B&W Images here.....

[jotloob]

It is a pity . Wherever I go , even on the highest mountain , people recognize me . I can't be alone anywhere anymore . VICTOR is always watching me .
And , the bluecast issue is still there . I will open an extra thread for that .

Simon , I am glad to see you back to the forum .
I do hope , your health state will remain stable and that we get many good contributions from you again .

Jürgen

 

[sperera]

....here is my fave image since i bought myself a Hassy 500 C/M a few months ago to shoot film again....its a candid shot of my sons watching TV in our living room with natural light coming in off the french windows....i saw them and scrambled out the Hassy, stuck on the 80mm, mesured the light with the Nikon I had nearby which i use as a Polaroid and shot this hand held at f4 1/125 (hence the shallow depth of field and only Sean is in focus...perhaps a mistake but hey no time to mess around before they moved).
This is on T-Max 100 developed in T-Max developer at 1+4 ratio. I shot at 100asa film speed rating as on the box. The original is 604 pixels big so its losing sharpness in this window i can see...
The second and third shots I did in our home studio....again, both with T-Max 100 film and developed in T-Max developer.....BUT the one of the older girl i shot with an old Rollei T i bought 2nd hand from Ffordes in Scotland for under £200!

 

[cristif]

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Photo: Cristif
500C/M Planar 100C T* Ilford Delta 100



I took a good look and was surprised to see Jürgen is carrying his 1600F with 135 mm Ektar.
A pity he forgot the shade!


Paul

Big applause for Jurgen and for the 1600f (without shade) of course.

 

[jotloob]

I have three shades for the 135 EKTAR but they were all out for a dance .
Sorry .

Jürgen

 

[polypal]

It is obvious this picture was not made with a Hasselblad camera.
Both notches at the LH side are missing.





Excellent work that deserves to be seen.



Paul

 

[sperera]

thanks for that....its a bad scan actually....newton rings all over...but i just wanted to get it out there fast.....

 

[sperera]

ok since you're egging me on here are a couple more! They're all shot with the 50mm Distagon C lens (lens opens sluggishly on the 1 seconds exposure but who cares, I normally shoot with flash plus ambient)...apart from the band shot with the jumps...that's with the 80mm i think.....

Recently, I bought a Hasselblad kit from a friend of mine for £550 and started shooting film again on my paid jobs....digital and film together...in fact to save time i metre with the digital...i factor in about a third of a stop off and that does me fine.....

The kit was a metal case with a Hasselblad 500 C/M and A12 back, a sports prism, a 80mm CF, a 50mm Distagon C, a 150mm Sonnar C (silver), a 250mm Sonnar C (Silver) with a mould spot in it and, like the 50mm sluggish on the 1 secs and 2 secs as per normal with these lenses), a Polaroid back and some filters....then i also got a Rollei T with a prism from Ffordes in Scotland for under £300 and I also got a Sinar F2 with a 150mm 5.6 Schneider lens complete for about £1,000 (as new condition actually)

This was at the time i was debating on getting a Hasselblad H3D-31 2nd hand.....that would have cost me £6000 so i got a whole lot more for my money and change! Now i must admit my head's being turned by the CFV-39 hence my persistence in other parts of this great forum.

 

[simonpg]

Terrific images sperera! Your use of the 50mm is excellent.


I shot this in Menindee Lakes - today there is NO water, like in so many parts of Australia now. It is where 2 of our most important river systems intersect - the Murray and the Darling. These have been seriously neglected by successive governments.

My apologies for the artifacts but it was the quickest scanned version I could put my "cursor" on.

Shot with a Planr 80mm CFE on Acros 100. The negative was terrific and printed 20" x 20" beautifully.

I am undecided if the 6x6 or cropped version looks best..... I suspect the square is best. I'll hunt around for it.

Dead trees look their best in B&W!

 

[sperera]

CRACKING SHOT MATE!!!! superb.....must look amazing as a print.....the reflections are the best....what developer did you use? Ive been using T-Max developer til that run out then i used Perceptol and am thinking that is the magic bullet as they say......

 

[sperera]

this lot is Acros in Perceptol soultion (undiluted).....but im hopping someone will tell me at 1+3 its better so i can save on it!!!! any thoughts?

 

[jotloob]

Sperera

Have you ever tried FUJI ACROS 100 and KODAK X-TOL developer .
The resulting negatives are crisp sharp .
For my process I had to reduce the developing time by 10% in comparison to ID-11 1+1 .

Jürgen

 

[sperera]

Sperera

Have you ever tried FUJI ACROS 100 and KODAK X-TOL developer .
The resulting negatives are crisp sharp .
For my process I had to reduce the developing time by 10% in comparison to ID-11 1+1 .

