Last weekend I got the itch to write some Arduino code, mostly for fun. I wanted to see how much code it might take to write a controller to help with various tasks during film development. Specifically heating water (and tracking it’s temperature), rotating a tank (and changing directions periodically), …
Today my new (for me) 80mm enlarging lens came in for my Beseler Dichro 35s. I got it used and turns out it already had the 67s condenser upgrade. Anyways I am still waiting for a 6×6 negative carrier, but thought I’d try mounting the 80mm lens with the 35mm …
A few weeks back I shared my results of shooting Ilford’s PANF while around Halcyon/Bluestar in downtown San Antonio. I also shot a roll of HP5+ I’ve had sitting waiting to be developed. I was waiting before developing it until I shot more rolls of HP5+ but accidentally ruined my …
A few week ago we had our yearly camping trip with some close group of friends. It’s a tradition although in past years we would go to the Texas Renaissance Faire. It is fun but seems way too crowded and the quiet camping area there is devoid of trees. So …
Went to Halcyon (around Blue Star in downtown San Antonio) for a family brunch of sorts, after which we want for a nice stroll along the river. It was a sunny day and seemed like a perfect time to try out PANF. I tried it in both 35mm and 120. …
I’ve had this roll of JCH StreetPan 400 (35mm) sitting around for a while and finally got around to developing it. Part of the wait was wanting to try going back to ID-11 as my developer. HC-110 works great with HP5+ it would seem but I had mixed results with …
A week or so ago I played around with FP4+ in 4×5 and I quite liked the results. Even so, it was only a few shots. Last Friday we went out to the ranch where I had a chance to finish the rest of my FP4+ 35mm test roll. With …
One of the neat things I have been excited about with shooting sheet film is the fact that I can very easily test different films under similar conditions (same camera, same lens, exposures taken minutes apart, developing the films at roughly the same time). I’ve been slowly doing this in …
I mentioned in my last post that I ended up getting a ton of grain from Pancro 400. After looking at it more, I think it was partly due to development and partly due to the beach. While I still want to test it again and developing it in ID-11 …
