Show me your latest darkroom prints

[Erik van Straten]

Leica M3, Summilux 50mm f/1.4 v2, TriX/Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

 

[p.giannakis]

 

[Erik van Straten]

Very interesting, Pan, can you show it bigger?

Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

 

[RoccCity]

Erik, you’ve lived quite the life. Love seeing all your prints.

 

[p.giannakis]

Here is a scan Erik.

It looks slightly unsharp but it isn't.


The lady in this picture found it on Flickr and commented underneath it. I have it here in flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14874677@N02/22660534052/in/dateposted-public/



I printed this to give it to her to have it.



And by the way, I always enjoy the pictures you draw out of your archive. Keep them coming!

 

[Erik van Straten]

I printed this to give it to her to have it.

I didn't know that you print!

It is difficult to scan prints. Much easier to scan a negative.


Erik.

 

[p.giannakis]

I started last year - have a few pictures posted on this thread.

 

[Erik van Straten]

My first print. Quite happy with it although i need to figure out why the enlarger is vignetting past f/5.6.

O yes, I remember, but it has been quite some time! I'm getting old. I'm sorry.

What enlarger do you use? What kind of paper?

Erik.

 

[p.giannakis]

It is an old Rolleimat Universal. Here is a pic of it with the paper and developer. Despite being oxydised the developer worked quite well (1+4 dillution).

I bought it for £8 and i also bought the Minolta C.E 50 f/2.8 to go with it.
I have it in the garage so i print only in summers when the weather is nice. In winter the temperatures can fall below freezing.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Looks like a decent set! I hope you'll find the time to make some more prints.

Developer: it is better to buy small bottles so that if the bottle is only partly used it is not a disaster.

You can keep the fixer as long as you like.

Erik.

 

[KenR]

Nokton48 - I really like the first picture of the landscape and trees, except I would print it with the leftmost space (with the sun) eliminated. Try covering that highlight and see if you don't agree that it is a much stronger image with that area eliminated. Otherwise, great stuff.

 

[Erik van Straten]

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

 

[PRJ]

That is an excellent image Erik! Cracked me up.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica M3, Summilux 50mm f/1.4 v2, TriX/Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

 

[Erik van Straten]

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

 

[Nokton48]

Nokton48 - I really like the first picture of the landscape and trees, except I would print it with the leftmost space (with the sun) eliminated. Try covering that highlight and see if you don't agree that it is a much stronger image with that area eliminated. Otherwise, great stuff.

Of course you are right. I wrestled a bit with this one. I'm using an old Graflex XL lens that I hacked to fit the LF 4x5 with some fairly intense metalworking. It's a bit of pushing the envelope. Focused hyperfocally it -almost- covers 4x5. You can see all four corners of the circle in the frame. Nowadays I will just use it on 9x12cm which is smaller format but very close.

Precision camera positioning was everything with this one. There is something special about this spot. So relaxing.

Dawes 58mm Grandagon 1 4x5 Norma by Nokton48, on Flickr

 

[Erik van Straten]

Leica M3, Summicron 50mm f/2 v4, 400-2TMY/Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

 

[p.giannakis]

Leica M2, Summicron 50mm f/2 collapsible, Tmax400/Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

This is fantastic.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Thank you, Pan!


Erik.