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New Cameras, Image Noise, and Film

Had a couple of interesting email conversations about my current existensial/camera acquisition crisis that meandered into a discussion regarding image noise and some comments I made a few posts ago on why image noise is not a huge priority for me. I have never owned a specialized noise reduction tool and to be blunt I can probably count the number of times that I have used noise reduction on an image. I am not at all disparaging those that use or depend on it. I just haven’t experienced making...

29 May 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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Shooting Film ?

I have had some interesting conversations generated by a post with some ramblings about camera noise, film, and TMAX 3200P. Just for fun I thought I would post a scan and some comments regarding real honest to goodness film along with some short thoughts on it’s characteristics and how I use or have used it in the past. Just for fun, nostalgia for some, and curiosity for others. Personally I shoot 90% digital and 10% film. I am glad that I had the opportunity to shoot, process, and print...

31 May 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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Film – Polapan100 Instant Black and White Slides

Here is a fun one. Way out of production Polapan black and white slide film. As far as I know this was only available as an instant 35mm film that you shot and then processed “instantly” in a little machine that you could by from Polaroid. The little machine was pretty cool and could process all of the other Polaroid 35mm slide films as well. You had to crank a little handle at a specific speed, not to fast, not too slow. This film was basically useless prior to...

22 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , | 7 Comments
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Shooting Film – Kodachrome 64

For the longest time that I can remember when I shot 35mm film it was either Kodachrome 64 or Kodachrome 200. A couple of paying jobs, some stuff for stock photography, a lot of travel, and all of my personal color photos where on just two types of Kodachrome. It was either that or black and white. By todays standards it is a farily low saturation film, heck by the late 80′s it was a low saturated film. I knew it, never ever had a color issues with it,...

10 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 2 Comments
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Kodak Ektachrome 100S Film

I loved this stuff when it came out in both the regular old S and the SW varieties. It completely replaced Kodachrome 64 for my personal use, as well as replaced regular Ektachrome Pro (EPP) and a bunch of different constantly changing Fuji stuff for my commissioned work. The new Ektachrome G films are similar and just as good, maybe even “better”. Ektachrome 100S was by no means a loud film like Fuji Velvia (never took a liking to that stuff myself but shot it when requested). You could...

04 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Shooting Film – Ilford HP5 plus

Let me start out by saying that Ilford HP5 plus was not one of my favorite films. I would much rather shoot TX or TXP, that’s Kodak Tri-X in 35mm and medium format. The one and only one exception is HP5 plus in medium format or large format developed in one of a few different pyro developer formulations. For those not familiar with pyro development it has some unique properties. It is sort of a compensating developer, meaning that it develops more in the shadows and exhausts quickly in...

02 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , | 4 Comments
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TMax 3200 – Special Request Scan

For the one that requested it here is a special request encore. A scan with no adjustments to black point at full resolution in a non compressed format would kill my server bandwidth for days.How about the next best thing an completely nude except for a conversion to 8bits and save as JPG . Let us just chalk this up to a grain fetish or something. Have fun. RB

06 June 2009 | General Photography, Site News | , , | 0 Comments
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Polaroid Type 665 PN – RIP – A Unique and Interesting Film

Polaroid Type 665 is pretty much Type 55 in a medium format pack. A little background for those not familiar with Polaroid materials. I never really shot Polaroid materials as my primary medium. Some people have made a career out of it. Most of us old-timers did use it to check lighting and confirm everything was just right before letting it rip. After seening someone or other’s gallery show done entirely using Poloaroid Type 55 I decided to give it a try and used it as my proofing and...

15 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 3 Comments
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Shooting Film – Pyro Clarification And Notes

I have put a number of posts in the “shooting film” series. By a large margin the posts that have generated the most questions and correspondence have been the couple of films that I have posted so far that have been developed in pyro. If memory serves, I believe that the only two have been Ilford HP5 plus in PMK pyro and Kodak Plus-X also developed in PMK pyro. The Plus-X wasn’t even in the shooting film series – It was in the a random rant about “80% of...

18 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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Shooting Film – Ilford Delta100 In PMK Pyro

I spent about a week calibrating Ilford Delta100 in a couple different developers. I have only ever shot it on 35mm on a few rare occasions. I ultimately decided to stay with Kodak TMAX 100 for both 35mm as well as medium format applications. The Delta 100 was a fantastic film and a worthy competitor to TMAX 100. My decision to stay with TMAX 100 over the Ilford film was purely subjective, I had no technical issues with TMAX 100 as so many others do and I happened to...

28 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment
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