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Medium Format Film ?
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I’ve got an old medium format camera, an eastern-european Pentacon 6TL.
Seems it takes 6×6 roll film.Not sure why as I have a D200, would like to try shooting some b+w with it.
Something high-contrasty with maybe a fair bit of film grain.
Anyone able to recommend something ?
Thanks
MarkFuji, Ilford and Kodak all still do 120 roll film versions of their standard black and white emulsions: Neopan, Delta, etc. Ilford even do Delta 3200 ASA in 120 roll film. These are all available from 7dayShop: http://www.7dayshop.com
Go for the 3200 for grain! Seen some great moody shots from it!
You’ll have to either dev yourself or send off though, I can’t find anyplace about that will develop 120 B&W!
Fajitas! wrote:
Go for the 3200 for grain! Seen some great moody shots from it!
You’ll have to either dev yourself or send off though, I can’t find anyplace about that will develop 120 B&W!
Check out the camaera exchange on georges street in dublin.
He has all his old developing equipment stillI know they develop 120 colour negs,but I don’t think they do any B&W anymore…And they don’t print 120 either, or at least since the last few times I was there.
For processing 120 size film you could try John Gunns camera shop on Wexford St. Dublin ph 01-4781226.
or you could try Hetty Walsh (hettys darkroom) Dun Laoghaire ph 01-2843261.try get your hands on some ‘lucky’ 120 its a kind of a generic brand but the results are sweet, its cheap, not sure where you’d get it here, i got it in Beau photo in vancouver, its far away from hear, im sure they mail order though,
Mark
I’d go with the high speed 3200 , the easy option or HP5 pushed to 800asa. With a 6*6 the other option is to for the finer grain 50asa and slow the process down. It really all depends on what you intend photgraphing and under what lighting conditions. There is a wonderful 400asa film by Forte that is grainy and cheap, and is super for grainy still like images. You will get it in the UK.
Ps stick to John Gunn for processing as no one else produces negs as clean.
If you’re scanning the negs rather than projecting, you’ll probably find that an iso400 film is grainy enough
it’s easy to do a slight sharpening on it to boost the grain and perceived accutance.Si
Mark wrote:
Anyone able to recommend something ?
Mark, my fav b+w film would be tri-x and I’ve a box of 5 thats just past their expiry date but should be fine. PM me if you’d like em thrown in the post.
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