Juan Valdenebro
Truth is beauty
Hi,
The real ISO of NeopanP1600 is around 800 (640 to me in Rodinal...)
For direct sun I shoot it with yellow filter at 1/250 f/11(.5), that is, giving it exactly half the light I give Tri-X under the sun (f/8(.5) 1/250 with yellow filter...)
P1600 is a great film... Very beautiful tone if exposed properly... Great tonal range when pushed to 1600 for soft light scenes (overcast/shadows), and real contrasty when pushed in a low light contrasty scene (theater, concerts, etc., in general, low ambient light dark places with localized light beams only as main light...)
About using the wonderful 50 1.5 aspherical nokton with P1600, no problem at all! On direct sun you can use them with yellow filter at 1/500 f/8(.5), or at 1/2000 f/4(.5), or even wide open with an ND8 (3 stops) filter (and the yellow one too) at 1/2000 f/1.4(.5) or f/1.5 (that bit of more light will mean nothing...)
For lower light scenes, even easier...
These are my notes for P1600:
Direct sun: Incident meter for yellow filter: ISO100 (without filter ISO200...) In camera TTL meter with or without filter: ISO400. Rodinal 1+50, 18ºC, 8 minutes, invertions for 30 seconds, then 3 invertions every 2 minutes.
Shadows, overcast or interiors: Incident meter: ISO400... In camera TTL meter: ISO800. Rodinal 1+50, 18ºC, 12 minutes, invertions for 60 seconds, then 3 invertions every minute.
Pushed as much as Rodinal can get out of it with great tone: Incident meter: ISO800... In camera TTL meter: ISO1600. Rodinal 1+25, 18ºC, 15 minutes, invertions for 60 seconds, then 3 invertions every minute...
The grain is soooooooo beautiful and crisp when wet printed!
So if your camera goes to 1/2000, yellow and ND8 are enough for the 50 1.5 wide open on direct sun. Or 1/1000 f/2(.5)...
For a 1/1000 or 1/500 camera, a six-stop ND64 is required for 1.5 shooting on direct sun.
I wish it was easier to get Neopan P1600 here, but strangely Fuji stopped selling all their B&W films in Spain four years ago... Maybe it's because this has always been a Kodak & Ilford land... Sometimes I find some P1600 when a store owner who loves the film has imported “in parallel” a few bricks...
Lovely film!
Cheers,
Juan
The real ISO of NeopanP1600 is around 800 (640 to me in Rodinal...)
For direct sun I shoot it with yellow filter at 1/250 f/11(.5), that is, giving it exactly half the light I give Tri-X under the sun (f/8(.5) 1/250 with yellow filter...)
P1600 is a great film... Very beautiful tone if exposed properly... Great tonal range when pushed to 1600 for soft light scenes (overcast/shadows), and real contrasty when pushed in a low light contrasty scene (theater, concerts, etc., in general, low ambient light dark places with localized light beams only as main light...)
About using the wonderful 50 1.5 aspherical nokton with P1600, no problem at all! On direct sun you can use them with yellow filter at 1/500 f/8(.5), or at 1/2000 f/4(.5), or even wide open with an ND8 (3 stops) filter (and the yellow one too) at 1/2000 f/1.4(.5) or f/1.5 (that bit of more light will mean nothing...)
For lower light scenes, even easier...
These are my notes for P1600:
Direct sun: Incident meter for yellow filter: ISO100 (without filter ISO200...) In camera TTL meter with or without filter: ISO400. Rodinal 1+50, 18ºC, 8 minutes, invertions for 30 seconds, then 3 invertions every 2 minutes.
Shadows, overcast or interiors: Incident meter: ISO400... In camera TTL meter: ISO800. Rodinal 1+50, 18ºC, 12 minutes, invertions for 60 seconds, then 3 invertions every minute.
Pushed as much as Rodinal can get out of it with great tone: Incident meter: ISO800... In camera TTL meter: ISO1600. Rodinal 1+25, 18ºC, 15 minutes, invertions for 60 seconds, then 3 invertions every minute...
The grain is soooooooo beautiful and crisp when wet printed!
So if your camera goes to 1/2000, yellow and ND8 are enough for the 50 1.5 wide open on direct sun. Or 1/1000 f/2(.5)...
For a 1/1000 or 1/500 camera, a six-stop ND64 is required for 1.5 shooting on direct sun.
I wish it was easier to get Neopan P1600 here, but strangely Fuji stopped selling all their B&W films in Spain four years ago... Maybe it's because this has always been a Kodak & Ilford land... Sometimes I find some P1600 when a store owner who loves the film has imported “in parallel” a few bricks...
Lovely film!
Cheers,
Juan