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tumblrize 120 Film black and white Diafine 3+3 Ilford HP5+ Mamiya C330f Red Filter V500

Jan 21

Whats playing at the Globe tonight?

Mamiya C330f, Ilford HP5+, Diafine 3+3, Red Filter, V500, 120 Film,

On a side note, I lost a roll of Kodak TX today during processing. Seems that Kodak film doesn’t like Patterson reels. Grrr!. It just bunched up and crimped the edges. I could not get the whole roll on the reel. I think I am fairly capable of this task but I tried and tried, 12 times to be exact. I guess I have to get some stainless steal tanks and reels. I refuse to loose a roll of film because of the reels I’m using. Anyone out there have a similar experience with Kodak film and Patterson reels? 120 BTW.

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tumblrize 120 Film black and white Diafine 3+3 Ilford HP5+ Mamiya C330f medium format Red Filter V500

Jan 21

How about the Uptown

Mamiya C330f, Ilford HP5+, Diafine 3+3, V500, 120 Film, Red Filter

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tumblrize 120 Film black and white Diafine 3+3 Ilford HP5+ Mamiya C330f medium format Red Filter V500

Jan 21

Fina Building

Mamiya C330f, Ilford HP5+, Diafine 3+3, V500, 120 Film, Red Filter

Love this building sign!

Anyone else find HP5+ a little grainy? Not sure I’m sold on it. Though I do like the extra speed when using a red filter! Really want to check out Kodak TX in Diafine. The Diafine box rates it at 1600.

Getting sick of this perspective?

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tumblrize 120 Film black and white Diafine 3+3 Ilford HP5+ Mamiya C330f medium format Red Filter V500

Jan 21

Campus

Mamiya C330f, Ilford HP5+, Diafine 3+3, 120 Film, V500, Red Filter,

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tumblrize 120 Film 80mm 2.8 black and white Diafine 3+3 Ilford HP5+ Mamiya C330f medium format Red Filter V500

Jan 21

Fina 2

Mamiya C330f, Ilford HP5+, Diafine 3+3, Red Filter, V500, 120 Film,

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tumblrize 120 Film black and white Diafine 3+3 Ilford HP5+ Mamiya C300f medium format Red Filter V500

Jan 22

Campus 2

Mamiya C300f, Ilford HP5+, Diafine 3+3, 120 Film, Red Filter, V500,

Sorry for all these unimaginative shots of buildings. I really wanted to shoot a roll of HP5+ and develop it in Diafine to see the results.

So far I like it, I think? I do find it a tad grainy for 120 film. Thats okay though I don’t dislike the grain, But I don’t expect to see a lot of it in medium format. I am still learning, so I have to take note of every thing.

I wish I didn’t botch that roll to Kodak Tx! As its a 400 speed film I could have compared it to HP5 subjectively. Also going to pick up an Opus stainless steel tank with a 120 and 35 reel today. I have been told that it doesn’t make a difference if you use stainless or plastic and I would be inclined to agree in regards to image quality, even though I have not tried stainless yet. But… If the little bearings that ratchet the film into the spool jam and stick in the plastic reels, then I think the stainless ones would be a little better for image quality. You would get an image and not a crumpled pile of useless film. lol.

Also I think I am nailing down my post scan processing in photoshop. I think the contrast, local and global, in the last images is pretty good. I have a fairly decent curves preset for this film now so its just a matter of setting white and black points and adding a little bit of capture sharpening then a local contrast adjustment and then a global one. I also add some output sharpening depending on what the output is (screen or print). I have been fairly successful in not exciting too much grain in the images and still getting a nice sharp image. This is much easier with medium format mind you, but 35 is starting to look good as well. Really starting to love shooting film!

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tumblrize 120 Film black and white Diafine 3+3 Kodak TX 400 Mamiya C330f medium format Red Filter V500

Jan 22

Kodak 400TX (Tri-X)

Mamiya C330f, Kodak TX 400, Diafine 3+3, 120 Film, V500, Red Filter,

Okay I got a roll of Kodak TX 400 to spool in my Patterson plastic reel. Here it is!!

I don’t really like the results so far. But… There is a couple of things going on here that could have influenced the results I got.

First, its hella grainy!! I take back what I said about HP5+, this is way more grainy than that stuff. I cringe to put this up on Flickr because of how much sharpening they apply to the resized images. I’m sure it will look awful unless you click through to the large size. This is medium format for gods sake I should hardly be able to see any grain. I would not complain if it was a frame of 35mm but this big a negative, c’mon!

But wait a minute. I shot this at an EI of 1600! Pretty cool huh?. Geez you could probably shot this stuff at that speed in a night club with some fast glass. For an EI of 1600 I think this is more than acceptable. Although I have seen 35mm scans of TX at 1600 souped in Diafine and they were almost grainless.

Now here is the rub, I rated this at 1600 and shot with a red filter on, hence the cool contrast in the sky. The filter I was using had a 8x filter factor which I believe is 3 stops(please correct me if I’m wrong). So I set my ISO on my meter at 200. 3 stops brighter than 1600. My negatives are very dark and that means that the image when inverted in the computer will be very light. So right now with out further testing I have to assume that something is not right with using the filters recommended compensation factor with this film. On a side not my math work out wonderfully with HP5. In Diafine Hp5 has an exposure index of 800, and that means set your meters ISO to 100 using this filter (correct?). And it worked more than well. I barely had to touch the files after scanning. Now I admit that I don’t have the best scanner in the world (Epson V500) and I have not shot a lot of 400 speed film but I have seen what can be done and this result is far from it. I have also scanned 100 speed film and processed it with fairly poor post processing sharpening and still had a grain less film and retained the wonderful dimensionality that film offers. Besides I have shot 400 speed 35mm color film and there is less grain in it than this. I firmly believe its because I had to mess with the file too much in post to get it to the levels I want it.

HP5 may be my goto film for the red filter, thought I will try the TX at an EI of say 800 or maybe even 1600 for a shot just to see how it reacts with Diafine. Seems to me that the image is over exposed (correct?). A dense neg = over exposure, I believe. Would love to know what anyone else thinks. I am also going to have to try some FP4 with the red filter and also all of these with some Ilfosol 3 as well.

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