RB67 Roll 10

June 2023

I found a roll of 120 Tri-X sitting on my shelf. It was in plain sight yet overlooked for quite a while. In this case “quite a while” means the film had a 2018 expiration date. It finally got my notice as I was moving things around as a result of getting a new camera. OK. I’ll load the film into the RB67 and take some pictures. Worst case is wasted time.

I took one (bad) picture of the new camera then decided to take some pictures of my current bike to somewhat match the images I took of a previous bike. I got distracted while doing that when a neighbor came over to discuss some sprinkler issues.

July 2023

It’s six weeks later and I still have two frames to shoot to use up the roll. I went out in the back yard and took a couple of images of a hydrangia.

Developed using Rodinal 1+100 for 60 minutes with inversions at start and the 30 minute mark. I’ve given up on flat bed film scanning since I last shot a roll of 120 film and and instead used a DSLR to take images of the negatives. Set up:

Viltrox L116T Light Source
Essential Film Holder with 6x7 mask
Manfrotto Magic Arm
Canon 70D DSLR w/50mm f/1.8 lens and a short extension tube
Manual exposure for all frames – ISO 100, f/8, 1/60s
Camera tethered to Lightroom Classic
Negative images converted using Negative Lab Pro in Lightroom Classic. I’ve given up on Capture One.

The surprise: KODAK and film frame numbers are visible on most of the images. I suspect it was somehow transferred from the film backing paper over the years it sat on my shelf. In spite of that I like some of the images.