theHUN wrote:
It's film, so only the vibes matter. I am told this particular set has the vibe of Eraserhead, a movie I have yet to watch (shame on me).
What did you do to flatten it? Whenever I've hung it to dry it became wrinkled, twisted, curled, and cupped, and putting the cut negatives under a stack of books for a few days helped only slightly. Lomig (the guy who makes this film) says to roll it backwards into its backing paper and let it sit like that for a while; I haven't tried that.
I tried using my Laowa anamorphic adapter on my Diana and Holga cameras. This was kind of crazy, as the adapter cost 20 times more than either camera and weighs about 4 times more. You have to attach the camera to the adapter rather than the adapter to the camera.
Normally you'd look through the lens and align the adapter so there's no skew but since you can't look through the lens of these cameras I eyeballed it. The way it works is that you focus the camera's lens at infinity and then focus the adapter -- in this case I scale-focused it.
I really lik how the Diana photos came out, but the Holga ones have a very strong vignette. The Holga negatives are full 6x6; the Diana is 4x4, which seems to be enough to avoid the vignetting. If I try it again with the Holga I'll use the 6x4.5 mask with the camera on its side.
bjhurley wrote:
What did you do to flatten it? Whenever I've hung it to dry it became wrinkled, twisted, curled, and cupped, and putting the cut negatives under a stack of books for a few days helped only slightly. Lomig (the guy who makes this film) says to roll it backwards into its backing paper and let it sit like that for a while; I haven't tried that.
Yeah, I stuck it between a couple of books using tape, which helped only slightly. I just accepted that it would not flatten out, stuck it in the V850 negative carrier, and whatever was not flat in the carrier became flat enough once it was loaded into the scanner (parts of the film were touching the glass of the scanner). It is one of the reasons I did not bother with keystone correction in post.
theHUN wrote:
Yeah, I stuck it between a couple of books using tape, which helped only slightly. I just accepted that it would not flatten out, stuck it in the V850 negative carrier, and whatever was not flat in the carrier became flat enough once it was loaded into the scanner (parts of the film were touching the glass of the scanner). It is one of the reasons I did not bother with keystone correction in post.
Okay, that's pretty much what I do as well. I'd like to shoot another roll or two of this film but the difficulty in scanning is the main barrier for me; it's frustrating. I think next time (if there is a next time) I will try the traditional Japanese way to dry washi paper, which involves taping the wet paper to an impervious surface, but the one issue with this is that cutting the negatives while wet is really hard (I did it with my previous roll and it was tricky to cut the wet paper with scissors; an Xacto knife might work better.
I don't think I have any "impervious surface" that is long enough for an entire roll of 120 film.
These look great. I honestly love the holga image. It has a very "early-photography" feel to it, the way old photos were both sharp but crazy edges as with a Petzval style lens.
bjhurley wrote:
Okay, that's pretty much what I do as well. I'd like to shoot another roll or two of this film but the difficulty in scanning is the main barrier for me; it's frustrating. I think next time (if there is a next time) I will try the traditional Japanese way to dry washi paper, which involves taping the wet paper to an impervious surface, but the one issue with this is that cutting the negatives while wet is really hard (I did it with my previous roll and it was tricky to cut the wet paper with scissors; an Xacto knife might work better.
I don't think I have any "impervious surface" that is long enough for an entire roll of 120 film....Show more →
What if you cut four strips of paper the length of three 6X6 negatives. Then, while still on the reel, cut the wet negatives? That way you would only be trying to cut wet film!
madNbad wrote:
What if you cut four strips of paper the length of three 6X6 negatives. Then, while still on the reel, cut the wet negatives? That way you would only be trying to cut wet film!
I'm not quite sure I understand this, but this Washi paper isn't meant to be loaded on reels (despite the HUN's success, although I do see some tearing of the paper, which is what happens when you try to load it onto a reel without adding a stiff leader to carry it through.
I use a Kodacraft tank for this film, the old ones with the "lasagne noodle" aprons that you slot the film into; it works beautifully.
I could probably cut the wet film by laying it on an acrylic board and slicing with an x-acto knife; I tried it with scissors and they just kind of chewed away at it but eventually cut through, although with a lot of effort and not very clean cuts.
