Nature’s histogram?

A couple of weeks a ago I bought a copy of ColorNeg. Colin has written extensively about using ColorNeg with VueScan’s raw scans, so I thought I’d give it a shot. The trial version of the plugin is pretty much worthless as it obscures the results with a heavy grid of noise, but I [...]

Hexar RF, ZM Biogon 35, Delta 400, Xtol 1+1 (straight Xtol seems to give more shadow detail)

A funny Pentax commercial.
Everything you need to know about scanning B&W: this saves me from having to write up my own notes on B&W scanning.
Apparently the ‘G’ in G9 stands for gateway drug.
A neat photo. I [...]

Unrelated Photo of Cold Weather #1
One of the joys of analogue photography is that you rarely know what you’ve done wrong until long after the picture has been taken. No matter how rigorous your procedures, analogue always remains a bit dodgy. Film gets loaded wrong. Developer goes bad. Negatives get scratched. Etc. Etc. Etc. Of [...]

Hexar RF, ZM Biogon 35, HP5@800, Ilfosol S 1+14

Hexar RF, ZM Biogon 35, HP5@200, Tmax Dev 1+9

Hexar RF, ZM Biogon 35, HP5@400, Ilfosol S 1+14

HP5 is plastic in the best sense of that word. If the digital camera manufacturers release some rogue virus that destroys every emulsion except for HP5, I could happily continue shooting [...]

Shoot film.
Buy distilled water.
Develop film.
Scan film.
Photoshop film.
Post to website.
Print.
Shoot film, buy distilled water.