Ilford Pan F Plus | Hasselblad 500C/M 

As an ex, advertising / fashion photographer in the ‘70 s and 80 s, using a Hasselblad 500c then m, thanks for the magic memories of the sound of that sheath being pulled out of the magazine and then that beautiful clunk of the shutter, pure bliss. Thanks Paul.

Hi Paul, the biggest compliment I can pay to these images is that more than one has a very Michael Kenna look to them.

Absolutely stunning photographs 😮

Awesome video as usual Paul, for me the clear winner is at 5:38 with the 50mm, the separation between the tree and Islands on the horizon and use of negative space make's this a wee masterpiece Imho. Top job mate.

Stunning shots m8! This IS how black and white works!! Love em!

Absolutely love these photographs! They're all beautiful; I especially love the ones with the 50mm that still manage to feel simple/minimalist. And the one with the dead tree trunk is beautifully seen. Thank you for sharing!

I love the 120 Pan F film. Man, if you scan that 6x6 negative with a high res scanner, the resolution will be insane. The IQ knocks the socks off the vast majority of modern digital cameras.

You have shown just how Beautiful your part of the world is. You'll be in photography textbooks in the future. You're that good.

Great Photography! very nice video! Thanks!

The simplicity of the second photo and the lovely details of the grasses on the tree in the fifth photo are very nice.

Personally I like to pull this film one stop. I find that to suit my style of shooting. Your channel is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this content.

What a beautiful and peaceful place. I hope to visit New Zeland some day. Nice job, man. Keep on, keep safe

I just absolutely love the centered tree which mimics a digital binary reflection. Fantastic. What a great juxtaposition.

I keep coming back to this video, Paul. Absolutely wonderful.

I did enjoy that immensely, as I have all your hard work, and it's paired so perfectly with the music. Thank you Paul, very much.

Watching your videos is a very therapeutic thing to do in the morning while sipping on some tea. Those photos you made here are phenomenal! Great work and thanks for sharing it.

Love the tree shots Paul. Very peaceful.

Paul , Great work. I really enjoyed the video

Wow what stunning photos Paul. I think you're gonna cause a line up in front of this tree now! haha. Can't wait for prints to be available.

hello Paul, yes beautifully, my sincere compliments. Thank you for inspiring us with your wonderful Hasselblad 500C / M series. From one photographer to another photographer congratulations and hug. elton rock

What a stunning location, That tree looks just like a peacock's feather. Lovely shots.

Epic shots

Amazing work

Excellent video!

The photo with the remains of the tree in the foreground, and the tree out in the lake plus the swan is stunning. I've got some of this film in my fridge. I've been waiting for the right time to use it . You've inspired me :-) 👍

The Taupo Tree! it you get there early enough the Wanaka, it much better including without it's lower right (my right branch gone) the Wanaka tree was the first! remember that Paul! the mountains and the light! amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Have a nice day Paul! You have again made a very beautiful composition. Congratulations Tamás.

Smart move, I love my 50mm on the Hassy. As usual good work Paul.

I really like the photo at 5:25, I like the shape of the tree's reflection in the water and its tones.

great shots. PanF in Rodinal 1 : 50 is my go-to combo.

Lovely, thank you for sharing

Gorgeous!

Art at it's finest, stunning images you have produced my friend!

Possibly your best work Paul. Fabulous!

Wonderful compositions! I like pan f!

Some of your best work I reckon. Drum scanned and gallery sized would make for a great exhibition and fine art sales. A lovely counterpoint to the social documentary stuff you've done.

Beautiful images, Paul. Pan F is one of my favourite films, though I have only used it as 35mm on my M6 for portraits. Beautiful grain. I have a 120 roll waiting for me in the fridge and this episode has inspired me to shoot some landscapes with it.

What a beautiful setting, indeed! Glorious!

You may have found a sweet spot. Location, vision, camera, film, all combining to make some of your very best images. Thank you for sharing these beautiful photographs. I agree with David Cordner; there is a tip of the hat to Michael Kenna in there.

GREAT! I enjoy the 50mm Distagon on the 500 C/M as well as the 150mm Sonar. Keep up the good work!

