{"id":1238,"date":"2020-08-26T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/ilford-ortho-plus-how-low-can-you-go\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:34:46","slug":"ilford-ortho-plus-how-low-can-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/ilford-ortho-plus-how-low-can-you-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilford Ortho Plus – How Low Can you Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that I enjoyed about the Sheet film version of this film (When it was called Ilford Ortho Copy Plus) is that some developer\/time combinations had no film speed listed so in some cases I shot the stuff as low as ASA-6. So here I decided to test the roll film in the same way. And you know what? It worked! I selected five scenes and shot every scene three times, at ASA-25 (left), ASA-12 (middle), and ASA-6 (right) and processed them all D-76 (1+1).<\/p>\n

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In this first scene you can see a clear difference between each frame.
\nMamiya m645 – Mamiya-Sekor C 1:2.8 f=80mm – Ilford Ortho Plus @ ASA-25, 12, and 6 – Kodak D-76 (1+1) 10:30 @ 20C<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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While more subtle you can still see a clear difference between each frame.
\nMamiya m645 – Mamiya-Sekor C 1:2.8 f=80mm – Ilford Ortho Plus @ ASA-25, 12, and 6 – Kodak D-76 (1+1) 10:30 @ 20C<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Again there are differences but subtle again, these are my personal favourites.
\nMamiya m645 – Mamiya-Sekor C 1:2.8 f=80mm – Ilford Ortho Plus @ ASA-25, 12, and 6 – Kodak D-76 (1+1) 10:30 @ 20C<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Very little difference between each of the frames in this scene.
\nMamiya m645 – Mamiya-Sekor C 1:2.8 f=80mm – Ilford Ortho Plus @ ASA-25, 12, and 6 – Kodak D-76 (1+1) 10:30 @ 20C<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

How did I go about making these frames? I used my Pentax Spotmeter V, in a couple of the scenes, the first and third I averaged the metering. I took a reading of the brightest highlight and the deepest shadow and picked the EV value between them. The second and fourth scene, I metered the darkest shadow I wanted the most detail in then underexposed by a stop. After processing the film and pulling it from the tank, I was a little concerned, the negatives were dense, but there was plenty of detail. I went back and compared the results to the negs I had in 4×5 format and saw the same results. I didn’t worry too much as when I scanned them and ran them through Photoshop. I had some real treats. As you can see with my results, there’s lots of shadow detail and even some highlight detail, although not as much. Does the trick still work, I would say yes, it gives you yet another way to play with this lovely film stock from Ilford!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that I enjoyed about the Sheet film version of this film (When it was called Ilford Ortho Copy Plus) is that some developer\/time combinations had no film speed listed so in some cases I shot the stuff as low as ASA-6. So here I decided to test the roll film in the same way. And you know what? It worked! I selected five scenes and shot every scene three times, at ASA-25 (left), ASA-12 (middle), and ASA-6 (right) and processed them all D-76 (1+1). How did I go about making these frames? I used my Pentax Spotmeter V, in a couple of theRead More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[22,1272,1340,137,78,1337,1339,104,57,29,1338,1341],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}