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my first 4x5s. fomapan 100
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:04 pm    Post subject: my first 4x5s. fomapan 100 Reply with quote
Fomapan 100 Classic developed for 5 min in Rodinal, 20 degree. Pictures were taken with a Sinar F1 coupled with a TeleCongo 240, 6.3 lens. Scanned with Epson V700, slightly retouch in PS (lint and scratches removed, croped, resized).





PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not bad, actually good for being a first attempt to LF. I like very much the second portrait. Very dynamic posture for a powerful, strong effect. Good use of camera movements in #2 to achieve selective focus on the subject face.

Cheers, Marty.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great start! Please publish more about your experience not just images, I am really curious.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very nice shot Nr3 ! I like how the hair is corresponding with the background tree.


Cheers
Tobias


PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
Great start! Please publish more about your experience not just images, I am really curious.

There's not much to say Attila: it took me around two month since a friend of mine saw the camera on a swiss auction site and till i got those pictures. I had to get separatelly the front Copal 1 plate and the film holders. I had problems even with the film, receiving 10x15cm instead 10x13 as ordered. I cut it myself to the proper dimensions. Another probles is the rail, it's way too short for the lens i have, i can barely focus to infinity, so in all the picture postes some kind of camera movement was used.

(the picture was taken by Florin Floreanu and posted with his permission — warning: AF!)


Besides an extension rail i would like to get also a focusing cloth and a magnifying loupe and also a set of coloured filters.
For the time being the films are developed by a good friend of mine, in Rodinal. In the near future i plan to do it myself in Diafine. Probably i will stick with Fomapan for a while.
Another soon to start project is printing the pictures in Van Dyke process. At the end of this months i'll receive all the chemicals i need.

Thank you all for your visit and comments.


PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very nice trio! Agree about the cool echo in the third shot, whether by
accident or design. Nice work!


PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
#3 is really good!


PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Congratulations, #3 is great, What proportion of dilution you used, looks like 1+50 in 5min. Did you use Jobo or something different? I've bought HP Combiplan T. Still I am not ready to start. Evil or Very Mad


PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
voytek wrote:
I've bought HP Combiplan T. Still I am not ready to start. Evil or Very Mad


I must admit I used the Combiplan and found it quite unsatisfactory: the small interior volume makes even development quite impossible, and the design makes filling and dumping very slow.

The only way I can think of, to get satisfactory result from the Combiplan, is to use them as little deep tanks: you need three of them, each with a different solution and the whole process conducted in the dark!

Switching to Jobo and rotary agitation was the best thing I have done, but after some tests using uniformly exposed film, I found that the retaining plates supplied with the 2509 sheet film holders actually prevent even development.


PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Those are cool shots bro.


PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
voytek wrote:
What proportion of dilution you used, looks like 1+50 in 5min. Did you use Jobo or something different?

1+40 5min in old tray way. 2&3 also benefit from a 30s wash aid, right before the final wash in running tap water.
I'm not ready to start either. I'm waiting for Diafine to arrive.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Excellent no. 3.
Pretty good results all around.
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