you can;t even IMAGINE what it is


daddragon
@daddragon

Got two sheets loaded and shot in the little crown graphic. Now I am faced with the burden of TRAY DEVELOPMENT

I've been practicing with two dead sheets of film in 5x7 trays, and I think that might be tooooo big. It's hard to impossible to fully keep track of them in the tray, so I either have to be very diligent on cycling the sheets, or hope that I can find them after tray agitation. Leaning towards the latter cuz it minimizes how long my fingers are in developer.

I also need a completely dark room to do that in, which I don't have. So I'm gonna wait til night and try my best with the laundry room



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Yeah!

It's sort of a silly format tbh. 2¼x3¼ is very slightly smaller than 120 (which is 2.4" edge-to-edge) so you kind of get less film. You could cut 5x7 in half, but that gives you 2 ½ inches, so you need to take some off the edge of that first. And when you actually shoot you get... Single sheets of 6x9cm images. Which you have to process individually.

It's like all the downsides of sheet film but you don't even get increased resolution over 120. Prank format invented by graflex to sell more graflex

Lol yeah, I picked up a Century Graphic earlier this year and it's a really neat camera, but I've only shot with a roll film back and ended up just buying a 4x5 for sheet film