kwoodard wrote:
Amazing contrast in these. I never get anything near this with my gear, yet same film and developer.
Thank you! I did do some post, but not much. On the first, a digital nd (nothing that I could not do on site with a filter) and with the rest, some minor burning and bring levels to proper contrast...oh and a bit of sharpening. Really nothing I couldn't do in the darkroom. Maybe add some time to your developing regimen? I don't agitate much, just maybe 5sec every minute, gentle, after the first 30sec. I also only developed for 8:30 min vs 9 as my temp of water was 72 or 73. Adjustments called for 6:30 but I added more due to the flat lighting, so, there you go. I over developed
Jon Buffington wrote:
Thank you! I did do some post, but not much. On the first, a digital nd (nothing that I could not do on site with a filter) and with the rest, some minor burning and bring levels to proper contrast...oh and a bit of sharpening. Really nothing I couldn't do in the darkroom. Maybe add some time to your developing regimen? I don't agitate much, just maybe 5sec every minute, gentle, after the first 30sec. I also only developed for 8:30 min vs 9 as my temp of water was 72 or 73. Adjustments called for 6:30 but I added more due to the flat lighting, so, there you go. I over developed ...Show more →
That is the difference. Temp... I usually dev cold to minimize grain. Need to add time to my dev then.
kwoodard wrote:
That is the difference. Temp... I usually dev cold to minimize grain. Need to add time to my dev then.
I use distilled water at room temp to mix chems so I look at the thermometer in the room and adjust my times using the adjustment scale for temp on the massive dev chart or from the film manufacturers pubs.
Jon Buffington wrote:
I use distilled water at room temp to mix chems so I look at the thermometer in the room and adjust my times using the adjustment scale for temp on the massive dev chart or from the film manufacturers pubs.
The darkroom on my campus in the winter is a warm 65-67 degrees with water coming out of the tap at 50...even with the hot water on. Makes for nice small and tight grain, but dev times are sometimes tricky.
Thanks for your nice comment Edward. Congratulations on buying a Nikon SLR too!
My most recent purchase is a Yashica-D, bought for the princely sum of US$100 (+ postage).
The image below was taken on my P67 II. I sold that recently since I needed to recoup funds from buying a Leica M8.2. I have an old P6x7 MLU so that will have to suffice for Pentax 67 shooting.
Velvia RVP50, Lens not recorded. Epson V700 Photo scan.
