Hi Moose
I did wonder about the grain... from what I'd read about the film I
expected virtually no grain at all from this film, and this film (even
in the prints from the lab), looks like a grainy 800ISO+. It is also
supposed to have an extraordinary range / depth... which I'm not
seeing at all in these photos. While I like the results, the photos
aren't the low contrast, high detail, rich greys that I expected.
I haven't hand developed since high school... but I think this
experience might convince me to give it another try. I might follow
Tom's suggestion and see if I can source some diafine. After reading
up on it a bit it sounds ridiculously easy.
Brent
P.S. The dust was even worse in the scans before I cleaned up the
biggest hairs etc...
On 21/05/2008, at 7:25 PM, Moose wrote:
> I'm thinking you may need to do more than your own scanning. Yeah, the
> scanning isn't good - the dust on pyramid 1 is outragous. But where's
> all that visible grain coming from?. I haven't done any B&W for a
> looong
> time. But I seem to recall that Panatomic-X, ASA 32, had really,
> really
> fine grain. No way you would ever see it in a print the size of the
> these images on my screen.
>
> I'm not speaking for or against grain, per se, just that an ISO 25
> film
> shouldn't have the kind I'm seeing here. That makes me think the
> shop is
> probably using some generic developer for all films that isn't
> suited to
> the Efke 25. If that is the case, the contrast, highlight and shadow
> problems may also be at least in part a development problem, not only
> from the scanning.
>
> I think if you want quality B&W, you need either to develop your own,
> which is pretty darn simple and doesn't even require a darkroom - or -
> switch to chromogenic B&W film, which can be developed in any C-41
> process color developer, including the one hour machines.
>
> I can't speak personally to types of B&W films, but there's lots of
> info
> and discussion in the archives and some real experts here.
>
> Moose
>
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