Rodinal/Shanghai Development Comparion
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I was interested to see what effect different exposure/development combinations had on a scanned image.
The photos above was taken on a sunny day with my spot meter reading between EV17 on the brightest window blind and EV10 on the door in shadow. All the images were all taken at f11 developed for various times in 1+50 Rodinal RO9 at 20C. A pre-rinse was used. Agigation was one inversion every 30 seconds, with 5 initial agitations. Massive Dev chart suggests 18 minutes for Shanghai GP3 /Rodinal combination. This is taken with the Shanghai sheet film you buy on ebay, it is implied it is the same formulation as GP3 other people suggest it's supposed to be a knock off of FP4.
I metered the picture using my spot meter at EV14 which gave a nominal exposure of 1/60" at f11 assuming 100 iso. I confirmed the exposure with my Canon 1000d set at 100iso.
During scanning I assigned the maximum brightness to the blind and the minimum brightness to the window in the garage door (in shade). I don't ususally work with this method but it seemed a good way to get a consistent tone assignment.
Observations. Although changing the development time/exposure had an effect on the density of the image, I was surprised to see it didn't make a huge difference to the final scanned image. I measured the contrast using difference between the brightest and darkest parts of the image using the scanner. The range for the brightness was 172 to 178 (arbitary units).
The smallest density range was 1/30" developed for 9 minutes.
The largest density range was 1/60" develped for 15 minutes.
The dark band seen on the right of the 1/30" for 9 minutes image was due to the film not being fully immersed in the developer (put the film holder in the tank the wrong way up - duh!).
I noted that 2 of the images were quite badly out of focus. I conculde from this that I need to improve the way I load the sheet film into the film holders. I don't think have been getting the film captured properly in the film holders, one egde is probably slipping into the channel for the dark slide.
I will probably go for a development time of 12 minutes exposing at 100 iso or 9 minutes exposing at 50 iso in future.
I used an epson v500 scanner (only bothered scanning 2/3 of the image for speed (and it's not a very exciting image!)
Rodinal/Shanghai Development Comparion
If you're not into techy stuff please tune out now...
I was interested to see what effect different exposure/development combinations had on a scanned image.
The photos above was taken on a sunny day with my spot meter reading between EV17 on the brightest window blind and EV10 on the door in shadow. All the images were all taken at f11 developed for various times in 1+50 Rodinal RO9 at 20C. A pre-rinse was used. Agigation was one inversion every 30 seconds, with 5 initial agitations. Massive Dev chart suggests 18 minutes for Shanghai GP3 /Rodinal combination. This is taken with the Shanghai sheet film you buy on ebay, it is implied it is the same formulation as GP3 other people suggest it's supposed to be a knock off of FP4.
I metered the picture using my spot meter at EV14 which gave a nominal exposure of 1/60" at f11 assuming 100 iso. I confirmed the exposure with my Canon 1000d set at 100iso.
During scanning I assigned the maximum brightness to the blind and the minimum brightness to the window in the garage door (in shade). I don't ususally work with this method but it seemed a good way to get a consistent tone assignment.
Observations. Although changing the development time/exposure had an effect on the density of the image, I was surprised to see it didn't make a huge difference to the final scanned image. I measured the contrast using difference between the brightest and darkest parts of the image using the scanner. The range for the brightness was 172 to 178 (arbitary units).
The smallest density range was 1/30" developed for 9 minutes.
The largest density range was 1/60" develped for 15 minutes.
The dark band seen on the right of the 1/30" for 9 minutes image was due to the film not being fully immersed in the developer (put the film holder in the tank the wrong way up - duh!).
I noted that 2 of the images were quite badly out of focus. I conculde from this that I need to improve the way I load the sheet film into the film holders. I don't think have been getting the film captured properly in the film holders, one egde is probably slipping into the channel for the dark slide.
I will probably go for a development time of 12 minutes exposing at 100 iso or 9 minutes exposing at 50 iso in future.
I used an epson v500 scanner (only bothered scanning 2/3 of the image for speed (and it's not a very exciting image!)