In addition to the quality of the technical-photographic subject, your videos are great for themselves, the scenic component, the sounds, the entertainment, always a pleasure to watch. Excellent. Cheers
Loved the photo of the dark trees juxtaposed against the Silver Birch. Steve O'Nions, a man who knows how to read the Pan F emulsion, a very rare breed indeed.
I've got *one* roll of Pan F Plus that's been around here for literally ten years and more, now you make me want to load it in my RB67 and get out in the woods. Maybe Easter Sunday...
Wonderful vlog today. Your birds make a wonderful chorus to work by. The high point today wasn’t the shots (though they’re great), but your previsualization comments. Especially when we see the results after making the image. Stay Safe!
Thanks Sophie. I’ve always found the that the 1:1 aspect ratio creates a calmness that other formats cannot match. I could have rotated the closeup scene any way I wanted for the final result but kept it as shot in the end.
Great video, again! I wish I had seen this 3 months ago when I tried Pan F 50 for the first time outdoors in bright sunlight with strong shadows to compensate for the slow speed. Not a single image was usable. Now I know why!!
Awesome!! Pan F is my favorite! Here in Florida the light is often to strong for 400 speed films so I mainly use 50 and 100 speed items. I like the expander tonal range they offer. Your efforts are soothing to me!
Hi Steve, PanF is my very favourite film for landscapes. I just love the inky blacks & fine grain. Here in Australia the film works beautifully in our bright sunlight. Happy Easter.
Nature photography is one of the most difficult. It is difficult to find patterns worth photographing amid the chaos. There is also a ton of micro-contrasts that are difficult to print.
Great video on Pan F plus. I'm using it to photograph things around my house using natural light. My exposures are long (from one to three minutes) but the results have been really good. I feel like I've gotten a real good understanding of how to use this film with compositing development.
It’s good to use a film extensively Steve, I can change around a bit but once I’ve used my old stocks up I’ll settle on a handful of materials. Pan F has a lovely tonality to it although in contrasty light it can be tricky. Using it at home I imagine you can control the subject brightness range.
Great video, as always, Steve. I leave in a forested area in Massachusetts , and never thought of creating a photograph of leaves on the forest floor . What simplicity . KB.
Great post Steve, and more lovely images. I recently scanned some PanF 50 that I rated at 400 and shot with my SQA. I was really surprised at the results. The smooth silky look is still there, albeit with a bit more contrast. I used Stand Development with HC110 dilution G. 1min agitation and then left it alone for 1 hour. It worked really well. Recommended.
Great stuff Steve..u must be rubbing off on me; went to woods today(April 1) with Bronica EC using 150mm lens for some dried reeds, trees and even some dried thistle (w/ +1) ; took Pan F with me, but do to wind had to stay with HP5 and Tmax 400 all processed in PMK Pyro.. always appreciate your fine videos, they do make me better.
Thanks Randy. I could only use Pan F due to the total lack of wind. Usually I’d struggle even with HP5+ in such dull lighting in anything more than a breeze.
Hi Steve. Once again your videos start my crazy, hectic day with a sense of calm and peace. My camera bag is packed with the Hasselblad, along with Velvia and Delta 100. As soon as this tax season is over, I'm off to a three thousand acre temperate rain forest about four miles from here. I'm so grateful for these videos. They are such an inspiration. Thanks
Since getting my Horseman VH I have been using a lot of Pan F, and starting to really like it😁 The 6x9 neg on a 20 inch print is something else. The shot of the Sweet Chestnut leaves at the end is superb Steve. Thank you for a lovely little walk. Cheers, Diz
A great video, thanks ! I like to shoot landscapes with Ilford FP4+/125... I've heard somewhere that PAN-f 50 must be processsed very soon after the exposure is taken - like in 1-3 days... is it right ?
It’s often been said that you need to process Pan F+ fairly quickly after exposure (and I do) but Ilford state within 3 months so not urgent. It is interesting that they don’t state this for their other films so there’s probably some reason why the latent image isn’t as durable as other stocks.
