Local woodland

[Kevin Allan]

A trip to local woodland with a new-to-me camera.

Horseman 45HD
Nikkor-W 150mm f/5.6

Semi-stand developed in HC110 1:100 for 1 hour

1. Fomapan 400 @ EI200, f22, measured exposure 4s, with reciprocity 18s


Blaydon Burn by Kevin Allan, on Flickr

2. Fomapan 200 @ EI100, f25, measured exposure 10s, with reciprocity 51s


Blaydon Burn by Kevin Allan, on Flickr

3. Fomapan 400 @ EI200, f22, 1/4s


Blaydon Burn by Kevin Allan, on Flickr

 

[thronobulax]

Nicely seen and executed.

I have found HC-110 in high dilution to be sort of grainy for my tastes.

So, for semistand or EMA with 5x4 woodland scenes, I've been using D-23 1+9 with 0.5 g/l Sodium Hydroxide (lye) added.

Alternatively, I've used D-23 1+14 with 5g Sodium Carbonate anhydrous added as well as 5ml of 0.020% Potassium Iodine. This ends up being very close to FX-1.

Both of those were suggested by @Raghu Kuvempunagar and I've found they both contain highlights well and provide razor sharp negatives.

 

[Alan Clark]

I particularly like the first photograph. A superb composition and full of natural energy. I note the film was Foma 400. I really like this film and have used it a lot.
Kevin, I would be interested to hear what you think of semi-stand development. Is it something you do regularly? Have you ever taken a comparison photo and given it regular development?

 

[Kevin Allan]

Kevin, I would be interested to hear what you think of semi-stand development. Is it something you do regularly? Have you ever taken a comparison photo and given it regular development?

My reason for doing semi-stand development was a rather lazy one - I had two exposed sheets of Foma 400 and one of Foma 200 and didn't want to do two developing sessions. So I knew that semi-stand would produce a result for both film types. I have used it a fair bit but haven't done a comparison shoot.

As for Fomapan, I'm using my last few sheets in 4x5 before concentrating on FP4+ and HP5+. These particular shots didn't exhibit any quality control issues but I have had a fair few negatives spoilt by little white spots or chunks of missing emulsion. I can usually get round the problem with post-processing of a scan but those problem negatives rule out darkroom prints.

 

[Alan Clark]

Thanks Kevin.