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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-28-2019, 02:07 PM
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I don't agree with that myself. XP2 and Kodak CN-400 are "color process black & white film" They are actually color film, but the amount of color information captured is VERY small.
But.. if you scan in color, and manually control the sensitivity and expand out the histogram for each color as much as possible, you get a lot more information.. and from that you can then use a mixdown layer to very carefully blend the color information into the monochrome. Because each color has very different sensitivity, some will have better shadow detail, some better highlight detail, and some better mid-level detail, so this "mixing" process can give you fantastic control over the levels of detail on the final "mixed down" black & white. It's a lot like being able to blend 3 copies of the same photo, one taken with a red filter, one with a green filter, and one with a blue filter. (or, one with a cyan filter, one with a magenta filter, and one with a yellow filter.. with a little photoshop-fu, you could mix & match all 6 of those, and with some masking only allow certain layers to affect it etc..)
When it comes to scanning, especially where the data set might be limited to shades, to get as much control over the conversion process as possible.
If I'm going to do a sepia, I do that after I'm happy with my mixed-down greyscale, using a hue/saturation layer, ticking the "colorize" box, and then tweaking the color to my liking.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-09-2019, 11:08 AM
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Nice! I love Chevelle's, although 1968-1970 are my favorites. ('70 most of all) That's a '71 or a '72. I can't tell because I can't see the directional light on either front corner of the car. (The tail lights are identical) Gorgeous photo of an awesome car! Nobody makes them that wide anymore!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-18-2019, 03:49 PM
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Shot at 50... was the film pulled a stop, or developed normally for 100? (I'm guessing "normal" since you didn't mention it.)
Gorgeous detail. :)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-03-2018, 12:00 PM
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There's a lot of leeway in film for blown highlights, especially in B&W film. If you need to rescan with custom settings, so be it.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-19-2017, 04:16 PM
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You can get Ilford XP2 or Kodak BW400CN film and have it processed anywhere, as they are both colour process films.
An added benefit if you're scanning the film yourself afterwards, is that you can still use Digital ICE, unlike with true B&W films. The C-41 process colour films have the colour layers that are necessary for ICE to work properly. Some purists will say it softens the scan a wee bit, but it does save a ton of time retouching for dust.
The Ilford LOOKS icky when you see the negatives, but scans & prints alright. The Kodak looks more like a B&W negative.
They only come in 400 ISO, though, sadly.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-16-2017, 07:16 PM
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This was shot on Ilford Delta 3200 film @1600, and pushed 1 stop in Kodak D76 developer. So.. it is a black & white FILM shot, although it's been coloured.
This was shot using a Canon Pellix QL 35mm SLR, and a Canon 50mm f1.4 lens, both from 1965. The shot was taken in 2000 or 2001 in Hadley, Massachusetts, in the U.S. This is a farmhouse and barn across from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Stables.
I was shooting with a friend, and the Aurora Borealis showed up in a place where it doesn't usually occur.. we chased it from Hadley, up into the southern part of the state of Vermont trying to get good photos. This was the best one I managed. I was a bit disappointed that I only had black & white film in the camera at that time. We were shooting black & white shots of the campus from across the athletic fields.
So.. this is probably the only colourful photo in this thread. It is a bit grainy, but I've always loved it.
The lower part of it was toned quite warmly, and the aurora is as close to what I saw that night as I managed to get it from memory. It was a lot less green than the previous times I'd seen it.
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