Normally I find so much of my own style in yours (mine with far lesser mastery), but on this one point I just don’t connect. While I love your images here, I’m a sucker for those superwide angle shots - even fisheye - drawing the eye to an object in the foreground which seems huge but then as you follow the visual lines, it becomes insignificant in the rapidly increasing field of view. Those are some of my favorite shots to take (and honestly, virtually the only ones I take wider than 28 on 35mm or 55 on 6x7).
@@SteveONions I love my longer focal lengths too - I have been known to carry my 300mm for my Pentax 6x7 - but I do like the wides as well. Lots of beautiful images possible with either of course. I find different focal lengths can help me get out of a rut sometimes when I just can’t seem to find the right image. Sometimes I will deliberately take a lens I don’t use as much just to force myself to see things differently.
I love that first one there. Such a calm mood to the image. I tend to pull Pan F a stop when I use it. I’ve found that to give me the results I want. I also use Adox Atomal if I want it to really be “grain less”
I love Kodak trix 400 and toad 100 but I discovered this film last year, and i’m in love with it ! Most of my best shots from 2020 were shot with it. I like to overexposed (about 0.5 to 1 stop), but underexpose it is a bad idea (even though it can wiork with some PS).
Great video again! I love PanF+ film but so far only used it with 35 mm. For 120 format, I always used FP4+ instead which has a similar tonality (Pan F+ is a bit better though). Do you think that the 120-format PanF+ has the same thickness as other Ilford films like FP4+ or Delta? Asking because I heard that the thickness of PanF+ is the issue why Ilford never made PanF+ 4x5" sheets for large format.
It is fairly delicate Martin, I was told that the emulsion is very soft and needs careful handling. It has quite a clear base too compared to FP4 and HP5.
Hi Peter. For the 80mm PS I’ve found f/22 to be very good and don’t hesitate to use it. The 50s however is bad at f/22 so I never go below f/16. I need to test the 50 PS but so far it looks like a better lens than my S variant (sample variation?).
Lovely images of your quiet little forest. With the last shot... are you saying this was a double exposure with two shots taken at 8 seconds each? If so... what is the purpose of stacking them? Is it like focus stacking with digital?
Do you think the Pan F 50 film would be a good choice for your Ercona 6x9 folding camera? I was wondering if the increased contrasted of this film would work well on that old, single coated lens?
Hi Steve, 1&3 I loved, on video the twigs didn't work so much for me sorry. Always good to see one of your videos drop on my notifications though - I am sorta used to it not being a 9am Saturday time now 😀 Hope you are well and have made plans for when you can cross that border, I know how much you are missing the Welsh visits. atb Al
Steve another great video and I love Pan F. Now you may have already tried it, but for higher contrast and rich airy mid-tones what about Ilford Ortho + ? As long as you don't need to use filters, and develop to contain the highlights, I think it's a slightly superior rival for PanF on a dull day.
If you like the contrast of Pan F 50 take a look at Silberra. I have been trying their Pan/Ultima 100 out up at the elan earlier this week and very please with how it performed. The interesting thing is that they do 50,100,160 and 200 ASA. So far only tried the 100 but got a few rolls of the 160 to try as well. The only major downside I can find at present is that they does not publish reciprocity data.
Make more darkroom prints please, also on your point that you cant see scratches under your enlarger, I have to say that with condenser enlargers you will see them, at least under my Durst M601. What enlarger do you have?
@@SteveONions I like my Metopa Magnitaurus, it's a meme machine I got for 100€, it can shoot up to 4x5, and it weighs 75 kg, you have to move it in three parts, and you need at least 2 people, fully extended it reaches over 2 metres.
@@SteveONions Yeah, I thought so (the similarity was staggering ;-)). Maybe a different camera for the video? (Publishing on April 1st is always a risk, though …)
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In addition to the quality of the technical-photographic subject, your videos are great for themselves, the scenic component, the sounds, the entertainment, always a pleasure to watch. Excellent.
Cheers
I'm really glad you like them Ricardo.
Loved the photo of the dark trees juxtaposed against the Silver Birch. Steve O'Nions, a man who knows how to read the Pan F emulsion, a very rare breed indeed.
Thumbs up to the leaf-litter composition.👍🏼
Beautiful video! Thank you so much!
I've got *one* roll of Pan F Plus that's been around here for literally ten years and more, now you make me want to load it in my RB67 and get out in the woods. Maybe Easter Sunday...
