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Ok...two from my latest roll. I had so many sticking problems with the paterson stuff that I bought a single stainless steel tank and a double roll stainless tank and two hewes reels.

I had no problem loading the reels, it was a breeze, very enjoyable and stress free.

I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't have any issues as I've never used a SS tank before and wasn't sure what to expect.

Well, everything went well, and here are two shots from the roll. HP5+ @800 using Eco-Pro developer for 15.5 minutes at 17c (the temp of my house. I thought it would work better to maintain temp with room temp water and chems rather than trying to warm them up)

The first shot is Vicki, a clerk at the local convenience store. She's a ham and I love taking pictures of her because of it.

The second one is my wife smoking a cigarette near 9,000 gallons of fuel being pumped. It's not really dangerous, I just framed it that way for fun.

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Ok...two from my latest roll. I had so many sticking problems with the paterson stuff that I bought a single stainless steel tank and a double roll stainless tank and two hewes reels.

 

I had no problem loading the reels, it was a breeze, very enjoyable and stress free.

 

I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't have any issues as I've never used a SS tank before and wasn't sure what to expect.

 

Well, everything went well, and here are two shots from the roll. HP5+ @800 using Eco-Pro developer for 15.5 minutes at 17c (the temp of my house. I thought it would work better to maintain temp with room temp water and chems rather than trying to warm them up)

 

The first shot is Vicki, a clerk at the local convenience store. She's a ham and I love taking pictures of her because of it.

 

The second one is my wife smoking a cigarette near 9,000 gallons of fuel being pumped. It's not really dangerous, I just framed it that way for fun.

 

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RP, so it's fine now with your development  !  a good news

Nice work.

Nice pictures but a bit dangerous . I was always told that the photographer's job is at risk,  the evidence :D

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Henry

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So I've gone back to the research on the compact auto/manual-focus..etc...compact film camera comparisons and I have reminded myself why I landed on the Ricoh GR1v.

-The Minolta CLE was at the end of the day a mini M7 and I already have an M7 and in any case it is not really clear what lenses work on the camera (Cameraquests seems to suggest that all old LTM lenses will not work, but this seems to be refuted on other sites).

-The Contax and Rollei (and others) are nice but not 28mm

-That leaves the Minolta TC1 and Ricoh GR1

-Minolta is very Leica-like in its construction and has a good lens.  But I was put off by the way in which the manual focus works and the ability to easily toggle b/n AF and MF.  

-The Ricoh seemed to have better functionality relating to MF.  You can pretty easily toggle from 1-5 meters.  Or set it at infinity or spot or P-mode (whatever that means), all pretty easily.  

I actually had fun with it and was able to have it handy to capture some special moments, particularly family moments.

And the lens is really quite good.  I have had some analog silver gelatin (fiber) prints made of some of them and have been very impressed (corner to corner sharpness, good contrast, etc)

In case anyone is interested (and to give the camera the credit it deserves (assuming it works properly, which I'm convinced mine didn't but still managed to get these results), here are some sample images taken with the camera... 

 

I have gone through this kind of research for a while, too. In the end I couldn't justify spending some hundreds of € for a Ricoh GR 1(s/v) and stilled my GAS by treating myself with the purchase of a mere Rollei Prego Micron - a Ricoh R1 in another housing and with a differently labeled lens. It has a 30mm lens (f 3.5) and the function to switch to 24mm (f 8). It is a tiny little plastic cam and has the same LCD display problems as most of these cameras from the nineties - but is capable of producing interesting results. Here two examples showing the difference between 24 and 30 mm:

 

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As you can see, it tends to vignette and distortions in the corners. Anyway, a cheap, very unobtrusive toy :)

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Trocadéro Paris

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M7-35 Lux Asph

 

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"He's a lumberjack and he's OK..."

 

Just back from the post office. 20kg of Leica cameras and lenses sent off to Montreal. Left with an M2, and chrome 35, 50, 90. I intend to pick up speed now, and shoot more. :p

 

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C'mon Chris. You can't post this and leave us hanging...

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Again from....Iran

Hope I do not bore you to death with these images from the same country. But it is just my enthusiasm for these hospitable people.

Tmax 400, Spur HCD 80/20

 

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Again from....Iran

Hope I do not bore you to death with these images from the same country. But it is just my enthusiasm for these hospitable people.

Tmax 400, Spur HCD 80/20

 

best regards

Marc

This is the kind of photo I would like to be able to make! Well done!

 

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Ok...two from my latest roll. I had so many sticking problems with the paterson stuff that I bought a single stainless steel tank and a double roll stainless tank and two hewes reels.

I had no problem loading the reels, it was a breeze, very enjoyable and stress free.

I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't have any issues as I've never used a SS tank before and wasn't sure what to expect.

Well, everything went well, and here are two shots from the roll. HP5+ @800 using Eco-Pro developer for 15.5 minutes at 17c (the temp of my house. I thought it would work better to maintain temp with room temp water and chems rather than trying to warm them up)

The first shot is Vicki, a clerk at the local convenience store. She's a ham and I love taking pictures of her because of it.

The second one is my wife smoking a cigarette near 9,000 gallons of fuel being pumped. It's not really dangerous, I just framed it that way for fun.

23679539889_1b9b1c7263_h.jpg

23939228882_0c4650d18f_h.jpg

The second one is CRAZY interesting, and should be enjoyed more broadly.  

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Again from....Iran

Hope I do not bore you to death with these images from the same country. But it is just my enthusiasm for these hospitable people.

Tmax 400, Spur HCD 80/20

 

best regards

Marc

wow, now THAT is a soulful portrait.  

Amazing

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Lower Broadway, NYC  :o

MA, 28mm Elmarit (pre-asph), Cinestill 800T

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Leura Garden, Katoomba

M6TTL, 35Lux FLE, Fujifilm Acros

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