Tag: Stand Developing

Stone Steps

From a recent trip to the Royal Botanical Garden in Burlington Ontario. I loved the looks of these stone steps in the Rock Garden. All images created using Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens. Rollei RPX 100 film stand developed in Rodinal.

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Morning Light

I was out this morning at Todmorden Mills; it was cool, but some amazing light to work with. One of the cameras  I was using was my Mamiya Universal Press, with a 90mm/3.5 lens and a 6×9 medium format back attached. I was shooting Rollei RPX 25, a very slow speed film an with a small aperture the tripod was a necessity for the 1/4 sec or so shutter speed.

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Stand developed for 1 hour in Rodinal 1+100 @ 20 C

Solitude

Last Sunday morning on the U of T campus. Did she find solitude or did solitude find her?

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Canon Rebel TI, Helios 44 58mm/2 lens (39mm mount) via adapter
Rollei Retro 80s film, stand developed 1 hour in Rodinal 1+100 @ 20 C

At the Extreme

After having recently had success with shooting medium format Tri-X at EI 3200 and stand developing in Rodinal for two hours, I was anxious to see how well it would work with the smaller 35mm negative and the answer is, not bad at all! Not nearly as grainy as expected, and shooting at 3200 (considered pretty extreme for Tri-X) will allow me to handhold in pretty dim light. Rodinal is indeed a magic potion, not bad for a developer first released in the 1890’s!

Tri-X @ 3200

 

Voigtlander Bessa R 35mm rangefinder, Russian Jupiter 8 50mm/2 lens
Tri-X @ EI 3200, semi-stand developed for two hours @ 20 C
(Gentle agitation every 30 minutes)