peterkinchington

This pinhole image shows my roses that have suffered from the heat wave in Melbourne. The smell of smoke and smoke haze from the catastrophic bushfires in Eastern Victoria (East Gippsland) was present when I took this photograph.

Has anyone wired up a portable system? I have a phase one H20 back that I use tethered to my pc or apple desktops. I mount it either on my hasselblad 500C or motorized elx body. I have a hp laptop with firewire port and a belkin external firewire powered port that I intended to use in the field but I could never get this to work for me.

Cheers Peter

<p>Right on! If you need info on how to wire it up, feel free to ask.</p>

Hi Greg,

How have you wired up your portable system? I have a phase one H20 back that I use tethered to my pc or apple desktops. I mount it either on my hasselblad 500C or motorized elx body. I have a hp laptop with firewire port and a belkin external firewire powered port that I intended to use in the field but I could never get this to work for me.

Cheers Peter (Kanga)

Lovely, well done.

Thanks - glad you like the results.

Cheers Peter (Kanga)

A tip of the hat from Alan Marcus!

Alan, I am glad you liked the results.

Cheers Peter (Kanga).

Hi carbon_dragon,

Here is a photo of a negative from the 35mm 36exp roll of CMS20 ii that was developed in 500ml of solution (1cc of concentrated rodinal). It was taken against a cloudy sky with some patches of blue (which accounts for the blue in the shadows). I relied on the exhaustion of the developer in the highlights to help control contrast. When scanned at 4000 dpi the negative is effectively grainless.

Cheers Peter (Kanga)

And I've never heard anyone come up with a development strategy using other developers.

POTA a phenidone only developer works with techpan so does very dilute >1:200 rodinal. Caffenol probably would too.

Cheers P.

The super low speed of the film is kind of annoying, but what's the point of using such a high detail film if it's not on a tripod, right?

Or use electronic flash when possible : )

Cheers Peter (Kanga)

P.S. Do you do carbon printing?. I have bought some materials to give it a go.

Is this not just a case of climbing a mountain because it's there?

Hi Joe,

Yes and No. The only dedicated film scanner (4000dpi optical) I have for when I want a digital file is a 35mm scanner. To me the scans from CMS20 ii almost appear grainless whereas I can see grain in TMax 100. I prefer the look of the CMS20 ii. When I am going bush and want to use film the 35mm system is very compact. When I don't mind the bulk I'll use my 4x5in or 8x10in cameras with the economical fomapan 100 and if I need a scan use my epson v700 flatbed at 2400 dpi.

Cheers Peter (Kanga).

it's been a few years since I tried it. My best was with a homemade Caffinol recipe.

I must try this sometime - photographers seem to like the results from caffenol.

How about HC-110 (F)? Not stand, but for the appropriately long time

On the adox.de site they mention hc110 as an alternative dev. with an EI of 3 to 6.

Cheers Peter

Not bad results at all. It's difficult film to work with for sure.

Hi what developers have you used and how did the negatives come out?

Cheers Peter

I shot off a roll of high resolution cms20 ii film exposed at 10 iso and processed it in rodinal at 1:500 dilution at 17 degrees C for 2hours using stand development. I wanted to see whether I could get a range of tones without using the expensive adotech IV developer. The negatives were very thin and the developer exhausted itself in the highlights giving a brown colour to them. However the negatives exhibited a good tonal range. I have attached a photograph taken with my 100mm macro rokkor at f/8 with flash lighting of a hoverfly on a native (Australian) white frangipani flower.

Whilst photographing wallaby grass seeds for the National Herbarium of Victoria. I felt like being creative with a couple of species for my own portfolio using new and old methods of photomacrography the first species was Rytidosperma monicola I took this with a reversed 36mm movie camera lens at f/5.6 on 13mm of extension with my canon 7d as a stack of 100 images. When turned upside down the stacked image reminded me of a new guinea man dressed in traditional costume.

The other species Rytidosperma caespitosum I took with my 4x5inch view camera using a 121mm angulon lens at a marked aperture of f/45 on 570mm of bellows extension yielding a magnification of 3.7X on the film. I took both the dorsal and ventral views of the seed on different sheets of film. I then scanned and processed the negatives in photoshop.

- The set up -

peterkinchington.com

I think Rodinal can be a bit unreliable because of its formulation. It uses unbuffered caustic soda as the alkali accelerator, which has three consequences: Firstly, a high pH solution softens and expands the gelatin of the emulsion, allowing grain growth to be larger and faster. Secondly, a high dilution to reduce said pH results in the alkalinity, and hence activity, becoming uncertain due to local water pH variation.

 

Thirdly, any very dilute developer runs the risk of 'burning out' its developer content and becoming a compensating developer, with consequent low contrast.

