In a recent conversation with an online friend about my current preference for Tri-X over HP5 Plus for my 35mm black & white film hybrid film photography he mentioned that he was getting good results with HP5 Plus developed in Photographers Formulary FA-1027. Continue reading “Slippery Slope Averted”
Category: Film
Developing Film 4b – Process
This is the second installment of a two-part update of an earlier post describing my 35mm film developing process.
It takes me about half an hour to develop a roll of 35mm black and white film. Here’s how I do it. Continue reading “Developing Film 4b – Process”
12 Exposures
One advantage of film over digital, for some people, is that the limited number of exposures helps them slow down their photography, resulting in a better hit rate. And one advantage, for some people, of medium format film over 35mm film is that having 12 exposures to work with, rather than 24 or 36, helps them slow down even more. Continue reading “12 Exposures”
“New Tri-X” in Rodinal – Part 2
One of the bloggers I follow (I suspect it was Dan James) asked why I have five essentially interchangeable Leica thread mount camera bodies. I didn’t have a good answer at the time, but when I looked in the desk drawer where I keep my factory loaded film and saw that I had five varieties of film I decided to shoot a few test subjects with all five films using all five cameras. It would be the first time I ever had film in all of them at the same time. Continue reading ““New Tri-X” in Rodinal – Part 2”
Another One Bites the Dust?
Last year I was given a couple of 36-exposure rolls of ADOX Silvermax 100. I don’t like 36-exposure rolls so they sat unused until I recently finished the 100′ roll of HP5+ in one of my bulk loaders and was able to use the loader to break the two 36-exposure factory loads down into four 12-exposure loads in Leica FILCA cassettes. Continue reading “Another One Bites the Dust?”
