Here's a couple of a friend of mine shot in the studio. Shot with a Hasselblad, 150mm, and Tri-X.
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Here's a couple of a friend of mine shot in the studio. Shot with a Hasselblad, 150mm, and Tri-X.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 14.7cm, from a Kodak Tmax 100 6x9 rollfilm negative exposed in a "23" Graflex back fitted to a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera equipped with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.
I thought I'd try increasing development time of XP2 in HC-110 to shift the histograms of my scans towards the middle. This is ten minutes in 1+49 rather than the usual eight.
The little Downy Woodpecker has a very regular sort of mind:
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Woodpecker patterns by chrism229, on Flickr
H500c, Sonnar 150/4, XP2, HC-110, X1 scans.
As vaguely promised a week or two ago, I have continued to abuse XP2. Today's effort was to expose it at 1600 and guess the development time, and since yesterday, I used 10 minutes for ISO400, I used the rule of thumb that a 1/3 increase in time compensates for 1 stop of underexposure, and developed this for 18 minutes in 1+49 HC-110. I am amazed at the lack of grain!
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Experiment in Push Processing 4 by chrism229, on Flickr
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Experiment in Push Processing 3 by chrism229, on Flickr
It looks like 3200 might be possible if I can bring myself to sit and agitate each minute for 24 minutes!
C.
I have several rolls of 35mm XP2 that I have avoided shooting just because I figured it would sit unprocessed for a very long time after running thru my camera. Thanks for doing this chrism. Since I don't use HC-110 anymore, I wonder how the film would respond in Rodinal...? Any thoughts on a starting point (ISO, dilution, agitation)?
Randy,
I have used XP2 @200 and done a semi-stand development in 1+100 Blazinal, with six inversions at the start and at 30 minutes. Doing it at ISO400 gave a little grain.
There's an example here (not MF, so I won't post the picture).
Well I went and did it. XP2 Super at 3200, developed in HC-110 1+49 for 24 minutes. No grain!
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2863/3...fafd61b0_c.jpgExperiment in Push Processing 5 by chrism229, on Flickr
If you click on the link there's a 4096x4096 85% JPEG. Click on that to see at 100%. All this effort to make a file that could have come out of the Monochrom!
Chris
Thanks for posting the results of your XP2 experiments. I like this film, and I use HC110, so will be trying some of your combinations.
Alex.
My suggestions for times are:
EI 100 4 minutes (not tested yet)
EI 200 6.5 minutes (worked at 4 minutes, but images a bit dark, so more development advised)
EI 400 10 minutes (works)
EI 800 13.5 minutes (not tested yet)
EI 1600 18 minutes (works)
EI 3200 24 minutes (works)
Assuming 1+49, 20ºC, etc.
I'm exposing a 35mm XP2 at 3200 at present, and if I finish it tomorrow we'll see how that turns out. I never thought I'd push a film three stops and see no grain. Makes me giddy.
C.
Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I'll actually pull out some of the old XP2 I have in the fridge from random purchases. I just bought some HC-110 for the first time recently.
Amazing stuff, looks better than the delta 3200 I've seen. Well done and thanks for sharing!