Solar Power

This is one of those solar garden lights that draw off sunshine during the day and then turn on to glow at night. Of course, they're not this bright, but a long exposure like this when it's dark outside will make them look much stronger than they really are. It's positioned right at the bottom of the front steps to my house.

 

For The Sunday Challenge group, who's theme this week was to use a setting on your camera you hadn't used before. I chose the "B" (bulb) setting, which I had never used before, on an old Diana-clone 120 camera. In fact, I'd only ever run one roll of film through the camera and had been meaning to use it again for some time.

 

For those that don't know about the classic "Diana" camera - they were really really cheap plastic cameras made in Hong Kong in the 1960's and given away as prizes or sold for about .50 cents. That's right - they are super cheap and if you drop one, they might break into a thousand pieces because the plastic is so thin. As a matter of fact, I think mine melted a little on the front because it was kept in a hot car. If you look at mine in the picture below, the melted spot is just above the lens and under the viewfinder.

 

Camera: Windsor (Diana-clone)

Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 ISO 120 film

Aperture: F/11

Shutter Speed: "B" (bulb) 10 minute exposure

Focus Range: 4 feet to 6 feet

Date: June 6th, 2014, 9.50-10.00 p.m.

Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

 

Developing process, chemicals were at 68 degrees:

Ilford ID11 developer: 9 mins.

Ilford Ilfostop stop bath: 1 min.

Ilford Hypam fixer: 7 mins.

Water wash: 5 mins.

Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 min.

 

Windsor Neopan 13ef

Done