Did You Have To Get The First Camera Pictures Printed
Film…it's simple…and cute!
By Max Marinucci
First of all, I want to pile on and say that Steve is doing a neat task here and nosotros should offer our back up for such informative, no balderdash site. Photography is fun and weʼre here to relish it and become inspired without worrying nigh chromatic aberrations and lens sharpness. Over again, cheers Steve for putting then much time and endeavor into this. (From Steve: Thanks so much!!)
I take written this article for those who desire to take some time away from digital photography or simply want to get back to basics for a bit and have never considered or experienced shooting blackness & white film.
For many who have grown up with cipher merely digital photography and files, the notion of blackness & white moving-picture show feels like some foreign relic which may be nice to look at but have no thought on how information technology was produced and if it tin can be replicated today. This article is for those who may be interested in discovering (or re-discovering) the simplicity and dazzler of black and white moving-picture show and are willing to spend a niggling time engaging in something that will not requite instant gratification. Earlier I go on, allow me extrapolate a fleck on this signal: instant gratification. Nosotros have go the society of At present, where waiting for something just doesnʼt seem adequate. If we accept a movie, we want to see it Now on the back of our camera, on the LCD screen. It sucks…well, letʼs take another one, and another, and another. While this is the norm these days, patience and parsimony are virtues to exist cultivated and nourished. When shooting pic, you immediately accept the fact that information technology may be a little while before you see the fruits of your piece of work and, past living with this, you will go more disciplined which will in turn carry on to your digital shooting as well Information technology too means that shooting everything in sight without whatsoever thought into basics similar light and limerick is out of the question since you only have 24-36 shots in a curl of 35mm and it makes no sense in spending time/coin developing thoughtless junk. This is a valuable do in restraint and information technology brings us to actually Recall before we shoot. Would you have taken a picture of your toes with film merely because you can? I sincerely doubt it. I personally have become a better lensman by shooting film because again, when I do, I pay more attention to details, and, since fourth dimension is money I donʼt want to waste product either by developing and scanning too many duds.
And so, yous may ask, why practise you lot need to shoot black & white flick anyway? Well, first of all, film still looks ameliorate (in my book at least) and second, y'all may start enjoying photography again in all its glory. I apply Leica gear and enjoy my digital M9 but, in that location have been instances when I accept shot the same picture with picture show and it very oft blows the digital abroad. Even with today's avant-garde technology, it is very difficult to reproduce the await of film in digi-world. Nik Software'south Silver Efex Pro
Y'all will probably not exist able to reproduce the works of Ansel Adams (no one tin) but certainly apply those as your inspiration and take comfort in knowing that such beautiful masterpieces were taken with now aboriginal equipment, film, and nearly of all, an thorough understanding of nature, lite and composition (aye, forth with lots of technical stuff as well). There is a deep sense of pride that comes into play when one catches that moment, nails the exposure and develops a good negative which can bring life to a special moving picture. The process, the anticipation, the fact that Y'all are in command (non your camera or digital software) will bring forth a sense of accomplishment that, in todayʼs digital world, we now rarely go to enjoy.
Before I go on, allow me explicate that what I have outlined beneath is a "hybrid" system designed to work well in today'due south digitally oriented world and it volition bring outstanding results once you accept mastered a few steps. Every bit Ansel Adams' famous quote goes " the negative is the composer's score and the print is the performance". Merely, few these days will go through the problem of darkroom press, which requires fourth dimension and dedication (oh aye, and a proficient amount of talent). So, what do we do with the negative? Well, if you lot are just taking pictures of your kids or casual snapshots, you can just bring them to your local lab and get prints within ane 60 minutes. They will probably look okay. At present, if you are getting a little more than serious and want more creative command, today's digi-globe let'south us practice what one would do in a darkroom but on a calculator screen. To keep it simple, you lot need a good scanner (I use the Epson 750V Pro) and Adobe Lightroom (yes, you tin apply Photoshop if that'southward what you like and you're familiar with, but in the involvement of keeping this SIMPLE and for someone just starting out, Lightroom is THE 1). The new version of Aperture is too great and these, unlike Photoshop, do a fine job at keeping things uncomplicated and well organized. Likewise, about of u.s.a. today expect at pictures on calculator screens, iPhone, etc so most never actually get printed. The following organization volition easily allow yous upload your favorite b&w moving picture pictures onto Flickr, Zenfolio, etc with great output quality.
