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Thanks Marty! I love the HR 50, even more than the CHS 100 that I used since way back when they made it in Croatia. Adox is doing lots of great work IMO and I use their products whenever I can. So I develop in Adox FX 39, 1+14 for 11mins for this film. I try to be careful with metering because it's not forgiving to my usual sloppy technique of "overexposing everything just in case". I think it looks best in overcast light, the tonal curve and separation is quite unique.
 
jbielikowski said:
Thanks Marty! I love the HR 50, even more than the CHS 100 that I used since way back when they made it in Croatia. Adox is doing lots of great work IMO and I use their products whenever I can. So I develop in Adox FX 39, 1+14 for 11mins for this film. I try to be careful with metering because it's not forgiving to my usual sloppy technique of "overexposing everything just in case". I think it looks best in overcast light, the tonal curve and separation is quite unique.
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I agree about Adox and their products. I really wish they would start producing enlarging papers again (while understanding the market limitations). I use Lupex a lot.

FX 39 II is really useful. It is definitely very (extremely!) sharp with the slow Adox films.

Keep at it!
 
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Freakscene said:
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Pavel and Olga in Konstantin’s kitchen. St Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2005.
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Edit - this was not posed. This was how Gerasev was when he talked. I just snapped during a normal conversation, although this was after our leaving dinner, when we said goodbye after a long visit.
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For wholly unknown reasons, these striking images reminded me of The Tin Drum - the film I first saw in the early 1980s, and have tried to see again every few years. One of the finest productions to ever come out of Germany. But this in Russia, imagine...
 
DownUnder said:
For wholly unknown reasons, these striking images reminded me of The Tin Drum - the film I first saw in the early 1980s, and have tried to see again every few years. One of the finest productions to ever come out of Germany. But this in Russia, imagine...
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Yes, it’s in a flat in St Petersburg in 2005. Pavel died some time before 2017, a real shame. As Olga put it, he was very flippant with his health.
 
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