Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What Dave said. When I used to process film for other people, there was always a proportion of people who thought that using some odd product (usually one of the relabelled microfilms like this one or Agfa Copex, but also often with Tech Pan) would miraculously improve their photography. It never did. You really need very careful handling and the right developer to get pictorial results from Bluefire and a special low-contrast developer. POTA or Technidol will work, but a regular developer will produce very poor results. Marty On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:07 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > When I have a single roll of questionable film > (unknown qualities, outdated, untested, etc.) > I choose a single subject and composition; > focus the entire roll on that one subject > with controlled variables (of your choice); > Vary the ISO to include 20, 40, 80, 160, 320. > Vary the lighting contrast at each ISO > from extremely flat through steps to higher contrast. > > If you've actually taken the time > to choose an interesting subject, > compose an interesting photograph > and keep notes on each frame; > whatever soup you send it through > you'll achieve a few interesting frames; > while learning what that film, in that soup, > can and cannot do. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote: > >> A couple of months ago, a friend gave me a roll of Bluefire Police ISO 80 >> film as a birthday present. ?I wonder if anyone in the group has used it. >> ?The Frugal Photographer website, where my friend bought it, says it is >> high >> resolution, should be exposed at ISO 80, unless using it for document >> microfilm purposes where higher contrast is needed, and should be >> developed >> in a special soup that it sells. >> Ref: ?http://www.frugalphotographer.com/Publications/process001.pdf >> >> I don't want to bother with developing it myself, and I think I just want >> to use this film as a one-off, and then show my friend some of the photos, >> saying thank you for the thoughtful gift. ?My query is this: ?do you think >> it would be adequate to use the film as ISO 80 and then simply give it to >> the local film-developing store without saying anything further? ?I ask >> because the company the film was bought from treat it as being a bit >> different, being that it was developed as a microfilm. >> >> Peter Cheyne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >