Pete Askew
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The negative in the New55 instant film is called Atomic X and is also available as sheet film for use in standard holders, as well as part of the instant peel-apart package. I have ordered some, along with their one-bath dev/stop/fix developer to see what it is like in a standard setup as I am impressed with both its tonality and fine grain.
The positives from New55 have a lot of, shall we say, character to them, which I like. The negatives though are more conventional (except for the lack of uniform edges in some cases) and produce very nice prints. I had not as yet scanned one though and so I decided to have a look at one of the ones I produced the other day. It was scanned (and inverted) in Silverfast 8 from a Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL at the maximum resolution (3200 dpi) just to see if I could see the grain - I can't! All that has been done to these is to output sharpen them in Nik Output Sharpener Pro via LR.
Full Frame
Crop (of main area of focus)
The positives from New55 have a lot of, shall we say, character to them, which I like. The negatives though are more conventional (except for the lack of uniform edges in some cases) and produce very nice prints. I had not as yet scanned one though and so I decided to have a look at one of the ones I produced the other day. It was scanned (and inverted) in Silverfast 8 from a Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL at the maximum resolution (3200 dpi) just to see if I could see the grain - I can't! All that has been done to these is to output sharpen them in Nik Output Sharpener Pro via LR.
Full Frame
Crop (of main area of focus)
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