Reflections on a journey with doors and cobbled streets. Taken in Bellagio, Italy and somewhat out of sequence, due to vagaries of processing and scanning… Leica M7 with Zeiss C-Sonnar 50mm and Ilford Delta 100 black and white film processed in HC110.
I finally figured out a workflow that allows me to scan and then process black-and-white images with reasonable efficiency using Capture One… The main challenge is that C1 fails to handle the 16 bit grayscale TIFF images that the scanner produces, necessitating a conversion to a 16 bit colour TIFF file before the imported images can be edited. The trick is to use ZIP compression, which leaves the file sizes virtually unchanged. As a result, my film processing workflow currently looks something like this:
Cable car, Switzerland. This is definitely a country for the lazy hiker… Leica M7 with Zeiss ZM 2/35 using a red filter and Ilford Delta 100 processed in HC110 dilution H.
Mountain stream in Switzerland. Ilford Delta 100 processed in HC110 dilution H.
The swiss alps, between Silvaplana and St Moritz. In winter this are would usually be full of skiers, but in summer the ski-lifts provide a quick (if expensive) start to a hike in the mountains. Although the mountains are rather barren, if you time the trip well there are usually many photogenic flowers to explore – and maybe the odd naked hiker, if that thing is still allowed near St Moritz. Leica M7 with Zeiss ZM 2/35 and Ilford Delta 100 , processed in HC110 Dilution H (1+63 from concentrate) for 7:30 […]
Clouds of dust from sandblasting a building. With the current temperatures here, everything feels like dust…
The recently resolved usher’s strike at the Liceu, Barcelona. It is not clear what they really won, but it quite surprising that the unions are still able to organise a two-month strike in this way given the increasingly right-wing politics of both Spain and the European “Union” at large (I use quotes deliberately, given the appalling situation with Greece). The second photograph was very poorly developed. Unfortunately, the next two rolls of film suffered serious underdevelopment due to using developer that had probably been stored too long (it does not help that […]
From somewhere in the mountains of Italy. Ilford Delta 100 in Ilfosol 3 1+14 4:30, 26c.
Las Ramblas, Barcelona. Ilford Delta 100, processed in Ilfosol 3 1+14 for 4:30 at 26c. The exposure was about 1/5 second, panning rapidly with a 50mm lens. I would bet that Tsipras and Varoufakis feel like this today…
Ilford Delta 100 in Ilfosol 3 1+14 for 4:30 at 26c. The tiles on the nearly roofs (part of the top of the UPF campus buildings alongside the Zoo) are amazing.
Ilford Delta 100 in Ilfosol 3 1+14 for 4:30 at 26c. Taken with a Lecia M7 and Zeiss C-Sonnar 50mm f1.5. [Edit] As an aside, I have a equivalent image of this scene taken with the Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 25mm f1.4 (a lens which has some connection with Leica, but which is nonetheless made by a company better known for its vacuum cleaners…). The u4/3 camera was shot at ISO 200 with a roughly equivalent aperture of f4, vs f8 on the Leica: In comparison, the digital image completely blows away […]
Ilford Delta 100 in Ilfosol 3 1+14 for 4:30 at 26c.
A quick and dirty comparison of scanning a roll of Delta 100 film with a DSLR (a Canon 5D Mark III using the Canon 100mm macro lens) and en Epson v850 flatbed scanner. The Delta 100 was chosen as it is a very fine grained and sharp film. It was processed in Ilfosol 3 1+4 (unfortunately at a very warm 26 degrees, which meant only a 4:30 developing time). Three scans were made and normalised to 4800 DPI by upscaling in Photoshop using Bicubic Smoother: Canon: single image at f14, […]
Transient Eye 