Poll: How do you process large format black and white film?

[FrancisF]

#3 option

[Willie]

I've been very impressed with Gabe's work as well. It makes me wonder if other people are utilizing new approaches for b&w too. This new hybrid analogue/digital world has really opened up a lot of opportunity for new approaches. It's great to see how people can take it by the horns and run with it.

Take a look at the current work of Tillman Crane. Noted for using 12x20 for a long time he is now completely digital for image capture. Then makes a negative so he can do Pt/Pd contact prints. Have seen some 30 inch Pt/Pd prints from his Fuji cameras and they are excellent.

He recently finished the Tenth Year of his Workshop in North Dakota and you see a number of his images from there. Early years were film and he has moved to Digital/hybrid with good success.

[Greg Y]

Always #3. Trays for sheet film. Tanks for roll film. Prints on fiber-based paper. Some contact printing on Azo with an overhead bulb, otherwise a Durst 138 w colorhead and a Beseler 45MXT with a Zone VI VC head.

[Ben Calwell]

No. 3 for me.

[lab black]

#3 ... One at a time, in trays and a bit of music.

[Duolab123]

Large format is all analog for me.

[esearing]

#3 with scans of the print for web display. I imagine this poll would be shaped differently if you took it at Photrio or even Rangefinder forums. Other photo forums they would ask what is film?

[Alan Klein]

I'm embarrassed. I'm the only one of 97 people (so far) who sends his film out to develop and print/displays digitally. Only one other sends it to a lab but prints chemically.

[r.e.]

I'm embarrassed. I'm the only one of 97 people (so far) who sends his film out to develop and print/displays digitally. Only one other sends it to a lab but prints chemically.

I process my own black and white film because it's dead simple, I don't have to schlep it to a lab and back and it's cheaper. Also, I'm impatient and this way I get to see my results right away.

I expect that a significant majority of people are scanning and processing negatives in Photoshop/Capture One.

[wclark5179]

#3

Truth be known, I’ve been lazy for a while and haven’t used my darkroom like I used to. I’m going to spend more time with darkroom work now that winter is drawing near.