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Aachen Laurensberg 1980, Germany
This photo was taken in 1980 with an Agfa Ortho 25 film at 12 DIN (12 ASA) and a Nikon F2 camera with a 35 mm f 2.8 Nikkor Shift Lense, mounted on a tripod. It was around the time of my graduation at RWTH Aachen university as an electrical engineer. From now on, I ended photographing completely until 2012, when I resumed it again after a break of about 32 years with the upcoming of high quality digital cameras.
The Agfa Ortho 25 film was an orthochromatic, lithographic black and white film with almost no gray scale, just total black and total white, i.e. very high, very steep gradation, very high contrast, but could be developed with the low-contrast developer Neofin Doku to achieve panchromatic, pictorial results.
It had an extremely fine grain and delivered very sharp results. The film had to be handled very carefully because it was physically sensitive.
Kodak had an equivalent product with its Technical Pan Film. I had tried both.
This picture shows my very first attempt of about 1995 to colorize black and white photos on the PC. The film was digitized with a Nikon Film Scanner. The imperfection of this attempt leaves in my eyes a certain charming and nostalgic impression and feeling, though it can by no means fulfil the demands of 2024. Not even of 1995.
While I lived in Jakarta/Indonesia for 10 years, the film got heavily damaged by fungus in the humid atmoshpere. I managed to repair it on the PC. My first trials with photoprocessing. It took me days and occasionally aroused a hell of impatience and fury with the urgent need to treat my PC with a hammer, but I finally completed the job. Puuhh, that was tough.
Aachen Laurensberg 1980, Germany
This photo was taken in 1980 with an Agfa Ortho 25 film at 12 DIN (12 ASA) and a Nikon F2 camera with a 35 mm f 2.8 Nikkor Shift Lense, mounted on a tripod. It was around the time of my graduation at RWTH Aachen university as an electrical engineer. From now on, I ended photographing completely until 2012, when I resumed it again after a break of about 32 years with the upcoming of high quality digital cameras.
The Agfa Ortho 25 film was an orthochromatic, lithographic black and white film with almost no gray scale, just total black and total white, i.e. very high, very steep gradation, very high contrast, but could be developed with the low-contrast developer Neofin Doku to achieve panchromatic, pictorial results.
It had an extremely fine grain and delivered very sharp results. The film had to be handled very carefully because it was physically sensitive.
Kodak had an equivalent product with its Technical Pan Film. I had tried both.
This picture shows my very first attempt of about 1995 to colorize black and white photos on the PC. The film was digitized with a Nikon Film Scanner. The imperfection of this attempt leaves in my eyes a certain charming and nostalgic impression and feeling, though it can by no means fulfil the demands of 2024. Not even of 1995.
While I lived in Jakarta/Indonesia for 10 years, the film got heavily damaged by fungus in the humid atmoshpere. I managed to repair it on the PC. My first trials with photoprocessing. It took me days and occasionally aroused a hell of impatience and fury with the urgent need to treat my PC with a hammer, but I finally completed the job. Puuhh, that was tough.