Jürgen

Hey Jurgen, persona no grata here for questioning the CFV-39 back quality....heh heh heh.....
NO i havent tried XTol but it WAS one of the ones i was considering.....Perceptol looks special to me so far but im willing to try XTol and HC-11 too......

 

[simonpg]

Many thanks Sperera!
This was shot during my first serious MF trip - the New South Wales western outback and the north western Victorian outback - some amazing places like where Mad Max was shot. So I was learning about the Hasselblad.

Well while I shot it on Acros 100, I have no idea about the chemistry used. All I remember is that my lab had continued its wet chemistry processing. The guy phoned me after the negs had been developed and commented that the density of the negs was the nicest he had seen.

My daughter has the large 6x6 print.

I have no idea why I cropped this version from a 6x6, and will see if I can find the 6x6 to post.

It was a tough sight to compose - took about an hour - because the lakes are massive and there are millions of dead threes scattered throughout. Finding a "line" of sight that got the message across was a challenge.

NOW IT MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED that the pic of the B&W pix is your beach model shot! Wow!

Not sure what Jurgen really meant when he commented: "... The resulting negatives are crisp sharp..."! But he is right your result on the beach was certainly sharp!

More seriously, Whenever I see shots like that in the 6x6 format the more I love the format - there is just something so pleasing about it. I look at Charlie Waite's landscapes from Europe in 6x6 and feel like screaming out: "so who said a landscape can't be square!!"

Here is a sample: http://www.charliewaite.com/image-details.asp?LibraryID=2628

Keep shooting film, B&W and ins=side the square!

 

[sperera]

Thanks for your love man! hahahahahahah I LOVE THAT CHARLIE WAITE SHOT....composition either happens or it doesnt eh.....posts like this one make me go out and shoot squares as you call it!!!!! in fact....i have 2 shots left on a roll from a model shoot and im gonna get my wife to pose for a couple...report back later! (family is off work this week!)
thanks for sharing man......yeah, i remember Mad max films!!!! fantastic...when Mel Gibson was still an Aussie.....

 

[simonpg]

Gentlemen, here's another - taken again some years ago when I was trying to master the 6x6.

The building is art-deco era live theatre and subject to many years of government planning controls arguments with successive owners.

I liked the idea of using the 50mm FLE in way that created relatively extreme distortion.

Again shot with Acros 100. Sorry the file size is quite small.

 

[sperera]

love the contrasty shot and the composition....the contrast imparts the Miama art deco vibe with the extreme heat and luminence of hot parts of the world such as where I live myself!!! gives me a downtown Havana (Cuba) vibe too.....

 

[jotloob]

Not sure what Jurgen really meant when he commented: "... The resulting negatives are crisp sharp......

Simon

An easy answer .
I have mostly used ILFORD DELTA400 and DELTA100 B/W films and developed the films using ID11 1+1 .

Then , when the ACROS100 came on the market , I developed that film with the same ID11 1+1 but also tried KODAK XTOL .
What I got with the XTOL was surprising .
The negatives have a noticable higher contrast and therefore turn out much sharper . The same is valid for the prints .
Therefore my preference for developers for the ACROS100 will be the XTOL but I will continue with ID11 1+1 for my ILFORD DELTA films .
That is valid for 6x6 as well as for 4x5 inch sheet films of both brands .

Jürgen

 

[Daniel Unkefer]

Sakonnet RI, with HD3-50

I love the precision-framing on this one.

Great job!

 

[simonpg]

Thanks Sperera. I thought the architecture deserved the more extreme effect of the 50mm FLE "twisted" and took advantage of the hot bright light on the day. On the day that area (St. Kilda boulevard) had that Miami feel about it just like you say. I had I always wondered what else it reminded me of and your comments are exactly what I was thinking but could not put my finger on!

What I love about Acros 100 is how reliably it responds to exposure techniques used - you get just what you expect and want! It and its brother Neopan 400 are superb films with great tonality and sharpness.

I see what you mean Jurgen. This explains my lab's comments. He'd obviously taken pride in how he developed Acros and delighted in the negatives. All this shows how important each step is - optics, film, development and printing. Sometimes I get the feeling to resume developing my own B&W negatives again, but time and other factors seem to prohibit that.

PS: By the way I was also making a pun - the "sharpness" of Sperera's beach subject! (something of an Aussie venacular!)

 

[bensonga]

Just getting back to shooting with the Hasselblad gear again. Got a couple of rolls of Fuji Velvia 100 back from the lab today and I had them include one of their "Base 16" scans of each roll, just to see how it looked. For a Letter size print....surprisingly good! This image just HAD to be converted to B&W.

553ELX, CFi 50mm Distagon, 1/125th at f8, camera was hand held.

Gary