Topic: Weekend - November 21, 22 & 23, 2025

[Bryan]

Some fall shots around town on a walk with Quincy.  Minolta srTscII with a Minolta MD 50mm f/1.4 using Fujifilm 400.

Red Foliage by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Sammamish River Kayaker by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Mossy Tree by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

And of course, Quincy.
Quincy on the Steps by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[Francois]

You still have foliage on the trees in your neck of the woods?
Here, it's been gone for quite a while now.

[jharr]

Been a while, but I have developed my first roll of E-6 in actual E-6 chemistry. I know it has taken me a long time to check that off the list. I generally like cross processing slide film. The grain, the colors and the latitude are all enhanced. Well, the colors are 'shifted' more than enhanced. But I went ahead and bought a Unicolor Rapid E-6 kit from FPP and developed a roll of Ektachrome E100 120 that I had shot in my Voigtlander Bessa 6x9. These two are from the annual Pottery Guild Show and Sale. The scans of transparencies, especially ones this big, hardly do them justice. I feel like I should try some 4x5 now, but my inner skin flint says it's too expensive. Maybe Christmas will soften that resolve.


Bessa-E100-006 by James Harr, on Flickr


Bessa-E100-005 by James Harr, on Flickr

[Bryan]

You still have foliage on the trees in your neck of the woods?
Here, it's been gone for quite a while now.

Its coming to an end now, raking up the last of the leaves.  Those were shot a few weeks ago, sent the film off to a lab so it took a bit to get it back and edited.

[Bryan]

Been a while, but I have developed my first roll of E-6 in actual E-6 chemistry. I know it has taken me a long time to check that off the list. I generally like cross processing slide film. The grain, the colors and the latitude are all enhanced. Well, the colors are 'shifted' more than enhanced. But I went ahead and bought a Unicolor Rapid E-6 kit from FPP and developed a roll of Ektachrome E100 120 that I had shot in my Voigtlander Bessa 6x9. These two are from the annual Pottery Guild Show and Sale. The scans of transparencies, especially ones this big, hardly do them justice. I feel like I should try some 4x5 now, but my inner skin flint says it's too expensive. Maybe Christmas will soften that resolve.

Those colors loo, great, I can imagine they would look spectacular if you could project them.

[jharr]

Those colors loo, great, I can imagine they would look spectacular if you could project them.

Thanks. Just holding them up to the window light is pretty amazing. It looks like maybe the Beseler Slide King projector might do 6x9 slides if you could find one with the right carriers. I was thinking I might make a 6x9 frame with a diffused backlight that could hang on the wall and hang a magnifying glass or loupe next to it for closer viewing. That might be interesting.

[Bryan]

Those colors loo, great, I can imagine they would look spectacular if you could project them.

Thanks. Just holding them up to the window light is pretty amazing. It looks like maybe the Beseler Slide King projector might do 6x9 slides if you could find one with the right carriers. I was thinking I might make a 6x9 frame with a diffused backlight that could hang on the wall and hang a magnifying glass or loupe next to it for closer viewing. That might be interesting.

I suppose I could project them with my enlarger since I have a 6X9 negative holder.

[Francois]

It's true that scanning these doesn't do them justice.
I've seen a 4x5 slide once and it was really something... I can just imagine an 8x10.