Upon Reflection - Black & White - Voigtlander & Sohn, Euryscop IV, No. III
I resolved to end this study w/straight B&W, and that as opposed to shooting in color and then running a shot through Photoshop and hitting the desat button. These last 2 shots were by Fuji 100B45 which turns out to be the 'spittin image' of the larger format Polaroid 804 format, and maybe a little sharper.
The situation w/Polaroid gone and the availability of this film, is disgusting, everybody claimed no one shot w/Polaroid anymore, and of course this BS assumption is being used to Gin up the price of this film which is now an obscene $35.00 a box. I'd tried to wait to secure this film on ebay at a better price to no avail and gave up resorting to Freestyle.
Polaroid 804 and now Fuji 100B45 will never replace HP5/FP4, but they do have a softer pallette that provides an incentive to pair these films up w/a classic lens.
I went 'whole hog' w/my softest glass so far and decided to shoot these last shots w/glass from the other end, thus the image w/my Voigtlander Euryscop, and lastly my Petzval.
I left the lighting as is for this shot, but moved the camera closer to point down at what's inside the reflector after moving the repositioning the bulbs for effect.
This was @ wideopen which for the Euryscop is around F7 I believe, and the Universal Ilex #5 shutter set to 1/5 of a sec.
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