Month: September 2016

I have quite a bit of slide film in both 120 and 35mm in my film fridge and as most of it has expired I have embarked on a sort of project where I and going to cross process most of it over the next few months.I bought a C41 processing kit and so far I have shot 4 rolls, this is the 1st offering.

It is Fuji Velvia RVP 100 that was shot on my Mamiya 645 and 45mm f2.8

I developed the roll using the alternative dev process of 30 degrees rather than 38 degrees as I find I get a more consistent and even development.

I did notice a slight magenta edge to some of the frames that I didn’t get when processing C41 film so I am not sure what is the cause whether its the expired film or the way I have been developing?

Starting this week there is a sort of Twitter event/project thing going on called FP4Party which involves shooting a roll of ilford FP4 during the 1st week of the month then post the results in the 3rd week on twitter and tag the images #FP4Party.

Details can be found out in these links @FP4Party and emulsive.org/articles/introducing-fp4party

Anyway I shot this roll a week early as it was already in my Nikon F80 and my intention was to shoot sort of wide open and sort of close up stuff, the weather as usual for summer in Wales was rubbish so I pushed the FP4 to 200 and went out for a walk.I shot with the 50mm f1.8 which shoots reasonably close, well close enough for what I was trying to achieve anyway.I must admit FP4 is not my goto B&W film mainly due to it not being as…