For those who remember

[Mike Shimwell]

Finally caught up with developing old rolls of 35mm. This may be a familiar sight to some! Early negs are a bit thin to be honest - FP4 needs more than 12 mins in xtol 1+2 and likely a bit more exposure as well.

Turns out to be 3 walks

Mike

 

[Asher Kelman]

Nostalgic indeed!

Mike, what about dust?

Asher

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Run the shower hot for a couple of minutes and they generally come out clean. Certainly no worse than my old 5D.

I have to admit that FP4 isn't really my film and I'm glad to have none left! HP5 I like, but FP4 doesn't really work as a slow film in my mind.

Mike

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Hi Mike,

This is such a fine sight for sore eyes. Coincidentally, I have spent some time on eBay today looking for a negative carrier and a mounted slide holder. I saw a huge variety of dark room articles such as enlargers, trays, stands, etc. on offer. This complements that vision nicely.

BTW, the reason for my search is this. I am going to build a copy stand with a controlled light table and a negative/slide carrier in order to photograph (i.e. scan) my slides and negatives using my 5DII and the 100mm macro lens. I already do this using the tripod and some makeshift holders for the film but it needs more permanence and ease of use. There is a very nice web page and a video featuring Peter Krogh describing the scanning process using a camera here.

PS: I already have a dedicated slide/film scanner (Canon FS4000) which delivers very good results. But the workflow of scanning with the camera is perhaps 5 times faster. I still scan the special frames using the dedicated scanner. The camera scans are good enough for web and small prints.

Cheers,

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Run the shower hot for a couple of minutes and they generally come out clean. Certainly no worse than my old 5D.

I have to admit that FP4 isn't really my film and I'm glad to have none left! HP5 I like, but FP4 doesn't really work as a slow film in my mind.

Mike

So which film do you prefer and why?

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Cem, excellent. You may not realise it, but the LPL 6700 can be used as a copy stand with the right acessories and doubles up as a very high quality enlarger.

Mike

 

[Mike Shimwell]

So which film do you prefer and why?

iso 400 Tmax 400 or HP5 depending on the look I want and either Tmax 100 or Rollei 80S for slow film. A more retro look can be got from adox CHS 25, 50 or 100 or fomapan 100 with more grain.

For colour neg, occasionally as I tend to shoot digital for colour, I like Kodak Portra and Ektar if the circumstances are right. Ektar is quite sensitive to exposure giving different results for different evs. Portra gives good soli skin tones, nice rendering and lots of latitude. The images below are straight untouched scan of some Portra, originally scanned as proofs on an epson flatbed. The final scan didn't have nurnt out hair on Pauline!

Mike

 

[Maris Rusis]

Finally caught up with developing old rolls of 35mm. This may be a familiar sight to some! Early negs are a bit thin to be honest - FP4 needs more than 12 mins in xtol 1+2 and likely a bit more exposure as well.

Turns out to be 3 walks

Mike

Mike, that scene looks very much like my film drying area. I've got some 120 format rolls hanging in it right now.

Your FP4 (FP4+ ?) looks ok. It's the Rollei Retro that looks a bit underexposed and underdeveloped but nothing that good darkroom work can't manage.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Mike,

This is such a fine sight for sore eyes. Coincidentally, I have spent some time on eBay today looking for a negative carrier and a mounted slide holder. I saw a huge variety of dark room articles such as enlargers, trays, stands, etc. on offer. This complements that vision nicely.

BTW, the reason for my search is this. I am going to build a copy stand with a controlled light table and a negative/slide carrier in order to photograph (i.e. scan) my slides and negatives using my 5DII and the 100mm macro lens. I already do this using the tripod and some makeshift holders for the film but it needs more permanence and ease of use. There is a very nice web page and a video featuring Peter Krogh describing the scanning process using a camera here.

PS: I already have a dedicated slide/film scanner (Canon FS4000) which delivers very good results. But the workflow of scanning with the camera is perhaps 5 times faster. I still scan the special frames using the dedicated scanner. The camera scans are good enough for web and small prints.

Cheers,

Cem,

That's a wonderful reference. Has there been a comparative review of scanning by a V700 or similar Canon scanner v. a 5DII? Any idea where the rail system in the article comes from?

Asher

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

#Nice to see that again
I use to make some DIY for drying the films.
Once I made a tunnel made of a sheet of transparent plastic, sturdy one (Garden center) and hung it to a metal hanger hook at the top , with a small weight at the bottom
the armature was only at the top and bottom (which allowed me to fold it when unused) and made of squared section of wood that were sanded and varnished (no dust)
The plastic was sewed (with a sewing machine) and a couple of scratch band were sewed as well along the wrapover opening.
It cost me barely nothing, was transportable in case of... and I had nearly no dust problems.

Then I found out a second hand ready to go to the bin, vertical clothes dryer (electrical, that nobody uses anymore, because it's not energy saving)

it comes with no filter in the air input, so I had to fit one with a vacuum cleaner filter (cut out).
There was a command for both air and heat, and had to keep them both a a minimum. It speeded up the process but didn't worth the effort, compared to the natural air dryer. Could have been worthy If I have had a business...

the electrical air dryer
http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwiki/71/Grand_model.gif



The bathroom air dryer

The patent is pending


My favorite films were Afga APX 25 and 100 iso in black and white (sometimes kodak, TriX not Tmax) I discovered the Fujis quite late because it was not distributed in France, liked them. Never had a particular taste for Ilford ones...
In color, I loved Kodachrome 64, and Velvia for positives (50&100).
For colour positive Always Fuji...

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

Hi Mike,

This is such a fine sight for sore eyes. Coincidentally, I have spent some time on eBay today looking for a negative carrier and a mounted slide holder. I saw a huge variety of dark room articles such as enlargers, trays, stands, etc. on offer. This complements that vision nicely.

BTW, the reason for my search is this. I am going to build a copy stand with a controlled light table and a negative/slide carrier in order to photograph (i.e. scan) my slides and negatives using my 5DII and the 100mm macro lens. I already do this using the tripod and some makeshift holders for the film but it needs more permanence and ease of use. There is a very nice web page and a video featuring Peter Krogh describing the scanning process using a camera here.

PS: I already have a dedicated slide/film scanner (Canon FS4000) which delivers very good results. But the workflow of scanning with the camera is perhaps 5 times faster. I still scan the special frames using the dedicated scanner. The camera scans are good enough for web and small prints.

Cheers,

I made thousans (Really!) of these repros of inversibles, and we used to use an colour enlarger head (I mean the colour filter and the light box without the stand and the pole) turned over. You adjust the colours with the controller CMY N/filter, The light box acts as the illuminant. Required a bit of DIY to make it stand steadily, but when done, you can do them as a batch (all same sets of slides with the same correction) it goes pretty fast. In addition you can use the stand and the pole of the enlarger to build a sturdy stand for your camera...I don't know if I was clear