Tag Archives: black and white
Cloud Fetish
The Sydney Traffic Experience
Not often a passenger but Sydney traffic sucks whatever way you look at it. Four hours to travel sixty kilometres.
K1 Does Black & White
Really nice monochrome from the K1 and the Sigma 35mm Art. Also used the old 43mm 1.8 and the 77mm 1.8 both of which are surprisingly good with loads of personality.
Results From Today’s Dev
Formula-
- Ilford HP5 rated at 400ISO
- Developer- Kodak D76 Stock at 20 degrees
- Agitation- Continuous for the first minute then 10 seconds every subsequent minute
- Time- Eight minutes
- Fix- Ten minutes
- Wash- Twenty minutes
- Scanner- Nikon LS9000 using Silverfast 8, 16 bit and multi-pass for a 150 megabyte file
- Post- Lightroom clarity and sharpening
I exposed most of this by estimation and I was pretty much spot on, good to see that after twenty or so years of shooting I can still nail an exposure without resorting to a meter.
The older Hasselblad lenses are not as contrasty as the CF ones so you get beautiful creamy tonality with excellent edge sharpness- not bad for a lens almost as old as I am.
The Ricoh GR- Pocket Power

I have had a film GR1v for some time and it was one of the most impressive compact ever made, the lens was amazingly sharp so when I had the opportunity to try the Ricoh GR digital I was pretty keen.





Subtle details are rendered nicely by the APS-C sensor and the f2.8 lens.

K-1 And The Macro
Got to try the K-1 and the 100 macro while in Canberra. Tiny for a modern lens but it seems to do the trick. Impressed by the K-1 camera, seems to handle just about anything including very wet rain forest.
The 500CM Goes To Shinjuku
The 500CM was introduced in 1957 and remained in production until 1970, my one is from the mid “60s and is very worn. I shot exclusively on Ilford Hp5 developed in Kodak D76 or ID11 (pretty much the same developers). For a camera this old it didn’t miss a beat, no light meter so I guestimated the exposures and mostly was pretty close. The Reciprocal Rule works like this-
The ISO equals the shutter speed at f16 on a bright sunny day. So for the 500cm with 400 ISO film it works out as: f16 at 1/500 sec.
Scanned on the Nikon LS9000 scanner using SilverFast, slow but the quality is amazing.
I worked around that, opening up in the shadows by a couple of stops as needed, usually works fine and is a hell of a lot quicker than stuffing around with light meters.
Still have to do an edit
Fiji Storm
Scanning some shots from the Hasselblad 503cx from last year, thats the great thing about film- you get nice surprises.
Treachery Beach 2016
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