Godfrey
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I finished a new roll of film with the Minox C a few days ago and spied my lovely old Rollei 35S on the shelf ... Which I'd loaded with an 11 year old roll of Tri-X 135-36 in June of 2009 and made four exposures with before putting it there. Hmm. Seemed to me I should finish up that roll of film and see what I get with it.
So I did, and then yesterday decided it was time to process and see.
- The APX25 (Minox C) was near perfect. The Minox C always nets me my best Minox negatives. I haven't used the CLX enough to know how well it does, but this C is near magical. I proof-Scanned it with the Epson 2450 same way I did all the others and there are a number of good exposures that I'll work on with a high rez capture some other time.
- The Tri-X was so thin there was hardly anything I could see with the loupe. The almost invisible watermarks and other detritus from my (sloppy) processing are as dense as the negative image and base fog. I made two mistakes: I should have rated it ASA 160 rather than 320, and I should have extended development another 2 minutes.
But I decided to toss it in the Nikon LS-40 and see what I could get out of it. I'm amazed at what the scanner could nab ...
Fun stuff!
So I did, and then yesterday decided it was time to process and see.
- The APX25 (Minox C) was near perfect. The Minox C always nets me my best Minox negatives. I haven't used the CLX enough to know how well it does, but this C is near magical. I proof-Scanned it with the Epson 2450 same way I did all the others and there are a number of good exposures that I'll work on with a high rez capture some other time.
- The Tri-X was so thin there was hardly anything I could see with the loupe. The almost invisible watermarks and other detritus from my (sloppy) processing are as dense as the negative image and base fog. I made two mistakes: I should have rated it ASA 160 rather than 320, and I should have extended development another 2 minutes.
But I decided to toss it in the Nikon LS-40 and see what I could get out of it. I'm amazed at what the scanner could nab ...
Fun stuff!