{"id":1688,"date":"2009-08-04T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2009-08-04T22:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:49:53","slug":"experimenting-with-ilford-delta-asa-3200-bw-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/experimenting-with-ilford-delta-asa-3200-bw-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with Ilford Delta ASA 3200 B&W Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it has been a long<\/strong> time since I’ve shot film… and it pretty much was always colour. Part of this was in prep for Burning Man. i.e. how to take a photo in the dark (and part was “hey, what cool tricks can I do”).<\/p>\n

Reading up on film, I found Ilford Delta 3200 Professional<\/a> as something that could be interesting to shoot with. I’d read a bit about it, checked out the flickr group<\/a> and decided what the heck, it’s only money.<\/p>\n

I grabbed my dad’s old Ricoh SLR and took some photos – trying to learn how this film responds, what I can and can’t do with it along with developing my own skills.<\/p>\n

I got Michaels<\/a> to develop and scan (hey, they do B&W processing in Melbourne in a reasonable time frame)… ignoring the advice of some that doing it yourself gets you best results (anyone for a Laundry\/Brewery\/Darkroom?)<\/p>\n

While at Rrose<\/a>, I took this shot which I quite like:<\/p>\n

\"Rrose<\/a>
\nIf you look at full size you see the wonderful graininess that is this film:<\/p>\n

\"F1000023_crop1\"<\/p>\n

But a simple GIMP Despeckle gets you:<\/p>\n

\"F1000023_crop1_despeckle\"<\/p>\n

(and a much smaller JPEG file size). But I do kinda like the speckle.<\/p>\n

The amazing thing to note is that this was shot handheld<\/strong> with a not particularly fast lens and without any artificial light beyond what was at rrose at 9 or 10pm in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it has been a long time since I’ve shot film… and it pretty much was always colour. 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