Please note, everything written below refers to 35mm film.
Film: you have choices.
Every bit always, photographers (like musicians) get bogged down past as well much gear and besides many choices. Information technology's okay to try different films and you will eventually choose different ones for dissimilar situations or looks. Having said that, for now, try to find a favorite and stick to it. By doing so, you will achieve some consistency, results you tin can predict and, more then, repeat. It'south okay to experiment simply merely when you have mastered the task at hand and you know what you're doing. Don't try to exist a jack of all trades, master of none.
Film Speed: faster is non e'er ameliorate, only unlike.
If you start looking on the internet, you will once again exist bombarded with tons of information. Much is useful merely it may also confuse you and prevent you from starting out without getting extremely frustrated and, ultimately, surrender. Every film has an ISO rating on the box. Shoot it at that speed. More on this later but let's just go out it at that. Now, generally speaking, slower film (50-100-125) will give you lot tighter grain (or close to none in the case of Kodak T-Max100). As speed goes upwardly (400, 800, 1600, 3200) grain will increment noticeably (also your selection of developer volition
determine that but over again we want to keep things simple then we volition non dig into this one at the moment).
Camera: information technology does not matter!
When information technology comes to shooting flick, you have so many choices and many of them clay cheap these days. Frankly, your choice of camera may be possibly dictated more by the lenses. I love Leica because of its simplicity, timeless design, ruggedness, and well-nigh of all, lenses. Y'all can purchase a good M3 for less than the toll of a new digital pocket camera and use lenses made all the mode to the 1930s. If y'all shop eBay, y'all can become a dainty M3 with a 50mm Summitar for about $1500. The Contax G2 system is another winner with Zeiss lenses. Nikon also fabricated some great moving picture cameras and the Zeiss Ikon is likewise only fine. Having said that, I am partial to Leica considering information technology is SIMPLE. At that place is simply one aligning knob on an M3 (or a modernistic M7 equally a matter of fact) and that is shutter speed. You lot will not get bogged down past dials, knobs, menus or tons of useless junk designed only to sell the newest and greatest without respect for a user who demands simplicity and just wants to shoot without getting his/her brain cluttered with junk. Trust me, the less you take to recall about camera settings, the improve off you will be.
Filters:
With black and white film you need them for some creative work. On a beautiful twenty-four hours, with sun and clouds, without a filter you will get trivial separation between the sky and clouds so you want to add a yellow filter (light or medium) or red to dramatize those skies even more. Yellow or greenish are also essential for skin tones when shooting outdoor.
Practice you need a darkroom? NO!
Unless you are willing to do your own optical printing with an enlarger, no y'all exercise not need a darkroom. You tin get a elementary setup to develop your negatives with piddling money and utilize your laundry room, kitchen, bathroom to develop. B&H sells black changing numberless and the few other supplies yous need to successfully develop your roll of film. You will basically need:
Blackness changing bag to load your roll into the tank
A Paterson plastic tank (single ringlet is fine to showtime with) as these are much easier to load than metallic ones. (can exist institute atB&H Photo)
A film retriever (to get the atomic number 82 out of the exposed roll) Graduated containers to mix your chemicals Developer Fixer (can be found at B&H Photograph)
Wetting agent (B&H Photo)
Film Clips (B&H Photo)
A sponge squegee (B&H Photograph)
Thermometer (B&H Photo)
A inexpensive baby medicine syringe to measure out developers to be used straight such as HC110 or Rodinal.
The Steps are uncomplicated
Load motion picture into tank, developer, stop bathroom (to stop the action of developer), logroller, wash, hang to dry out. That's information technology. Basically, two chemicals, as I apply a water stop bathroom to exist gentle to my precious picture show which doesn't need an acrid environment to stop development.
