Rand Motor Co.

Randsburg, California.

 

This concludes my postings from Thursday's 8x10 adventure.

 

I did a Google search of images using keywords I could read on the car and bike, and I think that's a 1954 Chrysler Windsor Deluxe, and in the window is a 1964 Yamaha Santa Barbara. The Yamaha is noteworthy because it is the first production 2-stroke motorcycle to feature automatic oil injection.

 

I like how the deflated rear tires level the car to the building.

 

Randsburg is a strange place. It is a little bit ghost town, a little bit desert-rat bedroom community, a little bit living museum and a little bit off-road crowd watering hole.

 

Intrepid 8x10 MkII

Schneider Kreuznach G-Claron 240mm ƒ9 @ƒ45

Nikkor Y52 yellow filter

General Electric PR-1 Exposure Meter c. early 1960's

Shanghai GP3 100 @50

Rodinal 1:50 for 8 minutes @ 21.8°C

Developed as a single sheet in a Paterson 5-reel tank.

Scanned in five vertical strips on my Epson Perfection V550 Photo that were then stitched together with PanoramaStitcher for Mac.

 

This was my last sheet of 8x10 Shanghai GP3 100. It was offered on eBay at a bargain price. It was double notched, with the more prominent notch on the wrong side. Once I figured that out, and once I figured out to shoot it at EI 50, it yielded pretty good results. No worries though, 35 sheets of Fomapan 400 will arrive in today's post. Far from being a favorite film, but a bargain is a bargain and at EI 200 it's decent enough. With this being 8x10, the excessive grain won't be an issue.

 

Done