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| Agfa Standard with HP5 Plus |
Last Monday, the 6th November, I shot two rolls of film for a Winter '
116 Day'. Working all day, I was only able to take photographs on the way to and from work, and a couple of shots during my lunch break. I used an
Agfa Standard folding camera, rather than either the
Cocarette or
No.2A Brownie I've used perviously: the Agfa Standard was available in a range of plate and rollfilm sizes; the 116 format Standard was designated the Model 255 to distinguish it within the range. Using original 116 backing paper, I shot
Ilford HP5 Plus, and pushed the film one stop when developing. The Standard's Gauthier shutter has five speeds, as well as B and T; all the 'instant' speeds appear to be the same now. The daylight shots were over exposed: I calculated that the shutter was firing at about 1/100th, but I think it's probably much slower than that. With the clocks going back it was dark leaving work; I had better results at night, with long exposures on the T setting, balancing the camera on any convenient flat surface. There appear to have been a few problems with film flatness, and again the long exposures perhaps show this less, as I used smaller apertures than the hand-held shots. The final shot on the second roll (the last image on this post) shows the end of the 120 film curling up inside the camera and casting a shadow upon itself during the exposure.
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford HP5 Plus |
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