Tormod here, from Trondheim.
I'm in my 40s, and I'm one of those eager amateurs, you know...
My history with photography has been a mixed bag of being a really bad 35mm photographer with fair b/w darkroom skills and OK technical understanding in the 80s, putting it all behind me through the 90s, and getting progressively more expensive digital gear in the 00s until I suddenly found myself dunking tri-x in Rodinal again and felt so much at home that I sold off all the D stuff and stocked up on real gear...
A range of Nikons was expanded with a Hasselblad 501, then my good photographer friend who's gone 100% digital decided to unload some old equipment on me, and all of a sudden I was the proud owner and obsessive user of a Fuji GX680.
As if that wasn't enough, she sent me a big box of expired film, and a few weeks later she called and asked if I wanted to take over her Sinar!
So now I can never, EVER, blame the equipment for a bad photo.
I'm very new to the Sinar, and have developed less than ten sheets so far. Among those ten were no less than THREE Velvia sheets that I got mixed up with the efke 25 sheets (hey, Efke 25 and Velvia have VERY similar notches, and my LF braille isn't quite there yet...), but I AM getting results, and I am having FUN!
So I thought I'd join your community, hoping to be able to get better at this fine pursuit by osmosis if nothing else.
This would be an example of where I'm at now, scanned at 2400 on a canoscan 8800, two partial scans stitched together.
(aargh. I just opened the tank, and found that I've developed two unexposed sheets. I need to upgrade my concentration and order. This will become expensive...)
Look forward to learning from you all!
T
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Like all photographers, you will make mistakes...its just part of the game. Have you pulled the darkslide with the lens open yet? Pulled out the film holder before replacing the slide? Held your hat into the picture instead of just shading the lens? See, you're just starting to find out what you can do wrong!
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