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Foma ORTHO 400…

Last week, the Czech company Foma released a new orthographic film with a nominal sensitivity of ISO 400. So I immediately bought several rolls and started to choose the developer with which I will use this negative. We were warned by the manufacturer that there is no anti-halation layer on the negative, so it will not be possible to photograph yellow in backlight. Well, I tried everything I had mixed 🙃🎞📷 –

@400 stock D76 scan
@400 510Pyro FB C112 Burki&Jeny Coldtone
@400 Pextral scan
Pull 400@200 D76 FB C112 Dektol
Pull 400@200 Pextral FB C112 Burki&Jeny Coldtone
Pull 400@200 D76 1:1 FB C112 Burki&Jeny Coldtone
@400 Pextral scan – the sensitive layer could not withstand the standard concentration and began to dissolve

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the maintenance…

Today I decided to replace the foam under the mirror on the Bronica S2 again . The special foam I was using before was too hard and sometimes I focused completely different than I wanted. Now I used a different special foam, but it is intended for drywallers and not for repairing cameras. Even though it is ten times cheaper, it does the job perfectly. Since I had nothing to take pictures of, I at least pointed the lens at another old camera(TLR Flexaret) that I am repairing now🙃📷🛠

  • Zenza Bronica S2 + Nikon P f 2,8/75mm
  • Ilford FP4 Plus + D76 homemade stock(continuous agitation)
  • Fomaspeed Variant 312 split grading + homemade Dektol

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the lines…

On the way to the antique store, for a historical book about working in the darkroom, I took a few photos.

  • Fujica ST901 + SMC Takumar f 1.8/55mm
  • Fomapan 100 push 1EV + D76 homemade
  • scan

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the wait…

Every photographer sometimes waits for the good light that will make the shot more interesting. Sun was still hiding behind the clouds and I waited and waited…

  • Nikon F50 + Nikon D800 + Sigma 1.8/20mm asph
  • Fomapan F50 Push 1EV + D76 dev(homemade)
analog
DSLR

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Fomapan 100 push to 800…

I did another test with my two-bath MP271 developer, which advanced the Fomapan 100 film by 3 EV. The result looks pretty decent. Don’t expect any artwork though, but the result surprised me.🙃📷

  • Nikon F50
  • MF Samyang f2/135mm + Sigma f1,8/20mm aspherical
  • Fomapan 100 + two bath developer MP271
  • scanned negative

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the multi-coffin…

  • Zenza Bronica S2
  • Nikon Nikkor P f4/200mm + ext. tubes
  • 30 sec exposure
  • technical negatives TK100 + 510Pyro dev.

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ortho Misha…

The day before yesterday, based on a discussion about the use of orthographic material, I decided to make it easier for a colleague whether to use these materials for portrait photography as well. Shooting on this material without using filters makes no sense. So if you want to use orthographic materials for portraits, you will definitely appreciate the use of yellow filters. The images will be beautifully contrasted from the whole range of black colors to brilliant white…

  • Pentacon Six TL + CZ Flektogon 50mm Zebra
  • Ilford Ortho Plus 80 + 510Pyro(homemade)
  • Fomabrom C112 + Dektol (homemade)

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MG Fomabrom Variant vs. Fomabrom C112

I will not reveal anything new to experienced darkroom technicians. When printing photos in a darkroom, we can use photo papers in three degrees of gradation. Soft, normal and hard. Or we use multigradation papers, when we control the gradation of the resulting photo using filters. We use the yellow filters to reduce the gradation and the purple filters to increase the gradation.

  • Pentacon Six TL + CZ Biometar 50mm Zebra
  • TK100 + MP271
  • MG Fomabrom Variant & Fomabrom C112 + Dektol

The first photo was exposed for 4 x 3 sec. total 12 sec. The first 9 seconds were with the use of a yellow filter and the last 3 seconds without a filter on MG papers Fomabrom Variant

The second photo was a 9.sec print on ordinary Fomabrom C112 with hard gradation….

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MP 271

The final version of the own two-bath negative developer was named MP 271. At the moment, it is only tested on Fomapan 100 negatives. It achieves slightly better results on 35mm negatives, which is fine with me, because this is how I radically reduce the costs of analog photography 🙃📷

In the upper part of the linear scan of the negative, it is shown how it develops the first bath.(correct,-1EV,+1EV) At the bottom of the picture is the negative after the complete chemical process .(correct,-1EV,+1EV) .

The second image is a linear scan of the negative at the correct exposure.

The following picture is from this morning in medium format

  • Bronica S2 + Nikon P 200mm + ext. tubes
  • Fomapan 100 + MP271 dev
  • scan

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MIC12-77

The soft working leveling two-bath own developer with name MIC12 -77. Why 77? A seven minutes for a first bath and a seven minutes for a second bath.

  • Bronica S2 + Nikon P 75mm
  • Fomapan 100 + MIC12-77(dev)+TF2(fixer)

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