Sagelike
Allowing Ads
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2008
- Messages
- 24
- Format
- Medium Format
Okidoke, semi digital convert (still love photoshop), long time reader, first time poster.
I'm currently starting to get into film. I'm shooting with a rollei and kodak film.
Now on to my question. I like contrast in my shots. On my first roll I shot this:
and many other shots that day. They all came out with this type of tonal range.
What you are looking at here is a print of T-Max 400 with Microdol X. Exposure was stopped down about 2 stops (1 4/5). I believe I gave it a little less time in soup. This print was without a filter.
Love this shot and what it provided me in terms of tonal range. It still came out a bit gray for my tastes but I figured that could be fixed with a filter later on.
I later decided to see what the T-max film would look like with T-max developer and here you have the print to that:
I might have only stopped down 1 1/2 here and I kept it in the soup per recommended time with a bit of burning in the print.
These shots and others developed with T-max game back grayer and less contrast as with my batch on Microdol-x.
Now from what I can tell, the T-max developer gave me less contrast and less punch from the Microdol-x.
Is this the case? Does Microdol essentially give more contrast than T-max and is that across the board with all Kodak films? I'm not really in the funds to keep testing it out
I'm currently starting to get into film. I'm shooting with a rollei and kodak film.
Now on to my question. I like contrast in my shots. On my first roll I shot this:
and many other shots that day. They all came out with this type of tonal range.
What you are looking at here is a print of T-Max 400 with Microdol X. Exposure was stopped down about 2 stops (1 4/5). I believe I gave it a little less time in soup. This print was without a filter.
Love this shot and what it provided me in terms of tonal range. It still came out a bit gray for my tastes but I figured that could be fixed with a filter later on.
I later decided to see what the T-max film would look like with T-max developer and here you have the print to that:
I might have only stopped down 1 1/2 here and I kept it in the soup per recommended time with a bit of burning in the print.
These shots and others developed with T-max game back grayer and less contrast as with my batch on Microdol-x.
Now from what I can tell, the T-max developer gave me less contrast and less punch from the Microdol-x.
Is this the case? Does Microdol essentially give more contrast than T-max and is that across the board with all Kodak films? I'm not really in the funds to keep testing it out
Last edited by a moderator: