I had put a roll of Ilford Delta 400 through the Horizon 202 at work last week, running around the historic areas in my lunch break. When I processed it, I found one length of dark dense film. I was baffled and put it down to out of date film and fogged emulsion. Of course, it couldn’t possibly have been user error!!! Hmm, I am an idiot, and I should have re read my own blog post.
The shutter settings on the camera I mistook for 2, 4 and 8 seconds during shooting, are actually 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8th of a second. I did know this but chose to have a brain fart instead. So of course it’s a grossly underexposed roll of film. Still doesn’t explain the dense back processing, though.
Today, I put a roll of out of date Ilford FP4, rated at 80 ISO, through it at the studio as it was such a lovely bright day.
Tripod mounted at f11 at 1/2 second and other variations.
Developed with Pyro 150 and fixed with Eco Zonefix. I’ve not used these before but have heard great things about it and this fixer is recommended for use with this dev.
I have no idea what a Pyro stained neg looks like. I was expecting some sort of yellow coloured film stain. Translating processing errors from looking at the film base is a dark art I’m not too familiar with. So I’ve no idea if these negs are under/over exposed or/and over/under developed/fixed 🙂
And printed on old Ilford MGIV lustre paper that has slight fogging issues.
Framing the portrait orientation shots is next to guesswork as the level/bubble is of no real use.
I was expecting more flare issues shooting into the window, but they aren’t too bad.
He film was a little curly and it did pop out of the film holder in the enlarger a couple of time. I will use some glass support in there next time.
I can see the basic functions and the extreme wide angle on such a cheap looking plastic camera being fun to use.