Topic: Weekend 11th -13th October 2024

[Kai-san]

Finally some fog! We rarely get any fog here, and when it happens it's usually gone by the time you get the camera loaded with film and get your shoes on. This one lasted for a whole roll of film!

Contax N1 / Zeiss Planar 2.0/80 / Adox CHS 100 II in Adox XT-3

[Francois]

We don't get fog here either. And the few times we do, I always find that it so beautifully hides the ugliness of the suburb.

A few weeks ago I shot a roll of color film... which I promptly dropped on the dusty floor as soon as it got out of the tank 🙄
So lets just say it took me forever to get around to scanning it...
It was some old Gold 200 that was down to something like EI 64
Here are a few ones that came out of it.

[Indofunk]

I love that the colors are screaming "decades-old film clinging desperately onto some semblance of life" 🥰 Was it perchance stored in a desert? 🤣

[Francois]

I love that the colors are screaming "decades-old film clinging desperately onto some semblance of life" 🥰 Was it perchance stored in a desert? 🤣

Yes, it was found in the frozen tundra by an inuit seal hunter and his pack of dogs, traded to a gold prospector who flew it to Churchill Falls in a bush plane, only to take it to Newfoundland and hop on small plane to bring it to Montreal where I purchased it and promptly stored it in my freezer.

The film was over 10 years old when I used it. I could have corrected the colors in Photoshop or even EpsonScan, but I decided to just let them be.😁

[Bryan]

Plenty of fog in the Pacific Northwest, sometimes it takes until the afternoon to burn off.  Nice shots Kai!  I have a few from the muddy banks of the Wishkah river, more in my photo essay https://filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=10698.0.  Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531/2 with Kodak Tri-X 400 Developed in Rodinal 1:50.

Old Northern Pacific Railroad Swing Bridge by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Old Pier on the Wishkah by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[irv_b]

Finally some fog! We rarely get any fog here, and when it happens it's usually gone by the time you get the camera loaded with film and get your shoes on. This one lasted for a whole roll of film!

Contax N1 / Zeiss Planar 2.0/80 / Adox CHS 100 II in Adox XT-3

I'm glad you got out into the fog Kai, I love those type of shot very atmospheric.

Plenty of fog in the Pacific Northwest, sometimes it takes until the afternoon to burn off.  Nice shots Kai!  I have a few from the muddy banks of the Wishkah river, more in my photo essay

You get to go to some very interesting places Bryan

I finally got to sort out my salt print problem  ~(bought a different brand out of the supermarket) and it seemed to have worked. Now I just have to refine the process of timing the exposure and sorting out the printer which still will not print on acetate, i may have to buy another one (any reliable suggestions ) then I can make A4 size prints

[Francois]

I finally got to sort out my salt print problem  ~(bought a different brand out of the supermarket) and it seemed to have worked. Now I just have to refine the process of timing the exposure and sorting out the printer which still will not print on acetate, i may have to buy another one (any reliable suggestions ) then I can make A4 size prints

Glad that you fixed the salt problem. I guess I was right on that one.
I have an old HP printer that doesn't have a transparency setting. So I just set it to matte photo paper and best printing. That's what puts the most ink on the paper.
You can also feed the sheet twice to increase density (sometimes works).

I know that most alt process printers use Epson printers as they have the reputation of laying a ton of ink on the paper. Their ecotank models are probably a good choice since you can refill them with just about anything that comes from China. That Chinese ink is a lot cheaper than the brand name stuff (that's what I use in my 16$ HP from 15 years ago)

[ManuelL]

These prints look great, Irv. What kind of printer are you using? I have an Epson, which works fine with most types od acetate. I only have to put a white sheet of paper behind the acetate, so the printer knows there is something there to print on.
I can confirm that the printer lays down a lot of ink. I actually ran into trouble with some cheap acetate that didn't have enough capacity to take up the ink.

[Francois]

I wouldn't recommend HP on that front. The ink is laid pretty thin and the registration is so good that feeding the image twice doesn't really do anything.
When you look closely, you can see the individual dots.

I also tried with a laser printer and while you do get a lot of density, there is no gradation of tones per say. So the dithering is quite visible.