As you may know, I've been shooting some concerts with black and white film in my Leica M4-2 film camera, as part of a series I'm calling "Dreaming in Monochrom(e)." The idea is that I'm exploring using one of my Leicas in monochrome only, exploring how I'd really work with a digital Leica Monochrom if I had one.
Anyway, I've been shooting concerts with Kodak TMax 400 black and white film, pushed two stops to iso 1600.
River Whyless, by Reed A. George
Leica M4-2, 50mm Zeiss C-Sonnar f1.5 Lens
Kodak TMax 400 Film Pushed to iso 1600
While I'm really liking this new look to my concert photography, I'm finding the extreme contrast that I get by pushing 400 speed film two stops a little bit limiting. So, I've decided to try some Ilford Delta 3200 black and white film. My experience with Delta 3200 in the past was that the negatives can be a little thin; I've had better luck shooting it at iso 1600 than the labeled 3200. Apparently, the native iso is more like 1000, but it's got extremely wide exposure tolerance.
So, I think I'll shoot it at 1600 this time.
Here's an example concert shot on Delta 3200by Kontantinos Bezios:
Image Source: http://kbesios.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/20120904-105104.jpg
Konstantinos shot this on a medium format Plaubel 67 camera. I think the gray tones are very nice, and I hope to get a similar effect in my Leica.
(Click Here) to visit Konstantino's blog and see more of his work.
My only question now is whether or not I need to inform The Darkroom (my favorite mail-in film developer) that I shot Delta 3200 at 1600 or not. I tend to think not, as I read a lot of posts about shooting it at 1600 and developing normally.
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With any luck, I'll have some interesting new concert photos to share in a week or so!
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