Dawid Loubser wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>In a kind-of forced situation, I had to use Ilford XP2 black and white
>film. This is still
>such a weird film, using colour chemistry + three dye-coupled layers
>instead of fixing silver
>silver grains. The situation was as an attendee of a wedding of some
>close friends of ours. This
>film claims to be fully usable across the range of ISO 50 to 800, and
>I was interested to see the
>results.
>
>Both images shot with OM-1n, with 90/2.0 Macro wide open, and both
>were printed to Ilford MG IV
>satin paper (5x7in) via Omega D5XL enlarger, Rodenstock Rodagon 80/4.0
>enlarger lens. Prints scanned
>with Epson V700. I chose these two images to start with, because of
>the extreme ISO range.
>
>This one was exposed at about ISO 1600, it was really really dark in
>the church. In retrospect, this
>was a bad hurried scan (the print has highlight detail) but ti still
>conveys the general look:
>
>http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/313/3/0/Pulpit_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
>Notes: The composition etc. is pretty bad,
>
Crop it square and make it an eternal keeper - wonderful atmosphere here
>and the groom is lost in
>the black, but from where I was
>sitting, I couldn't do much about it, and this was not a job for me,
>just a casual "memory" snapshot.
>
>
>This one was exposed at the opposite end of the scale, at ISO 50:
>
>http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/313/4/5/Flower_Bubble_Girl_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
>
Lovely bokeh - you were right to shoot wide open
>Notes: This was one of the young flower girls. I barely noticed her
>coming to stand next to me, as we
>were waiting outside for the bride and groom to exit the church.
>
>I wanted to isolate her from the background as much as possible, so I
>opened up to f/2.0, focused on here eyes, and made the image.
>I would have liked her to blow some of her bubbles across the
>"negative space" in my image, but even without that, I feel the subtly
>textured negative space balances the soft image of the little girl.
>But damn, I can't imagine ow AF on any DSLR would allow me the
>same focusing accuracy and composition in an instant. I *really* do
>not miss AF.
>
>
>Just to post another example of why I love the Magnificent 90/2.0,
>this was a recent street shot early in
>the morning, taken on more conventional FP4+ film, of the people using
>the bridge(s) to cross the busy road and
>walking to/from the Durban morning market (I was there on a recent
>business trip).
>
>http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/313/0/f/Bridges_to_the_Market_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
>
>Anyway, your comments appreciated. I just wanted to share some
>experience with XP2 film, and I must say, it's
>quite compelling, apart from the drag of me not being able to develop
>it myself. If I had to chose ONE film
>to put into ONE camera, across a wide range of conditions, XP2 would
>be quite high up on my list.
>
>The dynamic range (well, on the highlight side) is just astounding, it
>may even beat FP4/HP5.
>
>
FP4 so long ago I don't remember, but the tones surely are woth a visit
- great rendition
Thanks for sharing , and congrats to the newly weds.
Phx
>cheers,
>Dawid
>
>
>
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