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Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« on: February 12, 2021, 02:22:18 PM »
After changing the light seals in all 3 of my Olympus 35RC cameras, I've been running some HP5+ through to test them. These are from a local walk earlier this week.



The New Burn
by Kevin Allan, on Flickr


Snaking through the snow
by Kevin Allan, on Flickr



Gate in the snow
by Kevin Allan, on Flickr

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2021, 02:48:27 PM »
Hey everyone, look who remembered her password!  ;D

I'm trying to get out of a photo rut but still haven't developed my backlog, so I'm sticking to wasting some instant film for a little while.

It's definitely winter around here:


Instax Snowy Lawn by limrodrigues, on Flickr


Instax Snowy Welcome by limrodrigues, on Flickr
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2021, 05:21:48 PM »
Hey!
It's good to see you back!
I'm one of the few females around here, so stick around!
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2021, 06:18:06 PM »
Hey!
It's good to see you back!
I'm one of the few females around here, so stick around!
 8)

Definitely planning on it! :)
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2021, 08:42:34 PM »
Hey Girl!
Long time no see!

I'm happy you've decided to come for a visit  ;D

I see you're snowed-in too. I don't know about your place but here we're getting arctic air... lets just say it's more than a bit chilly. Wouldn't want to stick my tongue to a soviet camera in this cold as I'd probably end-up looking like Gene Simmons  ;D
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2021, 09:57:03 PM »
Welcome back Leonore! Nice shots!
Love Kevin's shots as well!

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2021, 06:12:08 AM »
Hey there, Kai and Francois!

That's a neat clock there.

Yup, we are snowed in and bundled up against the cold. There's about 24 inches on the ground, 18 of which came all at once, and then the rest sort of trickled in over the past week. There's more to come next week. Thankfully I have a short, flat driveway! I've also been working from home, so I don't have to deal with driving anywhere if the driveway takes a little while to clear.

Probably best to keep tongues away from the old Soviet cameras no matter what the temperature   ;)
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2021, 07:30:24 PM »
Any man who can see what he wants to get on film will usually find some way to get it;
and a man who thinks his equipment is going to see for him is not going to get much of anything.


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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2021, 11:38:19 AM »
Another found at the back of the fridge film, FP4 in the now sold, Olympus  XA from a couple of years back

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2021, 08:54:43 PM »
It's been a snowy weekend here as well.  Polaroid 100 Land Camera with a #581 Portrait Kit on FP-100c packfilm. 

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2021, 10:25:00 AM »
Finally over the weekend, after years of using Labs to develop films for me, I got round to developing my first roll of film. Lots of years of reading books, websites here, there and everywhere, reading threads, watching videos and making notes, all proved really useful.

I had a Kodachrome PMK 25 ISO film, expired but kept in my fridge for the last 5 years, which I decided to treat as a 25 ISO b/w film. I used my Pentax MX, with an SMC 28mm lens, mainly f16 and f22, for 1-2 seconds on a tripod and remote trigger.

For development I used guidance from the Massive Dev Chart website, seeing that a few of the 25 ISO films (Adox Pan 25, Efke 25) had development suggestions of 11-20 minutes using 1:100 Rodinal at 20C. So I decided on a development time of 15 minutes at 20C using the Tetenal Paranol S I'd bought, 5 minutes in the Indicet Stop, and 10 minutes in Superfix, washing off the remjet backing under running water from my hot tap, and a final rinse in mild washing up liquid.

And I was really pleased to see I had images :D

Some rookie errors for me to learn from:

1) Accidentally rewinding the whole film into the cannister, then being unable to use the film-retriever tool to capture the end/beginning of the film, and resorting to using pliers in the dark to open the can (learned from the School of Brute Force and Ignorance) - so to learn how to use that tool properly - doh!

2) Though I'd practiced rolling a film onto the developing reel in the light a couple of times to check my method, I re-assembled it wrongly, and struggled in the dark to get the film to spiral round the reel, and then had to poke the film out at the end as I couldn't disassemble the reel, resulting in marked scratching on some frames - so I need to check I reassemble the reel correctly - doh!

