Monday, December 29, 2008

Shooting film again



Had some fun this weekend developing a roll of black and white film in my kitchen - first time I've developed film since I was a postdoc processing images off a fluorescence microscope. I used Diafine developer. Interesting that google searches for Diafine turn up several pages of photography-related sites and then pages of cell biology journal articles. Seem it's in wide use by bench scientists too! Film was Arista Premium 400 (alledgedly re-badged Kodak Tri-X) shot mostly at an EI of 800 or 1600 in low light, though one or two test shots done at noon in the California sun turned out well too. Quick scanning on an Epson V500 with standard negative holders, film somewhat curled, but turned out OK.

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