[nickthetasmaniac]

Jan | Kingston Beach

MX, Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 28/f3.5 and Tmax400

[Cuthbert]

Still life with Pentax LX and Praktica BC3 (quite similar camera from an ergonomic point of view).



Oh yes, the Praktica has the exposure lock...

[nickthetasmaniac]

MX, Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 28/f3.5 and Tmax400

[Martin KP]

Folks, you won. B&W film is better than digital simulation. I haven't given up on simulation. But I have now got a fully working, well kept (although dusty) pentax MG with Vivitar PK-A/R 2.8 24mm lens. When I get paid next month, I'm getting some film.

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[dsmithhfx]

Folks, you won. B&W film is better than digital simulation. I haven't given up on simulation. But I have now got a fully working, well kept (although dusty) pentax MG with Vivitar PK-A/R 2.8 24mm lens. When I get paid next month, I'm getting some film.

Looking forward to your film work!

[Cuthbert]

Folks, you won. B&W film is better than digital simulation. I haven't given up on simulation. But I have now got a fully working, well kept (although dusty) pentax MG with Vivitar PK-A/R 2.8 24mm lens. When I get paid next month, I'm getting some film.

Finally you joined the Dark Side.

We have cookies.

[tuco]

Still playing around with infrared.

Fuji GSW690III, Rollei Infrared, R72 Filter, Rodinal 1+25

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[g026r]

That turned out very well. Nicely done.

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Going to post this here as it's monochrome; even if it's black-and-blue rather than black-and-white.



Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 Model 2.
Polaroid Originals Blue 600 Film.

[Russell W. Barnes]

Getting Ahead. Balda-Baldix, Baltar f4.5 75mm lens; HP5+ in HC-110 Dilution E. Ilford agitation.

[tuco]

Getting Ahead. Balda-Baldix, Baltar f4.5 75mm lens; HP5+ in HC-110 Dilution E. Ilford agitation.

Sweet. I think a 150mm or so focal length for that format would also make for an interesting shot of those heads.

[Cuthbert]

F2AS,K85mm f1.8, Ferrania P30.

[tuco]

That turned out very well. Nicely done.
Going to post this here as it's monochrome; even if it's black-and-blue rather than black-and-white.

I still have an old Berg Color Toning System which you could create monochromes or duochromes from your BW prints. The kit can do blue, green, red, yellow and violet.

[goatsNdonkey]

I still have an old Berg Color Toning System which you could create monochromes or duochromes from your BW prints. The kit can do blue, green, red, yellow and violet.

Don't forget good old sepia tone!

Many an old B&W print adopted that on its own before anyone ever thought of the terms "archival paper, processing, or storage."

[dsmithhfx]

Don't forget good old sepia tone!

Many an old B&W print adopted that on its own before anyone ever thought of the terms "archival paper, processing, or storage."

The original dye-based inkjet blacks fade to a sepia-ish chocolate color. I have one printed on an epson i9900 about ~15-years ago that is a nice sepia now hanging in my kitchen. OTOH my darkroom prints on fibre-base (single weight mostly) are as black as the day they were printed ~40-years ago.

[goatsNdonkey]

The original dye-based inkjet blacks fade to a sepia-ish chocolate color. I have one printed on an epson i9900 about ~15-years ago that is a nice sepia now hanging in my kitchen. OTOH my darkroom prints on fibre-base (single weight mostly) are as black as the day they were printed ~40-years ago.

I'm old enough to think of a mere 40 years ago as recent history. When I think of old B&W prints faded to sepia, I'm thinking of snaps my parents took with their Brownies in the 1930s, and pictures I pick up at antique stores that sometimes go back much farther.


Most of the family photos I've scanned, I've converted to B&W after scanning them in color, but I found one still in the original faded-to-sepia condition. Meet Sparky and Thunder, on of my grandfather's teams of Percheron draft horses. The picture would have been taken by my mom with her Brownie box camera, purchased sometime after 1932. Many of her shots taken with the Brownie are much sharper than this one, but I needed a faded-to-sepia example:


( Not sure why this one displays so small here in the forum. I scanned it on a flatbed scanner over 10 years ago. I does look sharper at this size though! )

Here's one of my antique store finds. Some of those are obviously studio portraits, which might have in fact been sepia toned by the professional photographer, but I'm pretty sure this one is a family snap taken by a reasonably creative amateur. You can see that there almost still is some black in it, but it's turned the corner toward sepia. I have no info about the photographer, camera used, or the date.





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