Paul that one really awesome.
Paul that one really awesome.
--- Steve from Missouri ---
Wonderful image, Paul!Originally Posted by paulbarden
This is a test of Ilford HP5+ processed in PMK Pyro. Camera used was my Minolta Autocord, which I prefer over most of my other 6X6 cameras for its exquisite rendering of fine detail.
These negs are very interesting: rich and broad in their retention of dark shadows and highlights, even though some were quite a bit overexposed. (I was told to overexpose negs for PMK processing, up to two stops over: I bracketed)
Never heard about the overexposure for pyro - or is it just the PMK treatment? Which of the bracketed images this is? +2?
Mil Park by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr
Tin Can
Looks nice Randy!
Thanks!
Tin Can
Well done, Randy!
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Thank you
Tin Can
Thank you very much Steve, I appreciate that!
Thank you :-)
I wish my Autocord cost that little (It was about $250 five years ago), but I am still very pleased with that investment, as the camera was in great shape and needed no CLA of any sort: I suspect it had been fully serviced not long before I bought it. Its one of my favorite cameras in terms of image performance. Its not as nicely engineered as, say, the Rolleiflex, but I prefer the output over the Rolleiflex. I ended up selling my Rolleiflex last spring to pay for a 100mm Kodak Wide Field Ektar for the Deardorff: no regrets!
Curiously, I found that when exposing Bergger Pancro400 in 8x10 format, I need to expose it at about 100 ASA, but with this roll of HP5+, it seems the +2 exposures are excessive and unnecessary. I would say that with HP5+ at least, there's no need to overexpose more than one stop, which is in fact my normal approach to this film.
I will need to find the source of that recommendation again before I can tell you much. I have the Photographers Formulary version of PMK and its possible I read that in their instructions.
This is the +1 frame, I believe.
Along the same lines as the previous image, I tested a "new" film yesterday for my riverbank roots series: Svema MZ3, a 3ASA 35mmfilm. Yes - 3 ASA - you read that right. I shot this roll in my Kodak Retina IIIc (Schneider Retina-Xenon version), bracketing from 15 seconds to 6 minutes at f16, since I had ZERO information about its reciprocity characteristics (It seems to have very good reciprocity traits, as my longer exposures - calculated based on Ilford's Pan-F - were very overexposed). Its a curious film: it appears very contrasty on inspection, but in fact holds plenty of subtle detail and tone. I guessed at the development time for BER49 (Atomal49), since there was scant info about developers other than HC-110 (I don't have that), and processed it for 7.5 minutes. In the future, I would cut that back to about 6 minutes in the same developer.
Great photo Paul!
I have only used tmy2 and fp4+ with PMK and gave it 1 extra stop. It gives a little more shadow detail and since the midtones are so broad and highlights so smooth, it still works nice.
Sometimes for LF PMK gave me uneven skies, so I mostly use pyrocat hdc/hd now. But it's a nice developer for MF.
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