Originally posted SATURDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2009
HP5 (Not Plus) June 1985 and SFX
Found this roll at the flea market a while back. Was going to shoot it, but realised that the leader was retracted, and when I got it out, it was kinked as if it had been loaded. Thus I developed it, rather than shoot it.
Developed in DD-X 1+4 for 10 mins @ 20C (HP5+ is supposed to have 9). Developed at the same time as an expired roll of SFX that I shot through a red #25 filter on Lindisfarne a couple of weeks ago, hence the slight overdevelopment (SFX needs 10m when exposed at EI200). Agitated continuously for 30s, then 10s every minute thereafter.
SFX seems to have come out nicely, but the HP5 was unexposed, except for 3 frames at the beginning, plus a fogged leader. Someone must have loaded this sometime around "Live Aid", before I was even born, and then changed rolls after a couple of shots and never got round to reloading it.
Two of the three shots are unrecognisable blur, the third appears to be a landscape including some cliffs, but it needs scanning really to see what it actually is.
An adventure nonetheless!
Developed in DD-X 1+4 for 10 mins @ 20C (HP5+ is supposed to have 9). Developed at the same time as an expired roll of SFX that I shot through a red #25 filter on Lindisfarne a couple of weeks ago, hence the slight overdevelopment (SFX needs 10m when exposed at EI200). Agitated continuously for 30s, then 10s every minute thereafter.
SFX seems to have come out nicely, but the HP5 was unexposed, except for 3 frames at the beginning, plus a fogged leader. Someone must have loaded this sometime around "Live Aid", before I was even born, and then changed rolls after a couple of shots and never got round to reloading it.
Two of the three shots are unrecognisable blur, the third appears to be a landscape including some cliffs, but it needs scanning really to see what it actually is.
An adventure nonetheless!
Found Film - Verichrome Pan
You join me halfway through development of some Verichrome Pan. You were going to be here the whole time, but I spent the last 10 minutes wrestling with wireless internet, so you only get the last 4 mins.
I bought a Kodak six-20 brownie at the flea market today for about a quid because there was a roll of (from the red window) "PAN--->" inside it. I thought it was probably VP because it's common and it looked like Kodak font.
Decided upon a developing tome of 15mins in D76 1+1 at 15C...
To be continued after I drain the dev...
Right, fixing...
So yeah, I've developed it as I said, low temp to reduce fogging, 1+1 to reduce fogging, perhaps, that's a guess.
Anywho, when I got the camera, the winder was jammed, so I opened the camera in a darkbag and removed the film. The cause of the jam was pretty obvious, even in the dark: a 120 film had been loaded in a 620 camera. Evidently the previous owner had not paid attention to the sticker saying "CAUTION: Be sure you get '620' film". I marked the backing paper at the point where the film was behind the lens, (turned out to be at 6/8, so most of the film was used). The backing paper was purple at the end and yellow in the middle. This, combined with the font lets me date the film as being from the sometime around the 1970s. Because of the kludge with 120 film, the edge of the film was somewhat mangled, making it fun to load onto the reels. Having sat in the camera for 40 years or so meant that the film also kinked where it went over the roller.
Hopefully it hasn't touched itself during development...
Anywho, time for a rinse and I'll let you know what happens! Am very excited to see what kind of boring holiday snaps I might have saved from photonic oblivion!
Having looked at the inside of the case, it's nice to see that the camera has been serviced, according to a sticker inside. Unfortunately, it was last serviced in 1950, which might explain the sticky shutter it now has.
OKAY, so out of the rinse they come - a photo of someone's granny, a cat on a wall and a couple of frames of murk, which might resolve itself into something image-like as it dries. Not Ansel Adams' lost work, but still pretty nice to have saved a couple of old images from oblivion. It's funny to think that the lady in the picture is now almost certainly dead, and her grandchild - presumably who took this picture - is now middle-aged and rarely thinks about his old gran, memories faded; "they fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day".
I bought a Kodak six-20 brownie at the flea market today for about a quid because there was a roll of (from the red window) "PAN--->" inside it. I thought it was probably VP because it's common and it looked like Kodak font.
Decided upon a developing tome of 15mins in D76 1+1 at 15C...
To be continued after I drain the dev...
Right, fixing...
So yeah, I've developed it as I said, low temp to reduce fogging, 1+1 to reduce fogging, perhaps, that's a guess.
Anywho, when I got the camera, the winder was jammed, so I opened the camera in a darkbag and removed the film. The cause of the jam was pretty obvious, even in the dark: a 120 film had been loaded in a 620 camera. Evidently the previous owner had not paid attention to the sticker saying "CAUTION: Be sure you get '620' film". I marked the backing paper at the point where the film was behind the lens, (turned out to be at 6/8, so most of the film was used). The backing paper was purple at the end and yellow in the middle. This, combined with the font lets me date the film as being from the sometime around the 1970s. Because of the kludge with 120 film, the edge of the film was somewhat mangled, making it fun to load onto the reels. Having sat in the camera for 40 years or so meant that the film also kinked where it went over the roller.
Hopefully it hasn't touched itself during development...
Anywho, time for a rinse and I'll let you know what happens! Am very excited to see what kind of boring holiday snaps I might have saved from photonic oblivion!
Having looked at the inside of the case, it's nice to see that the camera has been serviced, according to a sticker inside. Unfortunately, it was last serviced in 1950, which might explain the sticky shutter it now has.
OKAY, so out of the rinse they come - a photo of someone's granny, a cat on a wall and a couple of frames of murk, which might resolve itself into something image-like as it dries. Not Ansel Adams' lost work, but still pretty nice to have saved a couple of old images from oblivion. It's funny to think that the lady in the picture is now almost certainly dead, and her grandchild - presumably who took this picture - is now middle-aged and rarely thinks about his old gran, memories faded; "they fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day".
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