Thank you, Steve!
You’re welcome Oleg.
Pan f 50 exposed at 80 ei and developed in Diafine is a magical combination. It is almost, but not quite, fast enough for an all-around film.
Good one!
Wonderful vlog today. Your birds make a wonderful chorus to work by. The high point today wasn’t the shots (though they’re great), but your previsualization comments. Especially when we see the results after making the image. Stay Safe!
Thanks Dan, I can hardly add incidental music when I have such a perfect natural soundtrack!
Love the leaf litter image. The others were great too. I find a certain level of calmness in the chaos of nature.
Thanks Sophie. I’ve always found the that the 1:1 aspect ratio creates a calmness that other formats cannot match. I could have rotated the closeup scene any way I wanted for the final result but kept it as shot in the end.
Great video, again! I wish I had seen this 3 months ago when I tried Pan F 50 for the first time outdoors in bright sunlight with strong shadows to compensate for the slow speed. Not a single image was usable. Now I know why!!
I know the feeling Sameer, I was put off using Pan F for a long time after using it to shoot into the light at sunrise!
Awesome!! Pan F is my favorite! Here in Florida the light is often to strong for 400 speed films so I mainly use 50 and 100 speed items. I like the expander tonal range they offer. Your efforts are soothing to me!
Thanks David. We never get enough light for films like this to be honest, a tripod is a must.
I'm in NC. Same situation, I use an ND filter quite often with Tri-X and HP5.
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I've heard somewhere that PAN-f must be processsed very soon after the exposure is taken - in 1-3 days... is it right ?
Got a roll of this steve waiting for the right subject
Thank you Steve. I have few rolls of this film in fridge and you motivated me to use it 🙂
Good looking stock, I'll have to try it!
Loved the final shot - lovely tones!
Thanks James.
Hi Steve, PanF is my very favourite film for landscapes. I just love the inky blacks & fine grain. Here in Australia the film works beautifully in our bright sunlight. Happy Easter.
You’re lucky Andrew, we rarely get enough light in the North of England.
Enjoyable video as always. I particularly like the first shot.
Great video, thank you for your input. Gonna give it a go too as I do have 4 rolls of PanF :) Just wondering what filter do you use for your Bronica?
Good luck with the Pan F. I use the genuine Bronica Hood with filler holder, it takes 85mm square Cokin P types.
Nature photography is one of the most difficult. It is difficult to find patterns worth photographing amid the chaos. There is also a ton of micro-contrasts that are difficult to print.
Great video on Pan F plus. I'm using it to photograph things around my house using natural light. My exposures are long (from one to three minutes) but the results have been really good. I feel like I've gotten a real good understanding of how to use this film with compositing development.
It’s good to use a film extensively Steve, I can change around a bit but once I’ve used my old stocks up I’ll settle on a handful of materials. Pan F has a lovely tonality to it although in contrasty light it can be tricky. Using it at home I imagine you can control the subject brightness range.
Lovely soundtrack, the dawn chorus in the woods !
Just subscribed , pardon the boring question but what lightweight tripod do you use for trekking ?
Hi Austen. I use a Velbon 655 or even Velbon Luxi if it’s a long hike in the hills. They are both aluminium but very light and rigid.
Thanks Steve, that was nice.
Cheers Michael.
Great video, as always, Steve. I leave in a forested area in Massachusetts , and never thought of creating a photograph of leaves on the forest floor . What simplicity . KB.
Thanks Ken 😊
@@SteveONions Went out this afternoon, and found some leaves, but ended up photographing with HP+ 400, in 35mm. Now to finish the roll. KB.
I love 35mm HP5+ Ken, the grain pattern is so attractive.
Great post Steve, and more lovely images. I recently scanned some PanF 50 that I rated at 400 and shot with my SQA. I was really surprised at the results. The smooth silky look is still there, albeit with a bit more contrast. I used Stand Development with HC110 dilution G. 1min agitation and then left it alone for 1 hour. It worked really well. Recommended.
Thanks Matthew, I’m impressed that you could use such a high speed with Pan F, it must be more flexible than I ever imagined.
