Just Placed a Film Order!

[Benjamin Marks]

Coming to me from B&H:

20 Rolls of Ilford Delta 400 in 120
10 Rolls Kodak 400CN in 35mm
10 Rolls Neopan 1600 in 35mm
5 5 *Quart*packages of XTOL

Going to my brother's wedding in two weeks for play time:

M6, M8 and a kit of fast lenses/classic lenses (what is it about Summarits/Summitars/Summarons at weddings? - I think it's the flare!)
D3 with some Nikon primes
Pentax 67 and a Rollei 75/3.5

It is going to be a blast! Let's face it, there are few social occasions where my enthusiasm for making photographs is matched by others' willingness to be photographed.

Game on.

Ben

 

[venchka]

That's a serious amount of Xtol.

Your variety of hardware is similar to mine. Never saw a format you didn't like?

Have fun!

 

[kshapero]

Sounds awesome, yes I look forward to that stuff.

 

[caffeineshutter]

Have fun!

Have fun!

I'm jealous. Although...shooting a wedding is brutal work...can't remember if you indicated you'd be the only photog. Again: Have fun!

 

[philipp.leser]

Is there any special reason why you threw the 400CN in the mix? Seems kind of odd considering the other films are normal B&W films...

(I love Neopan 1600, btw, great choice)

Regards,
Philipp

 

[David R Munson]

All great films, have fun!

 

[Larky]

Neopan 1600 is my favorite film, have fun at the wedding. 🙂

 

[Prosaic]

M6, M8 and a kit of fast lenses/classic lenses (what is it about Summarits/Summitars/Summarons at weddings? - I think it's the flare!)
D3 with some Nikon primes
Pentax 67 and a Rollei 75/3.5

Whats wrong with you? 😀

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Too many cameras, too little sense

Too many cameras, too little sense

Whats wrong with you? 😀

Happily, I will not be the official photographer, so I will be free to have fun.

This is your basic, all weekend bash at a fairly rural campsite. The wedding will be in the sun, but the dancing, the bonfire etc. will be in pretty tough lighting conditions. So time to pull out all the stops. I will have some pretty fast glass for the evening events and was considering a 6x12 back (x2) on a 4x5 camera scanned and stitched for some panoramic snaps. In the end, though, reason prevailed and I will not be hauling around any LF gear. But yes, never met a format I didn't like. I have also thought about shooting at least one roll on an Olympus Pen-F and then reproducing many snaps on the same page -- sort of like an enlarged contact sheet.

I also, also thought about going all-digital for an event like this (less work, really), but I love the look of film. And I like the idea of having some images on well-washed film in an archival sleeve. Computers are such fragile things. So: the tool kit will have plenty of tools.

Oh, and yes, that's a lot of XTol, but it isn't all for the wedding snaps, I just happen to be low on my supply. And the chromogenic film may seem like an oddity to mix in with the silver based film, but I like its look too. And it is occasionally nice not to have to do all the developing myself.

A brick of unopened film . . . it's like having a pad of fresh paper in front of you. So many possibilities!

Ben

 

[Freakscene]

>A brick of unopened film . . . it's like having a pad of fresh paper in front of you. So many possibilities!

Yes. I just bought a hundred rolls each of Arista Premium 100 and 400...

Marty

 

[Benjamin Marks]

I actually have a pretty large backlog of film (+/- 40 rolls). I use XTol 1:1 so one of those 5 quart packets will handle the backlog easily. 500 ml of stock will do about 8 rolls of film in a Jobo processor. But with the wedding coming up (+/- another 40 rolls? Hopefully not that much . . .) I thought that this would be a good time to stock up.


OOPS - Just re-read my OP. These are 5 _quart_ packets, not 5 gallon packets . . .I have edited it.

Lenses:
Leica: 50/1, 35/2, 35/1.2, 15/4.5 (and the above- mentioned 35/3.5 Summaron, 50/1.5 Summarit, 50/2 Summitar)
Nikon: 28/2.8, 50/1.4, 105/2
Pentax: 45/4, 90/2.8 105/2.8

And: I kid you not, a folding hand-truck. Yeah, it's nuts. But it is going to be fun.

Ben

 

[Benjamin Marks]

The Jobo rotary processors use developer pretty efficiently. This is because the rotary tube lies flat and the film rolls through a "pond" of developer at the bottom. 500ml of stock solution will easily and evenly develop 8 rolls of film. That's leaving a little safety margin -- you could probably get by with less total volume of developer (1 liter is the max recommended by the mfctr). At 8 rolls per 500ml, a full five liters of stock will develop 80 rolls of 35mm, 120 or film or 80 sheets of 8x10 film. I was pretty skeptical when I first started using the processor, thinking that there would not be enough active developer in each ml of working solution, but it works fine and the results are repeatable.

Where the Jobo does less well is if you are pulling or pushing some rolls. With 8 rolls at a time there is not a lot of N-1, N+1 development going on. But I don't really deviate from my standard film speeds all that often.

Now, if I could just get the Nikon Coolscan to scan as quickly as the Jobo develops. . .