Cambridge With Hp5 Film

[Paul Lange]

Using HP5 and Fuji GW645S. I must admit I don't think HP5 is my favourite film but I have 2 120 rolls to develop and will mix fresh chemicals and see if I can get less grain and maybe a denser negative. The whole roll came out quite thin all though they scanned OK. I wonder if for HP5 you really need to look for scenes that are high contrast in the first place?


img035.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr

 

[Dave Green]

Nice - looks good to me.

What's the difference between the GW645S and my GS645S?

 

[Paul Lange]

Nice - looks good to me.

What's the difference between the GW645S and my GS645S?

Err, nothing! I meant GS645S I think, I just remembered the model number wrong. Yours is the one with "Wide 60" on the front of it?

 

[Dave Green]

Yeah that's the one...

 

[Paul Lange]

Thats the one. I have just developed another 2 rolls of HP5 and they look much denser. I think the batch I first used may have been a bit old either that or I managed to underexpose the film somehow but I doubt it. This time I wrote the date on the bottle when I mixed the ID11.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Looks great, Paul. I've often thought about that camera. Looks perfect. Encore!

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks, Rob. I am just waiting for the 2 rolls of freshly developed negatives to dry and hopefully there may be something worthy for an encore but lets wait and see.

 

[Aaron Quinn]

Nice! I really like that shot. They only 120 I have is a Holga but still haven't even tried it out yet.

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks Aaron. I think I would like to see some Holga photographs, you should give it a try soon.

 

[Brian Moore]

Nice one, Paul. I like the look of the film. Is this a cropped image or is it shown in its native portrait orientation?

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks, Brian. Other than a bit of cropping due to straightening it is pretty much in its native aspect ratio and orientation. The camera has a portrait orientation which seems a little odd at first until you get used to it.

 

[Beth Carter]

beautiful tones and comp.

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks Beth. BTW I have been trying your tip of reducing saturation and then using WB to adjust the tones in LR. Thanks for that, very handy tip. Obviously I didn't use it on this one as it was BW already.

 

[Keith Hollister]

Great photograph, Paul. Love the tonality

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks, Keith. I am glad I managed to scan this OK. The ID11 I used had expired, at least that is what I suspect was the reason fo the thin negative.

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice Paul. You shouldn't need high contrast subjects though. HP5 will often give quite high contrast though. How old was the stock and was the bottle full?

 

[Paul Lange]

Cheers Pete. i think the ID11 was probably more than 6 months but less than a year old. I suspect that I used it with the intention of reusing it to develop more film shortly afterwards but the shortly afterwards ended up being around 3 months by which time I had forgotten that I had used it!

 

[Pete Askew]

I see. The stock keeps for way beyond 6 months if the bottle is full, even if there is precipitate.