{"id":215,"date":"2007-08-26T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-08-26T23:07:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T03:07:50","slug":"a-few-more-black-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/a-few-more-black-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"A few more black & whites"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had my Graflex Pacemaker 23 Speed Graphic with me over the weekend, and I shot a couple rolls of film through it, in addition to the remainder of the roll I shot on Thursday<\/a> (didn’t get a chance to scan those in yet – stay tuned there). Actually, all the shots were on Saturday, and all 3 rolls of Kodak T-MAX were developed Saturday night in the darkroom\/bathroom.<\/p>\n

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First up was a couple shots at the Farmer’s Grain Cooperative at the end of the Connecticut Southern Railroad’s Manchester Branch. No trains were running, and in fact the co-op didn’t have any cars in their siding. But I still got a few shots around the area. Two in particular came out pretty good. One looking towards Oakland Street and one of the switch stand for the co-op siding.<\/p>\n

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Then later in the day, I shot a couple rolls of film at my in-laws. One roll didn’t work out well as I aparently bumped the 120 roll film back a couple times and let some light in, so all the negs were fogged. Oh, well. The other roll came out great, though. Got at least 3 standouts there. One detail shot of an old and rusting Lincoln Town Car Mark V deep in the back yard.<\/p>\n

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This one I had to extend the bellows out on the camera for the closeup shot – the front of the lens was only a few inches from the hood ornament.<\/p>\n

And I got a shot of each of the barns on the property.<\/p>\n

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All were shot around f\/11, and only the two at the co-op were handheld – the others were on a tripod. I’m getting to like film again… I’m thinking about taking one day of railfanning and only have the Speed Graphic and a few rolls of black & white film with me. Just like the old days. Well, I’ll probably have my 20D with me anyways – I don’t own a light meter, so I’ve been using the digital as a meter lately. We’ll see…maybe I’ll save the film day for the winter months…hmmm….<\/p>\n

And for those of you who are curious about the details about developing – I developed the film in Kodak D-76 developer, diluted 1:1, and did the usual stop bath then fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener, if you’re really curious).\u00a0 A bath in running water, then a hang dry in the tub.\u00a0 Cut up into 2 frame strips (hey, remember they’re huge at 6cm x 7cm), then scanned with a Canon 8600F flatbed film\/print scanner run by SilverFast-SE scanning software (well worth the price!).\u00a0 Nothing complex…<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had my Graflex Pacemaker 23 Speed Graphic with me over the weekend, and I shot a couple rolls of film through it, in addition to the remainder of the roll I shot on Thursday (didn’t get a chance to scan those in yet – stay tuned there). Actually, all the shots were on Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc-stuff","7":"category-photography","8":"category-rail_photography","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}