3) I threw away (poured into my disposal bottle along with the used 1:100 Paranol S) my solution of Superfix, and I think it can be reused a few times, I used 50ml out of my 250ml bottle :(  - so to reuse at least a few times - doh!

4) Learn how to scan for a sharp image using my Canoscan 9000f when considering a 200kb maximum jpeg...the images I have are sharper than these, and I've probably not resized the images in the best way. I scanned 'as colour' hoping it would compensate for the orange/sepia film base, and the images came out sepia toned, so then removed the colour profile and set it to 'grey scale' - more reading and tutorials for me I think - doh!

But I'm so pleased the magical processes I've been reading about for so long worked for me. I recognise that these are not the usual top-notch images I see here, but they're my first attempt, and it's certainly been an encouraging experience for me.


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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2021, 03:09:01 PM »
Congrats on that first film.
One small step for man, one giant leap for darkrooms....

Here's a few tips.
Keep a bottle opener in the darkroom for opening those film cans. If you don't plan on reusing the canister for bulk loading or decorations, it's easier to just pop one of the ends off.
For the fix, look for how to do a film leader test on the forum. No more wasted fixer with this trick.

Now, I don't know how the heck you managed to assemble Paterson reels wrong? That must have required quite a bit of force.
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2021, 04:50:21 PM »
Suggest you scan at maximum resolution (which I think is 2400dpi on that scanner), then post-process, then scale down as needed. And turn off all the scanner-based sharpening/grain reduction stuff as well - it's not very good, and gives you no real control over it. Much better to do it later.
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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2021, 10:26:29 PM »
Congratulations to LEAF on your first home development! Here's to many more!

And welcome back Leonore! Good seeing your stuff again :)

I'm getting more and more enamored of my Holga WPC. I'm learning a little more about my preferences with my 360's ... I'm liking color as opposed to black & white (especially pushed color), and I need to start paying attention to where I start and end the 360 (that falls under the realm of "composition," I think ;D ). Here's a "270" at Grand Central. I chose not to complete the 360 because 1. the remaining wall was covered by scaffolding, and 2. that allowed me to use the 2 staircases as my beginning and end :)



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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2021, 08:38:42 AM »
Congrats on that first film.
One small step for man, one giant leap for darkrooms....

Here's a few tips.
Keep a bottle opener in the darkroom for opening those film cans. If you don't plan on reusing the canister for bulk loading or decorations, it's easier to just pop one of the ends off.
For the fix, look for how to do a film leader test on the forum. No more wasted fixer with this trick.

Now, I don't know how the heck you managed to assemble Paterson reels wrong? That must have required quite a bit of force.

Thank you, much appreciated!  :D

Bottle opener added to my tool kit! And I've found a film leader thread, so will use that to guide me on the viability of my fixer.

Haha, yes it's an AP reel with multiple notches/grooves for the different formats, and thankfully I don't seem to have broken it...it worked well today once I'd realigned it properly.

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2021, 08:48:09 AM »
Suggest you scan at maximum resolution (which I think is 2400dpi on that scanner), then post-process, then scale down as needed. And turn off all the scanner-based sharpening/grain reduction stuff as well - it's not very good, and gives you no real control over it. Much better to do it later.

Thank you, I'll try that! Much appreciated!

I'm running the software with my old laptop (zero battery, so needs to be plugged in to work) on Vista Home software, but it trundles through the scanning steadily.

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2021, 08:49:45 AM »
Congratulations to LEAF on your first home development! Here's to many more!

And welcome back Leonore! Good seeing your stuff again :)

I'm getting more and more enamored of my Holga WPC. I'm learning a little more about my preferences with my 360's ... I'm liking color as opposed to black & white (especially pushed color), and I need to start paying attention to where I start and end the 360 (that falls under the realm of "composition," I think ;D ). Here's a "270" at Grand Central. I chose not to complete the 360 because 1. the remaining wall was covered by scaffolding, and 2. that allowed me to use the 2 staircases as my beginning and end :)



Holga WPC/Portra 400

Thank you. I appreciate your encouragement!

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Re: Weekend 12th-14th February 2021
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2021, 02:57:05 PM »
Congrats to LEAF!

Welcome back Leonore!

And Satish, those panoramas are amazing. Looking left, right and behind. :-)