{"id":3262,"date":"2022-07-24T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2024-12-14T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:22:36","slug":"not-quite-what-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/24\/not-quite-what-i-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite what I expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The pictures from my photo walk to the local park<\/a> aren’t great. But here they are anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I developed the film with the Bellini Foto C-41 kit yesterday and scanned the negatives as soon as they were dry. The process was a little stressful, because I had to maintain the chemicals at a precise 38\u00e2\u0081\u00b0C whilst keeping time and agitating the development tank the correct amount for each stage. But at least, the good pictures below (from 2018) tell me that the development was successful and is not the cause of the bad ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I said, the FG-20 held an unfinished roll of film from around 2018. In addition, it was a film that expired in 2005. Its age is a factor in the poor quality of the pictures, but I am mostly at fault for not setting the correct exposure on the camera when taking the shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pictures from my photo walk to the local park aren’t great. But here they are anyway. I developed the film with the Bellini Foto C-41 kit yesterday and scanned the negatives as soon as they were dry. The process was a little stressful, because I had to maintain the chemicals at a precise 38\u00e2\u0081\u00b0C […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-QC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3241,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/15\/trying-film-photography-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":3262,"position":0},"title":"Trying film photography again","author":"Eddy Young","date":"15 July 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally visited the park that opened near my house in 2020 amidst COVID lockdown. 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