/p/ — Three Rolls of Kodak Ultramax 400 Presented Chronologically

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This roll was shot with a 50mm lens.

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I shot all these at f/1.4 between 1s and 1/8s or so, metering with the in-camera meter.

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This lens has a really beautiful lens flare characteristic.

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It's petal-shaped, and presents a whole rainbow.

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end of roll one

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start of roll two

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I shot this roll with a 24mm lens.
That's (not) me in the window. Everyone say hello.

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Framing was much easier with the 24mm than the 50mm.

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RIP John Partridge, the kind old man who ran this place.

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I had a cable release for this roll and used bulb mode a few times, as well as a metering app on my phone.

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"ProMaster" brand: it was awful. It fell apart when I pulled it from my shirt pocket for this shot: the outer rubber sleeve flopped off the end, making a slinky metallic whizzing sound as it brushed against the inner wire. Don't buy one.

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This was one of the longest exposures: 20ish seconds. I had to hold the cable release together. Yeah, it fell to bits but I wasn't going to press the shutter on the camera body, either. I had to hold it together for the remainder of these shots until I could get to the camera store where I bought it and return it. I wasn't gonna go earlier; I wanted to kill two birds with one stone and take my latent film in at the same time.

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The metering app I use is called "Lightme." The UI is not very intuitive but it has the most features of any free one I've tried.

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Not pictured: the homeless man opening his door of bins, greeting me "good morning" and asking if I was photographing ghosts with "spectral lenses."

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start of roll three

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This roll I used a 28mm. Possibly my least favourite: I felt like it was just a less useful 24mm.

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This one I really felt the missing 4mm. I didn't want to tilt the camera since it would make the pole look like it was tilting and the ground actually went downhill behind me until I would have backed into a hedge anyway.

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Those 4mm also would have helped more of the bloom remain in frame. Alas!

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The cable release slipped from my fingers and fell apart and I didn't get the count I metered so I reshot this one. It really seems like that will be unnecessary in the future, there's barely any difference despite exposing for a further four seconds, so 1) five seconds was more than enough despite the meter recommending nine seconds and 2) reciprocity failure makes the extra time barely any more effective anyway. I do think nearly all of these from all three rolls are overexposed. Film is quite, quite different to digital. I have much to learn.