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
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...