Just returned from a nice weekend away in the Highlands Mountain biking.


Praktica SuperTL1000 & Kodak 400CN

Just returned from a nice weekend away in the Highlands Mountain biking.


Praktica SuperTL1000 & Kodak 400CN

Just returned from a nice weekend away in the Highlands Mountain biking.


Praktica SuperTL1000 & Kodak 400CN

Just returned from a nice weekend away in the Highlands Mountain biking.

I’m not sure the name of this glen, it’s just after the descent from the Burma Road.


Praktica SuperTL1000 & Kodak 400CN

….But kinda replaced with a ridiculous Handlebar ‘tash!

The photo has made it look blonder and whispier than it is in real life…rest assured it also looks slightly less dodgy, and I look slightly more normal in real life too.

What is it with Beth and bed? That’s like the 3rd polaroid of her in bed in the last week! Lazy bugger.

Being playing around with trying to get a workable negative from a fuji FP-100B packfilm negative. Day two of experimentation and things are starting to come together…


So far my process:

1.take photo, develop as usual, and keep negative safe from dust.
2.Leave negative to dry for 24 hours-ish.
3.Put negative, emulsion-side-down, onto a piece of glass(old photo frame is perfect) and tape in place.
4.Use bleach(domestos Grotbuster is perfect!) and spread across the back of the photo. Tilt the glass to spread the bleach, as this also helps lift the black backing.
4.Leave bleach for 15 seconds.
5.Rinse bleach off, and the backing black stuff will just slide off with it.
6.RInse negative and leave to dry.

That’s it!

It’s not quite…perfect but it’s getting there. I think I need to overexpose the photo a bit to get the negative correct, and the stripey bedspread didn’t help this time, but I’ll try again another day!

The negative comes out an orangey colour transparancy. I found the best results with scanning was to scan as a b&w negative in Vuescan, and then invert in photoshop, or scan as a colour slide film and change in photoshop. However, the purpose of trying this is to get a workable negative for enlarging, and i’m not too sure if it will work as it is!

I took the 5x4 upto stirling castle this morning with Steve, it got a bit mobbed so photo opps were low.
On the plus side: Dust free!! First development I’m happy with (and I managed to fit 4 5x4 negs in my tank!).

Not sure if the levels are right from the scanner, still figuring out how to get the best from that. The scanned image ended up at 12,000pixels wide!!

Techy:

Cambo SC 5x4, Ilford Delta 100, developed in Ilford DDX for 9.5mins.

Seriously can’t wait to get into the darkroom and make some prints from the negatives!

Best viewed MASSIVE (although only 5000px wide, not 12000!)

The mods were in town for some rally. This was far the most impressive scooter!


Taken with Polaroid Land 440 and Fuji B&W packfilm. (the proper photo looks better than the scan!)

I took the 5x4 upto stirling castle this morning with Steve, it got a bit mobbed so photo opps were low.
On the plus side: Dust free!! First development I’m happy with (and I managed to fit 4 5x4 negs in my tank!).

Not sure if the levels are right from the scanner, still figuring out how to get the best from that. The scanned image ended up at 12,000pixels wide!!

Techy:

Cambo SC 5x4, Ilford Delta 100, developed in Ilford DDX for 9.5mins.

Seriously can’t wait to get into the darkroom and make some prints from the negatives!

Best viewed MASSIVE (although only 3000px wide, not 12000!)

Not sure how beth managed to sleep through this, but it involved 2 cameras and lots of shuffling around! She must have been tired!

First photo taken with my Polaroid Land Cam with Fuji 100 B&W film. Second with my digicam! I can’t believe she slept through the entire thing!