So #3GoodThings over the past few days... Friday we had our Spring Covid booster jab, yes, the V word. Full slaves to the Gates Foundation, again. Apart from not using any MS sw, natch.
2) Mrs R found 2 old P&S film cameras, one had a film in (found by opening the back, not so good). Replaced the batteries, test film run, awaiting dev.
3) It has been sunny all last week and forecast sunny all next week. Most sensible folk think this is a Good Thing! (... though photoing is much harder... ;-)
The cameras that Mrs R found in a drawer were an #OlympusStylus (aka mju 1), and an even older #MamiyaU. The Stylus I got for her on 42nd St NYC. Got it home, didn't work. No warranty because "grey import". Also, cost me more than UK price of the later mju 2 model! £40 to get it going again. Shafted!
Not sure when we got the Mamiya; I always rather liked it. Zone focusing, sliding window to turn on and reveal the lens, but a simpler design than the mjus. 1/n
I used a roll of #Kentmere100 for testing: 18 frames in the Stylus, rewound, transferred to the Mamiya, made 20 blank exposures in a dark bag (quite tricky for some reason, but we got there). Stylus does auto-wind, sounds a bit dodgy; Mamiya is manual wind. Devved the roll last week, scanned it tonight.
Always takes me a while to review images, so no pics yet. But overall the Olympus results were focused, sharp, contrasty and well exposed. The Mamiya not so much, in all departments! 2/n
@tomnorthfilm @shom I had to do it that way round (Oly first), as I couldn't work out how make the Oly take blank frames, because of its auto-flash! But then I had trouble making the Mammy trigger at all in the dark bag. TBH I've forgotten the hack I used, but it was very time consuming!
It was quite an interesting experiment anyway, as I was scanning the whole roll in one session, same scan settings and developer, which for me, accentuated the differences.
@kaiser_photo I have developed 500T at home with C41. It's an interesting look, I think I will give ECN-2 a go when I amass enough rolls.
Here's an example, I wish I had a 85b warming filter (bought one, haven't tried yet): https://fosstodon.org/@shom/113354603220052840
I think there's still some ebay shortend listings to be had for about a $1/ft roughly. But yeah, can't buy direct which is a bummer (not that I could handle 400ft winding). Also, the remjet wasn't a big deal at all. I did a baking soda wash for a minute, a thorough water bath, and then developed.
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@stevebrokaw has a lot of experience with remjet removal. He’s more active on BSKY than here, but let’s see if he chimes in.
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