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Tag Archives: HC-110

10
Mar 2022

Kentmere 400

Here we go with a roll almost entirely shot in Naples last October, developed quite steadily and buried in the hard drive because I don’t know why. This was our first family trip in Naples (the city of) but you can find a blog post about a pre-pandemic trip to Pompei scrolling down the blog. So, as it happens frequently during family trips, I just go around with the camera on my neck, thinking mostly about what to eat, what to drink, where to go etc. and absolutely not thinking about shooting my pictures decently – given that I’m supposed […]
8
Mar 2022

Rollei RPX 400

The familiar Rollei film (I still have to decide if I like it or not), developed this time in a Kodak HC-110 developer. Results are finally decent regarding contrast, but obviously questionable regarding anything else: subjects, composition, supposed photographer’s skill and whatever you think applies. My cat is superb though.
27
Ott 2021

Argenti Scale-X 100

I had this roll in the bag since 2019, I think, and finally decided to use it during summer 2020. I don’t know which camera I used but I suppose it was the old Canon compact. As you can see, the pictures are very summer-ish and they were all taken in Sicily. The story does not end here, actually, because I forgot this (with another still undeveloped) film in a bag, the bag closed in a case, the case abandoned in a sort of a warehouse, before moving again to Rome. It was the end of the first lockdown caused […]
22
Ott 2021

Kodak T-Max P3200 @1600

Ok, let’s try an expired 3200 iso film on the streets of Naples! I’ve been quite optimistic in shooting this roll at 1600 iso because most of the “sunset” pictures are way underexposed but the results are intriguing anyway. I’ve had this poor unused Kodak film in the bag for years, at very variable room temperatures (even around 40 celsius during summer) so I could not realistically expect more than this. Oh, Naples is gorgeous but I’m sure you already know it.
20
Ott 2021

Kentmere 400

Well, this is kinda cliché but it is true: I totally forgot this roll last summer, actually with another still undeveloped roll, so when I found it I was really unable to recall what pictures were inside it. It turned out it was just another typical summer roll, no surprises, no tears of joy, no miracles. But it has to be noted that when I go out with an analog camera, that’s usually the only camera on my neck that day, so (with the obvious exception that probably I have some cellphone-generated images of the same day buried on a […]
27
Mag 2020

Rollei Retro 400 S

Here we go, the first roll on this blog that’s been entirely NOT shot by me. Yes, the 12 years old daughter decided to use something like half-an-hour to totally waste a precious Rollei Retro 400 S just goin around our “quarantine in the country” house, in a not-so-sunny morning, framing just plants and buildings in black and white. Isn’t she crazy? The funny thing is: i would never ever do that, she did, and some result is very interesting and unexpected. It’s not the “totally wasted roll” I was presuming before scanning the negative. There’s something, I think.
30
Mar 2020

Kentmere 400

Almost everything shot in Rome, this time, between December and January, with a couple of snowy pictures from Potenza. I am obviously and totally in love with this picture above, that’s been semi-staged on the fly. I realized the youngsters of today they don’t know how to use a public phone, so I asked my daughter and her friend to stay inside and pretend to use it until I was able to put the scene in my frame. This things are slowly disappearing so it’s more difficult to find a public phone on the streets by now. I can’t even […]
5
Nov 2019

Argenti Scale-X 100

This is not really uncharted territory for me, low-speed black and white of course, but I feel more comfortable at 400 asa indeed. Films like this Scale-X they seem a little bit too tricky to develop for an uneducated shooter like me. Anyway, there’s a single picture here that I truly love, it resonates a lot with the things I like. It’s not difficult to spot, I believe, but (spoiler…) it’s the one on the ferry boat, with Messina and the mountains in the background. The couple in the center of the frame, they’re so lovely dressed.    
29
Ott 2019

Kentmere PAN 400

One of the cheapest – if not The Cheapest – black and white film you can buy nowadays, that’s the Kentmere 400, introduced in 2009 by Harman “as a lower priced brand to their Ilford offer to compete in the US market” (thanks Wikipedia!). I have no instrument to compare Kentmere 400 to Ilford HP5+ so let’s assume that this is a completely different emulsion, even if it’s a just a rebranded HP5+. So, what’s interesting here? What a silly question, obviously the only interesting thing is the donkeys! They are so cute!    
29
Ott 2019

Kodak T-Max P3200

Oh boy, sometimes things they go the right way! Five years after discontinuing the venerable P3200 Kodak decided to restart the production and in 2018 the familiar black-and-yellow boxes returned on the shelves. For those of you still scratching their heads I’m talking about the Kodak T-Max P3200, that is the professional 135 format film with the highest box-speed on the market. Since its introduction in 1988 it’s always been the favourite (almost mandatory) film to use at parties, weddings, concerts, smokey bars, poor-lit rooms etc. No serious photojournalist would go outside after sunset without some P3200 in the jacket. […]
29
Ott 2019

Adox Silvermax

Last time I bought some roll from Maco I made a couple of odd choises, like this Adox Silvermax that’s in my to-try-list since forever. It’s an European product very similar to the old Agfa APX 100 but with more silver. Developed in its own Silvermax developer should give more resolution to work with. I developed it in the classic Kodak HC-110 so no “max” for me, just the usual business. Shot in August, if I remember well, and clearly in Sicily, it’s another fragment of my family life.  
25
Ott 2019

Ilford HP4 (1976)

This is aptly tagged “extreme lomography” and it’s not exaggerated. A couple of months ago I found 3 Ilford HP4 expired in 1976 inside an old plastic drawer cabinet, together with other less useful photography related things, in a church my family is currently using as a lumber room (no question, please). My father used to be a hobbyist shooter when he was in his 20’s – I would say mostly thanks to my grandpa’s money then to his own talent, but that’s a story for another blog. I decided to test one of these old boys in the Ricoh […]
19
Giu 2019

Ilford HP5+

An unexpected comeback and a new entry, that is the classic HP5 black and white emulsion developed in another classic, the Kodak HC-110 (dilution B). It’s in fact the first time I buy and use this developer from the 60s, still in production, and I have to admit that its reputation is well deserved. It’s a not-cheap-at-all 1L bottle and I really hope people is right when they say it can last forever even after opening. Actually there’s another new entry that’s the camera I used here: an a-m-a-z-i-n-g Ricoh RZ-750 from 1989, bought with a glorious dust covering in […]