Ferrania P30 B&W Film Thread

Mackinaw said:
Nice tones. What kind of agitation did you use?

Jim B.
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Jim,

In a Patterson tank, 5 gentle inversions to start then 5 gentle inversions every 30 seconds after that. This is not my usual agitation method, but was trying to mimic the Ferrania 'best practices' table, at least for now. For D76 1+1, they note 13 minutes with constant agitation in a Jobo, so this was my very rough approximation of that.
As others have noted, this film might not have the exposure latitude of some others, but I really like it. Wish I had bought 5 rolls instead of 3.
 
I'm another kickstarter member and received my five rolls of P30 recently. I'm going to try it out next week, starting with developing in HC 110 dil. h (one of my go-to developers). Although Ferrania recommends shooting the film at box speed, I may also try giving it a little extra exposure. Excited to try this film!
 
Bingley said:
......Although Ferrania recommends shooting the film at box speed, I may also try giving it a little extra exposure. Excited to try this film!
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I shot my first two rolls at an E.I. of 80, the next roll I'll be shooting at 50. I've been using D-76 1:1 as my developer, this next roll will be processed in Rodinal. Post your images once you shoot some.

Jim B.
 
Bingley said:
I'm another kickstarter member and received my five rolls of P30 recently. I'm going to try it out next week, starting with developing in HC 110 dil. h (one of my go-to developers). Although Ferrania recommends shooting the film at box speed, I may also try giving it a little extra exposure. Excited to try this film!
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B,

I tried shooting at 120 ISO and using Diafine to get a small push, but I would of done better at box speed (80 ISO), even with Diafine.

I want more of this film. P30 has an interesting rendering. The highlights billow nicely and the shadows are detailed. The lack of mids using Diafine tells me that it would like more exposure.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
B,

I tried shooting at 120 ISO and using Diafine to get a small push, but I would of done better at box speed (80 ISO), even with Diafine.

I want more of this film. P30 has an interesting rendering. The highlights billow nicely and the shadows are detailed. The lack of mids using Diafine tells me that it would like more exposure.

Cal
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Thanks for that post. Diafine is my other "go-to" developer. I'll shoot a roll at box speed and process in Diafine, to compare w/ the results using HC 110.
 
Please post shots of your negs on a light box if you can. That tells much more than a scan of a neg. also let us know what developer.

The results are looking encouraging but for us wet printers we need to see actual negatives. With scanning you can salvage a neg that won't print in the darkroom. Your images look like they are from good negs.
 
I shot another roll of P-30 yesterday. This time I used my old Canonflex (love that bottom-wind) along with a R35/2.5 and a R58/1.2 lenses. I used an incident light meter and shot the film at an E.I. of 50. I processed the film in D-76 1:1 for 13 minutes with continuous agitation using an old Beseler rotary processing motor that operates like a Jobo (sort of). At first glance the negs looked a little dense, buy they’re scanning just beautifully. No doubt they are much better than the E.I 80, straight D-76 pics I took last week. Here’s one from yesterday’s shoot.

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Jim B.
 
Bingley said:
Thanks for that post. Diafine is my other "go-to" developer. I'll shoot a roll at box speed and process in Diafine, to compare w/ the results using HC 110.
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B,

Somehow I got a third roll of free P30 "Alpha" from Steve at the NYC Meet-Up. I loaded it in my Wetzlar M6 this morning and already shot 24 exposures at 80 ISO. I'll be dipping this roll in Diafine this Saturday.

I only do two inversions per minute, but I extend development 4+4 for added density for wet printing. This creates smaller grain and extends the compensating effect.

The two rolls I shot at 125 ISO had wonderful billowing highlights that were so smooth and dreamy. Nice shadow detail, but the mids were scooped. I expect at 80 ISO even more shadow detail an a heap of mids for a HDR film like effect. I like the results at 125 ISO, but I think 80 ISO will take a step more towards medium format tonality where the negative speaks in terms of the mids.

How crazy is that I am not an original supporter of the kick starter and already I somehow have recieved three rolls of P30 "Alpha" for free. LOL.

Cal
 
AJShepherd said:
Exposed at box speed and developed in R09 at 1:100 for 45 minutes as recommended by the PDF on their website.


Vintage look by Antony Shepherd, on Flickr


Controls by Antony Shepherd, on Flickr

Pretty happy with those, and looking forward to using the other rolls i got.
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AJ,

Wonderful.

Rodinol with slow speed films has killer tonality. I wonder with the stand development you used how profound was the compensating effect on the negative? Did you have to add much contrast in post?

I'm a wet printer...

Cal
 
Bonus on last roll of P30 was a total of 39 frames, almost got to 40.

Generally I get 37-38 exposures from a roll of 135, but this last roll I got an additional bonus frame.

Cal
 
39's pretty good. I've been getting 37 - 38 so far.

Two more from last Sunday. E.I. of 50, D76 1:1 for 13 minutes at 68F, continuous agitation.

p30_test2_3.jpg


p30_test2_4.jpg


Jim B.
 
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