Okay, so I thought long and hard about even bothering to share these, because I'm far from happy with them....
But here's the test shots from my first film experiment in 20 years. These were taken on the medium format Pentax 6x7 from two rolls of film, one colour and one b/w.
Both rolls of film saw multiple flash misfires (due to, in my opinion: dodgy old connections) so the colour shots you see here.... are actually the tungsten modelling bulb of the fresnel key light...no flash 😅
So when the flash didn't fire, the films unbelievable latitude (range of discernible light) still enabled me to extract a 'usable/visible' image from the negative. But that's why the contrast and colour looks so cranked up and bizarre in those shots.
On top of that, the black and white film was 100 ISO film that I shot and developed at ISO 400. Again, as a result, the contrast in the black and whites is strong and some of the black tones are blending together.
Don't panic! I'm probably not gonna bore you with all of my infant stumbling around with film😅 But I thought I'd share these first stabs in the dark with it anyway. I'm gonna try again with it tomorrow and hopefully I have more luck with the flash firing more consistently. With me luck.
