Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 16.01.12

Development: T Max developer, 6 and a half minutes @ 24 degrees, stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  Another two together – I processed them one after the other and there are images shared across the two.  The lovely, happy time of holidays is about to end so I imagine I will slow down now, but hopefully not as much as last year : )

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 10.01.12

Development: T Max developer, 7 and a half minutes @ 24 degrees (including one additional minute for compensation for developer exhaustion), stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  I thought I might as well put these two rolls together.  I hadn’t taken this camera to the lake yet so I thought it was about time.  It was a very hot day and a not in anyway spectacular sunset but it was lovely to be out there.  It’s a beautiful place.

Also used the mirror lockup to retake the deck picture and for all the longer exposures out at the lake – made a big difference  : )

Image 4: double exposure, Image 6: toned in photoshop

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 08.01.2012

Development: T Max developer, 7 min  @ 24 degrees, stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes: I like to learn something from every film.  This time I learned that I really need to use my mirror lockup with this camera, as the picture of the deck taken one evening is a bit ghosty and I’m pretty sure that could’ve been avoided if I’d locked up the mirror first…

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 02.01.2012

Development: T Max developer, 7  @ 22 degrees, stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  Even thought I’ve had this camera for almost a year, and even though I love it a lot, I have not spent a lot of time just mucking around and getting to know it as well as I should – so that is what I have been doing.  This time I tried a double exposure, just to see if I could actually get it to work.  It seemed to, so now I will have to apply myself to thinking of ways to use that ability well…

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 31.12.11

Development: T Max developer, 7 and a half minutes @ 24 degrees (including one additional minute for compensation for developer exhaustion), stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  I’ve had such a lot of trouble with marks on the film from the developer – a layer of froth and bubble forming on top of the developer and making marks along the top edge of the film. I have gradually increased the amount of solution in the tank to avoid this (although I find that more liquid tends to leak more during agitation) and have also spent a lot of time  banging the tank on the table top to disperse the bubbles and to make sure that the reel has not moved up the centre post.  I now think I have it all down to a fine art, although the earlier days of (really) firm banging of the tank seem to have resulted in a crack in the bottom of the tank – so that’s frustrating.  Online shopping to the rescue!

Again, some images taken using proxar close up filters.

I am watching a set of youtube documentaries about Sally Mann while I’m doing this – she’s an amazingly interesting artist and lady.

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 31.12.11

Development: T Max developer, 8 minutes @ 23 degrees (including 1 extra minute – compensation for developer exhaustion), stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  Very clean development today.  Sometimes I just can’t tell what makes it all junky and dirty – maybe the air, maybe the solutions, maybe lots of things.  Today’s, however, was nice and clean with not very much dust and junk ending up on the negs at all, which is nice.  Some of these were taken using proxar close up filters.  I do love this camera…

I have been very bad at updating here.  I will try to be better at it in the new year.

Film: Tri-X 400 (accidentally exposed at 100)

Date Developed: 30.09.11

Development: T Max developer, 4 mins 45 sec (fresh solution) @ 21 degrees, fixed 5 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  I’ve had a bit of big a gap here.  I have developed a few films but they never made it as far as getting up on to the blog here.  Today, however, I got busy and developed 4 rolls and now I will have to make sure I do a post for each of them.  This film was Tri-X 400, which I haven’t used for a long time, but I think I’d like to get back to it.  I haven’t used a black and white film other than T Max 100 for so long that I thought I was shooting 100 ISO so I had to pull it when I developed it!  Didn’t turn out toooo badly though…

Also hadn’t used the Mamiya for a long time – I think I’d like to get back to that too.

Middle two images split toned in lightroom.

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 03.04.11

Development: T Max developer, 8 mins (including 1 extra minute to compensate for developer exhaustion)  @ 23 degrees, stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:   When I was finishing off this roll at the beach I was imagining it was colour film, but it turned out to be a roll of TMax 100. I was trying some hand holding at the beach with the zero 2000 – not too unhappy with the pictures even though they were in colour in my mind when I was taking them!  Toning applied to images in photoshop.

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 20.02.11

Development: T Max 100 pushed to 400.  Developed 9 minutes @ 24 degrees, stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  Couldn’t even remember what was on this roll.  It turned out to be some fairly unexciting pictures of Dunedin, NZ and some dark, dodgy shots from the bottom of a rainforest.  Some toning added fo first image in photoshop.

Film: T Max 100

Date Developed: 20.02.11

Development: T Max developer, 6 minutes @ 24 degrees (new mix), stop bath 30 secs, fixed 8 mins.  Ilford protocol for spiral tanks used for washing, with additional sets of 20 inversions until pink dye was no longer visible in discarded water.

Notes:  second test film through Hasselblad.  It’s still fun to use!  I was reading back on here to the start of last year when I was having so much trouble with those plastic reels.  I’m so much better at loading them now.  I think it’s a combination a few things – practice and making sure I’m right in front of the air conditioner – but the thing that I think has made the biggest difference is making sure I clean the reels really well once I’ve used them.  I use hot water, mild soap and a soft nail brush.  If I could go back and give myself one tip that would be it!