ChrisRLongstock Park water gardens 4..
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #Kentmere200 home dev in HC110 dilution E (1+47) for nominal 8:00, home scanned.
Longstock Park water gardens 5. The summer house. The founder of the John Lewis department store had a telephone installed here, so he could manage the business from these gardens.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #Kentmere200 home dev in HC110 dilution E (1+47) for nominal 8:00, home scanned.
Longstock Park water gardens 6. That's your lot from these gardens. I guess you can tell, I loved them!
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #Kentmere200 home dev in HC110 dilution E (1+47) for nominal 8:00, home scanned.
Eel traps on the River Test. The Test is famous as a chalk stream for fly fishing. We saw these structures from a bridge and couldn't work out what they were, but apparently these are eel traps, now disused as eels are protected.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #Kentmere200 home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) for nominal 8:00, home scanned.
Longstock Park Water Gardens 7. I forgot I also had my pocket #OlympusMju2 loaded with Kodak Gold 200, and took a few frames in the gardens. This is the nicest, although I do prefer the black and white...
Devved by Polyfilm Labs, who also did my Scala. Scanned by me with Vuescan. The colours were all over the place; I've done my (limited) best with them!
The runner. It's the nature of pocket cameras that films can cover a long period. This was the first on this roll.
#OlympusMju2, #KodakGold200, dev by Polyfilmlabs, home scanned.
Castle Green.
#OlympusMju2, #KodakGold200, dev by Polyfilmlabs, home scanned.
Thistle or teasel?
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Lilies.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Doorway with roses. #DoorsDay
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Footbridge. A nice shape! I think this river is the Test, a famous chalk stream, at Mottisfont Abbey.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Austin Seven. Just randomly sat on a lawn at Mottisfont Abbey!
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Bracken.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
A parliament of rooks (raucous and ill-disciplined as ever!).
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Clouds and Castle.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
The lunch cruise: a restaurant boat on the River Avon at Stratford.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Benches. These benches are in front of the local leisure centre.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax (K) 55mm f/1.8 lens, yellow filter, #IlfordFP4, home dev in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned.
Film comparison: Adox HR-50 versus Scala (reversal processed). These steps to the side door of St Nick's Church were taken at around the same time, but the light changed slightly.
1) #Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
2) #Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-A 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #AdoxScala, reversal processed by PolyFilmLab, home scanned.
Yesterday was the local charity fireworks display, in a field in front of Kenilworth Castle. It's years since we went; crammed with 10,000 people in a muddy field for an hour is not fun. I meant to take my camera out & get reflections of fireworks in the local lake; didn't work out, for "life" reasons. So then I thought I'd post an older fireworks photo for Silent Sunday, but no, d'oh! So here's that photo instead.
#Pentax MX, Agfa Vista 400
Kenilworth Castle keep.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, [EDIT: orange] filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
Stairs to the battlements.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
Through the arches.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
The Keep from the Elizabethan Garden.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
Mansion for Elizabeth 1.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
The postern gate.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 35mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #AdoxHR50, home dev in HC-110 dilution E (1+47) nominal 6:30, home scanned.
Fountain and Keep. Taken from the Elizabethan Garden looking up to the Keep on #AdoxScala reversal/slide film.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-A 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, Adox Scala 50, reversal processed by PolyFilmLabs, home scanned.
Up the stone tower. This is one of the corner towers of Kenilworth Castle.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-A 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #AdoxScala 50, reversal processed by PolyFilmLabs, home scanned.
The Elizabethan Garden from the Keep.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-A 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #AdoxScala 50, reversal processed by PolyFilmLabs, home scanned.
Kenilworth Castle, my last for #FolderWeek .
#ZeissIkonta524, #Kentmere100, home devved in HC-110 dilution B (1+31), home scanned with an #EpsonV500.
Stone window.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-A 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #AdoxScala 50 #slide film, #reversal processed by PolyFilmLabs, home scanned.
The allotments. These are effectively remote veggie gardens for townies. Usually too messy for an interesting photo, but somehow the weirdness of reversal film makes it sort of work.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-A 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #AdoxScala 50 #slide film, #reversal processed by PolyFilmLabs, home scanned.
