Acros

On Minolta Autocord, Part 1

I got a Minolta Autocord some 10 years ago but haven’t used it much due to it’s condition. The lenses are good but the leatherette were all cracked and peeling off. I decided to peel them off completely (except for the front cover) with the intention of replacing them at …

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Making a Color Image from Black and White Separation Negatives (or Neopan Acros Test Images)

So, I experimented with color filters this weekend… shot some orchid flowers using a Bronica ETRS, an Automatic Bellows Attachment-E, Zenzanon 75mm lens, and red, green, and blue filters. The idea was to create a color image from black and white images. Film was Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros. Using …

On Agfa Rodinal, Part 2…

I processed a couple of 120 rolls using Rodinal at 1:50 dilution last night and results looked good. The first film was Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros which I processed for 30 minutes using semi-stand development technique—continuous agitation for the first 30 seconds, followed by 5 turns every minute for 2 …

Fuji Neopan 100 Acros and Caffenol CM, a blast from the past…

I decided to processed some more old film last night (Wednesday night). One was a Fuji Neopan 100 Acros and the other was an Ilford Delta 100. Since both as slow speed film, I decided to try the basic Caffenol-C recipe. Well, actually Reinhold’s Caffenol-C-M (which I started calling Caffenol …

Shooting with the Minolta SR-2

I went out to test 2 cameras yesterday, the Bronica ETRS with a 135W film back and the Minolta SR-2. I’ll write something up for the Bronica and will focus on the SR-2 in this post. The Minolta SR-2 was Minolta’s first SLR camera and was introduced in 1958 (1959 …