Originally posted by tuco Stellar! I thought you'd use some of your E200 stash for that much work.
Yes, you would think that I would! I have very little Superia left, half a dozen rolls. Negative films tend to have less halation with the star images. This creates a finer image. That being said, E200 has wonderful properties, and I will use it for a project such as this next year.
Currently there is no b&w film that can create a similar image. Back in the day one would hypersensitize Kodak Technical Pan by baking it in a chamber of forming gas. A messy process, but it had tremendous recording power, especially in the desired red end of the spectrum, allowing capture of faint emission nebulae. Fuji Acros works great right out of the box, and even better when hypered, but it lacks a red response as it is orthopanchromatic. I wish it were otherwise. Red sensitive b&w films all have poor reciprocity.
I'm very much pleased by this faux b&w image as it comes very close to the old hypered TP look. The detail seen in this image would be very hard to accomplish with a DSLR, especially if you wanted to enlarge it to the size I mentioned.