Lights out
On Saturday I booked myself a slot to develop a couple of rolls of ilford hp5 - the roll I shot on the camera with the dodgy shutter, and the other roll some random snaps I’d taken using a new Canon eos 300 body I’d found on eBay for £12.99.
I was determined I was not going to stuff up my first time doing this unsupervised, so in advance I’d downloaded The Massive Dev Chart app - would thoroughly recommend if, like me, your brain has a tendency to lose track of time.
(https://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php)
The moment of truth came after the wash and I was pleasantly surprised to see there appeared to be something on my negatives.
The results confirmed as I thought, absolutely gubbed shutter curtain on my original camera which resulted in one roll with some lovely negatives with only the bottom half exposed.
The second set of negatives look a bit more promising, if potentially a bit underexposed.
Feel like I haven’t quite got the hang of metering in the camera yet and I always err on the side of underexposing, when probably when working with film I should be overexposing if anything.
Hopefully I get a chance to make a contact sheet of these and see if there is anything worth enlarging from this roll - I certainly can never have enough pictures of my cat.
