35mm Film for Landscapes (B&W only)

[J enea]

for 35mm, i like a fine grained sharp film. Tmax 100, acros, rollei retro 80s and maybe some old tech pan if you can find it. I limit my best 35mm prints to 11x14 as after that, for me, the grain is just too much. move up to a larger format.



john

 

[Beemermark]

Living in London in winter and I forget that in other places there is such a thing as light 😉

I had to laugh at this. I used to live in the Northern Latitudes, but now live in the SE US. Daughters live in AZ. Yes way too much light. Tri-X @ 1/500 and F16 -🙂. There is daylight and there in night. Twilight is maybe 5 minutes. Pan F+ in a MQ developer to tame the contrast.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

"Pan F+ in a MQ developer to tame the contrast."
B, what does the resulting tonal scale look like? Thanks in advance

 

[Beemermark]

"Pan F+ in a MQ developer to tame the contrast."
B, what does the resulting tonal scale look like? Thanks in advance

Hard to put into words. But in harsh sunlight Pan F+ is very contrasty. Ilford recommends ID-11 (?) D76 for normal contrast. MQ is a diluted D76 that tames the contrast. I can look up the formula tomorrow. Same chemicals as D76, just different amounts.

 

[Rayt]

My last road trip to the Southwest - CA and AZ I shot with R8 and R9 with 28mm, 50mm and 90mm. Wish I had a 21mm. I shot with TMX and mostly on a tripod. I do prefer medium format but a fine film like TMax 100, tripod and good glass will have excellent results.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Hard to put into words. But in harsh sunlight Pan F+ is very contrasty. Ilford recommends ID-11 (?) D76 for normal contrast. MQ is a diluted D76 that tames the contrast. I can look up the formula tomorrow. Same chemicals as D76, just different amounts.

Thanks B, That's been my experience. I process mostly in Pyrocat HD & have found it easier to switch films. & have had great results ( in many formats)with FP4+.

 

[traveler_101]

35mm b&w landscape ... hm, it can be done, but is obviously an odd choice. I recently tried:

"obviously an odd choice":

No, or maybe, but I really like these images! What film did you use?

 

[retinax]

"obviously an odd choice":

No, or maybe, but I really like these images! What film did you use?

I'm sure you can get something like that with any grainy film if you underexpose and overdevelop it, then scan with low resolution. I hope you don't take offense, giganova. You've shown some wonderful photography in the Argentina thread, also from the technical point of view, but I don't understand what these examples were supposed to say about landscape photography in 35mm.

 

[traveler_101]

Too many people on this forum are concerned with technics and not with expressionistic effects. I read giganova to be saying: 35mm is not the best format for capturing landscape accurately and in detail.

 

[olifaunt]

I think giganova's impressionistic examples rock. Too many technically perfect boring images out there, and these are absolutely not boring. I also would love to know how they were produced.