{"id":6283,"date":"2013-01-15T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2020-03-11T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:01:07","slug":"drops-of-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=6283","title":{"rendered":"Drops Of Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a roll of Fujifilm Neopan 400 that I thought would never see the light of day. It is the 2nd test roll that I fed to the Ricoh GR21 in Japan and the roll was left in my drawer for months as I had run out of developer and just couldn&#8217;t find time to go replenish it. Last Sunday &#8230; I got a little crazy and there was this voice inside my head that told me to get the roll developed. The problem was &#8230; I still haven&#8217;t replenish the developer! So I took out the old bottle (of developer) and saw that there was probably a few drops of it left &#8230; told myself some crazy things like &#8216;Okay &#8230; why not just give it a go and see what turns out?&#8217;. I knew there was just not enough developer for the dilution ratio &#8230; way too little developer &#8230; but I wanted to go ahead and see what&#8217;s gonna happen. Crazy huh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/11.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/9.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I poured out the last few drops of developer before washing out the few remaining bits from inside the bottle and proceed to develop the roll like I normally do. Yeah &#8230; the usual lazy crazy way that ends up with little ice cubes in the development tank. \ud83d\ude00 My heart was beating like a drum! When it came to the end of the developing stage &#8230; suddenly I heard a beep and there was this message coming in from a buddy. Then instead of continue monitoring the timing of the last few minutes\/seconds of the developing &#8230; I stopped the timer and proceed to check my phone message! I ignored the timer! I don&#8217;t know how long it took me to read the message but I gave the development tank a few good shake once I was done with my phone &#8230; and proceed to finish the entire process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/3.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was like witnessing a miracle when I finally got to see the film strip!!! It seemed to have turned out properly! So those few drops of developer works? So I really can do with such a diluted mix in future? So that phone message that came in was magical? I sure was happy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/5.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/15.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Street photography &#8230; one of my favourite genre but also the genre that I seem to shoot lesser these days. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/20.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/25.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/30.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am convinced that parting the money for the GR21 is a wise decision. I&#8217;m loving the camera so much (except the times when I left the lens cap on)!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/14.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/ricoh-gr21-neopan-400-japan-2012-test-roll-2\/22.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is 430am now and I better get back to sleep soon. I fell asleep around 11pm with the scanner still working hard and jumped out of bed at 330am!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the full set of photos from this roll &#8230;<\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a roll of Fujifilm Neopan 400 that I thought would never see the light of day. It is the 2nd test roll that I fed to the Ricoh GR21 in Japan and the roll was left in my drawer for months as I had run out of developer &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=6283\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[2411,1810,1308,5,526,1572,326,55,1030,332,214,11,2389],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-film","tag-developer","tag-gr21","tag-iso400","tag-japan","tag-miracle","tag-neopan","tag-people","tag-ricoh","tag-street","tag-tokyo","tag-travel","tag-wide","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6331,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}