I'm Scared

Barney

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I took me Dad to the osteopath today, I had the camera in the car. As I walked to a lovely little cafe where I get a brew and a spot of lunch, I saw a scene that really moved me and wished that I had the camera on me. I turned and dashed back to the car for the camera in feint hope that the scene would still be there upon my return a minute or two later. As I approached joy upon joy the people were still there and I got the shot that I had envisaged,

I so don't want to mess it up,

A new camera that I have not used before, a new film that I have not used before and I have to pull it a stop or so with Pyrocat.

I would hate it to go wrong during development, The scene is great and I am scared that something will go wrong, with the new kit combination or my process.

What should I do ?
 
Barney said:
What should I do ?
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Just process as you planned, if the results are as you hoped the fantastic, but if not then just chalk it up to experience and keep moving forwards.

And post the results here if you're OK with them. Wayne, it will be fine.
 
VirtualAdept said:
Why will you have to pull it a stop?
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It could be severely overexposed, but seeing as I do not know a development time for the film developer combo, i suppose there is no such thing for me at the moment.
 
droj said:
Concentrate whilst cultivating calmness. Run processes through in your mind before doing them. None of us is immune from making mistakes ...
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The universe provides, I have, I think, Come up with a possible solution.
The image I shot was about 20 on the roll
the F75 has a pretty unique film advance process whereby on loading the entire film strip is wound out and each photo taken is wound into the cartridge. Supposedly so that if the film back is inadvertently opened the exposed images are "saved" . The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. I like that concept.

The first half a dozen shots are of my dog running about and "footpath" type shots. The second half dozen were experiments with a tripod which I had anticipated as a failure due to me not covering the eyepiece. I am going to cut the film and develop two small strips of a couple of frames, the first for a ballpark shot and the second as a refinement before developing the rest of the roll, winner winner chicken dinner.

I like the scene so much that I am prepared to sacrifice more mundane shots that I can replicate any day of the week.
 
Have you tried the Massive Dev Chart to see if there are any suggestions for that film with Pyrocat?
 
Barney said:
It could be severely overexposed, but seeing as I do not know a development time for the film developer combo, i suppose there is no such thing for me at the moment.
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Ah, gotcha.

In that circumstance I'd be tempted to stand develop, I *think* its the best chance of tempering the overexposure
 
Barney said:
The second half dozen were experiments with a tripod which I had anticipated as a failure due to me not covering the eyepiece.
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Don't worry too much about not covering the eyepiece during long exposures. I had a play a few years ago and had to use a minute or so exposure at a high ISO with the eyepiece pointing straight at bright sunshine with the lens cap on to get a trace of leakage to show on a DSLR. In "normal" use, it's probably not much of a problem.
 
Failing to cover the eyepiece usually results in under exposure due to the stray light fooling the meter into thinking the scene is brighter than it really is.
 
Peter B said:
Have you tried the Massive Dev Chart to see if there are any suggestions for that film with Pyrocat?
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I have the App, but have never got the advertised results with my process. Too many clowns can put just any old times on.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Failing to cover the eyepiece usually results in under exposure due to the stray light fooling the meter into thinking the scene is brighter than it really is.
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So if I lock the indicated exposure when framing there will be no effect ?
 
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