I am preparing for a trip later this year to Myanmar and want to prepare this summer to dial in what film / camera combo will work best for my needs under strong summer light.
Below are two images that I both took with a Holga 120-Pan. Just 3 day's apart from the same subject at the same time of day under a clear blue sky.
Scanning was done with Vuescan using the Auto settings where I had to adjust the "Brightness" on the Tri-X shot down to about 0.3. Yes I can see the same details in the Tri-X as in the Delta 100 but its very grainy and bad. Only made a small adjustment in Photoshop using levels to make the image look OK and applied 185% unsharp mask.
What baffles me is the difference in shadow detail and grey tones between both shots. See more images on my flicker stream.
Ilford Delta 100
HC-110 20C Dil E for 7.5 minutes
Negative is very thin (underexposed?)
2012-05-09-04 by
Rogier Diver, on Flickr
Kodak Tri-X 400
HC-110 20C 1:50 Dil E for 6 minutes
Negative is medium dense
2012-05-13-05 by
Rogier Diver, on Flickr
This is the saved iPhone light meter app information for reference:
Untitled by
Rogier Diver, on Flickr
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