After a successful attempt at DIY developing my first roll of 35mm black & white film recently, I took a risk (it is always a risk for a clumsy guy like me) and attempted doing the same for a roll of 120 film. This is one of two test rolls (Rollei Retro 400) I took randomly to test out my GF670. I’ll talk about the camera later on.
Notice the white patch on the bottom right of the photo above? Okay … here’s the whole story. Loading the 120 film for developing proved to be a big challenge for me. After a couple of attempts, I got fed up and sort of manually roll the film into the spool thingie. I suspect it could be due to me (the clumsy one) rolling the film a little too tight … that some of the frames (and parts of others) were not developed properly. There were patches of white/grey on the negatives! Damn!
Fortunately few of them survived and I was able to confirm that my fuzzyeyeballs can focus pretty well using the rangefinder. Phew! Okay … so the camera works great, metering seems good … but the roll is … a big mess.
After two test rolls (the 2nd one has been put to a KIV status after I screwed up this roll and will be developed in a day or two after I get over the mess) … I am definitely sure the GF670 will be a camera to stay for good in my cabinet. The shutter is super duper silent … something which I don’t quite get used to. The lens seems to be pretty darn sharp!
I didn’t screw up the photo above. The white stuffs on it was a ghost! Arghhh!!! Nah! It was screwed up. 🙁
The following are the frames that got into the ‘Frames of shame’ category today. 😀
I quite like this one (above). Hahahaha!
Somehow I like this one (above) too!
Okay … that’s all for now. I’ll get some sleep, try to forget the mess and hopefully be able to develop the next roll tomorrow (after I go watch some YouTube videos on how to best roll the film).