Shaking a Dev Tank in the Kitchen
After a hard day chained to a hot laptop, puzzling over the relationship between functional language constructs, pedagogy, and assessment, it's nice to spend a bit of time in the kitchen shaking a dev tank. Last night I did a roll of Fuji Neopan in Rodinal and Fixer 24, and I'm going to scan it now. From the negs, it's a roll I shot in Shanghai a month or two ago on the FED2. The other night I dev'd the roll of 127 I'd put through the Baby Brownie. Hello. There was a mark along the edge of the film which looked like a light leak, (which would have been fine), but the rest of it looked as if it hadn't been exposed at all... When I looked again, there were numbers from the backing paper. I've looked at the camera, and the shutter appears to be going fine. So I don't know what to think about that. Pity, because the Baby's such a cute wee camera to use. Meanwhile, for when I get to the bottom of the exposed film mountain, I've been looking...