D-23 (stock, 15 minutes), citric acid, plain hypo).


What I learned from this negative, digitally "printed" by means of a light box and iPhone:

  1. Photos taken indoor with flash using an inverted-lens box camera will necessarily lack subtlety, so this approach should only be used with loud images.
  2. 6x9 contact prints with a degree of subtlety require a different camera. I've spent weeks, months, researching this, and I've plumped for the Moskva-5 over the Fuji GW-690, largely because the latter is four times more expensive, but also because of my previous positive experience with Soviet cameras: the FED2 have given me the best 35mm photos, better than any Nikon professional SLR. 
  3. However, the negative is encouraging. Look at the way the image of the fairy lights have stretched in the top right corner: this suggests we'll get good image-distortion vignetting, (works very well with trees in Winter).
  4. Despite all my precautions, (running the shower hot for a few minutes before hanging the film to dry in the cubicle) dust has apparently found its way onto the neg.
  5. FP4, at least 30 years old, scrubs up nicely.
  6. 6x9 negs, LOVELY! Look at the yards of table in the foreground here!
  7. The first stage in a narrative need not be clear.

 

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