I figured that after I started getting repeatable results, I’d give this film a go.
So how would my usual labs process it?įortunately, I was learning how to develop my own film. The Massive Dev Chart doesn’t even list times for most popular developers for this film. As I read about it around the Internet, I got the sense that this film performs best in Adox’s HR-DEV developer. Or choose from one of the 200 other films they keep in stock every day!īut then I put off shooting it for several months. Get more of my photography in your inbox or reader! Click here to subscribe.Īnalogue Wonderland sent me this film in exchange for this mention. It’s worth finding the light that suits it. But under the right circumstaces, HR-50 looks very good. I seldom reach for films this slow because they demand such good light. These just need far too much unsharp masking. I’m growing more and more convinced that my scanner is the weak link in my 35mm workflow. I developed this film in Adox HR-DEV diluted to 1+49 and scanned it on my CanoScan 9000F Mark II. Margaret and I talked for a couple weeks about buying the property! What a great little guest house the train station would have made. It and an adjoining house were for sale a couple years ago. It’s not a trip to New Augusta unless I photograph the old train station. Someone’s moved in and given it the attention it deserves. Somewhere I have a photo of this house looking abandoned. I also took the F3 to New Augusta, which I hadn’t visited in a long time. Between that and COVID-19, the streets were pretty empty. That may have affected the film as well.ĭowntown Louisville was still reeling from protests after the killing of Breonna Taylor when we visited. While we were in Louisville, I had no choice a couple times but to leave the F3 and the HR-50 in the trunk of my hot car. The HR-50 just doesn’t look as good this time as it did last time I shot it. Perhaps this film doesn’t like overexposure. I was impressed with its good middle grays last time. I got stronger contrast this time than I did the last time I shot this film. At blog size, it has a dreamy, tilt-shifty look that I like. When you look at it at full scan size it’s entirely out of focus. I hope the meter in my F3 isn’t going wonky. I was able to fix it well enough in Photoshop most of the time. About a third of the photos were a half or a full stop overexposed. I took the F3 around with me on a couple walks and bike rides, and on our trip to Louisville. Then I mounted my 35mm f/2.8 AI Nikkor lens and loaded my last roll of Adox HR-50 film. It took me about a half hour to do the job, and then I had to wait a couple days for the adhesive to set. Fortunately, the kit I bought came with excellent instructions and everything I needed. I immediately bought an F3 light-seal kit online, but it took me until August to get around to installing it.
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