http://www.arransalerno.com/blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:28:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.arransalerno.com/blog/mucking-around/ http://www.arransalerno.com/blog/mucking-around/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:44:35 +0000 Arran http://www.arransalerno.com/blog/?p=616 Had a roll of Delta 3200 sitting around for ages so decided to give it a go the other night. I think the negatives turned out alright considering I developed them in Rodinal – probably the worst choice for high iso films.
Have to say i’ve never shot in conditions this dark before. 3200iso with a f/1.4 lens and I couldnt see if it was in focus half the time.
Dont think i’m a fan of Delta though. Would prefer to push Neopan 1600 instead in the future.
Here were some shots just for fun

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Nothing exciting to report really. Been having trouble finding time for photography lately. Well, I shoot stuff, but at an extremely slow rate. I’ll bring the camera out and may only shoot one frame all day. I dont know what it is, but i’m having trouble finding anything visually interesting lately.
For some reason I also have 5 rolls of film sitting in various cameras half finished and another 3 or 4 rolls already shot and waiting to be developed. I’m just not in a hurry to see whats on them.
Saying that though, the other day I got an urge to develop some Neopan 1600 (not so interested in the photos themselves) as i’d never done it before ,so went out to buy some Microphen. At the last minute I changed my mind as i felt like bit of a challenge and decided to use my normal developer – Rodinal. Probably the worst developer you can choose for high iso stuff, but i figured i’d be able to minimise the grain by altering a few developing techniques. I think it worked, i was relatively pleased with the results. Sure they’re grainy, but I dont think any more than what i’d get from another developer, plus the grain is pretty sharp which is nice too.
The roll was an old one I had sitting around, and most were of photos I took on NYE, so things got a little “messy” near the end of the roll/night. I’ll just post one up for now as I haven’t gone through them all yet.
It’s now my mission to develop another roll this week. I need to get back into the routine.

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