I haven’t posted in a little bit (relatively speaking I guess) so I figured I’d put up a round of photos from a roll that I shot on the afternoon of November 13th. I lent out my TTArtisan 28mm that I would usually shoot on the Leicas to a friend of mine so I hadn’t been shooting much 28, sticking to the Zeiss 50 or the Voigtlander 40mm on the Leicas. I’d been nostalgic about the 28 so I decided to grab my grandpa’s old Minolta XD5 so I could shoot the Minolta 28/2.8. I grabbed another roll of Kentmere 100. I’ve only got one more roll of it before I’ll have shot through it all.
It’s fall, and the forest is much more open but even shooting midday (albeit a cloudier midday) there wasn't quite enough light to get away with a 100 speed film so I had to shoot the Kentmere at 400. I’ve found that Kentmere 100 does push surprisingly well, which I wouldn’t usually expect from a slower film. I typically develop it in Rodinal or Ilfotec-HC. If I’m shooting in very contrasty light I will tend to stand develop in Rodinal because of the way the stand development can tame contrast. In less contrasty light the Ilfotec-HC does a good job of rendering a natural looking contrast without losing too much shadow detail. This roll was developed in Ilfotec-HC 1+31.
