I really appreciate you sharing your process for scanning and importing negatives in lightroom from the Pentax 17. I'm excited to go through the two rolls of Ilford HP5 because I've never shot black and white before.
Enjoy! It will definitely be grainy (those shots I shared were HP5, so yours ought to turn out similar), but that might be what you are looking for. I like the grainy look. On Friday I went out shooting with some Kodak TMax 100, a film with much tighter grain, and was quite impressed with the quality when I made some prints in the darkroom.
@@TadTaddyes absolutely on the grainy effect! I’m really excited to see how it turns out. I shot a roll of Fujifilm color ISO 400 first just to see what I’d get and I’m going to develop that soon with the Cinestill CS41 process at home. This is all a first for me.
That is an excellent idea; unfortunately, this is close as the macro lens I have will focus. I originally was planning on redesigning my copy stand bracket so I could mount the camera far enough away from the post for the negative holder to fit the other way, until I found the lens was the limiting factor. I suspect I could fiddle around with extension tubes, but as it turns out, I'm getting enough detail for my needs--these are "digital proofs" that I use for cataloging my photographs, and I do darkroom prints for the keepers.
I really appreciate you sharing your process for scanning and importing negatives in lightroom from the Pentax 17. I'm excited to go through the two rolls of Ilford HP5 because I've never shot black and white before.
Enjoy! It will definitely be grainy (those shots I shared were HP5, so yours ought to turn out similar), but that might be what you are looking for. I like the grainy look.
On Friday I went out shooting with some Kodak TMax 100, a film with much tighter grain, and was quite impressed with the quality when I made some prints in the darkroom.
@@TadTaddyes absolutely on the grainy effect! I’m really excited to see how it turns out. I shot a roll of Fujifilm color ISO 400 first just to see what I’d get and I’m going to develop that soon with the Cinestill CS41 process at home. This is all a first for me.
Have you tried, scanning half frames so that they fill your fuji sensor horisontally, that could yield even better results?
That is an excellent idea; unfortunately, this is close as the macro lens I have will focus. I originally was planning on redesigning my copy stand bracket so I could mount the camera far enough away from the post for the negative holder to fit the other way, until I found the lens was the limiting factor. I suspect I could fiddle around with extension tubes, but as it turns out, I'm getting enough detail for my needs--these are "digital proofs" that I use for cataloging my photographs, and I do darkroom prints for the keepers.
@ intresting, thanks for clearing that up!