Another “ghost image” from High Park a few days ago. Something caught the dog’s attention and it stayed still long enough to register, more than the dog’s companions further back. Exposure about 1.5 seconds.
Mamiya RZ67, Rollei RPX25 film
Category: Medium Format
Ghost #1
This past Saturday on a very gloomy and dull morning I went to High Park with my Mamiya RZ67, slow speed fine-grained films and of course a tripod. Exposures were often 1 second more, so any moving people in the image would be a ghostly blur. I like the effect!
Mamiya RZ67 on tripod, Rollei RPX25 film developed in Rodinal
Exposure: 1 second
Morning Shore
I recently shot some colour film at Bluffer’s Beach in Scarborough. It was a interesting morning light, with a layer of thin, hazy cloud.
Mamiya RZ67, Kodak Ektar 100 film
The Fine Grain Quest Continues
Another fine grain film I tried recently is Agfa Copex Rapid. It is similar to Adox CMS 20 II.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm/f2.8 Planar lens
Agfa Copex Rapid film , developed in Rodinal 1+100, 20 minutes
Lines and Textures
This image is from a shuttered building in Elora. My eyes were drawn to the lines and the various textures.
Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm/f2.8 Planar lens
RPX 400 film developed in Microdol-X, 1+1
Another Fine Grain Film
In yesterday’s post I featured images created using long discontinued Kodak Technical Pan. Thankfully, there is a worthy successor still being made today: Rollei ATP 1.1. This is another slow speed film with extremely fine grain and sharpness, but also requiring special handling in development. This first roll was developed using Rollei RLC Low contrast developer, which does a great job, but is not cheap. I have more of this film coming, and I will test one roll using Rodinal, a much less expensive developer, to see if I can get comparable results.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Rollei ATP 1.1 film @ E.I. 20
Developed in Rollei RLC Low contrast developer, 1+4, 6 minutes @ 20C
Lazarus Film #2
The bag that had the roll of Panatomic X also contained a roll of Kodak Technical Pan dating from the 1970’s, so of course decades past expiry. This is a slow speed film so I was reasonably hopeful that it would be usable, and I was not disappointed. Kodak Technical Pan, long discontinued, was a super sharp high resolution film requiring special development to manage contrast, and I love its look! These three images were shot in the ravine in the Beaches.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Kodak Technical Pan film, developed in Rollei RLC Low contrast developer
Erosion
It make look like large rocks but this is clay that has fallen at Bluffer’s Beach in Scarborough, On.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm C lens
Rollei SuperPan 200 film
Zoë in Black and White
Here are two more portraits of Zoë, in black and white. Both taken with my RZ67. The first one was shot on Ilford FP4+ film, the second on Ultrafine Xtreme 100; I got this roll free from Downtown Camera to try out. Very nice film!
Like a Spider
I was at Bluffer’s Beach last weekend, and to my eyes this tangled mess looked like a spider.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Rollei SuperPan 200 film
My Third Eye 