Very excited to get my first scans back after an impulse purchase of a very-vintage Yashica A TLR last year. Thanks to filmdev.co.uk for their rock solid processing & scanning.
Another photo from the Portra 800 roll of 2023. I remember the moment I took it: the sun was going down, I wanted to finish the roll and just shot random stuff around me.
It's half past 1 in the morning. I just spent 15 minutes in my bathroom. With the lights out. Reversing a roll of 120 film by hand, because my camera decided it wanted to be special and wouldn't properly count frames, and thus wound the entire rollover before even moving off of S. I didn't bring an empty spool with me. So I have to, in the dark, unwind, reverse, and rewind, an entire roll of 120.
This is not the first time I've done this. And I can tell you from experience that every time I do it I end up having to move the start of the film about a quarter inch or so because I can never get the tension right and have to move the taped end. So I'm sitting here, literally sitting, on the floor, I kid you not, using my feet as makeshift clamps to hold either end of the roll flat so I can manipulate the other one without it coiling up into cthulhu's monster.
I did it. But I don't know how badly misaligned everything is.
A droite, de la Rera Pan 400, aka Rollei RPX 400 rebadgée, au format 127.
A gauche, de la Foma Ortho 400, en format 120. L'avantage de la pellicule orthochromatique est qu'on peut l'exposer à la lumière inactinique du laboratoire, sans dommage.
Le but est de transformer le format 120 en format 127, plus petit. La bande de 120 fait 61 mm de large pour 830 mm de long contre 46mm de large pour 630 mm de long pour la 127.
Il me faut donc couper un bout de 200 mm que je pourrai utiliser dans un appareil 6x17, puis deux bandes de 7,5mm sur chaque côté. Et ce à la lumière rouge.
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My Yashica Mat 124G, as good as new. With a new bright screen.
I think he pretty much rebuilt the camera! He also installed a new bright screen for me.
Service is a little challenging as he doesn’t really speak English or write emails. But if you send him a package with info and your PayPal address, he’ll get it done!