Pleased overall with both the new notching system and 3 of 4 of the pictures themselves. Scanned at 1200 DPI and lightly edited in #Darktable (I removed a few dust spots, cropped, and upped the contrast very slightly).

You can tell from one of these pictures especially that we are still in a pretty heavy drought.

📷 #CrownGraphic
🎞️ #KodakTriX
🧪 #HC110B 3:15 @ 24.8 C

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It worked!!! The rounded notches don’t look quite as round as I’d like, but I should be able to easily work on that. Might make the “5s place” notches square instead of rounded, to easily distinguish from the triangular notches…but as long as I know rounded is on the top and triangular is on the bottom, might be a moot point.

I can also tell I need to take a wire brush or something to get a few remaining burrs off that the rocket blower didn’t take care of. Easy fix. I’ll be going through and doing this for the rest of my film holders…it will make matching shots to my notes much easier without the futility of trying to keep track of the order I load on the reel in the dark bag. Especially when I bracket 2 or 3 exposures of the same composition.

These frames, from front to back, are numbers 10-7 descending. I hope to be able to scan these tomorrow, albeit at the mercy of my “real job.” I was a little nervous because it was hot today and the tap water was pretty warm, I calculated a developer time of only 3:15 but my effort to load and unload chems from the tank rapidly along with the rotational development seems to have been okay. These negs are uniformly dense, at least they look to be so when wet.

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Photograms from 2018

"All of the images were made using 4x5" sheet film which had previously been over or under exposed due to some error."

I bought my first large format camera in 2016 after seeing it in the shop window of my local camera store. The first 5 sheets I put through it came out completely blank and I still have no idea why.

A couple of years later I was able to use a darkroom in a cottage in a very remote forest and used the erroneous sheets to try and produce something new.

https://slackwise.org.uk/work/plane/

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#4x5 #4x5" #Photograms