Recent content by Film-Niko

That was just marketing. With no substance. Others had bought unfinished film from them and then finished it to roll-film format (e.g. Shanghai, if I remember right).

With "here" I have referred to photrio, to this BW subforum especially. Yes, and even from those group there are lots of members who are not using the described techniques to get the best results with their specific BW film developer combinations. The countless questions over all the years for...

I am referring to the comments and questions here: They clearly indicate that it is actually not done, because if it woud be done, the questions would not be occur, would not be needed. And most beginners today look at youtube for their information. And there almost all filmfluencers sadly do...

Not much surprising for a company in insolvency, which has lost most of their staff (and never had marketing experts anyway). Even in their best times there were only about 20-25 people working there. Nope. They only produced the emulsion by themselves. They never ever had an own coating line...

I am checking my film and BW developer test results regularly with 12x loupe and a microscope. Differences are of course always more obvious and easier to identify at high(er) enlargements. General results: - Stand development with Rodinal is not recommended: Grain is coarser, resolution lower...

There are good alternative methods based on greyscale stepwedges and / or a standardised / unchanged (very important!) test object / test scene with a defined lighting and contrast scale, which has the whole range from deep black to brillant white. But: No one here is doing these alternatives...

That has been a quite constant situation now for about 1.5 years. It has been possible for me to buy my needed amount of Fujichrome films at my usual sources. They inform me when new supply is coming in. You won't regret it. The detail rendition, color brillance and three-dimensional...

Hm, a year is not so much in the distribution chain. But my suggestion was just to be really 100% sure. It is just my personal general "thinking pattern" from an engineering point of view 😉.

I agree with your observation that the best photography channels on youtube are generally the "smaller" ones with not a huge amount of subscribers, run by experienced professionals and / or real enthusiasts. People who don't make a living from youtube. Because if you make your living from...

We are probably running again here into the big general problem of BW developing: Experienced photographers who know about HD-curves / characteristic curves, and who use a densitometer to test their BW film-developer combinations, will most probably agree with you. Because their tests and the...

No, I don't. I generally prefer 36exp. rolls. If there is a project I know I need only 15 - 24 shots, then I either use my Mamiya 645 Pro TL, or my "rare occasions" 35mm SLR: I have one SLR reserved for that, which I only use for situations in which I need some shots. Generally after 6-8...

That's very interesting. Thanks for posting. I've never seen an Ilford Pan marking in a Kentmere film. But to exclude an exception - for example a temporarily production hiccup that leads to using a Pan batch for a Kentmere run - some direct side-by-side tests under completely identical...

That is correct generally. But we have now a new, completely different situation: Canon has officially stopped all R&D on DSLRs. There will be no new DSLRs (and of course no new film SLRs either) from Canon in the future. Therefore Canon users will have to use the current DSLRs and former film...

What you are writing is right.........but more on a theoretical level. Simply because the huge majority of models is not using facebook at all. Not for their personal social media, and not for their model jobs. It is a generational thing: People younger than 35 consider facebook totally...

Facebook is meanwhile "out of fashion" for this genre. Most freelance models (who don't work with a model agency) use instagram nowadays for their business.