From a past roll of Fuji c200 on a srt102 with rokkor 35/2.8. souped in tetenal, pakon scanned, lr5. From a couple walks/hikes with my wife last month.
Contax made several very small cameras with excellent Zeiss prime lenses. They are pricey but perform up to that level. Slightly larger are the Fujifilm Klasse cameras. Again, very sharp prime lenses on those cameras.
I do my own B&W. Not sure if I will do color.
While I plan on doing some wet printing, I am fine with scans & ink-jet printing, especially for color. I know, not a pure process
kwoodard wrote:
Ratty, do you develop your own film?
I have to say, you all are TERRIBLE freaking influences... Once I get my digital stuff sold off, I am getting developing stuff for home! Gah!
I develop all my own black and white film. For color negative or slides, I send those out for processing. Once I'm back in the US, I'll start doing my own color negative film.
Developing black and white film is beyond easy to do. I've done close to 250 rolls now and can essentially do it in my sleep. Yesterday I processed two rolls of Acros film, all the while talking with my 8 year old girl. I love processing film. You take total ownership of the whole process.
kwoodard wrote:
I am thinking of trying stand developing... Anyone try that?
I dont see the point to stand developing. Certainly it's boring from a user point of view. I like doing the work and with stand developing there is not much to do for 1-2 hours. I use non stand developers like D-76, HC-110, and DD-X. I can process up to 3 rolls of film in 30 minutes. I would not even be half done after 30 minutes if I used a stand developing method. No thanks, not for me.
kwoodard wrote:
I am thinking of trying stand developing... Anyone try that?
Give it a try, what can it hurt. Of course there's a grain vs acutance tradeoff, though not as much as with grain vs acutance developers, so I don't think I'd use it with fast films in small formats. Helpful if your subject has a lot of DR, not so much if you're trying to stretch DR ("push" the film). If you use sheet film the entire process is deliberate and slow anyway, so time is not of the essence. I've come to use "semi-stand" development -- XTOL at 1:3 or 1:5 (yeah I know, but never had a problem) with minimal agitation instead of a pull in pull (high DR) situations.