The Clock Tower.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax [EDIT] M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Abbey End. A busy scene with the Clock Tower in context. This open space came about when a stray land mine dropped from a bomber returning from the Coventry blitz destroyed a hotel on this site.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Dark skies 1. In Abbey Fields.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Dark skies 2. Abbey End.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Footpath to the Castle on a cloudy day. #FensterFreitag
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Canal and bridge. This is the Grand Union Canal running under a bridge built for a railway, now closed and turned into a Greenway.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
The tall pine tree,
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Stratford on Avon Canal, and sluice gear at a lock. This part of the canal was built in the mid 19th century and became derelict in the 20th, being rescued later and re-opened in 1964.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere200 film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
The Watcher. Life-size statue to the Coastguards, overlooking Bass Rock by the Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick, for #MeerMittwoch.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #KodakTriX film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Fisherrow harbour.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #KodakTriX film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Grassmarket quintet, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I couldn't capture the whole band in one frame with this lens! Didn't get their name, but they were selling a CD with the name "Travelling J..." on it.
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #KodakTriX film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Two photographers at the Festival. A modern day tourist, and someone who makes tintypes and ambrotypes (although I suspect that day it was paper portraits).
#Pentax LX, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f/2 lens, orange filter, #KodakTriX film, developed in HC-110 dilution E (1+47), home scanned.
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane@carusb they make a nice diptych!
@tmcfarlane I didn't realise they'd pretty much be in eye contact when I loaded them!
@carusb the angle of the steps on the right nicely matches the angle of the building on the left and they almost run together too which joins the two frames. I'd totally try and print or frame those together. It appears as a conversation through a huge gap in time (sort of is, but isn't too)
Mammut
John Wilson@carusb did I ask you what your home scanner setup is yet? If not, what is your home scanner setup?
(I followed a bunch of analog photography folks at once and I’m getting them slightly mixed up in my head)
Also you are inspiring me to try HC-110 (although I would go with Adox 110 since they changed HC-110)
@crazybutable I have a Plustek 7500i for 135 and an Epson V500 for 120, both driven by Vuescan Pro. I did buy a Plustek 8200i to take over from the old one, but I was a victim of a silent model change that meant it no longer worked properly with Vuescan (and Plustek wouldn't- then- license them the library that would work). After a huge argument I got the supplier to take it back.
I've been using this bottle of Kodak HC-110 since October 2018. Just about to move on to the Adox HC-110!
@crazybutable Interestingly I learned from Johnny Martyr's blog post (https://johnnymartyr.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/adox-hc110-fpp-110-why-you-might-want-to-use-an-alternative-to-kodak-hc110/) that Kodak has currently lost control of the HC-110 brand name to that Chinese company! Apparently Adox has a licence...
EDIT: I started on Ilfosol 3 and also have used Adox FX39 II for lower ISO films but I don't plan to ditch HC-110, ever!
@crazybutable And PPS I also use a #Rondinax35U tank and a #Labbox set up for 120, since an accident a dozen years ago limits the mobility of my right hand, making it basically impossible to load an ordinary reel! (The Lab-box can also be set up for 135, but it's a PITA to change...)
@carusb I have developed a sensitivity to film developers so I’ve been using caffenol exclusively for the past 15-20 years. That said, I also get inconsistent results
It’s probably temperature control? But I like the idea of getting some hc-110 (never tried it) and a syringe and some nitrile gloves (never tried developing with gloves on, except for tray development a couple of times) and seeing just how careful and repeatable I can make things
@carusb but IDK, I have a box of film rolls that have been exposed over 5-15 years ago (the backlog, as it were) and I just got all of my film stuff collected and I just got one roll developed so far. I don’t have a single unexpired (in some way) roll of film in the house
Also still a 1/4 inch of dust in the darkroom. Very much operating on “muscle memory” and not recent experience
The goal is 5x7 sheet film contact prints. I have a long ways to go
@crazybutable I don't have a darkroom, just a dark bag, normally not even needed with those tanks. Not sure about long ago exposed film though. You might need some better advice on that!
@crazybutable I _always_ use gloves when devving!
@carusb I never did and that’s how I got the developer sensitivity
@carusb also those little tanks look pretty cool
@carusb that is crazy, and now I am much better informed
Eye@carusb that’s so cool
With my glasses off it looks like reality is being warped
@crazybutable Thanks John. It's funny, the reactions are helping me see more!
Simon "King of Bokeh" Diamond@carusb Very nice shot! And you're getting great tonality from Kenmere 200 here.
@simon_diamond Thanks Simon. K200 continues to surprise me, in a good way; not doing anything special, just normal box metering!
@carusb I like it a lot too! Looking forward to shooting more of it, and trying the medium format.