8/11/2005
Development / Film
As I mentioned in previous post - I'm leaning towards TMY again. I shot with it a lot in the past - and somewhere along the line switched to HP5 in HC110B. Possibly my tastes have changed since then - but the TMY seems to be a bit smoother. Anyway - right now I'm using TMY @ 400 ASA - in TMAX developer 1:4 at recommended times. But I'm going to experiment with a bit of underdevelopment and making sure I'm still picking up shadow detail. I might take it down about 20%, i.e. the highlights in bright contrasty scenes are still a bit high for my taste. But after a couple of days of experimenting - I'm pretty close.
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Damn, you guys are almost scaring me...should I strike my Che Guevara pose right now? ("You have nothing to lose but your Compact Flash cards!")
Having something like the Olympus 8080 around for some fast hots of stationary stuff (like all the things I'm planning to sell before I move in a few weeks) is awful handy, but doing anything more serious than that with that camera drives me up the bleeping wall. Portraiture is fiarly tortuous unless I make a bunch of custom moves, and sometimes I forget a step or two, eventually say "---- this", and reach for a rangefinder: choose film, load, shoot. The digital "magic" comes later (and there's less of it to do).
(Okay, Dave, I'll lose the beret. Honest)
Kelly - one of the reasons I try my best not to recommend one thing over another, i.e. digital v. film, etc. is that my mood about stuff is not set in stone.
In fact, my feelings about images and what's the best way to shoot it - have changed so many times, circled back - looked for the old path again - abandoned the old path and off on a tangent I go -
I just try to say - this is what I'm doing now and if possible why.
Today I'm enraptured by the R2A rangefinder / film experience. Who knows what will strike me as better in six months.
Draw a timeline of my equipment / film / digital / developer and you will see a very spikey histogram.
All that being said - I like listening to the sound of the film washing, and I even like mixing the chemicals.
Seems you already know what you want and what you need, but let me recommend Fujis Neopan 400 anyway. In my experience it's the smoothest of the 400s. (I develop in PC-TEA, 1:50, 20°C, 8 min.)
Andreas
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