{"id":17721,"date":"2017-01-21T05:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17721"},"modified":"2017-01-19T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:22:02","slug":"unexpected-results-my-third-experiment-with-retropan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/unexpected-results-my-third-experiment-with-retropan\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Results: My Third Experiment with Retropan."},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a misty January day. I thought, what better time to expose another roll of Foma Retropan 320 black & white film!<\/p>\n

I was working with four cameras that day, so these images were just a small portion of my day\u2019s results, but for me by far the most interesting. I was feeling nostalgic and the atmosphere of the moment seemed to lend itself to classic black & white.<\/p>\n

The day after I exposed my film, I processed it. Where previously, I\u2019d hand processed Retropan in Paterson tanks, for this roll I used the Jobo (a semi-automatic processing machine).<\/p>\n

The Jobo eases processing by keeping all chemistry at a consistent temperature, taking care of agitation by continuously rotating the processing-drum, while simplifying pouring the chemicals in and out of the drum. Also, it makes more efficient use of the chemistry.<\/p>\n

With the hand-processed rolls, I had used Retro Special Developer straight (undiluted stock solution) with a 3 minutes 30 second development time. Prior to introducing the primary developer, I pre-soaked in a water bath with a drop of HC110.<\/p>\n

For the Jobo-processed roll, I diluted Retro Special Developer 1:1 with water and increased the time to 4 minutes. I also had a pre-bath with a drop of HC110, but like the main developer, this was agitated continuously.<\/p>\n

My results were not as I expected.<\/p>\n

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Misty tracks on the old Rutland near Arlington, Vermont. Exposed on Retropan 320 using a Nikon F3 with f1.8 105mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My earlier experiments with Retropan demonstrated a fine grain film with broad tonality. But this roll had much coarser grain, and yet even smoother tones. At first, I was shocked by the more intensive grain, but in retrospect I\u2019ve decided it adds a quality to the photos that I may not have obtained through other media.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Retropan 320 using a Nikon F3 with f1.4 50mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed on Retropan 320 using a Nikon F3 with f1.4 50mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed on Retropan 320 using a Nikon F3 with f1.4 50mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed on Retropan 320 using a Nikon F3 with f1.4 50mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For my next experiments, I\u2019ll return to hand-processing and I may skip the presoak bath with HC110.<\/p>\n

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It was a misty January day. I thought, what better time to expose another roll of Foma Retropan 320 black & white film! I was working with four cameras that day, so these images were just a small portion of my day\u2019s results, but for me by far the most interesting. I was feeling nostalgic … Continue reading Unexpected Results: My Third Experiment with Retropan.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17713,"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":[48],"tags":[3814,4008,4027,4026,4537,4025,2606],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601401.jpg?fit=1817%2C1100","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4BP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721"}],"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=17721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17722,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions\/17722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}