For the Love Of Tri-X / Post your pictures

In the '70s in Europe different kinds of TriX were available, French, English and American, if I remember well. These films were different from each other. I very much liked the French TriX because they had a finer tonality and finer grain in my opinion. Also the used developer was important. D76 was very popular, just like Microdol. Microdol needed a longer developing time if I remember well.This is on French TriX in Microdol in 1978.

silver gelatin print (nikkor h auto 50mm f2) nikkormat ftn

Erik.

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Erik van Straten said:
In the '70s in Europe different kinds of TriX were available, French, English and American, if I remember well. These films were different from each other. I very much liked the French TriX because they had a finer tonality and finer grain in my opinion. Also the used developer was important. D76 was very popular, just like Microdol. Microdol needed a longer developing time if I remember well.This is on French TriX in Microdol in 1978.

silver gelatin print (nikkor h auto 50mm f2) nikkormat ftn

Erik.

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Brilliant picture Erik, these bikes were very popular in Greece during the 80s.
 
I have both cameras in black, bought years ago really cheap. The F had a Photomic FTn, but now I have the standard prism. I hardly ever use the cameras, too heavy and too noisy.
I prefer the rangefinder Nikons, above all the S2. But the F and the Nikkormat FTn never give up. The Nikkor-S 50mm f2 is said to be better than the Nikkor-H 50mm f2. The H-f2 has some distortion, but the S-f2 is said to have straight lines. I never tried the S.
I love the looks of these cameras. I have a black S2 and it is surprising how much the three cameras have in common. In my eyes no later Nikon looks as nice as the S2, the F or the Nikkormat FTn - in black, that is.

gelatin silver print (nikkor h auto) nikkormat ftn

Erik.

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Erik van Straten said:
I have both cameras in black, bought years ago really cheap. The F had a Photomic FTn, but now I have the standard prism. I hardly ever use the cameras, too heavy and too noisy.
I prefer the rangefinder Nikons, above all the S2. But the F and the Nikkormat FTn never give up. The Nikkor-S 50mm f2 is said to be better than the Nikkor-H 50mm f2. The H-f2 has some distortion, but the S-f2 is said to have straight lines. I never tried the S.
I love the looks of these cameras. I have a black S2 and it is surprising how much the three cameras have in common. In my eyes no later Nikon looks as nice as the S2, the F or the Nikkormat FTn - in black, that is.

gelatin silver print (nikkor h auto) nikkormat ftn

Erik.

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The Nikon F was build around the body of the Nikon SP - which is built around the body of the Nikon S2. That explains the similarities.

Nikon put a lot of effort when designing the F, they paid a lot of attention to detail. Just a fun fact, if you remove the lens from the F, you will notice that you cannot lift the mirror with your finger. You can lift the mirror in every other camera. Nikon put a mirror lock that keeps it locked when on rest position - that way you can focus accurately even if you hold the camera upside-down; or you are hanging upside down (mirror will not hang loose under difficult conditions).
 
Foxglove on Rainy Back Deck by Nokton48, on Flickr

Daisies in the Rain Front Yard by Nokton48, on Flickr

First test roll of hand spooled 1992 vintage 70mm Kodak 400 Tri-X Professional Unperfed film. Rated at EI 400, extremely dark stormy rainy day on my back deck. Camera was Plaubel Makiflex Standard, lens is Bausch and Lomb Super Cinephor 159.1mm F2.0. A movie theatre projection lens intended for projecting 35mm and 70mm movie film in cinema houses. Film back is Graflex RH-50 18 shots bulk loaded. Film processed in D23 1:1 12 minutes at 74F in single reel Paterson dev tank. RC 8x10 print Arista [NODE="2"]Forum[/NODE] Matte developed in Multigrade. Omega DII laser aligned 180mm black Rodagon lens. Camera was handheld at the Makiflex Standard's top speed of 1/125. I really like the "look" I am getting with this extremely unusual lens. It's quite a heavy rig so I get a gym workout to boot. I am really diggin' all this 70mm stuff at this point. 18 6x7 exposures fits into two Vue-All 70mm pages when cut into threes.
 
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