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Lush garden scene with clusters of small yellow flowers and purple blossoms among dense green foliage, photographed on Kodak Gold 200 film with a Graflex Crown Graphic and Schneider 90mm f/6.8 Angulon lens.

Gold and Purple

Graflex Crown Graphic
Schneider 90 mm f/6.8 Angulon lens
6x9 roll film back
Kodak Gold 200 film
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Close-up of bright pink blossoms clustered along tree branches, set against a brick building and blue sky, photographed on Fujicolor 200 film with a Minolta CLE and Voigtlander 21mm f/4 lens.

Exuberance

Minolta CLE
Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens
Fujicolor 200 (US) film
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Close-up of a prickly pear cactus pad with sharp spines and a red fruit, photographed on Kodak Gold 200 film using a Graflex Crown Graphic and Schneider 90mm f/6.8 Angulon lens.

Poisoned Chalice

Graflex Crown Graphic
Schneider 90 mm f/6.8 Angulon lens
6x9 roll film back
Kodak Gold 200 film
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Thanks!

Thanks! I'm afraid I don't know how I exposed it; I try to keep track of the film/lens/etc. I used, but I don't log tactical details. Given that I was using the CLE, it was probably on AE; I am going to guess it would have been 1/15 or 1/30 or so. Probably, I propped the camera on a bench.

Since the bulk rolled price comes out to $4-5 per roll, I'd say it's a bargain. (FWIW these test rolls were sold separately.) But it at least *seems* to be inferior in quality to TMY, which presumably explains the deep discount.

OTOH, the film grain and such looks very much like TMY. My informal sense is that it looks like it has a bit less latitude, but it is very smooth. So, if one can avoid getting scratched up rolls, and keep it from getting spots, it should be a pretty nice 400 speed T-grain film. /3

Given that I washed it quite a bit (including both ROF and distilled water, for good measure), per my usual protocol, one has to wonder if there's something about the material that is especially bad. (It's true that the 5000 shows every flaw, but still.) Could be cautionary. /2

Finally had time to scan the rolls - here are some examples. For unclear reasons, all of them came out absolutely filthy - more drying spots than I've encountered in a long time - and the base had a lot of scratches. The latter is clearly due to the condition of the film. /1

Excellent. You can give me your celebrity endorsement after you get your first $100M....

Pink blossoms covering bare tree branches in front of a modern brick and concrete building, photographed on Fujicolor 200 film using a Minolta CLE and Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens.

Massif en Fleurs

Minolta CLE
Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens
Fujicolor 200 (US) film
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Modern glass-fronted building illuminated at dusk, with visible interior staircases and warm lights against a twilight sky, photographed on Fujicolor 200 film using a Minolta CLE and Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens.

Engineering at Twilight

Minolta CLE
Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens
Fujicolor 200 (US) film
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The pro move would be to anchor them on a $100 million opening offer, and then let them negotiate you down to $50 million. With a deal like that, everyone's a winner.

A photograph of two dark trees standing amid the dense bamboo of Arashiyama Forest in Kyoto, Japan. Their thick, twisting trunks and branches interrupt the otherwise uniform vertical lines of the bamboo, creating a quiet space between them. This gap introduces a sense of calm and stillness, drawing attention to the emptiness as much as the surrounding forms.

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Two dark trees twist and tower through Kyoto’s Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, interrupting the forest’s perfect rhythm 🇯🇵
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Sometimes, the humans are inevitable.

Depending on where you live, $1 million would be a steal. Ask for at least $10 million.

Lovely!

Large concrete spheres arranged in a line on a patterned plaza, photographed on Kentmere Pan 100 film using a Minolta CLE with Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens, developed in Rodinal 1:25.

Orbs

Minolta CLE
Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar lens
Kentmere Pan 100 film
Rodinal (1:25)
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Upward view of a tall, mostly bare tree with peeling bark and a few remaining leaves, set against a cloudy blue sky, captured on Fuji 400 film using a Fuji QuickSnap single-use camera with a 32mm f/10 plastic lens.

Thus Captured Was the Giant

Fuji QuickSnap single-use camera
32mm f/10 plastic lens
Fuji 400 film
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The outdoors would be more convenient if it were better equipped, and remained at a temperature tuned to my personal whims. I think I shall complain to the management.

Wow. Incredible work on the tonal separation....

Yurts are a level of rustic that exceeds my capacities, I think....

Lovely! It's always fortuitous when the sun doesn't hit some distant cloud bank at the wrong moment, and cancel the sunset early. 😀 I've caught the green flash on occasion, but I think you need pretty clear air for it...

Life is complex. I would only observe that, in my experience, when an end is reached, it usually becomes clear that the problems precipitating it were present at the beginning. This might or might not be relevant to present circumstances.

Hope you feel better soon! And if there's any tool for pushing through...anything, it's HP5.

Lovely! Impeccably caught light.

Congrats! That's excellent!

Man, that sucks. 🙁

Oh, also note that the BlueSky version of the images are downsampled (not always well, IMHO). If you follow the Flickr link, you can see the high resolution versions. That's one reason I always link to the original. More technical details there, too, for those who are interested.

Thanks! Almost all of my stuff is scanned with either a Coolscan 5000 (35mm) or 9000 (mostly 120), though I use an Epson V850 for 4x5. The Coolscans are really, really good. Frankly, I'm not sure that 4x5 (in ) scanned on the V850 is as good as 6x9 (cm) scanned on the 9000....