I, for the life of me, "just" shoot film. This is a shot from last June - which i JUST finished the roll. 99% of me wants to sell all of it off, but I just love the results.
Canon Elan 7E, Zeiss 35-70, Fuji Reala 100 scanned with Nikon V ED (4 pass over scans )
cmattheis2 wrote:
Hey guys!
I am a full-time newspaper photojournalist at the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tennessee. A hobby of mine is shooting on film, and I convinced my editor to let me shoot a Tennessee Volunteers football game on film this past weekend. She agreed!
I dusted off the old Nikon F4 and F5, threw in some Porta 800 (two of four rolls pushed two stops) and Fuji Pro 400H and headed on out.
Oliver, I use a kodak pakon f135+ for scanning B&W and c-41 color negs for 35mm. Don't really shoot much chromes but about to install a new in box, old stock kodak rfs 3600 that will be dedicated solely to slide film as I have a box of provia and a box of velvia itching to be broke into. I fear I will be headed down that road once my workflow is situated. I do have an old epson fb but I hate using flatbeds, with a passion!
Over the Edge. The trees at the base of the falls will give perspective to the height of this falls.
Nikon n90s, nikon 28-70/3.5-5/6, xtra 400, pakon scan
and one from way up top, for a different perspective
Gary Clennan wrote:
Edward - that Ultramax is looking pretty damn good! I didn't expect those results for some reason. Will have to shoot some I have in the freezer.
Thank you Gary! It’s a nice emulsion with more color saturation and contrast than Portra, but the grain is a bit too coarse for the speed.
By the way, I love the results you’re getting on large format, especially that film must be seriously expired. I’m not sure if it adds to the natural blue cast of slide film in such conditions.
I just wanted to save others from some disappointment - I had read online that you can develop color film (C41 or E6) in Black & White developer, and what you end up with is a B/W negative (or positive with E6 film!). There would be an overall color cast that can easily be removed in post, or kept if you like it.
So yesterday I took the 500C/M out for a little exercise. The only 120 film I had was Provia 100. I knew the results might be wonky, so I didn't take any photos that would be missed.
I developed the Provia in my usual FF No. 1 Monobath and..... nothing. I was expecting maybe very faint images, or low contrast or SOMEthing, but there was nothing. It just looked like undeveloped film.
So I suspect the Monobath is at fault. It probably doesn't have the right elements to clear off the color emulsion. I guess you need to use a normal B/W developer. Oh well. Lesson learned!
Next experiment (somewhere down the road) - developing C41 film in E6.
edwardkaraa wrote:
Thank you Gary! It’s a nice emulsion with more color saturation and contrast than Portra, but the grain is a bit too coarse for the speed.
By the way, I love the results you’re getting on large format, especially that film must be seriously expired. I’m not sure if it adds to the natural blue cast of slide film in such conditions.
Thanks! This last shot was on mildly expired film so it is fairly accurate. The tungsten films often give a strong blue tint at night which I like. Maybe could have reduced saturation a bit on this one...
Next experiment (somewhere down the road) - developing C41 film in E6.
One time my lab made this mistake and developed C41 film in E6 chemicals. The results were 100% a disaster and the images were totally unusable in any form.
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