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jojoman2
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Hi folks, I just purchased a Rollei C41 processing kit from freestyle and have developed about 8 rolls of film--all pushed one stop. To be honest, I was expecting better, smoother results. Everything I shot looks a little soft, and when you factor in the large grain, the sharpness is barely acceptable to me for what I want to do.
I exposed all of the rolls of 400 at 800.
I'm not looking for an image critique, mainly I want to know if I the images look like they were correctly processed. I've only done a rough job spotting the dust, haven't altered the appearance of the grain in any way. I attribute some of the softness of the images to the shutter speed I was using, all 250th of a second, and I was probably moving at the time of exposure.
The Rollei developer I bought has a few working temperatures. I chose 25 degrees for 15 minutes (added 2 additional from the recommended 13 minutes to push the film), and did a pretty good job maintaining the appropriate temperatures for the chemicals.
Anyway, I thought portra was supposed to be a finer grain film. This looks like my tri x pushed to 1600.
Thoughts? Is anybody else shooting portra able to achieve finer grain results? I might take a roll to the lab to be processed to compare their results with my own.
I exposed all of the rolls of 400 at 800.
I'm not looking for an image critique, mainly I want to know if I the images look like they were correctly processed. I've only done a rough job spotting the dust, haven't altered the appearance of the grain in any way. I attribute some of the softness of the images to the shutter speed I was using, all 250th of a second, and I was probably moving at the time of exposure.
The Rollei developer I bought has a few working temperatures. I chose 25 degrees for 15 minutes (added 2 additional from the recommended 13 minutes to push the film), and did a pretty good job maintaining the appropriate temperatures for the chemicals.
Anyway, I thought portra was supposed to be a finer grain film. This looks like my tri x pushed to 1600.
Thoughts? Is anybody else shooting portra able to achieve finer grain results? I might take a roll to the lab to be processed to compare their results with my own.
