Black and White Film Photos

[richardallan]

As mentioned in the other Black and White Topic I just started, please place your Black and White film images here. Please also tell us a bit about your image.

To start things off, I took this photo in (yes, you guessed it) Venice in 1985. This was taken on the original Ilford XP1 400 film. I was using a Pentax ME Super with just a 50mm lens. I think it is one of the best photos I have ever taken.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Minehead near Victor, Colorado, August, 1976
Plus-X 4x5 film, 1/100s @ƒ-32 Souped in D-23 (2 step). Best viewed at full resolution.

 

[richardallan]

This is a shot of some buskers in a mall in Vienna, Austria, that I took in 1985. Camera and film info as my previous photo above.

 

[mollyc]

I'm not a huge bw shooter, but here is some Ilford Delta 400 on the Pentax 17.

 

[richardallan]

Very nice. Did you process these and scan them yourself or did you have someone else do it?

 

[mollyc]

Very nice. Did you process these and scan them yourself or did you have someone else do it?

i dev and scan at home! i pretty much develop exclusively in caffenol now.

 

[richardallan]

Great stuff! Well done!

 

[richardallan]

This is a Southern Railways West Country Class steam engine "City Of Wells". This photo was again taken in 1985 on a Pentax ME Super with a 40-80 zoom lens using Ilford XP1 400 film. It was actually taken on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway at Oxenhope which is in West Yorkshire.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

One of those rolls that I can't quite pin the year, although I am thinking 1992 or 1993. Film was Ilford FP-4 souped in D-25 (2-Step). Almost certainly was using the Nikkor 105mm ƒ2.5 lens.
Second is the same image as the first just cropped.
Arkansas River, near Cotapaxi, CO. Boater is either Sean Doherty or Frank Dzubeck

 

[Nathan King]

A rather unique building in New York.

 

[richardallan]

This is the tall ship One And All moored at Port Adelaide. This was taken in the late '90's using a Pentax MZ-5n fitted with a Pentax 17-28 zoom fish eye lens on Ilford PAN F Plus film.

 

[richardallan]

This one is from the top of Kings Canyon in Central Australia. This was taken in 1998 with my Pentax MZ-5n again with, I think, a Pentax 28-80 zoom. The film was Ilford SFX 200 exposed with a Hoya red filter giving the infra reddish look.

 

[tizeye]

The docks at Sanford. The pilons are the remains of the major shipping and passenger docks that served Sanford until the advent of the railroad. Lake Monroe was the last navigable part of the St Johns River, supplied the area, and transported tourist to Central FL. At the time, Sanford was a major city, much larger than a nearby cowtown called Orlando.

The photo of the remains of a vintage era was taken with a vintage camera. Circa 1927 Kodak No 1 Pocket Camera with 120 Ilford HP 5+ (ISO 400) film. Thankfully, the bellows do not have light leaks but there have been significant improvement in lens quality over past year. Aperture is anyone's guess as the choice is 1, 2, 3, 4 and shutter choice 25, 50, T B.

This was a photo club morning sunrise shoot and I did take my other camera with me, but wanted to try this vintage camera where one toll was 8 shots.

 

[bunnspecial]

How about some classic Route 66 roadside for an entry?

"World's Largest Catsup Bottle", Collinsville, IL. Taken I believe spring/early summer 2019, Zeiss Super Ikonta 532/16(80mm f/2.8 Tessar) on FP4+. I don't have devleoper noted, but have no reason to think it would have been anything other than D76 1:1, which was pretty much all I was using then and was still my go to before I switched to replenished D76...

 

[bunnspecial]

8 years later, and I still love this photo...this was taken at a great aunt's 90th birthday party. Bronica SQ-A, 80mm f/2.8, Tri-X and...yes...D76 1:1

 

[bunnspecial]

Back in 2015 I'd just bought my Bronica SQ-A(which I've since sold after getting a Hassy 500C) but was just walking around work looking for something to do on a slow day. This was a co-worker hard at work.

SQ-A, 80mm f/2.8, Tri-X in D76 1:1

 

[tizeye]

Sorry for the one color...but training young. He would have been 7 at the time and a good grandpa/grandson activity. (Both his parents are PhD Biologist, so he is attuned to laboratory work and even using high power microscopes to examine samples.)

 

[richardallan]

I thought I had already posted this one. This is another one from Kings Canyon in Central Australia. This time a pool at the bottom of the canyon. Other details are the same - this was taken in 1998 with my Pentax MZ-5n again with, I think, a Pentax 28-80 zoom. The film was Ilford SFX 200 exposed with a Hoya red filter giving the infra reddish look.