I scored 9 more pro packs of Acros 120. That's 25 boxes total coming my way tomorrow. The tragedy of losing Acros has been postponed, for me at least, for another year or so.
It's too dang hot in TX to be out shooting!! Call me a wuss but it's nice to see all you guys' out shooting film. Jon, it is, indeed, hard to do photographic justice to the sequoia trees.
I heard it has been averaging around 110 out there (step daughter and grandkids in San Antonio)...sounds like a cool front moved through with those temps
Found a Voigtländer Perkeo I, a folding 6x6cm camera from the 1950's, in fine condition. Expired Kodak TMax100 developed in HC110 dilution H and 'scanned' with 60mm Micro-Nikkor on a D750 and using LomoGraphy DigitaLIZA holder. Some post-processing in Photoshop and Aperture.
rattymouse wrote:
Is this where you live, in Tennessee Jon? Amazing landscape!
Tom, this was Kings Canyon and Sequoia NP, a long way from where I live See the out and about countryside pics for stuff from around here. And thank you for the kind remarks Some shameless self promotion, a mix of film and digital (blah) landscapes can be found on instagram page which I am constantly updating almost daily with work mostly unseen and I would like to think is quite good (you be the judge), just follow me at jpbuffingtonphotography on there. Oh, and if anyone is really interested, buy the August 2018 issue of Backpacker magazine and you can view a full page spread of an image of mine (digital) which is local to TN. They pay good too!
Last week I got to take a wet plate workshop with amazing wet plate artist Anton Orlov. We were using his Zone VI 4x5 and 180mm Rodenstock N Sironar lens and his chemicals, plates and mobile darkroom bus.
He composed and did the exposure for all these shots. I poured collodion, sensitized, and developed these plates with his excellent instruction. These are all cell phone shots of the plates.
Was alot of fun learning this old time photographic process. The ISO speed is around 1 and is more sensitive to UV light.
I am hooked on this alt process and now need to get me LF camera and wet plate gear and chemicals.
Crazy couple of work weeks are behind me, so I decided to give the 500 C/M a little exercise yesterday. I haven't kept up with my supply of film and all I had was Ilford PanF Plus 50, which I don't really care for, but B/W is so much easier to develop (with the monobath I use), so I figured it would be a pretty painless day all around.
Well, the whole thing turned into a pretty big FAIL. First, I generally use ASA100 film and I neglected to change my meter settings to ASA 50 for the PanF roll, so all the images were underexposed. Second, I ignored the instructions on the Monobath which explicitly says to us the "inversion" method for developing. I've gotten used to lazily "spinning" the reels when developing E-6 and figured it would be fine, but it is definitely NOT. And lastly, even though I'm very careful when squeegeeing the film, I must have done it too hard, or the film was too soft, because it left scratches. I've NEVER had that happen before.
With a little work, I got a few keepers, but it was disappointing to say the least. 500C/M + 80/2.8 CF + 10mm Extension (2 and 3). Ilford PanF Pro 50 developed in FF No. 1 Monobath. Scanned via A7ii + Tamron 90/2.5 Macro + DigitaLiza film holder + lightbox.
Call me a wuss but it's nice to see all you guys' out shooting film. Jon, it is, indeed, hard to do photographic justice to the sequoia trees. 
