan this and make a large print:

 

 

Clouds 2017

Canon F1N, FD 80-200mm F4L, Cinestill 800T (lab scan)

Nature playing complementary colours, nice!

[EoinC]

 

Early morning sunrise at the north end of Central Park's Reservoir, looking south east.   You have the second tallest building (1,400ft)  in NYC to the left, 432 Park avenue. Something about the blending of the colors in the water keeps me going back to this one, so I figured it made sense to post it here...

Excellent, Marc!

[wattsy]

The National Trust spent a lot of money rethatching that barn a few years ago and, for some reason nobody could exactly fathom, the local jackdaws took a liking to it and threatened to strip it bare. I believe that a number of solutions were tried to dissuade the birds but all were unsuccessful so the Trust resorted to the wire netting that is now in place.

 

More from Sunday morning in Avebury - and yes you guessed it - 21-35mm Vario Elmar, R5 & HP5Plus    (finishing off the roll).

A thatched theme for these two:-

 

 

Edited November 29, 2017 by wattsy

[EoinC]

Avebury Manor in late Nov sunshine. 21-35mm Vario Elmar, R5, HP5Plus...

I'm really enjoying your latest series, Keith. This combo is working well in your hands (and you're educating the masses along the way).

[EoinC]

...I suppose, on top of everything else, I am going to have to try my hand at enlarging and printing...

Good to hear, Wayne. An interim measure you could easily try with the 4x5 is contact printing. 4x5 prints are (to me, at least) fascinating.

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Kewl. Where did you get the C41 kits from, Bro'?

 

These guys mate https://www.fotoimpex.de/shopen/chemistry/tetenal-colortec-c-41-negative-kit-rapid-2500-ml-for-25-40-films.html came quite quickly and no issues with customs or delivery to Malaysia

 

Neil

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

 

Early morning sunrise at the north end of Central Park's Reservoir, looking south east.   You have the second tallest building (1,400ft)  in NYC to the left, 432 Park avenue. Something about the blending of the colors in the water keeps me going back to this one, so I figured it made sense to post it here.

 

Hasselblad 503CW

80mm Planar CFE

Ektar

LS-9000

 

  

 Central Park Reservoir - North End by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

 

Love the colours mate...........fantastic

 

Neil

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Avebury Manor in late Nov sunshine. 21-35mm Vario Elmar, R5, HP5Plus.

 

Love that mate..........made me miss home for 30 seconds :) 

 

Neil

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[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

More from Sunday morning in Avebury - and yes you guessed it - 21-35mm Vario Elmar, R5 & HP5Plus    (finishing off the roll).

A thatched theme for these two:-

 

Another great set Keith  

 

Neil

[stray cat]

Phil,

Persuaded by the images of Doc Henry (where are you?), I started C41 about 6 Months ago. So I am not an expert, but a beginner also.

Main difference is indeed to keep the temperature constant. To that end I use a square plastic bucket (from a DIY store, as used for holding wall-paint), to hold the warm water and in it the bottles of developing chemicals. A heating as used in a small aquarium for tropical fish the temperature constant. I use metal developing tanks as they are easier to clean. Things start by bringing the film in the tank up to the right temperature with a waterbath, once that is done, and the chemicals are at the right temperature develop as prescribed.

Much easier than I had feared.

Looking forward to seeing your results!

 

Rgds

 

C.

 

 

I place the chemistry in hot water, let the water warm up the chemistry to circa 40 degrees Celsius, then let the temperature drop slowly by just waiting. When temperature is within the accepted span of +/- .2, I just start processing. It's only 3-4 minutes that the developer will be active, so no need for temperature control while developing. I do preheat my Paterson tank with the film with water of the same temperature to keep temperature consistent. It is really easy if you stay calm and precise. Just do it:-) Just started 2 months ago, and I love the process!

 

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im doing mine now in a biucket in a sink. Basically I put the bucket in the sink full of water around 100 degrees. Then in the bucket I put the 4 bottles of chemicals and fill the bucket with water to get the chems to ~100 degrees then stat the process of 5 minutes hot water wash. 3 1/2 mins devoloper 1 1/2 min stop then 3 min wash with 100 deg water. 6 1/2 minutes BLIX then wash for 3 mins the stabilizer for 1 1/2 mins

The important bit is making sure you get the temperature correct for the devoloper then the rest of the chems can be ~10 degrees either side

I hope this helps

This is one of my first tries at C41

 

 

Neil, not a bad result for a 1st go. In fact better than that!

You might consider acquiring a plastic tank, of suitable dimensions, so you can stand all the chem bottles and the dev tank in at the same time. Fill it with water at the correct (38 Deg C) temp and that will give a larger volume of water bath, hence more stability. Stability (or rather consistency) of temp is more important than accuracy.

 

 

After considerable thinking and searching for a heated bath, something that is capable of holding all bottles of chemistry and developing tank, I discovered that many of the common, cheap foot massagers/baths are heated, and can be set to a range of temperatures that includes those necessary to C41 process.  As chemistry never enters bath water, it, the massager, can be used to massage your feet, or your wife's, after the arduous task of standing in front of the bath during the development process. In fact, you can quickly gain approval of wife, for purchase of massger, by suggesting that the family deserves a foot massager............never mentioning the fact that the device will serve a collateral purpose.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

 

Thank you sincerely Christoph, maate (and welcome!), Neil (what a sensational portrait!), John and Wayne for such well-considered and immensely practical advice. OK it seems entirely feasibly within the ability of human beings to do this C41 processing, so I will certainly give it a go. Plus I might be able to score some brownie points along the way with foot-warmers! It really would be an exciting "development" if I could process these films at home, and my son (who is pretty much - dare I say it (yes, while Henry's not around it should be OK) - all digital), said he'd be much more likely to get his F5 working again if we can process the colour negs at home. So it will be a win all round.

 

Can't wait to process my first rolls! Of course I suppose I should expose them in a camera first...