Húsvéti nincs színe
Had a nice, relaxing Easter with the family. Saw in-laws and my sisters, ate a really good meal, colored eggs (well, I didn’t – I never do) and finished a roll of 220.
For once, I came up with a nearly-flawless strip of negatives. Since I started using the Mamiya, every roll has suffered some sort of ruinous problem – scratches or streaks that rendered many frames unusable, and required a lot of healing brush work on the rest. Research and friendly interviews pointed to either bad news happening in the film magazine or drying issues after development.
This time, I made certain that I used a different insert, and I decided to forgo squeegeeing prior to drying, just in case that had some effect. To give the strip a good long hang-space, I suspended it whole from a boom mic stand positioned in the bathtub (very rock & roll, I know).
The combination worked, so I’m sticking with it. Of course, things are never that easy. When it came to scanning, most frames were afflicted with Newton Rings and had to be redone.
I’ll get the hang of it eventually.
