Got sick and tired of dealing with legal crap yesterday so I scanned a couple of old images. The color shot is the band Information Society, from Minneapolis, probably from the early 90's, and from the late 90's, rock guitarist Tony McAlpine - one of the very few times I actually used a 6x6 back on an RZ. EPP and PXP respectively.
Two more or less identical exposures: the first is Bergger Pancro 400 developed in PMK Pyro and the second is Kodak TxP 320 developed in D76. Don't ask me why I didn't develop them in the same thing. I just screwed up and forgot. I like the Bergger but it is not TriX. It is significantly less expensive, though.
Default(same) scans on both and the same levels and curves adjustments in PP.
Peter, the portrait of Tony McAlpine is excellent! Was this one shot with a longer exposure time and was he moving during the shot? It looks almost like a second-curtain-synchronisation (yes, I know that this was shot with a "curtain-less" leaf-shutter).
Anyway, I really like the result.
Jon, I like especially the first two shots on your first "dusk"-set. For strange reasons I like to see the evidence of civilization in landscape-shots ;-)
georgms wrote:
Jon, I like especially the first two shots on your first "dusk"-set. For strange reasons I like to see the evidence of civilization in landscape-shots ;-)
Here are two recent shots on my first roll of XP2 Super film. Scanned on Coolscan V via VueScan and then processed with ColorPerfect plug-in within photoshop and then adjusted in Lightroom. These look a lot better before I posted them. Must be the compression.
I need to go back and peruse quite a few pages in this fine thread.
For now here are a few I shot recently. The first I scanned last night.
Fuji GA645, Portra 160, commercial development. Epson V700 Photo homescan. No enhancement.
Apart from lifting the shadows very slightly there have been no other edits to this scan.
I'm very happy with it although earlier shots on the roll have to have colour corrections (blue sky etc).
^ Nice black and whites, David. I've been following a Perceptol thread over on APUG and it seems to do a wonderful job on my two favorite B&W films, TriX and Tmax 400. How do you find it to be? I have all but standardized on D-76, Rodinal and Tmax Dev but, given results like this, I'm not averse to adding Perceptol to the mix.
I confess that my use of Perceptol has been the first home developing I've done for probably a couple of years, so I am probably not the person to ask!
Here's a somewhat longwinded reply by way of more explanation.
I had to purchase all-new dev chems and I found that my expensive purchase of liquid ID-11 a few years back had been largely a waste of money (expired), so I looked for powder chems. I bought a 5litre pack of D-76 and a 1 litre pack of Perceptol. I had 2 rolls of 35mm (Eastman 522 that I was very keen to evaluate) and the roll of FP5+ shot in my newly acquired Hasselblad 503CX. MassiveDev gave me appropriate mixes of 1+2 for the Eastman 5222 at ISO200-250, and 1+1 for the HP5+ shot at ISO400.
I had other issues with reel loading, however I did manage to maintain a stable temperature throughout for all three separate development processes. Surprisingly it seems that I have less grain on the HP5+ than on the Eastman 5222.
I also have a power supply that has gone AWOL for my Dimage Scan Dual IV, so I was forced to scan the 35mm, like the 120 HP5+, on my Epson V700 Photo; that of course may also be a factor in the 35mm scan results I've got.
It was a beautiful sunny day in London today. Took these with a Mamiya C330 and the 55/4.5 lens. Rollei 80S which renders beautifully in sunny weather the extended IR sensitivity renders the skies similarly to using an orange filter - developed in Xtol stock. Scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 8000.
I like the Bergger but it is not TriX. It is significantly less expensive, though.
