A mind quietly blown
After having my time (couple of years) reversing medium speed 135 BW negatives on gray bases, I started to loose the spark for it... But yesterday I put some Adox HR-50 through my Olympus OM-1n, Ilford Reversal Processing and my slide projector with quality lens.
What I got was absolutely stunning - THAT character and THE performance: the amount of detail and sharpness in 60x magnification - a sight to behold! Suddenly my shots are full of life and detail, and it actually looks like I've turned on some unsharp filter in my projector. That's an impossibility, though, but the effect is the same and quite pronounced next to Kentmere 100/APX 100 and Rollei Infrared 400.
60x magnification and HR-50 delivers images absolutely packed with sharp detail, vivid contrast and creamy highlights prone to blooming! Now I'm impressed again and have bought some film stock in advance for the first time in my life - all slow, all on clear bases - can't wait for spring to return, to put these through Infrared filter too!