Ferdi,
Nicely done! It’s very pleasant to see someone who gets light and air into
their B&W photographs. These days the common belief seems to be that B&W is for
contrasty images with lots of “deep blacks”. Good grief!
1. What ISO did you use for Delta 400, and what was the processing? I very
rarely found B&W films that had good enough shadow detail at their official
ISO. I’ve never used Delta 400, though.
2. When digitizing your images, do you apply a special curve, or do you
leave the response “linear”? When we print in the darkroom, different papers
have different response curves, so we are probably never producing a linear
(though inverted) representation of the negative values. With T-Max 400, for
example, I thought that images printed on the 1980’s version of Oriental
Seagull were richer than on any Kodak or Ilford papers. I have no idea what
Seagull was doing to the curve, though, so my scanning and digital printing
seems pretty hit-and-miss by comparison.
3. Since everyone posting Rollei images to the news group is probably
scanning their film, I can ask generally: Do you apply a special curve to your
scans before posting or printing?
Myron
(in eastern Canada)
On Mar 9, 2024, at 8:44 AM, Ferdi Stutterheim <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/195279981@N05/53576836959/in/dateposted-public/
Sloten, the smallest of the Eleven Towns in Friesland, the Netherlands
(Population 710).
Rolleiflex 2.8 GX, Ilford Delta 400. Nikon CoolScan 9000.
