rattymouse,
The nice thing about Velvia 50 is that it "apparently" doesn't degrade as quickly as higher ISO film. The Velvia 50 4x5 sheet film I got was from some 2003, 2004 & 2006 vintage.
All of it so far has yielded excellent transparencies.
I probably posted these already. They are 2003 exp date
I have tried that with similar vintage Astia & Provia. Not as much luck.
I am REALLY want to to try traditional darkroom prints now.
Are there any experienced darkroom people who think scanned images are a LOT different than traditional wet print images?
Since I have no darkroom experience, I have no idea how different they would look.
Oh, I am thinking color here.
Shot with Linhof Technika, 120mm Super Angulon MC @ f16, Delta 100, Orange filter. Scanned on Canoscan 9950f using VueScan. Wet printing this one up tonight...Beseler 45MXT with 45A pulse head.
buggz2k wrote:
I am REALLY want to to try traditional darkroom prints now.
Are there any experienced darkroom people who think scanned images are a LOT different than traditional wet print images?
Since I have no darkroom experience, I have no idea how different they would look.
Oh, I am thinking color here.
I feel that I can express a film image generally better on a traditional silver print, as long as:
1. Original exposure good based on tested film speed (with reference developer) with actual lens/shutter/aperture combination.
2. Negative developed for the contrast index that fits the scene and printing media.
The image of the barn was actually under-exposed by 2-stops, because on that sheet of film, I did not compensate for the filter-factor of the orange filter I used. There is very little shadow detail, curve pretty much skewed to the left. Photoshop (CS6 Extended) came to the rescue after scanning. Realizing the mistake, I took another shot (actually two) with the factor applied, which I will use for the silver print in the darkroom.
