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Re: OT but your help is requested

2010-09-18 by photogirl

I used this film a lot when I lived in Prague and I had it professionally developed there, because I didn't have the equipment to do it myself. The blue base is the film itself. Not a bad film, but too grainy for my taste.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Sintchak <rich815@...> wrote:
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> Oh, and if you search, search Fomapan not Fomopan.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:18 PM, "paulekohl" <pkohl@...> wrote:
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> > This is a small thing but I would appreciate anyone with knowledge who could chime in with info:
> > I recently spent some time in Budapest on an artist residency. I had decided that I would try and use local film to photograph there. I found this film called Fomopan 100 (645). I bought a bunch of it and now, back home in Singapore, am developing it using TFX 2, Formulary's interesting developer I have been using for several years.
> > Okay, the question: the film is blue! the film base has a decided blue cast. Is it something I am doing? Some odd chemical twist? I am scanning it and it doesn't seem to affect anything. I have printed some big contact prints and they seem good but the color is so weird!
> > If anyone can enlighten me about this I would appreciate it.
> > Paul Kohl
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> > 
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