Horizon202 exposes T-max, Fomapan and Kentmere
I shoot a lot of 35 and 120 film but mainly publish my works taken with a digital camera. I came to the conclusion that I have to replace my 7 years old Epson V500 scanner with a new 800-850 one.
I don’t like the results I get with the old scanner. it’s focusing system is too bad, especially when I use the original Epson plastic film holder. Actually I stopped to use this holder a few years ago. I found that just thin extra clean glass is the best holder for my scans – I just put the film between a glass of the scanner and this thin glass and correct the negative to be parallel to the scanner and that’s it. Even curly Agfa film with some patience and experience will be smooth and flat with this technique.
For all my latest films I used stand (actually semi-stand with one gently turn in the middle) developing process. This process is very economical, so I’m dreaming to finish someday the R09 One Touch (Rodinal??) bottle and to return back to my favorite D76… but the need in developer for stand process is very low – only 3.5 ml for one 35mm roll.
The first image in this series is a Kodak TMax – one of my fav for everyday shoots, even extreme condition of light can’t ruin a frame. the second and most grainy, flat and dirty in this series is Fomapan 400. I stopped to use this film and have a few 120 rolls (Fomapan 120 is much better and stable than 35, but I prefer Kodak, ilford or Kentmere) to finish and to forget about this incident. the next 4 frames are Kentmere 100 – such great and flexible (in terms of light and exposure). i got 4 rolls of Kentmere as gift from my friend Hans-Jürgen. all 4 were exposed and 3 already developed (the last one developed yesterday and looks very good and clean). I hope to purchase more of this film later.
About the last frame of this series. during our sail along the coastline my friend wanted to take pictures of me with the reason that i never appear in my photo stories. so this is his click of me and you can find his finger at the right – Horizon202 is 120° panorama – so a pose the fingers holding this camera is very important unless it is an idea – to show your fingers to viewers 🙂
Anjoy the longography..
thank you
Interesting and will watch for the outcome
Thank you Paula ! Always welcome 😉
Great stuff. I love that you never stop experimenting and questioning and even though I don’t understand completely the technicalities of film processing, it sounds like you enjoy every bit of it 🙂
Absolutely right and i want to shoot film even more and to be sure with a portraits photography. This time i decided to reduce the amount of the images in my posts from 12-20 to 5-8. Less stuff more attention to a single one 😉 have a nice day Yuri
Less is definitely more. Good day to you too
Fantastic series, Victor!
As always 🙂
Thank you very much Jurgen !! Very nice to hear this ” always” but you know by yourself how is difficult this work 😉
I know 🙂 And that’s why it ALWAYS fascinates me how you hold up your high standards!
Oh very nice!
Thank you very much !
Superb results with your “Longography” (I like that term!). Wow, I’m actually using a V500 too for many years. I was also thinking of replacing it soon. I never liked the original holders either so I used a holder from another Epson scanner I had before (can’t remember the model right now). It’s seems strange to me that the earlier Epson film holder was much better than the one supplied with the V500. Anyway, great and inspiring results!
Lets who will purchase it first and write the short review about !! About these holders – with a both types impossible to use for these Longography frames. Btw – i have something like 20 rolls exposed with Horizon , developed but yet not scanned…. timetimetime !
DIVINE series.
Thank you again ! I have nany developed but still unexposed. A scanning process of these not standard frames takes some time; -)
I can imagine it does!
i have not shot film in a long time, (my last film camera was an old ikoflex tlr) but i can relate to your developer issues. my son (http://www.benzoharris.com) has the same problems as you with his film scanner. i remember the old days of shooting tri-x and spending hours in the darkroom.
Thank you for taking a look ! Film photography is in fashion these days ald i dont like the way how manufactors of film equipment and sellers of the old gear use this fashion needs. But film photography is also cool and kind of meditation for me. I will check the link you posted after work at evening. Thank you again
i am disabled, and in a wheelchair, and using film is very difficult. as much as i love the look and feel and ritual of film, i simply cannot manage it.
But you’re living your dream very well as i can see by your posts Stephen! Sorry that i can’t help but actually hear is just gear. Behind every camera there is someone who manage ot 😉