 

I suppose if you're very careful with its dilution and temperature, and only use distilled or DI water, then results can be consistent, but if you just use tap water the results might vary unexpectedly.

 

Personally, I'd rather use a formulation that has a buffered and well-regulated pH that doesn't depend so heavily on high dilution ratios.

Hi again Joe,

I would rather have low contrast than high contrast negatives as I can compensate with high grade papers (I used to like Gr.5 agfa brovira? paper) or by scanning the neg. and adjusting in photoshop. In Australia we generally have high contrast ambient light.

Cheers Peter

Or maybe you could just use a developer that naturally gives finer grain than Rodinal? D76, Microphen, HC-110, etc., etc.

Hi Joe,

I like rodinal because it is forgiving in a variety of circumstances and the concentrate is very long lived. My other go to developer is Beutler's high acutance developer. I am going to try the Pyrocatechol staining developer described in Ansel Adam's book - "The Negative".

Cheers Peter

Hi Gary,

I generally use stand development at 1:100 dilution of rodinal at 20 degrees celsius. So the result I am seeing is attributable to lower temperature.

Cheers Peter

I recently read that at low temperatures their is less grain/clumping when using rodinal. I found this to be true for Fomapan 100 sheet film when stand developed in 1:100 rodinal at 13 degrees for 2 hours. The following images were developed using this technique.

Senescent River Red Gum

Lilydale Lake in Fog

peterkinchington.com

Photo taken with RF3 300mm f/10 process lens. Exposure was 15min @f/90 with fomapan 100.

peterkinchington.com

I agree Peter, sticking to one film allowed me to tailor my negatives much easier. I haven't shot 4x5 or 9x12 in almost 40 years. One day I just got an itch so I pulled it all out of the closet. Gotta say I am having a blast with these cameras.I enjoy the slow down. When I do take my RB out, I feel like I have way too much film left.

 

BUT for 120 I love my TMY-400 in my RB67 or ETRS. I stopped using the RB and rekindled a love for my ETRS.

 

TMY 120 ETRS 150mm dev tmax N

es

[ATTACH=full]1240388[/ATTACH]

im also a fan of arista 100 in 4x5 and fomapan 100 in 9x12. ive heard complaints about these films but from my experiance with them.. nothing but praise!

 

one thing i do is a 2min pre wash the antihalation green layer off. im sure it has no effect on the developer except make it green.

 

arista 100 4x5 in tmax dev 6min.... specs are from my scanner

 

[ATTACH=full]1239537[/ATTACH]

Hi Paul,

Here is a shot of Treeferns and Mountain Ash in the Dandenong Ranges National Parki. It was taken when their was a light fog/mist. I used Fomapan 100 4x5in with my 300mm process lens at f90 @ 15mins.

Well the people who have been shot under Janokovic.

My wife is from Ukraine, Mykolaiv, Black Sea area. It is terrible what happened the last years with Ukraine and of course flight MH-17 who has been shot by a Russian BUK rocket and where so many people from the Netherlands died for nothing. So you can imagine Robert from the Netherlands is not a big fan of Putin. We have our own cemetery and memorial in Holland. The whole road from the metro station to the centre of Kiev is one big memoral place:

 

 

Same film and camera: Cosina Voigtländer Bessa III 667.

Hi Robert,

Australians were also killed in the missile attack on flight MH-17.

Regards Peter

Maidan, Kiev 2017. Fomapan 400 E.I. 400 in Diafine 3+3.

 

 

6x7 roll film. And indeed the A.H. from this film is Green.

Great shot - who was the memorial commemorating! My wife has a Ukranian background.

Cheers Peter

Your photo looks good.

 

I bought a box of this last year when I got started in 4x5 due to the VERY attractive price, but I passed it up and jumped in with FP4+. It's still sitting in my freezer unopened(while I'm on my second box of FP4).

 

Still, though, your post is a good reminder that I have it-I'll crack it open when the weather gets a bit better.

Hi Ben,

I find that if I stick with a film in this case fomapan 100 (arista edu 100) and learn its characteristics that is more important than switching films for relatively minor differences (although I do like Ilford panf 50 and tmax100 in 120 roll film and 35mm format). When Kodachrome was around I used it almost exclusively for all my colour nature work with 35mm format and got to know it characteristics well - I will see how fuji velvia 100 works in large format and learn its characteristics for colour work. If you want to see how I correct for exposure in photomacrography work for fomapan 100 you can see this in my recent article for View Camera Australia.

Bye for now,

Peter

Hi Glen,

Diafine instructions tell you not to worry about any color in the developer. Mine tends to turn pink, but green is also possible.

 

It doesn't take much dye to make it look pretty.

Yes - a bit of colour in the darkroom!

Cheers Peter