After using the Cat Labs and the Fomapan, it was almost comforting to use a couple of rolls of HP-5. I got twelve exposures on each roll, it didn't turn my fixer blue and it loaded on the stainless reel easily and fed through the carrier without any problems. My biggest problem with the rolls was me. The Fujica lacks any reference lines in the viewfinder. I try to be careful when aligning an image but today there were more tilted ones than normal. I'll blame it on my cheap glasses.
Fujica Super 6, 75mm 3.5 Fujinar, HP-5, Rodinal 1:50
Upholstery! Beaverton, Oregon
Mural Detail
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Remains of Outdoor Seating
Window Art
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All of these were converted using NLP. Profile conversions, no other adjustments.
Along that dried up creek bed in the dark forest I found a patch of Black-eyed Susan flowers with the 40mm f`1.4 Zuiko Then a test dof shot using the Nikkor 50mm f1.2 ais on the same roll of Aristapan 100 in the Pen FT. I'm trying to make a focusing magnifier for the Pen FT. The only oem one was in Australia, but the seller won't sell to the US.I won't damage the camera to adapt a magnifier I have, and I repaired the eyepiece that was chipped (why I got such a good price) that every accessory that goes on this camera hangs. Still waiting on my good (right) eye to recover - It's almost back
Activatedfx wrote:
So I started looking for an iso 200 B/W film. I also wouldn't mind something more "interesting" than TMax. I know the Fomapan / Arista Edu films are popular, but I've read they are extremely thin, curly and hard to deal with?
The newish Kentmere 200 is actually a great film, dries flat, and is very affordable. I would use that in the Holga under brighter conditions. I've used ISO 50 film in the Holga with no problems, but it has to be very bright out. The Holga does tend to underexpose and as Huss said it's best to stick with ISO 400 film for the most flexibility. But you should be safe with ISO 200 as long as conditions are bright enough.
We had some friends over yesterday afternoon for a session of traditional Irish music and I took a few photos with my Mamiya C330 and HP5+, pushed to ISO 1600.
bjhurley wrote:
We had some friends over yesterday afternoon for a session of traditional Irish music and I took a few photos with my Mamiya C330 and HP5+, pushed to ISO 1600.
bjhurley wrote:
We had some friends over yesterday afternoon for a session of traditional Irish music and I took a few photos with my Mamiya C330 and HP5+, pushed to ISO 1600.
madNbad wrote:
Good use of available light! What developer did you use?
At one point I did turn on some overhead lights as it was getting late in the day, and that helped a bit. But I still shot all of these at f/2.8 and 1/30 of a second. I considered pushing further to ISO 3200 so I could stop down more but figured 1600 would be a safer bet in terms of image quality. I used DD-X, following the Ilford developing times for pushing HP5+ (13 minutes for ISO 1600) since I know I can trust those based on past experience.
