BertholdSW
Warm regards from the Sauerland.
My Mamiya 645 only provides exposure for my best landscape shots when used with a tripod.
Five years of D100 is fine, but is a slower film better?
I’ve tried out the combination of Efke 25 and Finol.
Well, I’m thrilled. So much for the film being a diva!
I got the development right first time, following yet another great piece of advice from Wolfgang Moersch. ISO approx. 20, Finol 3.6 + 3.6 + 330 cc water for 1 roll of medium format film. (340 cc? = I use a volume-reducing insert in the Jobo developing tank) No pre-warming, 22°C, agitate continuously for 60 seconds, then agitate once every 30 seconds. After 510 seconds, I have a great negative that brings tears to my eyes in my darkroom with a 2.0 filter. The curve probably doesn’t need to be very steep. The subject: trees, a crossroads, earth, a sunny sky with light clouds, with three different exposures and optimally enlarged to 18x24cm, shows me virtually no differences. I certainly didn’t expect that. So now, after about six rolls – this is my ideal combination, and the developer lasts forever!! I now only use Delta 100 for quick shots. But this film does have one drawback! It is a roll film in the truest sense of the word! In terms of flatness after development, it can’t hold a candle to the Delta 100. However, my initial concerns about enlargement without glass have not been borne out. It works well without glass, as the 4.5x6cm format is quite small, and lies flat quite well thanks to the weight of the board insert. A very slight bulge in the negative can be detected in oblique light. But this is similar with the D100 too. So the dust problem during enlargement is and remains minimal, because there’s no glass.
Thanks Efke, ADOX and Moersch!!!
Regards, Berthold Jochheim.
www.hachener.de
PS. With the second film delivery from Moersch, the films arrived in great resealable individual film tins, similar to 35mm film tins, and watertight.
With a 30.5-metre roll (35mm) about 5 years ago, I had actually written Efke off from my (35mm) life!!
Built-in telegraph wires and a very sensitive surface after development taught me to curse. The fact that the longitudinal streaks weren’t caused by my own processing to 160cm, but were a quirk of the manufacturer, annoyed me more than anything – never again!!! Neither the first nor the second delivery had any of this. It says that Moersch tests the batches beforehand. If that’s the case, thank you – that’s reassuring.
