Analog film photography and cameras

Is that the place near the canal?

Yes.

Haha, I thought it was kinematoscope
As in warum gukst du? Bin ich kinematoscope?

As in warum gukst du?

..as in Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + Ancient Greek -γράφειν (-gráphein, “write(record)”).

Anyone shot, or more to the point developed Adox Scala B+W reversal film?

10 rolls shot over the christmas break, good idea to send them today to Filmdev without risking any royal mail fuck ups?

I shot six rolls over Christmas, hand delivered to my local lab (AG Photographic) and am having negs and scans couriered back to me.

I'd imagine you should be ok with Special Delivery to Filmdev, with that many rolls though I'd be tempted to take them somewhere local

handing one in for developing tomorrow (scala b+w)

i sent it special delivery today

Who's doing it? I bought the Foma reversal kit so going to try it myself.

seeking batteries for the Minox (...)
There are "V28PXL" (also labelled 2CR1/3N) available online which seem to be pretty ideal -
has anyone used these successfully in their Minox 35?

To sort-of answer my own question (I just found one of these V28PXL batteries) -
yes they house two 3V CR1/3N cells (I just took it apart).

Also I've just developed another roll of Fuji Acros, and it's pretty amazing to look at the freshly developed negs..
..the base is pretty clear, and negs themselves are again pretty brutal, curious to find out how they'll scan.

Yes, pretty amazing stuff acros
Such fine grain
I had some scanned a while back on a decent scanner and was pretty pleased

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Foto Fehling, Berlin
lets see

on the fotoimpex website it says Nik and Trick Photographic Supplies, Folkstone (UK) does it, too
https://www.fotoimpex.de/shop/filme/adox-scala-160-bw-13536.html

Yea that looks nice, funny picture as well
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I don't know yet what I'm doing wrong (it's only been my second roll of self-developed Acros, mind) but it comes out really contrasty.
The same developer (Diafine) doesn't do this with all the other films I've used it with.

This is straight out the scanner..

A mixture of films and cameras. I love film.

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Whenever I've developed Acros it's come out super contrasty, which was disappointing as I bought it after reading reviews that said it handles harsh light/strong contrast well...

I put it down to my poor developing skills tbh tho

It took me a while to commit to shooting (and developing) black and white again, and before I did I looked at images shot with various kinds of film for hours and hours - as I really wanted to find and then settle on one film and stick with it (same plan as with shooting colour basically, even though I'm still struggling to settle on Portra 400 but that's another story).

I did mention Nobuyuki Taguchi in this thread before - his studio portraits shot on 6x6 Acros had a big influence on my decision to settle with that film (not that I actually did settle yet, mind).

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I think it's gorgeous how it transitions ("melts") from light to dark, it's got some really noble qualities.

So I thought I'd pick Acros, despite it being pretty expensive, and despite it being somewhat slow. Chose Diafine as a developer, as I heard very good things about it, also because it seemed to suit my "don't turn on too many knobs" approach, and also seemed to be well suited to the emulsion, being a "fixed contrast" developer.

Well I guess I have to get some more rolls and experiment more.
There must be something special about Acros, as it (ok, and T-Max 100) are the only emulsions that are not to be developed the standard 3+3 @20°C way (but 5+5 @22°C).
I even only agitated only once per minute last time (as too much movement is said to kill shadow detail), might just let it sit there for five minutes next time, ha.

^ this is with some careful acr processing, sort-of getting there, slowly..
Maybe I will have to just shoot it in 120 and use a proper scanner to get what I want.

^ this is straight out of the scanner again.
It's not too bad, yet I don't get why highlights are blocked (apart from the fact that it's very contrasty, obvs).
I scan them with SilverFast Ai and even let it do it's tonal auto adjustements so don't get why they arrive in photoshop like this. Again all of the other films I tried don't behave like this. Something to do with Acros' clear base? Hmpf.

I was thinking it might be due to the clear base. When I 'scan' using the digital camera, I meter each frame to extract the maximum amount of detail (I.e. expose to the right) and then tweak the levels to get the right look.....

This usually means that I can retain shadow detail and not blow the highlights.

Seems like your scanner is overexposuring and that's why I think the clear base might be the culprit.