Which film would Weston Use

[Martin Reed]

To add.... I'm shooting with a 645 camera that takes 120, so I don't think there is an Ortho film that comes in 120...

Well there was 'Selochrome' from Ilford once upon a time - in the age where retro is king, is it maybe time to get Harman to look through their emulsion scrapbooks? (not intended to be in the Monty Python idiom, only just occurred to me) :-D

 

[jgjbowen]

You can still use a fairly similar process by shooting large format and contact printing on Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee's Lodima paper, but if you're not doing that, then developing and exposing for Weston's print process isn't going to get you the same result with your print process.

I would agree with David, if you want the "Weston Look" your best chances are likely to be with Pyro developed negatives printed on a silver chloride paper such as Kodak Azo or Lodima. While Azo is discontinued, it shows up on Ebay once in a while and you can order Lodima at www.michaelandpaula.com Oh, yeah you should consider developing your Lodima in Amidol. Weston used Amidol with his silver chloride papers.

Good Luck!

 

[Sirius Glass]

If Ed Weston were alive today, he would buy the least expensive consistant film he could find. He was not monitarily endowed.

Steve

 

[Trevor Crone]

I think there is a beauty in a contact print that is different from a print made by projection. A well produced contact print, like EW's, have a wonderful luminosity and tonality, probably something to do with not having to go through another optical system (the enlarger).

Ansel Adams, in his book, 'Examples - The Making of 40 Photographs', writing about the image, 'Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain', "Many years ago I made a print of this negative on a contact paper that when fully toned in selenium, had a marvelous colour. It is one of the most satisfactory prints I have ever made and have not been able to duplicate it with contempory enlarging papers. The paper I used might have been Agfa Convira or Kodak Azo"