{"id":17689,"date":"2017-01-16T05:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T10:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17689"},"modified":"2017-01-15T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:26:02","slug":"retropan-on-the-rails-experiments-with-my-second-roll-of-fomas-320-iso-black-white-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/retropan-on-the-rails-experiments-with-my-second-roll-of-fomas-320-iso-black-white-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Retropan on the Rails; Experiments with My second Roll of Foma\u2019s 320 ISO Black & White film."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a follow up to my Tracking the Light<\/a> post of January 11, 2017<\/a>, which displayed the results of my first roll of Foma Retropan.<\/p>\n

For my second roll, I focused on a variety of railway subjects, aiming to see how this film would perform. This one was exposed using a Nikon F3 with various Nikkor lenses, exposure calculated manually with the aid of a handheld light meter.<\/p>\n

I made these images in parallel with digital images exposed with my other cameras.<\/p>\n

As with the first roll, I exposed the Retropan at ISO 320 and processed it more or less as recommended by Foma.<\/p>\n

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A view of Girard and Broad in Philadelphia, exposed using a Nikon F3 with 24mm f2.8 wide-angle lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A retro streetcar as seen exposed on Retropan 320. Philadelphia’s Route 15 PCC glides along Girard Avenue. Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 24mm f2.8 wide-angle lens. 1\/60th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view of a SEPTA PCC car on Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 24mm f2.8 wide-angle lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A pan with Retropan!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A SEPTA Silverliner IV approaches Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania on the former Pennsylvania Railroad. Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 24mm f2.8 wide-angle lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hard glint at New Brunswick, New Jersey. A Washington DC-bound Acela train zips along at speed. Notice how the film reacts to the tremendous contrast between highlights and shadows. Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 135mm f2.8 telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed using a Nikon F3 with 135mm f2.8 telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Again, for this roll I used the Retro Special Developer with shortened the processing time (I opted for 3 minutes 30 seconds plus a pre-soaked in a water bath with a drop of HC110.<\/p>\n

Overall, I was pleased with the tonality and tight grain structure. The film has a softer look than other fast black & white films, such as Ilford\u2019s HP5, and a broad tonal range that holds highlight and shadow detail very well.<\/p>\n

I scanned the negatives with an Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner. These images are essentially unmodified scans, except for necessary scale reduction for internet presentation plus addition of my watermark. I did not alter contrast, exposure, tonality, or perform sharpening.<\/p>\n

This test went so well, for my next experiment, I decided to significantly alter my processing of the film. Stay tuned for my bold experiment with Retropan Roll 3! (Sometimes changes produce unexpected consequences).<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light explores photography daily.<\/p>\n

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This is a follow up to my Tracking the Light post of January 11, 2017, which displayed the results of my first roll of Foma Retropan. For my second roll, I focused on a variety of railway subjects, aiming to see how this film would perform. This one was exposed using a Nikon F3 with … Continue reading Retropan on the Rails; Experiments with My second Roll of Foma\u2019s 320 ISO Black & White film.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17685,"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":[4016,3814,4008,4009,2606,183],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PCC_Girard_Ave_Philadelphia-Dec282016_RetroPan320_\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53600772.jpg?fit=1808%2C1106","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689"}],"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=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17690,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions\/17690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}