@@SteveONions I was very surprised. I think the stand development helped. Worth a try 👍
Great stuff Steve..u must be rubbing off on me; went to woods today(April 1) with Bronica EC using 150mm lens for some dried reeds, trees and even some dried thistle (w/ +1) ; took Pan F with me, but do to wind had to stay with HP5 and Tmax 400 all processed in PMK Pyro.. always appreciate your fine videos, they do make me better.
Thanks Randy. I could only use Pan F due to the total lack of wind. Usually I’d struggle even with HP5+ in such dull lighting in anything more than a breeze.
Hi Steve. Once again your videos start my crazy, hectic day with a sense of calm and peace. My camera bag is packed with the Hasselblad, along with Velvia and Delta 100. As soon as this tax season is over, I'm off to a three thousand acre temperate rain forest about four miles from here. I'm so grateful for these videos. They are such an inspiration. Thanks
Glad you liked it Jeff, I’ve got a lot of Delta 100 ready for the Bronica too.
Since getting my Horseman VH I have been using a lot of Pan F, and starting to really like it😁 The 6x9 neg on a 20 inch print is something else. The shot of the Sweet Chestnut leaves at the end is superb Steve. Thank you for a lovely little walk.
Cheers, Diz
Thanks Diz, I’ve found it to be almost grainless at 16x20 on rollfilm, makes me wonder if I ever really need the bigger formats.
@@SteveONions Had the same thoughts. The crux point for me, is the 5x4 is easier to use in low light. Cheers, Diz
A great video, thanks ! I like to shoot landscapes with Ilford FP4+/125... I've heard somewhere that PAN-f 50 must be processsed very soon after the exposure is taken - like in 1-3 days... is it right ?
It’s often been said that you need to process Pan F+ fairly quickly after exposure (and I do) but Ilford state within 3 months so not urgent. It is interesting that they don’t state this for their other films so there’s probably some reason why the latent image isn’t as durable as other stocks.
@@SteveONions I see ...
and so what's about pan-f - can it wait for a few weeks ?
Normally I find so much of my own style in yours (mine with far lesser mastery), but on this one point I just don’t connect. While I love your images here, I’m a sucker for those superwide angle shots - even fisheye - drawing the eye to an object in the foreground which seems huge but then as you follow the visual lines, it becomes insignificant in the rapidly increasing field of view. Those are some of my favorite shots to take (and honestly, virtually the only ones I take wider than 28 on 35mm or 55 on 6x7).
We’re quite different in our approach, I favour longer focal lengths and find wideangles especially difficult to use in the forest.
@@SteveONions I love my longer focal lengths too - I have been known to carry my 300mm for my Pentax 6x7 - but I do like the wides as well. Lots of beautiful images possible with either of course. I find different focal lengths can help me get out of a rut sometimes when I just can’t seem to find the right image. Sometimes I will deliberately take a lens I don’t use as much just to force myself to see things differently.
I’m the same, every so often I take something more extreme and I find the experience opens my eyes to new possibilities.
I love that first one there. Such a calm mood to the image. I tend to pull Pan F a stop when I use it. I’ve found that to give me the results I want. I also use Adox Atomal if I want it to really be “grain less”
Atomal is a good choice with this film.
Thanks Espen. Pulling it would be my normal choice in anything other than overcast conditions.
I love Kodak trix 400 and toad 100 but I discovered this film last year, and i’m in love with it ! Most of my best shots from 2020 were shot with it. I like to overexposed (about 0.5 to 1 stop), but underexpose it is a bad idea (even though it can wiork with some PS).
Very true Maxence, I wouldn’t underexposed it ever.
Great video again! I love PanF+ film but so far only used it with 35 mm. For 120 format, I always used FP4+ instead which has a similar tonality (Pan F+ is a bit better though). Do you think that the 120-format PanF+ has the same thickness as other Ilford films like FP4+ or Delta? Asking because I heard that the thickness of PanF+ is the issue why Ilford never made PanF+ 4x5" sheets for large format.
It is fairly delicate Martin, I was told that the emulsion is very soft and needs careful handling. It has quite a clear base too compared to FP4 and HP5.
Have you found any 'Diffraction Effects' using f22 on your Bronica lens ?
