Recent content by thinkbrown

In terms of what I've been shooting most, as of late it's TMax 100, Fomapan 100, and Kentmere 400. I don't shoot as much color, when I do it tends to be one of the vision films in 35mm, and for 120 it's Gold 200 or Phoenix 200.

It's close enough that I don't buy much hp5 anymore....

From what I can tell, washing soda is the monohydrate. I adjust the weight in my formula to compensate and the pH was within spec the one time I bothered testing

Yeah, it's specifically a controversial opinion in common use.

Honestly this is (in my opinion) the whole reason to shoot film. If I wasn't driven by the process, I would shoot digital and get results of equal or better quality with less work.

Interesting, it was available last time I looked. that's generally what I use for mixing color developer

The 35mm focal length is awful on 35mm film. It's not wide enough to be wide and not narrow enough to be normal. Give me a 28mm, 40mm, or 50mm any day

So the 4x5 I received came in a box that looks like that but smaller and contained the film inside two layers of plastic bags. I opened mine in a changing bag so I can't say for certain the bags are black/lightproof.

That's awesome. I got to meet Ben last year at BILD, he was super friendly and enthusiastic.

Were you on stage with Ben Fraternale from in an instant? I saw a clip in his Go gen 3 video of what appeared to be a really excellent DIY peel apart portrait of him.

Just found a dirt cheap listing for two parts backs for my mamiya press, which is great news because I recently had a spring in one of mine let go

Sounds like you've determined it is for your setup. If the contrast is too high I'd reduce your development time. IIRC black white and green usually has similar developing time to d76 1+1, which Ilford calls out as an 11:30 developing time for kentmere 100, so that's probably where I'd start.

Primarily based on my own experience going the opposite direction and processing c41 stuff in ecn2.

My understanding is that C41 yields an effective film speed about 2/3 of a stop faster than ECN2 due to the difference in developing agent

Yeah, XX holds up well at 400 iso, but it starts falling apart pretty hard at 800. I've shot it at 800 occasionally but only when I had nothing faster in my bag.