On Wednesday, I received the film holders for my MPP Micro Technical camera, this finally freed me up to take some pictures (having had the camera and film since before Christmas!).
Last night I trekked a couple of hundred yards down the road and took a couple of pictures of the Clifton Bingo hall. I was then able to develop them as soon as I got home. And guess what? I got a couple of pictures!! Woo!
(Shown is an earlier 35mm picture of the building)
Ok, it was night-time, and I was using a slow film (Fomapan 100) which meant that my exposures were 2 seconds @ f8 (some front shift to get the top of the building in) and…
2 seconds @f5.6 (lots of movements on this one).
Now I’ve got my first couple of images at least (although I really need to sort out my development regime – 7’30” in Rodinal 1+50, swishing the negatives around in an open tray in the dark…
This morning I loaded a couple of filmholders with a view to taking pictures of the mist along the river. Unfortunately, it’s been raining rather a lot so I ended up with a picture of reflections instead. Still, my first daylight exposure (1/25 sec @ f11), htis time developed in D76 (1+0) – still swishing film around in the dark whilst counting off seconds in my head…