MF (6x4.5,6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

[Salmo22]

PIER TROLL v.1 by Jeff D. Welker, on Flickr

[Corran]

Austin, this one and the boat on the previous page, excellent!

[tuco]

Tuco -- Very well captured.

Thanks

[tuco]

Some time testing Delta3200 @ EI 1600


Storefront - Route 66 by tuco, on Flickr

[Salmo22]

Some time testing Delta3200 @ EI 1600


Storefront - Route 66 by tuco, on Flickr

I've been contemplating testing Delta3200 myself with the hopes of using it for some portraits of my grandchildren. I really like the look Tim Scott got with this film - https://flic.kr/p/xBmGYp. I assume you pulled the development 1 stop. How did that effect grain, tonality, etc?

[tuco]

I've been contemplating testing Delta3200 myself with the hopes of using it for some portraits of my grandchildren. I really like the look Tim Scott got with this film - https://flic.kr/p/xBmGYp. I assume you pulled the development 1 stop. How did that effect grain, tonality, etc?

Give it a try. I don't think I'm really pulling much at all. It's about the speed I'm getting from my developer. It's not a box speed developer. I've shot it at EI 400 before and have a development time for that. The grain gets a little finer the slower you go. The Delta 3200 data sheet has development times for various developers at different exposure indexes you can try.


EDIT: The Delta 3200 data sheet has development times from EI 400 to EI 12500

Here is Delta 3200 @ EI 400 I did some years ago.


The Start by tuco, on Flickr

[Fangel]

Rolleiflex 3.5E - HP5+

Beautiful B&W

[alanbutler57]

Give it a try. I don't think I'm really pulling much at all. It's about the speed I'm getting from my developer. It's not a box speed developer. I've shot it at EI 400 before and have a development time for that. The grain gets a little finer the slower you go. The Delta 3200 data sheet has development times for various developers at different exposure indexes you can try.

Yep, from what I've read and observed most people agree the true speed is around 1000 give or take. Two reference points I've shot are below.

This one was with a Super Ikonta 6x9 rated at 800, developed in divided pyrocat hd part A and B each at 1:10 each for 6 min. in Jobo
Lady Godiva by Alan Butler, on Flickr


This one was with a Super Ikonta 6x6 rated at 1600, 21 minutes stand after 1 minuet agitation with stock Xtol:

Untitled-2 by Alan Butler, on Flickr

[tuco]

Something from last summer.


West Glacier NP by tuco, on Flickr

[LabRat]

I think this problem is from going through X-rays with this film, unexposed, about a year ago. It's Pan F, which I shot yesterday and processed today. I was experimenting with a camera I don't often use, and I had been suspicious of these rolls of Pan F, because I had had the white dot problem with the ones I shot in England last year. But this is a new one to me.

Try a long (5 to 10 minute) presoak before the developer if film has excessively dried (from being on a long flight)... The coating process (which I suspect is a thin ooze coming out of a # of jet nozzles, like little streams of toothpaste), then squeezed flat with a roller, produces a overlapping strip pattern, when overdried soaks a little unevenly, with slightly harder/softer areas that absorb developer unevenly... The presoak will "fluff" the emulsion evenly for even absorption...

At worst, you can see a "corduroy" pattern developed into some very dried/old roll films, I suspect is a relic from the coating process... (This pattern changes with different formats of films...)

Steve K