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Post by gray1720 on Nov 14, 2024 18:15:07 GMT
...I think I might be nearly there! Some shots are definitely grainier than others, see the back lane one (cloudy skies seem to be a grain generator)), but generally the grain is much less than previous efforts, and with a bit of poking on the levels and sharpness they can be persuaded to ping! THese are from the jpegs as well, so I'm finally beginning to see why people rave about this stuff.
 Here's Bod! by gray1720, on Flickr To top the day off, I got a free supper from the Duke of Marlborough! One of his expensively reared peasants - sorry, pHeasants - ran out in front of a car ahead of me.... he's now hanging in the bike shed waiting to be turned into Normandy Pheasant tomorrow. Mind you, I did feel more than a bit conspicuous riding through Woodstock with one of His Lordship's dickie birds hanging from my handlebars! |
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Post by spinno on Nov 14, 2024 18:28:58 GMT
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Post by spinno on Nov 14, 2024 18:29:33 GMT
...I think I might be nearly there! Some shots are definitely grainier than others, see the back lane one (cloudy skies seem to be a grain generator)), but generally the grain is much less than previous efforts, and with a bit of poking on the levels and sharpness they can be persuaded to ping! THese are from the jpegs as well, so I'm finally beginning to see why people rave about this stuff.
Here's Bod! by gray1720, on Flickr To top the day off, I got a free supper from the Duke of Marlborough! One of his expensively reared peasants - sorry, pHeasants - ran out in front of a car ahead of me.... he's now hanging in the bike shed waiting to be turned into Normandy Pheasant tomorrow. Mind you, I did feel more than a bit conspicuous riding through Woodstock with one of His Lordship's dickie birds hanging from my handlebars! Good stuff Adrian. |
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Post by steveandthedogs on Nov 14, 2024 20:12:11 GMT
Did you mix the bromide properly?
And twiddle three or four times half way through?
S
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Post by gray1720 on Nov 14, 2024 20:52:01 GMT
Did you mix the bromide properly? And twiddle three or four times half way through? S I didn't add bromide as it was fresh film* (and I don't actually have any), does it help with fresh as well? *yes, in date, not decades out! It did indeed get the twiddle halfway. |
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Post by steveandthedogs on Nov 14, 2024 22:52:45 GMT
KBr - restrainer for fast films or stand. Cures any problems with uneven dev. Reduces base fog significantly.
From Caff Cookbook
I add it just cos it's in the recipe.
If you do buy some, bear in mind a little goes a light-year or two. In fact, send me your address and I'll put some in an envelope. Should last a few films.
S
ps. wouldn't be for a few days, got a rotten cold/virus of some sort.
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Post by steveandthedogs on Nov 14, 2024 22:58:17 GMT
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Post by gray1720 on Nov 14, 2024 23:21:41 GMT
In fact, send me your address and I'll put some in an envelope. Should last a few films. I'll take you up on that once you're not dead. Amazingly, I have no films awaiting development right now - in fact, I don't think I've even got one in a camera! - so no rush. |
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Post by zx9 on Nov 15, 2024 10:34:01 GMT
The third, forth and fifth images look great.
Constant grey skies do often get a bit too grainy, I suspect the metering was fooled into placing the sky as a mid tone and underexposing the buildings causing you to pull everything too far to the right in the scan.
FWIW. I did find the yellow stone in Oxford tended towards the same tone as the sky when using a yellow filter which mucked up some of my B&W at the forum meet.
I have never used home made developer so can not comment on the Caffenol.
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Post by gray1720 on Nov 15, 2024 11:24:49 GMT
The third, forth and fifth images look great. Constant grey skies do often get a bit too grainy, I suspect the metering was fooled into placing the sky as a mid tone and underexposing the buildings causing you to pull everything too far to the right in the scan. FWIW. I did find the yellow stone in Oxford tended towards the same tone as the sky when using a yellow filter which mucked up some of my B&W at the forum meet. I have never used home made developer so can not comment on the Caffenol. Thanks, Keith, that was pretty much my thinking too. I was hoping for bluer skies and probably should have taken the filter off. Also need to investigate the metering/focus more - was set to single central point (I'm assuming the F50 can do more?) mostly because I just needed to get out and *do* something, and think about it later. See below for shots with sun on yellow stone, and with neither in! Also - liking Vuescan a lot, much easier to use than the Epson software was, again, must fiddle further!
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Post by zx9 on Nov 15, 2024 12:44:02 GMT
I am pleased that you are finding Vuescan useful, like everything it takes a bit of experimenting to find resolutions, file types and film profiles that suit your way of working. I find the Kodak D76 profiles work well matching the gamma to the negative and scanning just outside the raw scan gives me a good starting point. I usually save as a RGB tiff and use it as a starting point for curves and further editing in PhotoShop Adobe camera raw. I did save one batch as DNG but found the Vuescan modifications to the raw scan were removed by ACR which was very annoying.
Edit: I forgot to say that the bike shop pic. has very good shadow detail so I think you are heading in the right direction.
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