It is a fun look and a nice change from the everyday films.
I gotta be honest, I feel I wasted it on these shots but I have several rolls of it left from a purchase a few years ago, and just felt like switching it up.
It would be better used more deliberately - inner city/industrial kind of stuff. But what can you do? I got bored and just decided to shoot a roll...
First off, I'm surprised there are images on this roll. When I first loaded in the Fujica, the back wasn't latched and it was zipping through the camera without indexing. I ran it to the end, put it back on the feed side and ran it through the camera to get back to the beginning of the roll and reloaded the camera. I didn't get a full twelve but more than I expected.
Once again, I like the look of the film but don't like the film. It's thin and curly and not pleasant to work with. Fortunately, the only 120 in the refrigerator is HP-5 and Tri-X. Plus I'm still using my cheap eyeglasses.
Here's a few from the second roll of Fomapan 400. It didn't want to feed through the Pro Carrier so I used the Basic and pulled it through by hand. I had a lot of repeats because I wasn't expecting much from the first roll but here are a few:
Fujica Super 6, 75mm 3.5 Fujinar, Fomapan 400, Rodinal 1:50
A few shots from my second roll (Kentmere 400 this time) with the Vredeborch Felica. I used some emery paper on the rods that the film runs over, hoping to stop the film-scratching, but that wasn't enough so now I have covered them with tape. These shots are pre-tape so they still have some scratches (although I cloned out some of them in post).
bjhurley wrote:
A few shots from my second roll (Kentmere 400 this time) with the Vredeborch Felica. I used some emery paper on the rods that the film runs over, hoping to stop the film-scratching, but that wasn't enough so now I have covered them with tape. These shots are pre-tape so they still have some scratches (although I cloned out some of them in post).
madNbad wrote:
Is the shutter still sticking? These look really good!
I'm not sure the shutter was actually sticking since I think that would have resulted in overexposure rather than underexposure. I think the underexposure is caused by some haze in the lens, which I can't clean (the lens is really inaccessible; I cleaned the outside at least).
But I'm pretty happy with how this camera's images are turning out! Not bad for $40.
Here's one more (I had to do some heavy cloning to reduce/remove the scratches but I missed a few on the bottom left):
lifeandmylens wrote:
A few more photos from a "dream home" from the 1960's. Makina W67 & Ektachrome.
Argh...I remember one of my aunts having "pink" everything in her home, and another aunt having her bathroom and kitchen in avocado; can't forget the beehive hairdos too...
bjhurley wrote:
A few shots from my second roll (Kentmere 400 this time) with the Vredeborch Felica. I used some emery paper on the rods that the film runs over, hoping to stop the film-scratching, but that wasn't enough so now I have covered them with tape. These shots are pre-tape so they still have some scratches (although I cloned out some of them in post).
Brad, Love that first one. I'm pretty sure those "rods" are actually hollow tubes that are suppose to rotate as the film rolls over them. I've run into hollow straw like aluminum rollers that are corroded on their steel axles. It can be as simple as using dissimilar metals to cause that kind of corrosion.
theHUN wrote:
Roll 192: I got curious about CHS 100 II, so I bought a few rolls and measured the film speed using Rodinal, 1+75, 12', constant rotary development.
I get ISO 50, which is what I was expecting. I also get a bunch of curling which means I'll never shoot this film again.
I hang it in the shower with a 100 g weight hanging from the bottom of the roll. A water distiller is creating a warm and humid environment. This method consistently gives flat negatives for FP4 and HP5, slight curling for Acros, and comically massive curling for Rollei IR400.
