Hasselblad Mountain Pictures

[cristif]

Hello everybody,
Inspired by the last wonderful Hasselblad film photos seen on the forum, decided to upload some of my recent stuff as well.
The setup is my good old faithful 500 C/M and the "crown jewel" Planar 100 C T*; film Fuji Neopan 400 @EI 200.
I hope you'll like them.

 

[jotloob]

Cristif

Thank you very much for posting these very good moutain images .

Have you noticed , that in all images you have a vertical lighter area on the left side of the images ? ? ?
Could this be an issue during developing or an issue with the light seal of the magazine ? ? ?

Jürgen

 

[bcphoto]

Looks like surge.

That's if the film was tank developed on reels. Too much or too active agitation causes the developer to form vortices on the film's edge. That increases the amount of development along the edges.

The reels may be sliding inside the tank and a spacer is needed to prevent that.

Also the film may have been "dipped and dunked" with the lid off where the agitation is just up and down. The lid needs to be on and the tank inverted and twisted at the same time.
BC

 

[polypal]

Good point and something Cristif may do something about.
I look forward to seeing these images in a larger format and invite Cristif to become forum member.
That way he can upload larger files for us to see.


Paul

 

[sportback]

Nice work Cristif

With regard to Jotloobs comment, if there were a problem with the light seal on the darkslide, wouldn't the lighter area be to the right of the images?

 

[stever]

Moab Utah above the Colorado River from Moab Rim trail. Kodak Ultra Color 400, 500 CX, 250 mm CF lens.

Steve

 

[polypal]

Good shot Steve.
Did you use a UV filter?


Paul

 

[polypal]

Light leakage shows mostly on the lefthand side of the film.
Besides that the pattern is not likely to be what the images of Cristif show.

An excellent example of a light leak specially arranged for this occasion by the moderator.
I used an E12TCC film back without properly testing it with the 203FE camera I bought recently.
The film back arrived a couple of days before the shoot and should have been tested by me.
It gave these beautiful samples of unwanted light on the film.
Not all frames were spoiled which shows this problem just started.
From now on I will remove the face plate of any film back I use and inspect the light trap before the back is being used.
Fitting a new seal takes only ten minutes.
Original seals from Hasselblad cost about 10 USD or 7 euro.


Paul

 

[stever]

Good shot Steve.
Did you use a UV filter?


Paul

Yes, Heliopan KR 1.5 Skylight - 0

 

[macmx]

The second one is gorgeous.

 

[sportback]

Light leakage shows mostly on the lefthand side of the film.

Do you put your backs on upside down? Forgive me but I always thought the images were reversed/upside down on the film - so I maintain that a light leak from the dark slide slit would show up on the right hand of a 'right way up' picture...

 

[stever]

Do you put your backs on upside down? Forgive me but I always thought the images were reversed/upside down on the film - so I maintain that a light leak from the dark slide slit would show up on the right hand of a 'right way up' picture...

polypal is absolutely right. I took photographs of the Goosenecks State Park in Utah at sunrise. The Sun was on my left side, and every photograph with that film back had flares on the left side. Remember that the image is upside down and that the stray light comes in at the left and crosses the film plane hitting the right side of the film back which holds the left side of the image.

Steve

 

[sportback]

OK - thanks for the explanation

 

[polypal]

Thanks Steve,

I could not have said it better.
The confusion is understandable but sportback is wrong here.

My reputation to use equipment for other means and in a different way than it is supposed to be used is legendary.
Till now I have not been able to fit a film back upside down.

That is an interesting thought that needs more attention.

Paul

 

[bcphoto]

Sportback

Nice work Cristif

With regard to Jotloobs comment, if there were a problem with the light seal on the darkslide, wouldn't the lighter area be to the right of the images?

Fog and flare have negative density without detail. In the images, we see lightness on both edges meaning density but the density has detail.

This is surge or overly aggressive agitation in a single up and down (across the film) direction typical of reel development in a tank.

If I remember correctly, two reels of 120 in a double tank leaves a space at the top and we used to put a spacer in there to keep the reels from sliding back and forth during inversion.

The recommended (ASA) agitation was to invert while twisting and then reverse -- do that 3 times and sit down firmly to dislodge any air bubbles. Do that every 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds is constant agitation with twist and inversion.

BC

 

[cristif]

Thank you everybody for the observations and advices. As Jurgen and BC pointed out, I messed up something during the processing of that film (I use a single reel tank). The other films processed during that batch came out nice.

Again, all your posts were a very rewarding experience to me.

ps. I uploaded one more image, as a nice Post Scriptum.

 

[polypal]

The power of B/W can be overwhelming.

I would like to see large prints of these images.

Larger files would be a good start of course.


Paul

 

[cristif]

Yes Paul, this is totally true. I will spend the next weekend in the darkroom, I guess.

I will also apply (have to check out what exactly should I do first) for Hasselblad-club membership. I would like both to post larger files but also to support the website.

 

[scvgr]

Thanks Crisif for sharing the images. Reminds me that the Bucegi mountains are only 100 km away and I should spend more time taking pictures.

scvgr

 

[cristif]

/scvgr: This is an even bigger surprise indeed . Yes, the pictures were taken @Bucegi Mts. I am now wondering: you are located 100 km away from them in which direction?