cliffpatte
Speed camera anarchist
nice one Pete
pull processing eh? How long in the tank? 3 minutes?
pull processing eh? How long in the tank? 3 minutes?
pfm Picture A Week (PAW) 2010 part I
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cliffpatte
Speed camera anarchist
Calumet have started selling the Fuji version (GF670) and the price is somewhat lower than the III from Robert White
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
Patrick Dixon
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Nice woodland Joe.
cliffpatte
Speed camera anarchist
autumn colour in the spring 
Patrick Dixon
Imagineer
Yes like the top one particularly Cesare - shows the clear superiority of Rolleiflex over Hassy I think ;-)
How do you C41 guys get the colour balanced on the scans? Do you just go with the Epson default colour neg settings, or do you do something cleverer? I feel C41 is probably the right thing to do, but, TBH, it just depresses the hell out of me looking at the horrible orange negs. 4x5 just makes it all even worse. OTOH 4x5 E6s look great, and B&W negs don't offend me too much.
How do you C41 guys get the colour balanced on the scans? Do you just go with the Epson default colour neg settings, or do you do something cleverer? I feel C41 is probably the right thing to do, but, TBH, it just depresses the hell out of me looking at the horrible orange negs. 4x5 just makes it all even worse. OTOH 4x5 E6s look great, and B&W negs don't offend me too much.
Patrick,
I struggled for a year with home C41 development, and had the same problem - not knowing if a weird colour balance was the film, the light, my development, or my scanning. With E6 at least I can remove the last one from this equation.
The right thing to do is to skip C41 and go E6. Of course it's a lot more technical to get a suitable exposure without blowing the highlights, but then you've got per-neg controls over the process with LF so this shouldn't be a hurdle (ha ha ha).
For me getting chromes out of the tank and seeing the colours, and being able to visually check the exposure is a big boost. I've had a fair number of duff frames though, especially when photographing people with darker skin, and really messing up the exposure by a stop and not being able to recover anything decent.
I struggled for a year with home C41 development, and had the same problem - not knowing if a weird colour balance was the film, the light, my development, or my scanning. With E6 at least I can remove the last one from this equation.
The right thing to do is to skip C41 and go E6. Of course it's a lot more technical to get a suitable exposure without blowing the highlights, but then you've got per-neg controls over the process with LF so this shouldn't be a hurdle (ha ha ha).
For me getting chromes out of the tank and seeing the colours, and being able to visually check the exposure is a big boost. I've had a fair number of duff frames though, especially when photographing people with darker skin, and really messing up the exposure by a stop and not being able to recover anything decent.
Wait till you see some of my holga chromes ;-)
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