I just love a Hasselblad 500 I regret I sold mine. But will soon buy one again.

Really enjoyed those images, those ducks 🦆 added that extra element. What a serene scene

i use the same black 50mm T* lens and it is the only lens i have and need on my hasselblad love it so much. Enjoying your videos and loving the photography, they are making me want to leave the city behind.

Super nice photos, magic place indeed! That tree is just amazing looking. Perfect fit for that film and camera combination. You'll love the 50mm, it's one of my all time favourite lenses. I've had one for a couple of years, and I'm definitely never selling that one!

Amazing scene and photos Paul!

Pan F is a contrasty emulsion with a short straight section and abrupt toe and shoulder in its spectral response curve. The best way to deal with it is to rate it @ 25 or 32 and use a compensating developer to retain as much information on the negs as possible. The contrast can then be adjusted during the printing or scanning stage. Great photography BTW.

Super interesting thanks for the contant and great feedback and toughts you gave after the shot. It helps me with my film phorograpy.

Another fine set of images. You genuinely are enjoying medium format. Also good to see you have GAS just like every other photographer I know.

Yet another interesting, informative and relaxing video to watch Paul. I love the photos. I sometimes shoot Pan F in 35mm and love the absence of visible grain in smaller prints. I guess the sharpness in medium format must be amazing! Kind regards.

Lovely tree and location with good results. I'm 2 years late but I find the tree position against the dark island in the background a bit strange it's to one side. My immediate thought was you'd centre it a bit more or have the darker isle left of the tree and the darker hill on the right but what would I know 🙂 Also love the shot with the tree stump and swan!

For the 150, I would recommend a ring that converts it to 67mm. You can use it for the 80mm 2.8 as well, and the 67mm filters screw into the 50mm lens, but be careful with that one, since the actual thread is slightly smaller.

Enjoying your new series with the Hasselblad. Keep it up.

Beautiful photos and a great new lens for your Hasselblad! I love that wide angle for landscape on medium format. And great compositions, too!

Possibly for me your nicest flight of pics.The big Hasselblad is a thing of great desire

Great photos! Particularly that last one with the dark tree on the left and the light grey mountains in the back.

You are a genius in composition!!!!

These are fabulous Paul. Could be your best work to date.

Thanks for continuing your good work.

Great video Paul. Beautiful compositions, as always.

Wonderful shots!

Great images Paul as always, by the way, I so enjoyed your book.....

Great vid and great pics!

Absolutely gorgeous,so beautiful!

I had a feeling the 150 would find a wider friend sooner or later! As always very nicely done, love the aesthetic of the Ilford films/long exposures of the tree in the lake, especially the rippled reflections. Sorry to hear about the lens not surviving it’s first swimming lesson, but the camera did📸. Hope the socks were waterproof, I probably would have taken them off (barefoot probably works better if it’s warm, said the Florida man), nice little vacation spot you’ve found there!

Magical pictures!!!

Love the shots. Going out today with my new to me 4x5 to shoot and film a tree that has fallen

Stunning images Paul 👍🏻👍🏻

Let me be the first to congratulate you on 10k subscribers! It’s coming.

Good film😀

Heresy, you said only the 150 and we are forced to look at 50mm images. All kidding aside, beautifull work. You have to love the 'blad.

Inspiring Love from Japan I hope someday I could come to NZ and enjoy photographing!!

Those little canons are great. I still use my 100d and it takes great photos and videos especially in daylight.

I love pan F. Some of my favourite black and white photos have been with this film. But you need flat light, it’s more often than not far too contrasty. FP4 plus is far more forgiving so I mostly use that

wonderful images!

Beautiful images, Paul.

Terrific photos Paul, love the long exposures with the 50mm and I especially like the ones with the150mm, I must save up for one with my Hasselblad, though increasingly hard to come by, especially one of the earlier Silver 150 mm Sonnar C’s in good condition, like you have

Awesome Paul Thanks

Awesome shots man, love the shot at 6:03 with the swan in it!! film looks amazing as well..

