Recent content by trypdal

Blast from the past. Back in 2017/18 they sold film, I used to buy a 5-roll brick of medium format Ektar 100 or Fuji Pro 400H for 25£ from here - madness!

Generally accurate IME although I suspect a bit of cut & paste going on on Foma's side on those tech sheets...Check out the spectral response curves - they seem to be identical across products, only shifted around a little? Also they have no Y axis labels..

I have an unpopular opinion on this. I used to own an F100. I won't bother you with the details but my experience is that it's built to a price point, and has plastic in critical bits where it should not have plastic, and where the F90X does not have plastic. Eg. the rewind crank is plastic (I...

As another F90X user - I completely agree. I actually bought at some point an EOS 3 and a couple of USM lenses after hearing how superior Canon AF is to Nikon's. Well you know what, I've put this to the test with a key use case - two toddlers playing around in the garden. Fast, unpredictable...

What you say is true, but in fairness to that film (a wonderful one, I use it routinely) it's an easy 160EI with a number of general-purpose developers - e.g. with both Xtol (the curves you link to above show data for Foma Excel, Foma's Xtol clone) and Ilfosol (the curves you link to above show...

Yes, on Fomabrom 111, wonderful. Unlike standard B&W, the "grain" (dye clouds really) is in the shadows, the highlights look grainless. Difficult to describe, you need to see it.

XP2+ exposed at 200 and developed in C41 is extraordinary imho. I've never seen anything quite like it. E.g. absolutely grainless pure highlights. I should really shoot it more. I should stress that IME for the magic to happen it really needs to be developed in C41 chemistry. Cross processing...

I thought the same but then I wondered if some of the Kentmere line of products in LF would make more sense commercially? We shall see! Exciting for sure.

I use a small bathroom in the basement. There are no curtains, no thick rugs, not a lot of furniture, so little that can produce thick dust when moved etc. I run a hot shower for five minutes before hanging the strips to dry. The steam seems to capture any floating dust. I leave the negatives...

Just to add to this @Barney - you could approach the precision of this device with a Boots baby fever thermometer. They're designed to be pretty accurate in the 36-40°C range after all. The obvious issue will of course be that the baby thermometer is painfully slow to achieve a reading. Takes a...

Bellini C41. Separate bleach and fix. Nick & Trick has it. It's excellent

Sous-vide. I use this thermometer to fine tune the temperature of the sous vide so that the temperature of the developer solution, in the tank submerged in the sous vide, during development , is exactly 37.8°C. The improvement on the final product is noticeable. The negatives essentially scan...

For C41 development specifically - most 10£ Amazon gadgets, whether digital or spirit, are not accurate enough. I bought this one https://www.greisinger.de/p/handmessgeraete-und-sensoren/temperatur/geraete-pt1000/g-1710/609828/ It's been a 'game changer' like the Yanks say. I cannot...

I always go out with my film camera in the local woods or city suburbs and I never, ever see anyone with any camera at all. No digital, no film. It's just dogs. Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs dogs. Dogs dogs. I almost feel out of place for not enjoying the forest with a dog. Invading their sanctuary...

With a couple of fixes this will be an instant buy, for me. Just got another Yashica T3 in 'mint' condition. Boxed, as new. Two rolls in, it's skipping frames at random. Just like the other one I had. Olympus XA: I've had 2. Both of them 'MINT++++' jobs from japan. The XA overexposed like...