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Shooting Film – Kodak Plus-X and Reader Curiosity

Way way way back I wrote a blurb that had a digital photograph of a medium format negative on a light table. You may remember it, I think it was called Photographers and Their tools or something like that. Anyway, after posting that I decided to ask a question over at APUG.com about not that specific negative but why Kodak Plus-X pan had a blue base. I still do not have an answer to that question but I did get some interesting info – depending on your process the...

07 December 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , | 14 Comments
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Megapixels and Image Magnification

This image is about 6″ wide. It was shot on 120 medium format film. That’s a magnification factor of 2.7 give or take. It’s fantastically detailed and reasonably sharp. It looks even better on paper because on paper it will be 3 to 6 times the resolution that you can see on your monitor at 100 dpi or so. So how many megapixels is that? It really doesn’t matter as long as you can get about 250 – 300 dpi on paper. Your magnification may be greater because you...

02 October 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Shooting Film – Kodak Plus-X

Just a real quick post on my long overdue shooting film series, since I have been so big on shooting an M series film camera prior to taking the $9000 plunge for an M9 and meager Leica lens. Here is an old favorite of mine, always appropriate, renders skin tones well – a little too blue sensitive but hey that is what yellow filters were made for. Good ol’ Kodak Plus-X Pan. This example happens to have been developed in Kodak XTOL, a wunder-developer of the moment a decade...

24 September 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , | 2 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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I Am An Image Pack-Rat – Why I Almost Never Get Rid of Images

When I was shooting film for everything I almost never got rid of any negatives. A combination of both irrational reasons as well as rational reasons combined to make me keep everything I shot. From a rational point of view if I was shooting roll film It was more trouble to cut individual negatives out of the strip rather than just filing the whole thing. For sheet film if there were technical faults or aesthetic faults I would make notes on what went wrong for educational purposes – mine...

24 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 11 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