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peewee82 In reply to Poohblah [2009-01-06 04:55:41 +0000 UTC]

120.

Thanks. My lens wasn't very wide...I was running backwards just trying to get trees in with the all the cloud...but it was too tall.

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Poohblah In reply to peewee82 [2009-01-06 22:58:52 +0000 UTC]

so 6x6. I thought it might have been a cropped 35mm neg because the grain is rather large for Fomapan 100 developed in Rodinal...

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peewee82 In reply to Poohblah [2009-01-07 02:38:05 +0000 UTC]

This isn't the greatest reproduction. It prints traditionally a lot better.

You're right though, the grain is very large. It was my fault, but I'm not entirely sure of the cause.

I shot a lot of film that week and processed a lot at once. Plus the exposures were just guesses. When the storm clouds came over the light would drop dramatically and quickly.

It was my first roll of Fomapan and I basically concluded I'd messed up something in developing.

I have a number of images from the same time for comparison.

The first was taken within 5 minutes...

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This was half an hour earlier and although there are dark clouds behind, the sun was beaming onto the trees and I nailed that exposure. This printed 60x60cm flawlessly, despite the grain I pulled out in this early scan...

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And these last two were a bit later, slightly brighter conditions, but shot on Neopan 400...

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Forgot to mention the image in question I only printed at 40x40cm and it probably shouldn't go any larger. This was an injket print from a scan though. 8x10 comparisons of the first image I linked above between darkroom and inkjet of course favoured darkroom, but by a surprisingly narrow margin.

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Poohblah In reply to peewee82 [2009-01-07 03:07:30 +0000 UTC]

Wow, very nice! I didn't notice a couple of those in your gallery, but I really enjoy the first one you linked to! Lovely moody atmosphere, and I think the grain complements it well.

My dream camera at the moment is a Mamiya C330; I just love the square format in black and white. For the moment I'm using a Holga. I'm also going to get a 75mm enlarging lens so I can finally start enlarging these 6x6 negatives I've been collecting. I'm so excited!

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peewee82 In reply to Poohblah [2009-01-07 04:33:51 +0000 UTC]

I've been using a Yashica TLR for about 2 years now. But it fell to pieces recently, so I'm in the market for just about any TLR, or 6x6 SLR.

All of that series [link] was with that camera on various b&w films bar the one rectangular image which was shot on a pinhole.

I'm looking at other Yashicas cos they're so cheap. But a Mamiya would be nice. I've played with a friend's Mamiya C33. Wow they're heavy for a TLR, but rugged, great optics and bright viewfinder. I'm sort of thinking about a Bronica SQ Ai system though. Stick with the waist level finder, but have multiple backs and more practical interchangeable lenses. I can't imagine carrying around multiple lenses for the Mamiyas. They're huge. But I stuck with just an 80mm for so long. I would appreciate having a 50 and a 150 with me though.

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Poohblah In reply to peewee82 [2009-01-07 05:37:50 +0000 UTC]

The Bronica is 645 format, though, isn't it?

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peewee82 In reply to Poohblah [2009-01-07 07:50:22 +0000 UTC]

It's 6x6. ETRS are the 645 format. Bronica make a 67 too actually. Don't know much about it. SQ series is 6x6...less common than ETRS, but still shouldn't be crazy expensive. It's basically their Hasselblad 500 series copy.

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