Developed in the same tank as #0050: 4m:20s at 101F which Kodak says is a +2 push in their papers.

Expiry on this roll was Jan 2015 so it's not very much expired, but it's not fresh either. I "metered" (eyeballed, or used phone) at 800 to see how it would pan out.

I did a single-afternoon walkaround test roll because it was Sunday and I had the other roll sitting waiting to develop already. Everything was handheld with waist-level finder and the 55mm f/4.5 wide-angle.


It's a tricky lens for me because if I want pictures closer than across-the-street it's just barely tall enough, but it's difficult to find a workable framing at 1:1 ratio and it's not wide enough that I can back up sufficiently to make it croppable, unless the street is totally dead and also no one is parked in front of the subject.

The first two shots above show the (rare) situation where I find it possible and the (much more common) scenario where it just feels claustrophobic (left at 1:1 here to illustrate.) Eye-level instead of waist-level is usually better here, too, but I was going for a simple kit on this walk.

It's cool that the bellows focusing means it can get super close (if you don't mind losing light to it,) but on the other hand there's a total of about 30 degrees of a single turn of the racking knob that takes focus from infinity to 4.5ft so good luck managing any critical focus or intentional placement of focal drop off in that range.

In the end I shouldn't think of it mentally like a "wide angle" (which to me on 35 has traditionally been a 24mm) because even though its equivalent focal length is probably ~30mm mathematically, given the square crop and all maybe I should think of it as more of a 35mm would be on 35, or "like my 24mm on crop sensor digital."

For a post that was supposed to be about pushing this film for the first time I guess I just had the shooting experience on my mind instead.

Most of what I have to say re: the development results is I should have avoided scenes where I wanted shadow detail because while the shadows aren't totally fried they are kind of unpleasant looking. I was hoping for more of a Superia-green pushed shadow effect and that's not what I got. Those reds sure went wild though.

Mamiya C330 / Fujicolor Pro 400H (DX: n/a)
Rolleicolor C-41 4m:20s @ 101F (2 inversions per 15s)
Nikon LS-8000 => VueScan => NegativeLabPro

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