tried Ilford Delta 100 though my new Contax G1 and G45. Poeple compare Deltas and Tmax all the time, to me Delta is much higher contrast! i had to recover highlight 100% in almost all the pctures, while in Tmax i usually have to push for more contrast in PP. anyways, these are from the Delta 100.
Anyone have a recommendation on good black and white slide options. I was mildly alarmed to see that DR5 is not able to develop AGFA Scala in the forseeable future due to a location move.
banpreso wrote:
tried Ilford Delta 100 though my new Contax G1 and G45. Poeple compare Deltas and Tmax all the time, to me Delta is much higher contrast! i had to recover highlight 100% in almost all the pctures, while in Tmax i usually have to push for more contrast in PP. anyways, these are from the Delta 100.
Is that Drury Callahan's F86? He and my father used to be acquaintances when my dad was in the Air Force. I want to say he had been to my home when I was a kid once or twice.
banpreso wrote:
tried Ilford Delta 100 though my new Contax G1 and G45. Poeple compare Deltas and Tmax all the time, to me Delta is much higher contrast! i had to recover highlight 100% in almost all the pctures, while in Tmax i usually have to push for more contrast in PP. anyways, these are from the Delta 100.
Since I feel comfortable with you guys, I have a question that I feel you will answer well...
I only have been shooting film mainly because I can develop for free. We use D76 in the lab and my question is, what film is going to give me the least or smallest grain using D76? I prefer 400 speed film...
My biggest thing that I need to remember is, unlike digital, expose for the darn shadows!
kwoodard wrote:
Since I feel comfortable with you guys, I have a question that I feel you will answer well...
I only have been shooting film mainly because I can develop for free. We use D76 in the lab and my question is, what film is going to give me the least or smallest grain using D76? I prefer 400 speed film...
My biggest thing that I need to remember is, unlike digital, expose for the darn shadows!
What format are you shooting?
For 120 film, I shoot TMAX400 a lot. That seems the sharpest film, although I'm starting to try Delta 400 and HP5. I'm still experimenting so dont have a firm graps of what those films can do so revert to TMAX 400 when quality is critical.
For 35mm, I dont even try to get low grain. I mostly shoot from my stock of Neopan 400 and am happy with that.
Sorry for neglecting to state format... 35mm is what I shoot.
So far i like the tones I get from FP4, but it has more grain than TMax100. The TMax100 has great contrast with a yellow filter, but there's something I don't like about it... HP5 is next in the soup, so we'll see how it works.
"The TMax100 has great contrast with a yellow filter, but there's something I don't like about it..."
How are you exposing and developing your T-Max100? I've been shooting it for, well, since it came out, and while I never cared for the weak mid tones of T-Max400, I've loved TMX for decades. And the third factor is if you are printing optically or scanning, and if you're scanning, how.
In the last two days I've been scanning all the usable frames of the images of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt (one posted a few pages back) from 1992, and was surprised to see I mixed it up between TMX and PXP. Plus-X has always been my favorite black and white film overall, but after I drum scan these negs, and work my post production magic on them, there's very little difference between the two emulsions. Probably because I scan them flat to include the entire range available in the neg and then massage it to suit in Ps.
and here's an example that's been posted in the people forum of T-Max100 developed in T-Max Developer - and that's important too, as so far, that has yielded the best negs from that film.
Not sure what you're asking on how I expose the film... Using a Nikon N90 and with that roll, mostly my Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 AI. Developed using D76 using times from the massive dev chart.
I scan on a Coolpix 5000 ED scanner, with multi pass on and 16bit. I save as NEF and pull into LR. The file size is enormous and I am getting the max I think I can get out of the scanner.
On my images, the midtones are how you describe the 400, lacking. If you go back a bit and see my first post in this thread, you will see what I mean with the photo of my wife. (On my phone at the moment, can't link it again). None of my images look anywhere close to what you have posted.
Peter Figen wrote:
and here's an example that's been posted in the people forum of T-Max100 developed in T-Max Developer - and that's important too, as so far, that has yielded the best negs from that film.
Amazing use of light here..Love it
