Diafine needs a break

[lido]

Some time ago FrankS said something about Diafine giving him flat results. I've been using it for some time and Frank's statement made me want to try something different.

I had a roll of Ilford Delta 100 and took some photos at the Ice Festival downtown Toronto at the day of last Toronto RFF meet-up. Instead of Diafine, I used D76 1:1. While I was processing the film I could not wait for it to come out so that I can see what it looked like.

Once it was out, I really missed the wet darkroom I had about 20 years ago, as the negatives are perfect for wet printing, but I was afraid they were a bit too dense for scanning. Vuescan did a great job (in my humble opinion) and here is one out of first 5 images I had a chance to scan. It is getting pretty late and I have to get up at 6 tomorrow morning for work 😉.

Please let me know what you think. I think I'll use Delta 100 / D76 more often as I really like the results.

 

[ed1k]

Aside the fact I don't like unsharp first plan (IMHO, someone can disagree with me), but I'm impressed by technical side of the pic. I remeber it was very sunny day and I love tonality and details. I'd expect much more contrast from D76. Might be it's 1+1 delution and slight underdevelopment, might be Delta. BTW, what was the lens and camera? and scanner? Actually the more I look at the pictures the more I like it 🙂

Eduard.

 

[Dracotype]

Ouch! That is so crisp it hurts 😀 . Very nice. I actually have gotten good results with FG7. But it looks like you got some really nice negs. Great job.

Drew

 

[lido]

Aside the fact I don't like unsharp first plan (IMHO, someone can disagree with me), but I'm impressed by technical side of the pic. I remeber it was very sunny day and I love tonality and details. I'd expect much more contrast from D76. Might be it's 1+1 delution and slight underdevelopment, might be Delta. BTW, what was the lens and camera? and scanner? Actually the more I look at the pictures the more I like it 🙂

Eduard.

Eduard,

It was D76 1:1, development time 12 mins at 20'C. The camera is Bessa R with CV Nokton 50/1.5.

 

[lido]

Ouch! That is so crisp it hurts 😀 . Very nice. I actually have gotten good results with FG7. But it looks like you got some really nice negs. Great job.

Drew

Thanks Drew for the kind words.

 

[Goodyear]

I think I just cut my eyeballs looking at that!

Like the pic...

 

[smdeep]

Hi
I have always been a lurker on the forums as I do not own a rangefinder :-( But this is one of the sharpest pic I have seen in recent times. May I ask what scanner did you use to scan it?

 

[lido]

Hi
I have always been a lurker on the forums as I do not own a rangefinder :-( But this is one of the sharpest pic I have seen in recent times. May I ask what scanner did you use to scan it?

It was scanned on Nikon LS-2000 at 2700 dpi (max resolution), with Vuescan, scanned as positive (48 bit) and inverted in Photoshop CS2.