Work has been extra busy for the last several months, so I've had limited opportunity to shoot new stuff. Looks like this will continue for a while longer. On top of that, we've had one of the driest winters I can remember (after one of the wettest summers on record), and without the snow, everything is just kinda brown and drab. But here are a few I've been able to put together.
The first group is from a park near my home when we got some nice hoarfrost.
4X5 E100g, Schneider Symmar-S 150/5.6
4X5 Ektar 100, Schneider Symmar-S 150/5.6
4X5 Ektar 100, Fujinon 400T/8
The second group is from a quick trip down to the Sangre de Cristos one Saturday morning.
stitched 2 4X5 E100G, converted to B&W, Fujinon 400T/8
kidtexas wrote:
Those shopping carts look cute. haha. Nice photo.
Thanks! But they are actually huge. I love the short DOF of the 105/2.4 as it is still sharp wide open, to the very corners.
Nice Kodachrome shots of yours! For some reason, slide film is very hard to mimic with anything else.
Morfeus, I like the abstraction that occurs because of the sky being close to the walls in lightness. Often that would be a bad thing, but you made it look interesting.
Mrladewig, awesome! The last two are just fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Wow some great shots here. Here are a few shots I developed from my trip up to Maine over Christmas. They were shot with an Olympus 35 RC using BW400CN. I now have some Tri-X loaded and am excited to start some home developing.
Simon - that is stellar. It's freakish how well balanced some of the interior light is, being compound light sources, etc.
Some day, I will get back into 4x5. As a student, I dabbled only because some courses required it...which is not to say I didn't enjoy 4x5, but I couldn't afford shooting it, even with free rentals.
Damn, this page is amazing. Some of the most interesting that I've seen recently.
I just got a lot of expired 400VC developed and it's scanning terribly. All way to the left on the histogram as if it was underexposed, and very blue, even though I rated it at 320 and had it developed normally. Hoping it was a bad batch of development and not that it really lost that much speed. It's only about 4 years expired and has been refrigerated. Anyone see this type of thing?
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cgiff wrote:
Damn, this page is amazing. Some of the most interesting that I've seen recently.
I just got a lot of expired 400VC developed and it's scanning terribly. All way to the left on the histogram as if it was underexposed, and very blue, even though I rated it at 320 and had it developed normally. Hoping it was a bad batch of development and not that it really lost that much speed. It's only about 4 years expired and has been refrigerated. Anyone see this type of thing?
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Hard to tell if its the scanning or the developing. I'd say it's more likely the scanning/correcting than it is the development, unless you have specific reasons to suspect the lab.
cgiff wrote:
Damn, this page is amazing. Some of the most interesting that I've seen recently.
I just got a lot of expired 400VC developed and it's scanning terribly. All way to the left on the histogram as if it was underexposed, and very blue, even though I rated it at 320 and had it developed normally. Hoping it was a bad batch of development and not that it really lost that much speed. It's only about 4 years expired and has been refrigerated. Anyone see this type of thing?
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Are you scanning your own? I think is either the scanning software not able to color correct your negatives.
cgiff wrote:
Damn, this page is amazing. Some of the most interesting that I've seen recently.
I just got a lot of expired 400VC developed and it's scanning terribly. All way to the left on the histogram as if it was underexposed, and very blue, even though I rated it at 320 and had it developed normally. Hoping it was a bad batch of development and not that it really lost that much speed. It's only about 4 years expired and has been refrigerated. Anyone see this type of thing?
4 years expired? Are you sure it was refrigerated? Was the fridge on? I had some 3-year expired Superia that shifted really pink, grainy and low contrast.
You can perhaps print a frame in the lab and then you'll see whether it is your scanner or the film (which doesn't help with the film vs development question but...).
I too suspect the scanning though I can't be 100% sure without seeing the film itself. That said, I really didn't care for the old 400VC. Really coarse grain in that film and it just didn't scan happy. I've shot film more than 4 years expired properly stored with no shift or loss in speed. I've got tons of rolls of E100GX that were stored frozen, I believe expired in 2005 and shoot like brand new rolls I got from one of the last batches of E100GX.
The last developments of mine have had large "blobs" in the one end of the film (to the left here) facing upwards on the tank spool. I suspect it is due to air bubbles, but how to avoid it? Perhaps I should let the water stand at room temperature for an hour before I dilute the developer in it?
This particular shot was developed with Calbe R09 ("Rodinal") 1:60 for 12 minutes. I'm not sure, but I don't think I've seen it when developing in D-76 1:1.
Edit: I realise it's hard to see after PP, but look at the darker blobs on the steel section to the left.
I love the short DOF of the 105/2.4 as it is still sharp wide open, to the very corners.
