Thursday, April 10, 2008

Sharon Jones: D76 vs. Diafine

Sharon Jones, Walter's On Washington, Houston, Texas, 2008


No pre-soak, Diafine Part A for 3 minutes (inverted for 5 seconds every 30 seconds), Part B for 3 minutes (inverted for 5 seconds every 30 seconds), no Stop, Koda-Fix for five minutes, rinsed in water for 30 seconds, Perma-washed for 2 minutes, final rinse for five minutes. Total cook time: 11 1/2 minutes


Presoaked for one minute, D76 for 10 1/2 minutes, inverted for 10 seconds every minute, Kodak-indicator-stop for one minute, Koda-Fix for 5 minutes, rinsed in water for 30 seconds, Perma-washed for 2 minutes, final rinse for five minutes. Total cook time: 20 minutes

Both of these were shot most likely at 1/60th of a second, F-stop of 1.4 on my Nikon F with a 50mm lens. The "F" doesn't have a light meter, so what I get is, well, what I get.

It might be an unfair comparison as the top image (cooked in Diafine) is a print (F16 for ten seconds, no filter) and the bottom D76 image is a raw scan. And of course the lighting will be slightly different but I do see the light outlining her leg on both. The main difference I note is that the drums on the top image are bright white. While the drums on bottom have much more gray.

1 comment:

ms. rosa said...

oh and i forgot to mention that both photos are shot on ilford 3200. there is no ISO setting on the nikon F's.