Originally posted by gofour3 Nice series, have you tried the Fomapan R100 b&w slide film?
Phil.
I have not. I really like Fomapan 100, though, it's one of my favorites. It's not as fine grained as FP4, but I think I like the grain structure a bit better. In MF it works great. I still haven't gotten used to T grain stuff, and am likely going to go back to the HP5+, Fomapan 100 combo I've had going.
These were actually shot at box speed, but reciprocity is a massive pain with Fomapan, so I pushed the roll 3 stops. I got both usable lower light shots (like the last 2) and awesome mega-high contrast shots (like the first one). The First one was 3 minutes at f/11, with the car parked under a streetlight, and a couple manual pops in select places from a 285HV (that' s why there's a double shadow on the mirror).
The second I let run for about 5 minutes at f/11, @18mm, and the last one was wide open @18mm for about 30 seconds.
EDIT: One note with the Fomapan films-- the Antihalation layer is pretty weak. I shot a different roll in downtown Flagstaff, and even on a rainy day got some weird highlight bleeds into shadows. These three were the only shots on that roll that didn't have any weird bleeding, but it kinda worked for this shoot, anyway.