When photography gets too easy it becomes boring. So here I present some recent photos I developed at home, taken with an ancient Speed Graphic with a 120 roll film back, through a Zeiss Tessar lens. Unfortunately, I left the film in the camera for 3 years before I shot the last 3 frames, so it didn’t survive the various light leaks. But a few shots were interesting enough to scan and crop and tidy up. The film is HP5+, and the developer is Caffenol delta standard, a simple mixture of washing soda, vitamin c tablets and cheapo instant coffee. One warning, always filter the solution after mixing it up, or else be prepared for white spots on the negatives due to the presence of tiny bits of vitamin c tablets!
Below are a two photos from a recent musical event, taken with a 1952 Leica iiif on 35mm HP5+ film, and developed in the same Caffenol. The lens is a Summar 50mm from 1935 or so, and it still kicks! When you hold an old Leica in your hands you understand why they were the gold standard for decades.
Last, some digital photos with a difference; shot with a pinhole “lens” on my defective Pentax K50 that still works in manual mode. I was able to shoot outdoors handheld at speeds around 1/20th and ISO of around 12500 to 25000.
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