Let’s talk about something different today. I got hand on a quite old hp5+ can of 35mm. The one with the green lid and the film can itself is black with green font, can’t find when they changed this, but I’d guess so it is at least expired for 20 years. Since it was an expired film, I wanted to use it in an unconventional way, and decided to put it in the back of my Mamiya RB67 with some adapters an shoot some panoramic pictures. When you do that, of course you also expose through the sprockets as there’s no mask for 35mm. Some likes it and some don’t. I kinda like the aesthetic of it. And here we are for a quick sessions in the garden. Framing is of course not accurate unless you draw the lines on the ground glass. Actually the RB67 ground glass has several vertical lines, and this helps a lot.
Now for the developing part, I didn’t do anything special, probably extend a little bit the time compared to the recommended, but not that much, maybe one minute. This explain why it comes out with a low contrast. And actually, this kind of contrast for subjects like flowers and other vegetal is something I’m looking for. Still I added a bit of correction in Gimp, just to get some darker tones in the shadows. Basically taking the curve in the middle where there’s the most mid tones and pulled it to lower values. A few adjustments with a brush in soft light mode and that’s it.
