Dylan H Grant

I recently came into some old Kodak Plus-X -- 7265 and 7276 -- and I'm wondering where to start with exposing it. I'm told it was properly stored, but I have no way of really knowing. In still photography they say you should give it about a stop a decade ... would that work here? I like B&W to look a little inkier, but I'm wary of underexposing here. Also, wasn't Plus-X a bit ... finicky? I know the answer is probably to just shoot a test roll and see what goes. What do you think?

Watched Lenny again last night. I'm always struck by how stark and, for lack of a better word, tactile the cinematography is, the close-ups in particular. Has anything been written about this? I can't find anything ... How was this achieved? I thought Surtees might have underexposed to get that kind of inkiness, but some of the highlights are so intense that I'm not sure. Is it just - hah, "just" - a matter of lighting, or was he using some kind of filtration? I'm also wondering how much of the look came out of whatever was done in the lab. I'm sure the answer is some version of "all of the above." What do you think? If you were to emulate this look, where would you even begin?