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A Dream Combo?
Reading about different film/developer combinations, I came across a post on Flicker discussion where Philip Leser mentioned that he really liked Neopan 400 in Diafine. He made extensive tests with several films in Diafine, including plotting characteristic curves. He came with this curve for Neopan 400 in Diafine:
This is very very good. So I tried and indeed, Neopan 400 in Diafine creates great negatives. Grain is moderate. Much marger than Acros, of course, but invisible on a 12×16" print from medium format.
I wonder if I need anything else for my RZ67, really.
Stephane :: Jun.14.2009 :: Film, Gear :: 2 Comments »
Film Again
After about two years and a half doing 99.9% of my photos with digital cameras, I am left with mixed feelings. Mostly, it is great. I did get what I missed when I was using solely the Rollei SL66 and later the Arca-Swiss 6×9. However, as I should have foreseen, I also lost a few things:
- Ability to cope with specular highlight in an aesthetic way
- Dynamic range
- Production of a tangible, durable object
- The large viewfinder
- Flexible depth of field management
I won’t go back to everything this or that. But I started last summer to use my Leica again, with great joy and nice results too.
For Christmas I received a beautiful present: an old Mamiya RZ67 with a standard 110mm lens. It is big, heavy, slower to use than the E-3, but the large negatives are a pleasure to work with. And now that I found again a proper development procedure, I get instant quasi-HDR on every negative.
Stephane :: Jan.06.2009 :: Film, Gear, Scanning :: 1 Comment »
