Fomapan Bottles (Thornton)
Ten days ago I had abdominal surgery and I've not felt up to making photographs, but yesterday I decided to just make a couple exposures "to exercise my creative brain" if nothing more.
I exposed two 5x7 sheets of Fomapan 100 @ 50 ASA and developed one in Thornton's 2-Bath developer, and another in PMK. This image is from the Thornton negative. I’ve used Fomapan sheet film for a couple years now and I find it to be a very capable product, and aside from its reciprocity characteristics, it’s a very attractive option at a remarkably good price. I buy FP4+ occasionally and have a cache of it in the fridge, but at nearly $10 a slice for 8x10 sheets of it, it’s hard to justify this price and I expect I will limit how much of it I buy in the future.
The differences between the two developers are very subtle and aside from the Pyro stain on the PMK neg, the two negatives scan almost identically. (They'd print differently in the darkroom, though) Anyway, this was a happy exercise and it felt good to make some new work.
Camera: 5x7 Intrepid with my 8.5" Kodak Commercial Ektar lens (a beautiful thing!)
Fomapan Bottles (Thornton)
Ten days ago I had abdominal surgery and I've not felt up to making photographs, but yesterday I decided to just make a couple exposures "to exercise my creative brain" if nothing more.
I exposed two 5x7 sheets of Fomapan 100 @ 50 ASA and developed one in Thornton's 2-Bath developer, and another in PMK. This image is from the Thornton negative. I’ve used Fomapan sheet film for a couple years now and I find it to be a very capable product, and aside from its reciprocity characteristics, it’s a very attractive option at a remarkably good price. I buy FP4+ occasionally and have a cache of it in the fridge, but at nearly $10 a slice for 8x10 sheets of it, it’s hard to justify this price and I expect I will limit how much of it I buy in the future.
The differences between the two developers are very subtle and aside from the Pyro stain on the PMK neg, the two negatives scan almost identically. (They'd print differently in the darkroom, though) Anyway, this was a happy exercise and it felt good to make some new work.
Camera: 5x7 Intrepid with my 8.5" Kodak Commercial Ektar lens (a beautiful thing!)