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| Kodak Instamatic 277X with Ilford Pan 400 |
Using the little-endian calendar in the UK provides two successive obsolete film format days in June: the 11th and 12th for
116 and
126 formats respectively. The regular 127 Days in summer and winter are relatively well established, in part due to 127 film still being available (if only just), whereas shooting film for both 116 and 126 formats does mean either sourcing long discontinued film or taking different strategies for using new film in the cameras.
For Tuesday's 116 Day, I shot a single roll of medium format
Ilford XP2 Super, rolled with 116 backing paper, with the
Agfa Standard Model 255. I developed this with RO9 rather than C41, and had problems with overexposure (and perhaps overdevelopment), partly due to shooting into the light, late in the afternoon, despite the presence of cloud cover; scanning the negatives and attempting to retain any detail from the sky had the tendency to compress the mid-tones and shadows rather too much. The first image revisited one photograph from 2017's
116 Day, documenting the progression of demolition. Three of the six shots from the roll I felt worth salvaging.
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford XP2 Super |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford XP2 Super |
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| Agfa Standard with Ilford XP2 Super |
The following day I loaded a single 126 cartridge with Ilford Pan 400, and shot it with the same Kodak Instamatic 277X I'd used
last year - and the main reason for using it was for its adjustable aperture: with a 400 speed film, this meant using a relatively small aperture for most shots (the camera's shutter speed is fixed at 1/80th), ensuring that the photographs were relatively sharp. After using the camera last year and having had many frames overlapping, I made sure that the film was fully wound on to the next frame, judging from the numbers on the backing paper, even if this meant taking fewer shots on the roll of film.
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| Kodak Instamatic 277X with Ilford Pan 400 |
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| Kodak Instamatic 277X with Ilford Pan 400 |
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| Kodak Instamatic 277X with Ilford Pan 400 |
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| Kodak Instamatic 277X with Ilford Pan 400 |
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| Kodak Instamatic 277X |
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| Kodak Instamatic 277X |
