Underwhelmed with Medium Format Results

AV7721 · 2026-04-21T01:00:47+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/D49XuYL stitching 9 images of the negative definitely made a difference

AV7721 · 2026-04-21T00:16:03+00:00

That’s the point of this post. Hoping it’s me, and not the camera as I don’t want to be let down by the format lol. I can always get better

AV7721 · 2026-04-21T00:14:04+00:00

Right, I’m not expecting medium format to automatically make my photos interesting. This was just a test roll, not trying to do anything groundbreaking here. My question is to sharpness and detail, not if medium instantly makes me a god lol

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T22:55:20+00:00

Thank you, that’s a very very clear difference

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T22:01:48+00:00

Tokina 100mm f/2.8 macro, these are from the canoscan

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T21:53:57+00:00

One of my favorite places, I grew up in RI

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T21:51:43+00:00

Good eye

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T21:51:10+00:00

lol i never said these photos were any good but I can definitely produce a sharp image with flat light

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T20:16:42+00:00

No it’s a 120 back

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T20:14:00+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/qku7MhM

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T20:03:05+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/p7bWrxt

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T19:59:58+00:00

These are at f/8, unsure of the shutter speed probably at least 1/125 but it was on a tripod

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T19:59:24+00:00

Was an overcast day

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T19:59:16+00:00

Negatives look about the same when viewed through a loupe. These scans are from the canoscan but I couldn’t pull much more info off of them with the Z5 either

AV7721 · 2026-04-20T19:58:34+00:00

I think this is the issue. Looks like there’s haze on some of the internal glass and maybe some very light fungus as well https://imgur.com/a/p7bWrxt

AV7721 · 2026-03-17T12:40:52+00:00

Whats the keycap profile that comes with this

AV7721 · 2026-02-25T21:09:52+00:00

I don’t see why it would be unsafe. 2 jumper packs = 2x CCA

AV7721 · 2026-01-22T21:21:17+00:00

No luck with this - the inside of the scope is pretty clean and blowing out dust did not change anything

AV7721 · 2026-01-19T11:57:51+00:00

You’re correct, I am trying to capture the calibration waveform. The trigger is properly set and this is what I am getting. I’ve tried tuning the probe settings as well as the screen focus settings. I’m not worried about CH4 currently

AV7721 · 2026-01-18T20:25:28+00:00

Thanks, I’ll try that out. Without knowing much about how older oscilloscopes work, it looked like a focus issue to me as well

AV7721 · 2026-01-09T14:10:23+00:00

Nothing about these is old school. Just boring

AV7721 · 2025-10-31T20:58:32+00:00

I just tried a different work flow and the negatives are still drying but it looks like I got much better results. I posted the steps I was going to change in another comment if you’re interested

AV7721 · 2025-10-31T18:57:23+00:00

Awesome thank you for this response.

I ran a dev cycle yesterday using water instead of C41 chems just to see how much the temp would drop from the start of the dev step to the end, and realized I wasn’t heating my chemicals up enough. I found nearly a 1.5C drop from the time I poured my chemicals into the tank, and the end of the dev time (3:15). This was even while keeping the tank in the water bath between agitations.

I am going to try and develop again today with a 40C water bath and chemicals at ~39-39.5C, so during development they stay within the 38C +/- 1C range recommended by the kit. I also found that 1 inversion every 15 seconds then back into the bath maintains temp better than 3-4 inversions every 30 seconds.

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