Hi Peter. For the 80mm PS I’ve found f/22 to be very good and don’t hesitate to use it. The 50s however is bad at f/22 so I never go below f/16. I need to test the 50 PS but so far it looks like a better lens than my S variant (sample variation?).
Lovely images of your quiet little forest. With the last shot... are you saying this was a double exposure with two shots taken at 8 seconds each? If so... what is the purpose of stacking them? Is it like focus stacking with digital?
No, the last shot was 8 seconds but I also took a second frame at 8 seconds as a backup 😀
Hello Steve, did you take a picture of the scene at 3'54''? That looks very nice to me.
Yes indeed! Also just before that moment a woodpecker 3:51 ha ha
I hesitated on that one and planned to go back to it later. I should have taken it.
Do you think the Pan F 50 film would be a good choice for your Ercona 6x9 folding camera? I was wondering if the increased contrasted of this film would work well on that old, single coated lens?
I think it would work well and as you said, the naturally high contrast would go some way to compensate for the older lens.
Hi Steve, 1&3 I loved, on video the twigs didn't work so much for me sorry. Always good to see one of your videos drop on my notifications though - I am sorta used to it not being a 9am Saturday time now 😀 Hope you are well and have made plans for when you can cross that border, I know how much you are missing the Welsh visits. atb Al
Thanks Alan, less than two weeks to go before venturing back into the mountains, can’t wait 😀
Nice video Steve. I love Pan F 50. One of these days I want to try shooting it on the street at ISO 200 and then stand developing it in Rodinal.
I’ve never tried that much of a push Joel, must be contrasty even with stand development.
@@SteveONions possibly, we’ll see. But I’ve seen HP5 shot at 1600 then stand developed come out with completely normal contrast.
Steve another great video and I love Pan F. Now you may have already tried it, but for higher contrast and rich airy mid-tones what about Ilford Ortho + ? As long as you don't need to use filters, and develop to contain the highlights, I think it's a slightly superior rival for PanF on a dull day.
Ive considered ortho for woodland Steve but not tried it yet. It should work well as I typically keep the sky out of my shots.
Beautiful tones. Which chemical did you use for developing? :)
It was ID-11 1:1 Jacky.
yay contrast, more contrast ! :D
If you like the contrast of Pan F 50 take a look at Silberra. I have been trying their Pan/Ultima 100 out up at the elan earlier this week and very please with how it performed.
The interesting thing is that they do 50,100,160 and 200 ASA. So far only tried the 100 but got a few rolls of the 160 to try as well.
The only major downside I can find at present is that they does not publish reciprocity data.
Thanks Mark, I’ve never tried those films before.
Lovely photographs, Steve. Do you ever use T-grain films?
I do Eder, Tmax 400 used to be my favourite film and I’ve also got a lot of Delta 100 in for this year ( not quite a T grain I know).
Great video Steve! How did you fair out with defraction at f22?
The 80mm is fine at f/22 Darren, hardly any drop off in quality.
Make more darkroom prints please, also on your point that you cant see scratches under your enlarger, I have to say that with condenser enlargers you will see them, at least under my Durst M601. What enlarger do you have?
One of the reasons I don’t like condensers, I use a Meopta Magnifax 4 with the 6x9 mixing chamber - very smooth illumination.
@@SteveONions I like my Metopa Magnitaurus, it's a meme machine I got for 100€, it can shoot up to 4x5, and it weighs 75 kg, you have to move it in three parts, and you need at least 2 people, fully extended it reaches over 2 metres.
I see you are using the prism more and more.
I do like a prism Chris but dispensed with it recently when lugging the Bronica up some hills - video coming on that one soon.
@@SteveONions Great thanks. I just bought a Bronica SQ
Something was different. Hard to tell, but not quite the usual stuff (and the video looked different, but I might be mistaken).
It was definitely me Christian 🙂
@@SteveONions Yeah, I thought so (the similarity was staggering ;-)). Maybe a different camera for the video? (Publishing on April 1st is always a risk, though …)
It was my G80 Christian, M43 so a bit clearer than the GoPro.
want contrast? just underexpose and develop double time :)
If you are talking to Steve he's a former Ilford employee and the best photographer I know mind you.
PanF isn't known as a very good film for pushing.
@@stefflus08 i know that but if you need contrast ..