Hi Jan,
thanks for the tip. I travel quite a bit, always with my 2.8D TLR and 10 or so
rolls of APX100 and/or Tri-X with me, and always insist on manual inspection
until I get it. While it was a bit of a hassle 5-6 years ago, since then I
haven’t really ever had an issue. I’m polite but firm that the camera and film
do not go through the scanner, perid. Yada yada it’s film safe and all, but
each roll might end up going through multiple scanners before being exposed,
and I don’t want to risk it.
At this point in time most people (even TSA/airport security) find the old TLR
and roll film enough of a curiosity that they’re all too happy to oblige me. :-)
Those mini bottles of Tetanus Blau look very cool! That would be a great way to
do site-based devloping, as you mention.
I still haven’t bought a digital camera (except the one in my phone), although
I’ve been eying the FujiFilm X series lately, I’m a bit concerned that if I buy
it I won’t use my film cameras anymore…. I only want to carry one, sometimes
two cameras with me anyway, and I’ll almost always end up using one for pretty
much all my shooting.
Cheers,
Thor
On 04 Oct 2016, at 22:28, Jan Decher <wanderjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thor,
I would no longer take any film across borders by plane. My last batch of
Neopan 400 was ruined in the move here to Germany in the fall of 2012. I
realized that after processing some of the rolls and discovering muddied
images and strange repetitive patterns. These days security x-ray will be
pretty powerful - for good reasons, and talking security staff into
hand-checks, well, good luck.
If I ever get seriously back into b&w processing I am considering taking a
miniaturized development kit with me for example with this handy kit:
https://www.fotoimpex.de/shop/fotochemie/tetenal-neofin-blau-6-ampullen-zu-je-50-ml-konzentrat.html
This is something people like Leica photographer Walther Benser and others
used to do: Process film in your hotel room…
In the 1950s Prof. Bernhard Grzimek and his son Michael even used to process
their 6x6 Praktisix negs in the rainforest of Ivory Coast, just to make sure
they had the wildlife pix they were after. Well, digital is a God-sent for
photographers on expeditions to the tropics. Something I really enjoyed since
my 2006 trip to Sierra Leone.
Jan
On Oct 4, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxx> wrote:
I had been planning on bringing a handful of exposed E6 rolls with me to the
US this summer, but of course forgot to pack them :-/.
Was planning on trying Carmencita, but the price is off putting, especially
considering the strong Euro at the moment. It’s €9/roll just for developing.
I’ve tried Cewe labs in Germany for E6, each and every time I send film
there it comes back dull, blass and muddy. I’d say it was my exposure, but
other rolls I’ve taken elsewhere and developed elsewhere come out great.
Cheap is worthless if there’s no quality.
If anyone has any suggestions, I have 8-10 rolls of E6 I still need to get
developed…
For B&W I do all my own developing, Rodinal for the most part, since my film
of choice is APX100, as long as my supplies hold.
Thor
On 04 Oct 2016, at 18:23, Bigler Emmanuel <bigler@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Le 04/10/2016 à 16:09, John Inglis a écrit :
Projecting 6x6 is so great, mainly with images taken from a Xenon
75mm Automat Rolleiflex.
Hi !
I'm "jumping" into the discussion since I like projecting medium
format slides as well.
Actually I have 2 projectors for 6x6 slides. the first one is a
French-made SFOM MALMAISON with an old-style 220V / 300 W bulb, bought
used at the end of the seventies. This SFOM projector uses bulbs of a
different kind with respect to the Rollei P11.
The second is a Leitz Prado Universal recently found on eBay. The
Prado is fitted with a 24V / 250W halogen bulb.
For the SFOM, I have some proprietary SFOM 6x6 trays for slides mounted
in 7x7 cm frames, but I do not use those trays, I only use the one by
one slide holder. For the Prado I only have a one-by-one slide holder.
The SFOM is not very bright, something like 800 ANSI lumens which is
quite low according to current standards for video-projectors. I have
no idea for the Prado, certainly brighter than the SFOM but it is
still less bright than a modern video-projector.
I would recommend to prefer a projector with a 24V / 250W halogen
bulb, since those bulbs are used in various lighting devices and are
very cheap and easy to find. Old 110-127 V or 220 V bulbs are now
collectors' items and are much more expensive.
But for the most part, I wait until summer visits to Europe, and head to
a DM drugstore in Germany, for the 2.40 or 3.40 Euro processing charge
for a roll of 120, price dependent on whether sleeve or unsleeved.
Which other countries have similar prices to develop 120 slide film John
Probably none: Deustchland ist unser Foto-Paradies!
I have my 120 colour slides E6-processed by mail order in France, but the
cost is about 8 euro per roll which is still much less than USD 16, even
taking into account the current exchange rate (as of 2016-10-03): USD 1.1
per 1 euro.
BTW I still have a few 120 rolls of AGFA SCALA unexposed, this can be
processed in several labs in Europe and in the US.
Recently, FOTO-IMPEX have introduced a B&W film named "ADOX SCALA 160" to
continue the supply of B&W slide film to be processed in the AGFA SCALA
process. So far this SCALA 160 film is available in 135 rolls only
https://www.fotoimpex.de/shopen/films/adox-scala-160-bw-13536.html
and they di not offer 120 rolls yet, but I'm following what ADOX-FOTO
IMPEX is offering, I would no be surprised if they offer B&W slides in
120 rolls soon.
--
Emmanuel in France
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