RB67 Roll 11

Saturday, 2 Sep 2023

After playing with the long expired roll of Tri-X a few months ago I decided I really didn’t need ISO 400 film, especially when I keep the RB67 on a tripod and the maximum shutter speed is 1/400 of a second. I ordered some Ilford FP4+ (ISO 125) and took pictures of items around the house in August. Nothing special, just simple targets to see how this film works in this camera. I metered all shots using the film’s box speed.

I developed the film today using the same semi-stand method I used with the last roll of Tri-X I shot. When I first saw the negatives I thought they might have been over exposed. However, once digitized the exposures mostly looked OK.

The results follow. The images marked with a pair of asterisks had secondary edits performed, over and above simple conversion to a positive using Negative Lab Pro in Lightroom Classic. I’ve found that using the curves tool in masked areas adjusts the positive image, not the negative.

Disappointing images of a wall planter/decoration. The first shot is with the lamp off. The last two are with the lamp on, but I forgot to change the shutter speed of the first lamp image. None of them are close to what I hoped/imagined. I edited the first, anyway.