Happy New Year all you tooters and #BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography folk! I've decided to start a new photo thread for the New Year, even though I'm part way through a roll, and nowhere near up to date (early November, in fact). The simple premise is, at least one photo for every roll of film (not necessarily every day). The old thread ended at https://photog.social/@carusb/111673872637618164
Let's start off with some more colour (I take 90%+ black and white but who can resist sometimes?). Another garden (not mine) firework from November! Scanned to Vuescan RAW and processed in C1Pro.
Next photo from the same garden has a completely different feel, taken with the #Olympus#mjuII on #Agfa Vista 200 film (lab dev/scan by #FilmDev). This is the last photo on the film started in Christmas 2022 (frame shown last Christmas Day)... so not quite the classic "Christmas both ends"!
Upton House garden... this part of the garden is completely invisible from the main house due to the highest haha I have ever seen! Taken with the #Olympus#mjuII on #Agfa Vista 200 film (lab dev/scan by #FilmDev).
I had two rolls of slightly expired #IlfordXP2, with more available (at that time) at a good price from the local Boots. So I decided to load them into my MX and LX cameras with similar lenses (SMC M 50/1.7 and SMC [EDIT] M 50/1.4), and take the same scenes with the same exposure, then dev one in HC-110 dilution E and the other via a lab in C41 chems. It didn't go well! For some reason the cameras disagreed about exposure. At first I kept them the same, later let each meter itself...
So my feeling, after this experiment with XP2 in HC-110 is, that I probably won't do this again. Partly because the cut price XP2 rolls in our local Boots have increased from £7 to £10, but mostly because I like traditional black and white films MUCH better!
The dev time for XP2 in HC-110 E is 10 minutes according to MDC. Adjusted for the Rondinax that should be 8:30... it's possible I might have misread my note as 6:30! Oh well, not trying again, any way.
Something completely different, inspired by @moragperkins : a couple of #redscale images with #freelensing. The film is reversed Kodacolor 200; for the 1st image the camera was my #PentaxME (not really suitable, as it turned out) and lens a Vivitar 28/2.8; the 2nd was my #PentaxLX , lens SMC K 55/1.8. Not sure I'll be doing much more freelensing, though!
Castle in the sun. This is a roll of expired #AgfaVista 200 from my #Olympus#mju2 pocket camera. A roll does often take quit a long time, given I'm mostly interested in black and white in cameras where I have more control, so most images on this roll are from last autumn!
Autumn beech tree colour. This area is right beside the main road into Coventry, a 2-mile long avenue with woodland strip each side. A taxi-driver once told me an American passenger had labelled this road a "million dollar ride to a ten cent city"! Ouch.
Three cars in the Alvis yard. The Coventry factory stopped production in 1967, but since 1968 the Red Triangle company has been maintaining and now re-manufacturing Alvis cars in Kenilworth!
News and tobacco kiosk in Sofia, Bulgaria, early 1970. Taken with my #Werra 1 with #IlfordFP4 (not Plus) film; no meter (I used the metering hints inside film boxes in those days, essentially Sunny 16).
Stratford Canal. This is taken on the bad batch of expired 120 #Kodak Tri-X, but this time taken at EI 200. Only signs of print-through on these negatives were in the inter-frame gaps.
#Fuji#GS645S [EDIT] Home dev in HC-110 dilution E.
The rider, in Malthouse Lane. The big house on the left is known as The Malthouse, but this post from the local Historical Society shows it replaced the old malthouse in Victorian times. EDIT: https://www.khas.co.uk/the-malthouse-then-now/