Well yes, because you are freed of the general process and apart from focusing can make images pretty much on the fly. He uses this at a dilution of 1+25 and a temperature of 68° Farenheit, with a 10 second agitation every 1 minute and 30 seconds, for a total time of 11 minutes. įILM: he uses Kodak Tri-X, with EI's ranging from 400 down to 100.ĭEVELOPER: Agfa Rodinal(or R09 as it is now known). I used f16 for every picture on this film. It is a very cleaver move because it removes all faffing around and means you concentrate on the picture. He believes this gives his pictures a uniformity. SHUTTER SPEED: Well Mr.Gibson states his sunny day shooting speed is 1/250th of a second, however this is Scotland (Hoots!) and I chose to use 1/125th of a second, just in case.ĪPERTURE: Ralph uses a standard f16. The film is developed in a particularly strong solution of Agfa Rodinal (or R09 as it is now known) - Mr.Gibson's objective was to achieve a dense negative, and strangely this has helped me, delivering better results from the rather soft Elmar that are more akin to a modern coated lens.

It lacks contrast, so to help things, it is also fitted with a FISON lens hood. The lens is an uncoated 1934 Leitz 50mm Elmar. The camera I used is a 1960 Leica M2 - it's as sweet as a nut and I love it. Have a standardised processing procedure. All that needs to change is the focus, and even then. Make photographs with a standard shutter speed that does not change and a standard aperture that does not change. I will refer new readers back to The Ralph Gibson Experiment Part 1 and The Ralph Gibson Experiment Part 2, in which the whole ludicrous thing is explained, but if you are short of time, here's a précis: I am going to let the pictures do the talking and save my fingers the walking. (Actually, go on, search for a picture of a tin of Buitoni.

In the words of the world-renowned Buitoni Ravioli TV advert from the early 1970's: Well, as regular FogBlographers (why didn't I think of that before?) will know, I can drone on with an intensity which could send a caged and smoking lab Beagle to sleep, so today I am going to do something different.

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