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Church Street, Isleworth Ilford Delta 100 Nikkor SW 90mm f4.5

Hey many thanks

Shot in large format film. Ilford Delta 100 Nikkor SW 90mm f4.5 https://mkhardy.com/2024/03/09/john-day-house-isleworth/

Hi, this is the straight-out-of-the-scanner version, saved to TIF with Vuescan. The slide has the same colour tint. Shot close to dusk, at ISO 80. Developed in Bellini 6-bath kit. A white-balance correction was applied in Vuescan but this didn't remove the tint, and after much...

Shot in large format film. Kodak Ektachrome E100 Nikkor-SW 90mm f/4.5

Shot in large format film. Ilford Delta 100. Shot at box speed. Developed in XTOL (stock). Nisi 3-stop medium grad filter. Nikkor 90mm Brentford Lock

This one was overexposed, so looks a bit washed out. Ektachrome still has useable info for the scan though...

Marble Hill House. Shot in large format film. Kodak Ektachrome E100 Nikkor SW 90mm 4.5

Marble Hill House. Ilford Delta 100 Nikkor SW 90mm 4.5

Many thanks! Are prints temperature sensitive as well?

Yes, everything seems sorted now (fingers crossed). Have been back to Richmond Lock again with a stronger grad filter (3-stop soft), measured the exposure with a DSLR using the same polarizer and grad, and got a more even exposure. The histogram from the scan was very close to the histogram...

The Orbital was floated in a bath of water kept at 39 degrees with a sous-vide. The chemicals lose 0.6 degrees whilst getting poured in, so waited until they were 38.6 degrees before starting development. Two pre-rinses (2 minutes each) before first dev with the 39-degree water. The big...

Developed at home with BELLINI E6 Kit (6 bath process), in a Paterson Orbital. It was my first time with slide film, and E6 process, so there were a few exposure/development issues that needed addressing. So now I know what to do, hopefully it should be more reliable...

Had to abandon my incident meter and use a DSLR to nail the exposure :sorry: Not enough exposure and it turns into blue-blocked-up-meh... Too much exposure and it turns into flat-grainy-wash-out...

Took five attempts, but I finally managed to properly expose a sheet of Ektachrome E100 :banana: Kodak Ektachrome E100 Nikkor-SW 90mm f/4.5