Remember way way back I was excited about the Leica M9. Well I was and I still am – sort of. If I have a need for something like a Leica but I must have digital output for some reason I will probably consider an M9. I am glad that it exists in the world. If I was a PJ and had to get images out right now I would definitely use one for a lot of my work. I am not so I decided that before I went...
A quick update on my commitment to shoot film with my M6 prior to springing for an M9. Well, I finally got the kinks worked out of my development process and tools, so I am ready to go. Remember the first two rolls I sent through? Almost decade old TMZ and TRI-X? I found the answer of what was going wrong – it wasn’t me. The tank I was using had developed a crack that was invisible for the most part but not invisible to the film. I did...
Well, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and shoot more film prior to taking the M9 plunge. I really haven’t shot film in the last two years since my last move. Well I did shoot some medium format but that was color and was not my M series Leica. In preparation to start shooting seriously with the M series I ordered up a fresh batch of developer and fixer from Photographers Forumulary and it arrived today. To warm up the old darkroom skills I figured...
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...
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
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...
