Various dog toys and a cat perch captured on Neopan 400
As I continue to experiment with films & developers, this one I like quite a bit. It’s Neopan 400 souped in Rodinal. For a 400 ISO film, there really isn’t much grain and the tones are quite nice. The pillow and bone belong to our lab, the perch belongs jointly to our two cats, and the sneaker is mine (but obviously the lab needed to borrow it for a time. Image captured in September 2009.
I think that HP5 in Rodinal is too harsh, but Neopan 400 is lovely. I know this experimenting seems like marking time, but it’s fun for me. Back in the day, I only shot FP4 and developed in FG7. I still like that combo, but I never got the experimenting out of my system back them.
Well, of course the lab needed the sneaker! I like how you try a lot of different combinations of film/developer. It would be interesting to see the same scene, same time, same film, different developers side-by-side. I may have to do some of those experiments. Oh for the days when they sold 12 exposure rolls of film!
Easy to experiment with those.
Nice. What did you expose this at? I found Neo 400 in rodinal works best @ 250.
Paul, I certainly could put a 35 on the Ftb and the 35 on the Bessa and just walk around with Tri-X in one and Neopan 400 in the other. Hmmm . . . there is something to that, I think.
Matt, it was the first time I shot Neopan, so I just exposed it at box speed. Developed in Rodinal 1:50, for 11 minutes at 68 degrees.