Wandering Around the Beaches after dinner.

Camera: Leica M4-2, Film: Kodak Plus X 125 processed in Xtol 1+1.

Up the Sidewalk

Thruxton aka The Other Mid Life Crisis Ride

Canada House

After Dinner Walk

Life Guard Hut

Comments

Anonymous said…
Bill, these are great! I always do love your work.

Do you know anything about working with IR film (true IR)? I have a roll in the 'fridge that I want to work with, but the last roll got ruined at the shop and the roll before that wasn't true IR, so I'm a bit nervous to take the last roll out.
5:09 AM
Bill Smith said…
Good question. What roll is it? I have never messed with IR film myself, what I do know is you need a deep red filter and you have to be really careful in handling, put simple load and unload the film at home in a windowless room.
7:15 AM
Anonymous said…
Yes, I have an IR filter (that I dropped and it cracked. I can't see through it, but I wonder if it's still okay to use...) I also have a deep red filter. And I have a film loading bag (2 of them) so I'm in the clear there.

The film is Efke IR film. I'd love to pull it out the 'fridge and shoot with it...but I'm a little afraid to. I'd hate to have the roll ruined. The last roll was from a trip to Maine, so I was really disappointed when I got the call that they ruined the film and was sorry about it. They gave me free processing on the next roll of film, but still...
5:36 PM
Bill Smith said…
Hmm, you sending your black and white film to be processed? I process my own, if I screw up, it's my fault and not some else.
6:37 AM
Anonymous said…
Yes, I send it out for processing. I moved and there's just no room here for processing negatives. I don't have anywhere I can put them where they can dry without threat of lint or something floating on to them. There's not much space for making the prints either, but at least with a print I only mess up one sheet of paper. With the negative it's kind of an out of luck thing if it gets messed up.

I might just have to switch to digital. I hate the idea because I have all these great film cameras, but I can't just not take pictures because I don't have a reliable place to process. There was a great film place where I used to live. They were real pros...can't find anything like that here :(.
6:49 PM
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