{"id":16557,"date":"2016-09-01T05:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T09:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16557"},"modified":"2016-08-29T03:39:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:39:07","slug":"worcester-gone-retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/worcester-gone-retro\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester, Gone Retro."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was dull mid-August day at Worcester, Massachusetts. I had my Leica 3A loaded with Ilford Pan F (ISO 50) and made a few exposures.<\/p>\n

This hasn\u2019t been my usual film choice. More typically, when working in black & white, I\u2019d use Ilford HP5 or Fuji Acros 100.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve found that difficult light can be a better measure of materials than clear bright morning. And flat summer light is about as difficult as it gets.<\/p>\n

For this trial, I processed the film using a Jobo with Ilford Ilfosol 3 developer.<\/p>\n

This was a crap shoot, as I\u2019d only used this film\/developer combination once before.<\/p>\n

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Exposed using a Leica 3A fitted with a Nikkor 35mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I opted for a 1:9 dilution, but scaled back my process time from the recommended amount to just 3 minutes 45 seconds. As is often the situation, I intentionally over-expose my black & white film and then under-process to obtain a greater range of tonality.<\/p>\n

Once processed my negatives looked pretty good, but these still required a bit of contrast control using Lightroom. While my end results look ok, I\u2019ll need to refine my chemical process for\u00a0Ilford Pan F (ISO 50) if I expect this film to perform as well as Fuji Acros 100.<\/p>\n

Also, I was hoping that the Pan F would approach the results I used to get with Kodak Panatomic X (ISO 32) back in the 1980s, but so far I\u2019ve not achieved that goal.<\/p>\n

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Exposed using a Leica 3A fitted with a Nikkor 35mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It was dull mid-August day at Worcester, Massachusetts. I had my Leica 3A loaded with Ilford Pan F (ISO 50) and made a few exposures. This hasn\u2019t been my usual film choice. More typically, when working in black & white, I\u2019d use Ilford HP5 or Fuji Acros 100. I\u2019ve found that difficult light can be … Continue reading Worcester, Gone Retro.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3814,3776,2606,3775,29,790,1003],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MBTA_1123_Worcester_MA_Aug16_2016_Ilford_Pan_F_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_577704.jpg?fit=2473%2C1616","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4j3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16559,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions\/16559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}