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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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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