Week 33: FPP X-Ray 100

"Railroad X-ing"

This roll of FPP X-Ray film was rather a disappointment. Shot on a ZeroImage 2000 pinhole camera and developed in Caffenol-CH as usual but the resulting negatives were heavily over exposed. On the box this 120 format stock is labelled ISO 100, but reading the manufacturer's website it can be shot as ISO 100-400. Weirdly the 35mm format of the same stock is box labeled ISO 200. If the exposure time is over 1 second I tend to over expose all my pinhole shots by 1 stop to compensate for reciprocity behaviour of film. So in effect I was shooting as if it were more like ISO 50 and from the results this seems to have been a bad idea for this film. If I use it again I think I'll rate it at 200 with no compensation for long exposures. As the name suggests this film is old stock for medical x-ray machines and is not sensitive to red light which made for some high contrast. That all said I like the extremely grainy stylised image here and will be interested in how the negatives print in the darkroom as I think they will do better than the digital scans.

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Week 32: Foma Ortho 400

"The Grand"

This week was a roll of Foma Ortho film, shot on a ZeroImage 2000 pinhole camera and developed in Caffenol-CH. I made an exposure mistake with this roll resulting in most of the frames being heavily over exposed. It was early in the morning and I metered the first couple of shots but was lazy and assumed all shots would be roughly the same. Mistakenly didn't anticipate the quickly brightening conditions.

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