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| Rolleiflex 4x4 with Fomapan 400 |
Still recovering from Covid-19, last week's
127 Day coincided with one of the better days when I felt well enough to go for a short walk on a very grey day, but not early enough for the mist to make it interesting. I took the
Rolleiflex 4x4, loaded with a roll of cut-down
Fomapan 400. Inevitably, or so it felt, the one roll I shot was beset with issues. The start of the roll had some odd spots, visible in areas of the sky, possibly due to some developing problem (although I'm unclear what caused this); then a number of the shots had out-of-focus areas in the frame, which must be due to the film not laying flat inside the camera. This might be down to using cut-down film, possibly cut slightly too wide, and as a result, bowing out in the middle. Then the film got stuck after nine exposures; I couldn't work out why this happened, but after removing the film in a changing bag and developing it, some of the shots have light leaks at the sides, suggestive of a 'fat roll' (although I didn't really notice this at the time): however, if the film was cut just a little wide, this is no surprise. Somehow the unexpected inadequacy of the results feels fitting.
I'm sorry to hear that you have covid-19 - and glad that you're recovered enough to have gotten out on 127 Day! You've managed to create some lovely separation of gray tones in spite of everything, and to me there's a sense of chaos in the images that's very reflective of this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. What a year - here's hoping 2021's better one.
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