Hey Paul. Lovely video mate, and love the simplicity of these frames. Awesome work and nice to see you out and about enjoying Taupo. I returned from the south Island tonight and will give myself a few days off but we will try and catch up soon! PS, this is a really cool tree... and te fact that you have it to yourself! = ) Regards Ewan

outstanding mate pure magic

Really enjoyed this

Beautiful outstanding Compositions Paul, with calm lovely results, for all images you shot that day. Also glad you got a hold of the Distagon 50 :) A suggestion if I may Paul? Use the pre-release button (to get the mirror up) before taking your shot some sec after, when using long exposure :)

Lovely graphical images Paul. Good to see you have a second lens.

Excellent composition! I particularly liked the swan image which also shows the range in tonality this film is capable of with proper exposure and development. The film has it's own unique signature but can lose mid-tones and shadow detail in high contrast lighting. I like it more than Fuji Acros, which to my eye looks steril. I shoot Pan F at box speed which usually means long exposures on a tripod. I have had great results with Pan F in Rodinal 1+100 1 hour @ 20C stand development (4 inversions @ 30 minute mark to avoid bromide drag) I used to shoot more Pan F when I only had a 35mm kit because it enlarges so well, exhibiting very little grain. I have found useful, for long exposures, the free Android reciprocity app named "Reciprocity" by Hans ter HorstPhotography The app. requires you input filter factor and/or bellows draw for the emulsion and calculates proper exposure times. I also have the trifecta 50, 80, 150 on my Hasselblad 500C/M and find all 3 focal lengths useful. I use the 80mm the most with occasionally using the 50mm for landscapes and architecture and the 150mm for portraits or when I want to isolate or compress elements in the landscape. You may also find the available extension tubes great for macro. Great content!

Strong work love it

I mixed feelings about Pan f. I’ve shot a couple of 35mm and a couple of 120 rolls and I see the potential of the film but never feel it’s quite what I’m after. You seem to have hit the nail on the head though. It pulled some great contrast out of that low contrast day. Good job.

amazing pictures! but definitely recommend using the mirror lock up button for those long exposures so you do not get any camera shake!

Wonderful work again. There are a couple of these I'd buy prints of if they were put up for sale.

Lovely photos

Photographing a black dog with my 501C/M, I could never get texture in the fur at any exposure shooting Pan F. I was able to get Pan F to solarize (black sun) with no problem. For controlled lighting and bright light, I favored FP4, for low light, Delta 3200, and Tri-X for everything else.

Nice video. You should show how you meter the light.

I liked most the 50mm long exposure shots, so dreamlike. About the composition of the single hill in the background of the tree in some pictures I'm not fully with you, somehow it's distracting from the clearness of the shot in my opinion. But thx for sharing your shooting and thoughts with us. Also liked to see your dog is doing fine and seems to have adapted to the new place - didn't see him for some time.

The tones are nice with the film. Nice composition, I prefer the normal exposure images. Personally I don’t like long exposure of water shots, except waterfalls where I think it shows movement.

Nice images Paul

Yet another great great video, and it's great to see that you're enjoying the Taupo area and the Blad. I miss using the 500 cm and those wonderful Carl Zeiss lenses. What's next ... 4×5 ?

Great shot :)

Did you use an ND Filter and how did you meter the scenes. I didn't see that.

Really nice Paul.. Would love to explore out there with me 5x4" or even my 12x20. I'm a sucker for film, yes. Always a joy to see others talking about and using it. I don't care much for roll film since I have a time processing it as apposed to sheet. Tempting though since i'd more then likely opped for the Hassy beauty. Cheers

Very very great place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Only one apreciation:Inst posible to put the the camera more to the left and take a foreground of the three washer,leaving the three between the island and the cape?, Other theme.Ive two rolls of the Ilford 50 in the fridge ,waiting better ligths,how many up and down exposition support the fillm?,or you might to do a perfect shot?,and the reciprocity?

Hi Paul. Do yourself a favour and try developing Pan F in Ilford Perseptol 1to1 start at 15 min and adapt for your light on that side of the globe. Enter a new world.