First Roll of Efke

[dazedgonebye]

Anyway...all of these:
Efke 50 iso, Barry's two bath developer
Balda Baldax (6x6 folder), 1/250th, f2.8, 8x ND filter

Seems nice and easy to work with. No surprises. Curls a bit more than is handy.
I'm not sure how I feel about it compared to the pan f plus. Of course, I've only shot/developed one roll of each.

 

[Arvay]

Could you tell what's Barry's two bath developer?

 

[dazedgonebye]

Bath A
80 g sodium sulfite
6.5 g metol
Make up to 1 L with water

Bath B
12 g sodium metaborate (Kodalk)
Make up to 1 L with water

Here's a nice background article.
http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/115

It's relatively forgiving of time and temperature variations. Any process that does well with a lack of precision is ok by me.

 

[Arvay]

Bath A
80 g sodium sulfite
6.5 g metol
Make up to 1 L with water

Bath B
12 g sodium metaborate (Kodalk)
Make up to 1 L with water

Here's a nice background article.
http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/115

It's relatively forgiving of time and temperature variations. Any process that does well with a lack of precision is ok by me.

Thanks for link, I will study as I like the result you show .

 

[Keith]

Those are very nice and I think a little better than the shots you posted with the PanF .... that camera has a hell of a lens! 🙂

 

[dazedgonebye]

Thanks Keith,
No doubt that Balda is a keeper. It was odd though, on this roll I shot 3 frames on each subject and on each subject, I was off focus on one frame. I thought I was paying attention to what I was doing...

 

[ishpop]

Very contrasty, but not to the point of distracting, I like your results!

 

[Pherdinand]

Looks good!
I exposed a first roll of efke 25 kb in 6x6, should scan it soon, but i think i overdeveloped it a bit, seems a tad thick/contrasty.

 

[dazedgonebye]

Everything I read about Efke says very contrasty in bright light. Well, bright light is about all we get out here.
For lack of any better understanding, I guess I'll credit the two bath developing for keeping the contrast under control.