{"id":795,"date":"2008-03-21T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/how-to-get-really-grainy-pictures\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:58:54","slug":"how-to-get-really-grainy-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/how-to-get-really-grainy-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get really grainy pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Here are some tips for getting more\/larger grain in your pictures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Push ISO3200 film as far as it&#8217;ll go in your developer. As a rule, pushing increases grain.<\/li>\n<li>Use a high-actuance developer like Rodinal and&hellip;<\/li>\n<li>Agitate the hell out of it.<\/li>\n<li>Shoot as small a frame size as possible (the smaller the negative, the greater the enlargement factor, and the bigger the appearance of grain). There are several options for sub-&quot;full frame&quot; 35mm: the Olympus Pen series are half frame, and Canon\/Bell &amp; Howell made some as well. You can get anything from point &amp; shoots to really sweet SLRs (check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameraquest.com\/olypenf.htm\">Olympus Pen F and FT<\/a> for that, I have an FT and love it).\n<p>If you want more cowbell, check out the quarter-frame QuadCam (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciplus.com\/singleItem.cfm?terms=7336&amp;cartLogFrom=Search\">only $13.95 from American Science &amp; Surplus<\/a>), or bite the bullet and give those monopolistic rip-off artists at the Lomographic Society way too much money for an <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lomography.com\/oktomat\/\">Oktomat<\/a> (1\/8 frame) or a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lomography.com\/pop9\/\">Pop 9<\/a> (1\/9 frame).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of info on subminiature cameras at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subclub.org\/\">subclub.org<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Cross process color negative (C-41) film in black and white chemistry. Underexposure helps, the only digital manipulation on this was the sepia toning:\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nicolai_g\/132986449\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/48\/132986449_07b58e89df_d.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The Depravity of Voyeurism\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Depravity of Voyeurism<\/em>, underexposed [I think it was] Kodak Portra 400VC, developed in Diafine. It&#8217;s this grainy on a 4&times;4cm negative, so a submini would probably be really unbelievably grainy.\n<\/li>\n<li>Ilford Delta 3200 film processed in <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/groups\/diafine\/\">Diafine<\/a> is a particularly grainy combo for me. Here&#8217;s maybe 1\/5 of a 35mm frame with no manipulation at all:\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nicolai_g\/415941174\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/415941174_8c99129903_d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" alt=\"Untitled\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Bigger version <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/415941174_2e749adf14_o_d.jpg\">here<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some tips for getting more\/larger grain in your pictures: Push ISO3200 film as far as it&#8217;ll go in your developer. As a rule, pushing increases grain. Use a high-actuance developer like Rodinal and&hellip; Agitate the hell out of it. Shoot as small a frame size as possible (the smaller the negative, the greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[461,713,789,1509],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technique","tag-diafine","tag-grain","tag-ilford-delta-3200","tag-rodinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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