Developer
Again here we have a bunch of choices. Photographers have their favorites with sure films and we donʼt desire to turn this into a complex subject area. Nosotros desire to go on this unproblematic and to give consistent, repeatable results. Enter Kodak HC110. It was good enough for Ansel Adams, information technology'south good enough for all of us. It comes in syrup, tin can be mixed direct from concentrate and has great shelf life. HC110 can exist diluted in a few different ratios but again we won't confuse anyone with that here. Let's just say that DILUTION B (1 ml of syrup for 32ml of water) works for everyone. So, for a single coil Paterson tank, you squeeze 9ml of syrup (with those plastic baby syringes you can get at your local chemist's shop) and mix with 281 ml of water to make your 10oz (290 ml).
Fixer – Ilford Rapid Fixer. Mix 72ml of fixer and the rest water to brand 10oz.
Temperature: you can employ tap water merely I say DON'T. I utilize a gallon jug of Poland Spring distilled water for each gyre of film adult. I utilize 68 (20c) temperature so y'all will probably need to put the jug into a water bath and bring it to temperature. With black & white, temperature is non as disquisitional as with colour merely you still want to become and stay very shut. Very important.
Existent World Example:
I of my favorite films is Ilford FP4+ (iso 125). At this speed, y'all can comfortably shoot outside in daylight, with or without filters. Developed with HC110 it gives peachy tones, grain, and information technology scans existent well.
Developed in HC110 Dilution B, I utilise ix minutes developing time at 68 (20c) degrees.
Using your film retriever, take the atomic number 82 out of the curlicue and cut it straight with a scissors. Put your tank, coil and pair of scissors into your blackness irresolute pocketbook and zipper up!
Load your curlicue into the spool (practice with a roll in daylight merely to get the hang of it beginning) in the black changing purse. Make certain you lot take closed the tank and take everything out.
With a timer (I use an iPod bear on and Digitaltruth massive development chart app) pour the developer into the tank and immediately start the countdown. Shut the tank as quickly as you can and perform 4 irksome and gentle inversions followed past 2-three house taps on tour tabular array surface to dislodge any air bubbles. From this point on, you volition perform 3 tiresome and gentle inversions at the kickoff of each minute and one single inversion at the 8 minute marking. Again, ii firm taps on the tabletop subsequently each inversion wheel.
Start pouring your developer out five seconds before the time expires and then cascade your distilled h2o stop bath. Agitate (capsize) continuously for one minute. Pour the water out and now dump the fixer into the tank. Four inversions the showtime ten seconds and the same at the first of each minute thereafter for a total of four minutes.
Washing procedure: dump the fixer out and fill with 10oz of water. Agitate/ invert five times. Pour water out, make full once again and arouse 10 times. Cascade out again, fill and agitate 20 times. Repeat this last pace 2 more times, as you want to remove every trace of fixer. Some people use hydro clear prior to this washing method which is intended to cutting washing time from a normal ten infinitesimal rinse. I have done this with and without hydro clear and I take found no deviation, for whatever it'due south worth. Dump the concluding round and fill with another 10oz of water plus ane-ii drib of wetting agent (this will forestall water from drying on the negs and create water spots) and agitate for one infinitesimal. Dump this out and take the gyre out of the tank. You could also utilize tap water (make sure y'all can go it a abiding temperature) and rinse for ten minutes, with a final minute in distilled h2o with wetting agent.
Drying: practise this in the shower stall. Run the hot water to create steam for a minute or and then, as this will foreclose dust from flight around and forever be stuck on your precious negatives (this is a great tip as I have often seen negatives with tons of dust on them). Unspool the negative, examine if you lot'd like and hang with clips (ane on summit and one on bottom to foreclose curling) and squeeze the water out with the damp squeege a couple of times. In about one hour your negs will be ready to be scanned. One more tidbit: I accept found that Kodak films (Tri-x in particular) whorl like crazy and Ilford films exercise not. When it comes to scanning time, you lot will larn to love ilford film only for that!
