Loaded the roll of expired TMax 400 up in there. Might be slightly overexposing with the light meter, but hopefully not too much. The phone app is showing it a stop too bright. BUT hopefully that's fine. I don't really want to pull process anything yet. But I guess if it consistently one direction I can do that. Or just tweak the ISO rating so the spot meter works better (it is center weighted only and may not be super reliable).
But it has been fun to get back into it. Except now I will need to process it soon and for that I need chemicals and for that I need to get off my butt and order stuff, or buy stuff, or use some of a former student's chemicals in his darkroom that he set up after taking my class and getting hooked on black and white photography. I really don't want to mail this stuff in, and I do kind of want to just be able to process it myself when I'm done with the roll. Don't want to wait the weeks it takes to mail in the film. Although maybe I should do the mail in thing with a service that also scans the images.
SO MANY OPTIONS. And then what's next for the film? What film do I try after these rolls. Or do I try and fire up one of the other cameras? WHO KNOWS. But it is good and the contemplating processing and chemicals has been good. Although it reminds me it has been 17.5 years since I've been in a darkroom/played with chemicals. Damn it has been a long time.
But I have most all the stuff I need to do the processing. I've got an ancient old Minolta film scanner, might even have an old computer that will work. Not the best resolution but it should be good enough to scan and post (until I take the next step and start printing). Yes I have the enlarger and everything.
Shooting the last two days I've more or less just taken the standard shots on the commute. I did manage to do something I've never done before. Lose a lens cap. I've had a track record going back to my first camera of never losing a lens cap.
So it was kind of funny. I thought the cap just was in my backpack when I pulled it out of the back with not lens cap. It is one of those that easily gets knocked off. So NBD. Got to work, looked through the bag, no cap. WTF? I laughed. And thought 'it figures, first time using it, lose it' and then riding home, in the dark, in the rain I stopped at the 3rd photo location, and where I first noticed it missing, and looked all over with the headlight. Nope. Not there. Rode down to the 2nd stop. Started looking around, nope, and then I noticed something very regularly shaped in the grass, and black, and there i was, sitting waiting for me to find it.
I have the cap now.
And still a few shots left before the end of the roll. Trying to be conservative with the photos, but also kind of want to just shoot the whole damn thing and process right away. But not having chemicals is helping with the patience thing and pacing and and all that.
Also, Breck Epic. SO WANT TO DO THAT RACE. See also Transylvania Epic. But man those are pricey. Maybe next year.
8 months of kid at home then the youngest is off to her dream college. Maybe things will open up after all that.
Now that I'm finally old and shit. Just another old guy trying to do shit he never was able to do in his prime. Such is life eh?
Tomorrow is also the 18th anniversary of me calling the boss here at the current job and talking about it before actually getting it. First contact. And here I am still at this place. Doesn't pay well but how does the joke go, there are good benefits? I also like what I do, even if it gets stressful sometimes. Just kind of wish we still had a darkroom but fuck, everything is digital. And yeah, maybe I just better get a digital black and white camera, film is just so... film.
But man did I really like it at one point. So many home made pinhole cameras. So many negatives somewhere.
Bikes, might not get out on the bike tomorrow, might need a day off. Maybe my ear will clear up and I'll be able to hear too. Who knows.
It has been a week, craziest 4 day work week all year!
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