[LesDMess]

My ambition is to get the best possible results this side of expensive drum scans so I spend quite some time exploring alternatives (we also use a Flextight X-1 and a Nikon Super Coolscan LS-9000 ED) and tweaking the scans.

How many scans so far?

Also, which of the three methids - Coolscan, Flextight and DSLR, provides the least work to get color/contrast right?

[Swift1]

Busch Pressman D
Kodak Ektar 127/4.7
Kodak Ektar 100
Epson V750-M Pro

[dsmithhfx]

Tri-X

[dsmithhfx]

Busch Pressman D
Kodak Ektar 127/4.7
Kodak Ektar 100
Epson V750-M Pro

The car looks way too good to be parked dangerously close to a rusty shipping container in the weeds.

[LaHo]

Images from my second film of Film Ferrania P30. I like the fine grain, tones and contrast of this new (old) film. Some sharpness lost due to diffraction (I hadn't noticed that I had stopped all the way down to F16).

A sunlit pond in the Swedish woods ...





Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F
Lens: Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 24mm F3.5 and red filter
Exposure: 1/30 @ F16.0
Film: Film Ferrania P30 hand developed in xtol 1+1.

[timw4mail]

Asahi Pentax K1000
Macro-Takumar 50/4
Fujifilm C200

Scanned with Pacific Imaging PrimeFilmXA.

[g026r]

Meopta Flexaret Standard.
Belar 80mm f3.5.
Kodak Ektar 100.

[dsmithhfx]

Tri-X

[RobG]

Looking back down the path leading to Toushougu, the burial place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Edo period. Nikko, Japan, 2002. Fuji 100 print film, Pentax MZ5, Sigma 28-80.


Toushougu Entrance by RobGeraghty, on Flickr

[IgorZ]

Images from my second film of Film Ferrania P30. I like the fine grain, tones and contrast of this new (old) film. Some sharpness lost due to diffraction (I hadn't noticed that I had stopped all the way down to F16).

A sunlit pond in the Swedish woods ...





Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F
Lens: Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 24mm F3.5 and red filter
Exposure: 1/30 @ F16.0
Film: Film Ferrania P30 hand developed in xtol 1+1.

As I was scrolling down the page, I looked at the photos without reading the text and thought "That looks like Russia!" Then I read the text

How do you find the dynamic range of this film? I am very interested in trying it out, but the samples I have seen on their website often times have hightlights blown out. For my liking, at least. Not sure if it was processing (they seem to be in the process of figuring out how best to process it) or something else...

[LaHo]

How do you find the dynamic range of this film? ...

I find it to be quite good. The film yields high contrast, but the (mid)tones are still there.

Here a backlit dark brown dog, but all the tones are there all the way into the darkest shadows:


I like the fine grain and high detail that is possible with this film, even with my low cost flatbed scanner like mine (Canon CanoScan 9000f):


It is certainly a film that I will return to again and a welcome addition to the choices we have already.

BTW, Film Ferrania recommends Kodak D-76 or the variant D-96 and almost discourages the use of xtol, but I still used (more than a year old) xtol 1+1, as that was what I had at hand, and that functioned well for me (xtol 1+1 for 10 minutes @ 22 °C (= 12 minutes @ 20 °C)).

[dsmithhfx]

Tri-X

[bjolester]

Lake Scene by bjolester, on Flickr


Pentax 67ii
SMC Pentax 67 55-100/4.5
Fuji Velvia 100 converted to b&w cropped

[IgorZ]

Lake Scene by bjolester, on Flickr


Pentax 67ii
SMC Pentax 67 55-100/4.5
Fuji Velvia 100 converted to b&w cropped

This is really awesome. Never occurred to me to convert Velvia to black and white, but I think I am going to try...

[Helios 1984]

These are from a roll of Delta 100 I shot with my Spotmatic II in August in the Thousand Islands area.
Developed in my Rondinax with Rodinal 1:40 12min.

Super Takumar 135mm f/3.5
A view of Boldt Castle on Heart Island


Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50mm f/1.4
The Aster Tower

The Power House

The Arch & The Aster Tower