By the fashion, once you primary these few steps, you will have a scroll of film developed with a total fourth dimension of about 20-thirty minutes, excluding drying time. You will experience similar a kid again, trembling with excitement and waiting to see the fruit of your work. When was the concluding fourth dimension you lot have experienced that with your digital?
Ok, now that you have your dry strip of film, cut information technology in smaller strips of 5 pictures and you are ready to scan.
Scanner:
When information technology comes to scanners, unfortunately yous do not have many choices if y'all are looking for high quality. I use the best flatbed there is at the moment, the Epson V750M Pro and I'm very happy with it's features and final output. The simply other choices would exist a dedicated film scanner like the perennially out of stock Nikon 5000 or 9000, which are more epensive, or an Hasselblad X1 which will ready you back $13K. You lot could also find an old Agfa Duoscan on eBay. Going back to Nikon for a second, unfortunately, they donʼt give a damn about film anymore so their scanners are old and simply an reconsideration. They are likewise busy pumping out a new camera every 18 months to keep everyone spending money. More megapixels, 200,000 ISO so we tin can shoot raccoons and skunks in the middle of the night and new, useless features. By the time nosotros barely figured out how to utilize the camera, a new one comes out and more money goes out the window. Okay, rant over 🙂
Over again, I personally recall that the Epson V750M Pro does a very fine job and it doesn't price an arm and a leg (B&H has it in stock @ $849 and again, you would have to spend A LOT more to become something better). Information technology also comes with SilverFast Ai vi which is expensive but Gratuitous with the scanner.
MAJOR TIP HERE: You want these for you scanner! http:// www.betterscanning.com/
These guys sell MUST Take adapters and glass plates for your scanner. They concord the film in identify and Apartment. Trust me, you donʼt want to scan without them. Like I accept said higher up, Ilford motion-picture show is okay only Kodak..forget it. Without these, you lot would take to go out the film flat under a weight for a day or and then before even attempting to scan.
Once you have your scanner up and running, create a master folder on your desktop and proper name it, for instance, "scanned negatives". Then, inside that folder, you volition create folders for each roll being scanned and that'south where your scanned photos volition go.
Once you have scanned your negatives, you are ready to import the principal binder, with its contents, into Lightroom (or Aperture). In one case yous have that, your pictures are bachelor for whatsoever editing like dodging, burning, curves, contrast, brightness, vignetting, etc. If you wish, you can fifty-fifty open your scanned negative into Nik Silver Efex Pro and make use of some of the cracking features available there.
Once youʼre happy with your picture, with a Lightroom plug-in (which volition exist standard with Lightroom 3, I believe) y'all can easily upload your photos straight to Flick or Zenfolio, or consign them as a jpeg into a dissever folder and then upload directly within Flick, Zenfolio, or any other website that allows you to do so. (Note from Steve: Aperture 3 has this feature too 🙂 )
Printing:
Okay, some of the states still like to see our precious piece of work on newspaper. Before nosotros start, even though weʼre non working in color here, yous still want to have your monitor properly calibrated to friction match on paper what you meet on the screen. In that location are great papers available today for inkjets and with some of them you can go extremely close to matching the dazzler of optical, darkroom printing. Every bit far every bit printers, the new line of Stylus Pro from Epson are awesome! I use the smallest (which is not that small) 3880 and I am super happy with it. You tin besides utilise older Epson models (similar the 3800) and become superb prints. As far every bit paper, my favorites for black and white are Epson Velvet Fine art, Hanehmule Photo Rag and the superb Harman Glossy FB AI, which can requite absolutely stunning prints.
Well, get out there and shoot. Have a cracking time, pay attention to light and your surround, and remember…continue it unproblematic. You will enjoy photography a whole lot more.
From Steve: WOW! Thank you so much Max! This was a VERY informative commodity and makes me want to get out there over again with some film. Truth exist told, I have been checking out some used motion picture cameras and hope to purchase one soon for those times when I really want the B&W look. So thanks Max!
Max Marinucci is a Leica enthusiast who enjoys shooting motion picture with his M3, M7 and classic Leica lenses. He also owns and operates "The Vino Connexion" in Pound Ridge, NY. You lot can some of Max's fun pic images at his flickr folio Hither!
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