My favorite thread to visit! Excellent work everyone! Been away from posting for awhile. Went out to Great Sand Dunes NP for a week and been trying to catch up at work and working on the digital files. Processed 3 out of the 4 rolls of 35mm shot and decided to do some LR adjustments to a roll of BW400CN I shot the last day/afternoon there. All processed at home with tetenal, scanned at home on a pakon 135+. levels/exposure adjustment and sharpening in LR5. Camera was a Minolta srt201, rokkor 50/1.7 with both orange filter and CPL. It was extremely windy this day, painful at times as I was sand blasted.
Neopan 400 is a wonderful film, er was a wonderful film. RIP. However, I dont normally see as much grain as you are getting here. Must be some really interesting processing to get it that grainy.
rattymouse wrote:
Great shots Jon. Amazing tonality.
Thank you RM. I find I am partial to these film shots compared to the technical, sterile 5dmkII files I have. Now to work through the other rolls, all color (ektar, gold and Fuji).
Jon Buffington wrote:
Thank you RM. I find I am partial to these film shots compared to the technical, sterile 5dmkII files I have. Now to work through the other rolls, all color (ektar, gold and Fuji).
Sterile is a good word to use with regards to digital black and white. They might be tack sharp, but the sterility of digital really sucks the life out of images compared to a film black and white image.
Printed on paper the difference is even more stark.
One shot from a recent walkabout. Canon FD with 50/1.4 FD on Tmax400.
Pardon the scan quality, this was from a print I had made at time of processing. Waiting for lab to come back with the full res scan for better quality/editting precision. C&C welcome and encouraged.
rattymouse wrote:
Neopan 400 is a wonderful film, er was a wonderful film. RIP. However, I dont normally see as much grain as you are getting here. Must be some really interesting processing to get it that grainy.
You will notice that the grain only appears on the solid areas, where there is detail, it can't be seen and since they were taken with 50mm f1.2 (last one with 135 f2.8 wide open) there will be a lot of areas like that. I like it that way by the way, gives it texture. Superprodol is more grainy developer than others, it also adds a bit of speed to films.
I'm not a fan of Tmax films, they look sharp, but they are grey and lifeless looking. Not enough contrast for my liking. So I sold all of the black and white films I had besides Neopan and Trix (for even more grain).
ifaynshteyn wrote:
One shot from a recent walkabout. Canon FD with 50/1.4 FD on Tmax400.
Pardon the scan quality, this was from a print I had made at time of processing. Waiting for lab to come back with the full res scan for better quality/editting precision. C&C welcome and encouraged.
Very jealous!!! rattymouse wrote:
Going on a major photo shoot starting tomorrow. 2 weeks in Europe. Just about packed! Expect a lot of pictures in the near future.
