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MSA O/N February, 2026: "Backlit"

From yesterday. Trying out Kentmere 400.
Pentax K1000 35mm f3.5

 
New, taken today, first roll through the homemade camera with Wollaston landscape lens. Kentmere 400 and 510-pyro on 6x9. f/5.2, 1/30, 7 feet

 
Old, 2023. Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 lens on a Canon T90 with Kodak E100

 
Yashicamat 124G. Tri-X 400 at EI 250. Developed in D-76 1+1 for 9:30 at 68.3F

New image: 02/15/2026
"Cacao tree"
1/30 at f/8

The plant house was packed for the last few days. I came in from the cold and waited before going into the Palm House to warm up the gear then go in but my lenses still fogged right up. I had to get my shots in between lens wipes and be quick about it because people were all around me and I felt like a pinball, lol.
 

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Solid work! Nice camera, BTW
 
New.

Backlit plant leaf - Bit of a cheat as it's backlit using a flash but it was tricky enough even with the extra light.

ETRS + Bellows + 75mm + Yellow filter. 1/125 @ f16. Delta 100/Ilfosol 3 1+9. 580EXII Flash + Minolta Spotmeter F.

Neg scan


 
Old enough to have been entered by me in the Harman/Ilford sponsored APUG print competition, so many years ago:

It is a scan from print done back in, I think, 2014.
At least that is the date on the digital file.
As the competition required that both the film and the paper were Ilford, I broke from my usual practice and used the one Ilford film that didn't have a Kodak competitor any more - Ilford SFX.
It is from a 120 negative loaded in (IIRC) either my Mamiya C330 or the C220 I had as a backup for a while.
No IR filtration - I decided to use SFX because it was an Ilford film and has a distinctive grain and spectral response that I like when SFX is used "normally".
The backlighting comes from a south facing sliding glass door behind it.
Back then I was using Kodak HC-110 developer, but I can't recall whether or not I had transitioned to using HC-110 replenished by then.
 
[Old - August 2023] Love In Vein



35mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor, Double-X, EMA Pyrocat-HD, scan of silver print
 
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[Old - Another from the August 2023 series] Edgelord



35mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor, Double-X, EMA Pyrocat-HD, scan of silver print
 
Another old one on Delta 400 120. Early sun at Quinault, Washington. Negative scan no edit except slight crop.

 
[Old - September 2025] Had a really beautiful spring this year, blossoms lasted for a few weeks. FP4 in ilfosol.
 

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Hasselblad 501C with 80mm lens. Tri-X 400 at 400. 1/60 at f/8. Developed in D-76 1+1 for 10:00 at 67.4F/19.6.

New image: 02/24/2026
"Stairs at Thornes" - Thornes Marketplace in Northampton, MA.

I came across this on my way back home to pick up my wallet that I had forgotten, lol.
 

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He knows! He knows! The look of realization on his face at our Darkroom Group meeting on Saturday was worth the price of admission!
 
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