Roll #60 – Ilford Delta 400

Ilford Delta 400 (35mm, 36 exposures)

Only recently I started shooting a single kind of film stock over a longer period of time. I think it really helps to focus more on the actual picture-taking and less on the technical side. Also there’s some sort of consistency.

It’s a bigger investment up front when buying a 10-pack of film instead of individual rolls, but usually you get a (very small) discount. So for much of the summer I had my two cameras (SLR with 50mm lens and compact rangefinder with 35mm lens) loaded with Delta 400.

Leipzig, Erfurt, Usedom (Germany) / May – September 2018

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35mm black/white t-grain film, ISO 400, 36 exposures

Nikon F80 + Nikkor 50mm 1.8D
Olympus XA2 (Olympus 35mm / f3.5 lens)
Developed in Ilford ID-11 / Ilfotec DD-X at Mühlstraße 14 community lab
Scanned with Epson V550
Post-processing in Adobe Lightroom

[Update] Ilford FP4 Plus 125

A bunch of film and even cameras!

Last month (December 2016) I participated in the Emulsive Secret Santa. I got several rolls of film and the first one – Ilford FP4 for medium format – is finally done.

I still have to perfect putting in film into the Pentacon to avoid those overlapping frames (transport problem). Guess that’s the drawback for buying cheap/old gear. But since I’m not going to rob a bank anytime soon, I’ll work with what I have.

Leipzig, Germany – January 2017

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Medium format (120), black/white negative film, 12 exposures (6×6), ISO 125

Pentacon Six TL + Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 2.8/80 + Ilford FP4 Plus
Film gifted by Gregory Antikian – thanks again!
Self-Developed (A49) @ Mühlstraße e.V. Community Darkroom.
Scanned with Epson Perfection V550.

Week #24 – Ilford FP4 Plus

Ilford FP4 Plus (120 Medium Format)

Are you already sick and tired of those mountains? No? Good. Because here are some more of them. This time in black and white, so at least there’s a bit of a visual change.

The film was kindly sponsored by Florian – thanks again!

Elbe Sandstone Mountains – June 2015

Shop-Talk:

Medium format (120), black/white negative film, 12 exposures (6×6), ISO 125

Yashica Mat 124G (Yashinon 80mm f3.5) + Ilford FP4 Plus
Film sponsored by Florian.
Self-Developed @ Mühlstraße e.V. Community Darkroom.
Scanned with Epson Perfection V550.

Week #10 – Ilford Delta 3200

Ilford Delta 3200 (120 medium format)

The longer the project is going on, the more hurdles are showing up…

• Technical: This week my local lab stopped developing pushed film and they only process slide film when they have at least 4 rolls.
• Legal: I can’t use photos showing faces unless it’s a crowd. That’s the abridged version, the whole issue is a bit more complex than that.
• Artistic: One medium format roll holds only 12 images and I have to show at least some of them at the end. Usually I show some, that I don’t find that good.

To sum it up: everything takes longer than expected, there are fewer images to show than expected and I keep on whining more than expected.

For now I’ll shut up and show some photographs:

Leipzig book fair – March 2015

Shop-Talk:

Medium format (120), black/white negative film, 12* exposures, ISO 3200

Yashica Mat 124G (Yashinon 80mm f3.5) + Ilford Delta 3200.
Film bought for ~6 EUR via Film Photography Project Store.
Self-Developed @ Mühlstraße e.V. Community Darkroom.
Scanned with Epson Perfection V550.

*) exposures depend on the format. 6×6 -> 12 exposures.