Archive for January, 2009

Polaroid

Sunday, January 25th, 2009
instant film mini world 500x498 Polaroid

Well, It’s actually not Polaroid, it’s FujiFilm FP-400B but it’s close enough given the number of boxes of the stuff I’ve gone through without getting a single result because, for the last year, I’ve been loading the fucker the wrong way! I was hoping, on my first outing with the stuff, to keep the negative side. But alas, it seems you have to really wait till it dries before it can be moved. Not really suited to taking a shot and moving around either unless you have some special container to hold the negatives (tried a box but got carried away with putting more than 1 in the box. Result? Stuck together and useless).
Any tips or suggestions on the negative holding, drying carrying or scanning are most welcome.

When developer dies

Monday, January 12th, 2009
on the train to Jimbocho 500x500 When developer dies

Sometimes you get lucky. First 2 rolls from my trip to Kanazawa and I’m using expired developer unbeknownst to me. The grain is huge but somehow this accident ended in a shot I am happy with. This is also an example of the over use of the red 25 filter I have :-)