After over 25-years hyatus in processing my own film, I took the plunge and ordered the necessary supplies to do some B&W film. Since my wife bought me an Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner, and I'm very happy with its performance with 35mm and 120 negatives, I figure I'll put it to full use. I ordered 10 rolls of Tri-X, some D76 & other chemicals, and a changing bag, and should be ready to go in a week or so when it arrives. I doubt I'll shoot very much (maybe a roll every 2 or 3 months), but am looking forward to experimenting with some push & pull processing on the Tri-X. It will be nice to have my own film capability when I want it, not having to wait for someone else to process it.
Here is the result of a scan on the V500 - my wife's cat Fritz in a showdown with a neighbor cat. This was taken with a Mamiya C220 TLR (which I sadly sold about 1980), Kodak B&W film, quite underexposed and a very thin negative. The scanner did an excellent job of pulling out the image.
Picture taken in 1978, film processed by me in the darkroom where I worked at the time.
-Joe-
P.S. I blame all of you on this thread because of your posting some of the most excellent and interesting pictures. It's your fault I have to get back into film! ;-)