Three, nearly four hours, a freshly mowed lawn, and a quick shower later, there are two 4×5 negatives, mostly dry, awaiting scanning (InshaAllah tomorrow), and a nicely dried, recently-used SP-445 4×5 processing tank chilling in the developing cabinet. How did it go?
Category Archives: Gear
Unboxing the SP-445
The new SP-445 Compact 4×5 Film Processing System arrived today. Now to go shoot some film and test it out! https://youtu.be/47lWB801WNA
Missed a Spot!
I inherited a shiny little Ricoh 35-ZF some time ago and put a couple of rolls through it back during my photowalk days in 2011 or 2012 (and started another that took me 2+ years to finish). While I liked it well enough, it did have two annoying little issues. First off, the strap lugs made this great clacking sound at the …
Unboxing JCH Street Pan
After a bit of hemming and hawing, and after Fuji announced it was discontinuing some multipacks of its professional and consumer films (it may or may not be true…), and after writing a rather passionate comment in support of all film manufacturers on the Japan Camera Hunter site (see the comments here), I pulled the trigger …
Nikon FG – dirty frame counter switch: SOLVED
Some months ago, I noticed something odd going on with the FG. Every now and again, at seemingly random moments, the 60/125 lights would start blinking and it would fire at 1/90th only until I opened the back and reset the counter. It would then function as normal: 1/90th for the first few frames, then normal operation, …
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Unboxing Galaxy’s ‘Photographer’s Planner and Handbook’
Galaxy kickstartered this groovy little project planner back in November 2015 and it was successfully funded as of 1 December… Better late than never! To their credit, they sent me a 10% off coupon for the 2017 version (this one has calendar pages through June 2017) and a 20% off coupon for anything in their …
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Enter the Diana Mini
Thanks to my darling, adorable wife and my awesome Mom, when my birthday arrived, everything on my wish list had arrived and was sitting in boxes next to the door. One of the boxes held a couple of fun new toys from Lomography: the Diana Mini, and the LC-A Instant Back! More about the instant …
