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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-30-2011, 06:19 PM
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I know this is horrendously off topic: but I wouldn't blame the film emulsion - if you are using a higher accutance developer you can get decent results even out of Ilford HP4 with certain developers e.g, rodinal,pyrocat HD et al. Though you have to be really careful on choosing the film and know it's response curve and how you develop the film to get the most out of it. I prefer colder temps over high ones - and staining developers certainly have their benefits especially when printing is concerned. Though for the comparison I used Kodak T-Max 100 developed in Pyrocat-HD* because it's my standard developer for sheet films - mostly because I do platinum/palladium and the denser negatives Pyro produces suit this process perfectly.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-30-2011, 07:33 AM
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I had a student that embodied that description he wasn't impressed with film at all - and he had to use it for his classes. so what I did was I pitted his canon 1ds MKIII against an ebony 4X5 view camera with images from both cameras being printed at 36X24* - the 4X5 won, and I was using a nikkor lens too as I recall...talk about adding insult to injury.
* with cropping on the 4X5 negative.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-21-2011, 03:30 AM
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I prefer a Damascus steel kukri - they are more functional than a machete.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-16-2011, 05:12 PM
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I often get funny looks from Leica photographers these days when I still use My M3 with T-Max 100 when I already own a M9 and M8 - the Leica M3 is better at focusing ultrafast normal lenses than the digital rangefinders are, the RF patch is bigger in the M3.
I get some REALLY interesting comments when i'm using my 4X5 or 8X10 view cameras in public - and I always notice that cars seem to drive by slower when I have it pointed at passing traffic at night.Last time I was out and about with my 8X10 I had a few people ask me what the hell I was up to - and when I told them - they didn't believe that such a thing even existed...and many of them suggest I try using a digital camera sometime.
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