Something I haven't done in ages! (no politics in here! :) )

*ve2vfd* · 10-01-2009, 04:52 PM

This afternoon I loaded up my old Minolta X700 with Tr-X, slapped on a 50mm prime, headed out and snapped the roll.

A few minutes ago I loaded up the film in my developing tank and processed it and now it's hanging to dry!

wooo! And the good news is that the roll appears to be well exposed and processed.

Would you believe I had not wet processed a film at home since 1993!

My next step is to get a slide/negative scanner. I am looking at the OpticFilm 7500i SE. I've heard a lot of good things about it, and for under $400 it's hard to go wrong with it.

Why a slide scanner you ask? Well, though I do have an enlarger and all I need to make wet prints, I'd rather wait a bit and just scan and photoshop my negatives until I get some photos really worth wet printing (enlarger, timer, trays are in storage and I don't have the space to set up my darkroom).

Well, that was FUN!

Pat

*Blue* · 10-01-2009, 04:53 PM

shouldn't this be in the off-brand forum.

*ve2vfd* · 10-01-2009, 05:04 PM

Actually I should have put it in the "Post Processing, Printing, Software, and Darkroom " forum, but since 99.99999% of posts in there are about computer processing and not wet processing it felt "off topic" to post it in there!

Actually this thread is more about the fun of doing something I hadn't done in ages and not really about the technical aspects of it.

Pat

ps: plus I thought this forum could use a pleasant "no politics" thread

*Ratmagiclady* · 10-01-2009, 05:16 PM

Film!

Always kind of liked those X-700s, though.

*daacon* · 10-01-2009, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by ve2vfd

Actually I should have put it in the "Post Processing, Printing, Software, and Darkroom " forum, but since 99.99999% of posts in there are about computer processing and not wet processing it felt "off topic" to post it in there!

Actually this thread is more about the fun of doing something I hadn't done in ages and not really about the technical aspects of it.

Pat

ps: plus I thought this forum could use a pleasant "no politics" thread

Indeed I tired with some surpirse / twist plot thread that got several hits the first couple days and now is getting lost

*Blue* · 10-01-2009, 05:27 PM

Its rather odd that I don't have any Minolta gear. My grandfather got me into photography in the 6th grade and he was pretty much Minolta all the way when it came to 35mm. Given that I have a collection of various bodies and lenses, it is ironic that Minolta is missing. There are 3 lenses that I would get a body for in a second. That's their fast 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm.

*pasipasi* · 10-01-2009, 05:39 PM

I recently got the Plustek 7500i SE and here's a set of pics that have been scanned with it Plustek 7500i SE - a set on Flickr

I should start developing myself. About 25 rolls of Tri-X in my fridge that have been exposed already.

*ve2vfd* · 10-01-2009, 05:51 PM

Pasipasi ... not bad! The black and white ones, are they a scanned BW neg? The grain is awesome!

Pat

*Ratmagiclady* · 10-01-2009, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Blue

Its rather odd that I don't have any Minolta gear. My grandfather got me into photography in the 6th grade and he was pretty much Minolta all the way when it came to 35mm. Given that I have a collection of various bodies and lenses, it is ironic that Minolta is missing. There are 3 lenses that I would get a body for in a second. That's their fast 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm.

Somehow the glass was never quite to my taste, at least compared to Canon. By the time I was contemplating switching systems, the X-700 was already looking as good as it was going to get, with the classics already out the window. No place to jump ship to, really.

*ve2vfd* · 10-01-2009, 06:44 PM

Well, I just figured out that an LCD monitor with a full screen all white jpg makes a great lightbox to view my negs

Pat

*res3567* · 10-01-2009, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by ve2vfd

ps: plus I thought this forum could use a pleasant "no politics" thread

Getting ready to get back in the gym. How about a fittness thred?

*graphicgr8s* · 10-01-2009, 09:01 PM

Well for the last two days mornings here have been fantabulous. If it holds for the weekend I think I know what 2 Georges are going to do.

jct us101 · 10-01-2009, 09:04 PM

The gym sounds good right now.

*Ratmagiclady* · 10-01-2009, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by pasipasi

I recently got the Plustek 7500i SE and here's a set of pics that have been scanned with it Plustek 7500i SE - a set on Flickr

I should start developing myself. About 25 rolls of Tri-X in my fridge that have been exposed already.

See, if you weren't all the way over there, I'd say I'd do your backlog for some D-76.

I have a couple of odd-rolls out that I've mostly shot for that developer, but I want to be doing Diafine and Rodinal this winter...

*ve2vfd* · 10-01-2009, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by res3567

Getting ready to get back in the gym. How about a fittness thred?

Those are always good!

Originally Posted by graphicgr8s

Well for the last two days mornings here have been fantabulous. If it holds for the weekend I think I know what 2 Georges are going to do.

You are lucky! It's been raining for a week straight here...

Saturday was sunny and 23C, today is damp, grey, raining and 6C... bleargh!

Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady

See, if you weren't all the way over there, I'd say I'd do your backlog for some D-76.

I was thinking of offering to trade my jug of D76 and developping tank for his neg scanner...

Pat