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Raghu has said that most users of CMS 20 II report its speed as being closer to 6 in other than the Adotech developer and yet Donald shot his CMS 20 II in Caffenol at 20 with no loss of film speed or problem with grayscale either. The problem I have is while there may be something special in the dedicated Adotech developer a speed boost of nearly 2 stop makes me a little sceptical about a speed of 6
......... so Donald and Henning can I ask what you have to do in terms of exposure with CMS 20 II that is not required with say TMax or D100 and how difficult is it to achieve a full range of tones?
Thanks
pentaxuser
@Henning Serger: very nice result you got from the Adox film! Could it be that people reporting lower than 20 speed are primarily shooting at exposure longer than 1/10s and hence facing reciprocity problem? Adox tech specs, however, recommend a correction of only 1/2 stop.
Does anyone have a comparison between this ISO 8 film and CMS20? My question is prompted by my thinking as follows: You pay a heavy price in film speed such that while on a reasonably bright day an ISO 20 film is handholdable, an ISO 8 is not. So for the sacrifice of speed you really do have to gain something that shows up in a print of "normal size" and not have to wait until you are into the realms of prints appreciably over say 20" x 24" before any difference becomes apparent
Thanks
pentaxuser
ADOX CMS 20 II, ISO 20/14°, handheld, developed in dedicated ADOX Adotech developer:
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Thanks and you are right. It can be done although we in the U.K. get a lot less days of bright light than other areas like CA and large aperture are not always possible . I should have said that a drop to ISO 8 reduces exposure flexibility quite a lot. The point of my question prompted by my train of thought remains however. There has to be a counterbalancing advantage over a film that is ISO 20 to make up for that lack of exposure flexibilityISO 8 is totally handhold able, all the photos I posted above were hand held. ISO 8 = 1/500 sec @ f2 in bright sunlight. Or 1/60 @ 5.6 etc
I think he is saying that the Fantome film which is what the tread is about is intrinsically better at capturing the full range of gray scale whereas the likes of CMS 20 II is not and to get anywhere close to Fine Grain Release Positive which is what I assume the Fantome film to be you have to be more careful. It may be faster in its own tailor-made developer but it is more difficult to get the same quality of shots unless you are very careful
Have I got this correct Donald?
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Raghu has said that most users of CMS 20 II report its speed as being closer to 6 in other than the Adotech developer and yet Donald shot his CMS 20 II in Caffenol at 20 with no loss of film speed or problem with grayscale either. The problem I have is while there may be something special in the dedicated Adotech developer a speed boost of nearly 2 stop makes me a little sceptical about a speed of 6
It may be that Donald is much better/more careful over exposure than the average user which might suggest that CMS 20 II is much less forgiving than Fantome so Donald and Henning can I ask what you have to do in terms of exposure with CMS 20 II that is not required with say TMax or D100 and how difficult is it to achieve a full range of tones?
Thanks and you are right. It can be done although we in the U.K. get a lot less days of bright light than other areas like CA and large aperture are not always possible . I should have said that a drop to ISO 8 reduces exposure flexibility quite a lot. The point of my question prompted by my train of thought remains however. There has to be a counterbalancing advantage over a film that is ISO 20 to make up for that lack of exposure flexibility
pentaxuser
Did you use a flash for that hand held shot? Looking at the catchlights in the eyes and the shadows.
There will be occasions where fill-in flash needed to improve shadow detail is not possible if it is a scene where the shadow detail is too far away for a flash to be effective but I think in those cases the important phrase is "less detail" in Z I, II and III and not "no detail" i.e. the print will not be "soot and whitewash" with little in between
I shot CMS 20 II @ ISO 6 and developed in TMAX, looks great.
However, when it comes to speed (and speed alone), it does seem from your posts that if one is unable or doesn't want to use fill flash, then the recommended EI is 3-6. Now, users who reported EI of ~6 with other developers might not have used fill flash and or pre-flashing. It remains open whether they can also get a speed close to 20 by using fill-flash and pre-flash.
Have you done a test comparing Adox's developer with any of the known low contrast developers under identical exposure?
Nice pictures Henning! Almost scarry how sharp they are!
Nice pictures Henning! Almost scarry how sharp they are!
If I did more 35mm I'd try some.
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