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I don't know who is more at fault here. The ad agency editor who did a crappy job proofing this ad or the artist who designed it.
These came out so bad in the end, although they looked okay when I piped em out. Don't ask...I'm going to try again and they'll come out fine.
There is a mandatory principle in film photography that not to use any exhausted chemical. As all mandatory, one time one could go for anyway and fails! I bought this Adox Scala Reversal processing kit past year (2023) but with the known fact that it was already expired since late 2021.
For reversal a black-and-white negative to a positive view, one should process to a first development before bleaching the black metal silver (Ag°) using a proper oxidant to dissolve it under the form of Ag+ ions. Once done, the film should be clarified to remove a yellow-orange staining using sodium or potassium metabisufite. After this step the film is re-exposed to light and developed again to get the positive views.
Adox choose to sell the kit including the developper that turned to be still active, solid powder a metabisulfite salt (that was still well dry in a sealed pouch) and the oxidative solution of permanganate (KMnO4) already in dilute sulfuric acid aqueous solution. This solution is quite active and should better prepared and used extemporally by mixing a water solution of permanganate and diluted sulfuric acid. The solution degrades in Mn2+ (air oxidation) and further to manganese oxide (MnO2) that is insoluble and form a brownish deposit on the flask walls. The kit was supposed to be used within 48 weeks after is preparation date.
Not fully aware of those facts, I anyway tried a first SCALA 50 film following the box instructions. I used my Leica M3 ans its normal lens Leitz Wetzlar Sumicron 1:2 f=5cm to expose te 36 views during a enjoyable photowalk on Saturday August 3, 2024, Lyon, France.
As a results the view looks like a sort of Daguerreotypes because the first silver metal revealed was not totally bleached. The sides of the film was better because the oxidant likely diffuse better in the gel by the edges. Of course disappointed, I tested afterward the time necessary the remove the rest. I then decided to longer the bleaching time from the regular 4min to 7min. I did my second SCALA 500 film the day after in similar conditions but still the bleaching was not complete!
The conclusion is not to use any Adox Scala processing kit expired. These sorts of reversal kit are not cheap. I would occasionally try again the reversal processing, if I could prepare the bleaching solution from separated pure chemicals.
August 3-4, 2024
69004 Lyon
France
The failed films were digitized for archival using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera and the lens :
This Leica M3 circa 1956 (Ref. Leitz ISUMO), double stroke, was sold to me with a Leitz Wetzlar Summicron collapsible normal lens 1:2 f=5cm of the same period equipped with a 39mm screw-on protective filter, a 42mm push-on Leica lens cap and an original Leitz shade hood (Ref. Leitz IROOA).
The camera was serviced in Paris, France, in 2018 by Gérard Métrot at Photo-Suffren, (a Leica boutique) who worked on the maintenance of camera's of famous French photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. The camera was inspected by Odéon-Photo, Paris, another historic Leica place in Paris, in April 2024.
I sourced at the same time in Germany a stunning Leitz Leica leather bag (Ref; Leitz IDCOO) of the same model that appeared on the back cover page go the Leica brochure year 1954. This bag can accommodate the camera and a mounted Leica-Meter type M. The interior in covered with a carmin velvet in perfect condition.
The Leica M3 is one of the most iconic range-finder 35mm camera of the 50's and the 60's. It was produced in Wetzlar, Germany, in different versions at 226178 exemplars, between 1954 (n° 700000) and 1966 (n° 1164865, www.summilux.net/materiel/Leica-M3) . The Leica M3 was the result of the study of a "super-Leica" that was started before WWII and only achieved in the 50'S.
The greater improvement of the M3 compared the classical Leica's was in a magnificent and very complex range-finder combined to the view finder permitting the framing with the two eyes open, integrating the frame in the real and normal vision. The shutter integrates too the normal and the slow speeds in the same barillet. The film advance of this version of Leica M3 is also the typical "double-stroke" advance that was exclusive to the Leica M3 first versions.
The camera was transported to me from Paris to Lyon, France on April 26, 2024 and the bag arrived the day after.
Early last summer, complaining that Washington had failed to provide adequate staffing for Florida’s National Guard, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that for the first time in 75 years he was activating the State Guard, a force of volunteers that could respond to hurricanes and other public emergencies.But the deployment this spring has been mired in internal turmoil, with some recruits complaining that what was supposed to be a civilian disaster response organization had become heavily militarized, requiring volunteers to participate in marching drills and military-style training sessions on weapons and hand-to-hand combat.At least 20 percent of the 150 people initially accepted into the program dropped out or were dismissed, state officials acknowledged, including a retired Marine captain who filed a false imprisonment complaint against Guard sergeants with the local sheriff after he got into a dispute with instructors and was forcibly escorted off the site.Several of those who left and spoke to The New York Times said they objected to the direction the organization was taking and either quit or were fired when they tried to voice their concerns.“Gov. DeSantis had the foresight to say, ‘I have this tool in my pocket, all I have to do is take it out and use it,’” Brian Newhouse, a retired Navy officer who helped recruit the first batch of volunteers, said in an interview. “His intention was a disaster response force solely for the citizens of the state of Florida.”Mr.
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FAIL BETTER, our exhibition exploring the beautiful, heroic and instructive side of failure, closes on Sunday 27th April. Take yourself on a virtual tour of the exhibition with these shots, then come and pay us a visit to get the full story from inspirational contributors like Sonia O'Sullivan, James Dyson, Robert Winston, Mark Pollock and Ranulph Fiennes – in their own words.
This was my first attempt at using the timer of my camera to capture a self portrait. My apartment was completely empty(Due to getting ready to move) and I had been sleeping on the floor for the last week.
Senses Fail performing at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC on March 9th. All photos by Whitney Newell
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I held a glass with some red food dye in it above a jar of water with some tape, and waited for the tape to fail.
i originally thought id finished my images until i got them printed on matt photo paper, the reason i used it was to have a professional finish but the end result looked cheap and amateurish. the problem being the images i had where strong. there was work and process there but i worked them to much.from looking at the prints it seemed like a bad idea to have them so as just photographs of an image. this is the reason i decided to work back into them by hand going back to the collage roots of the project. the direction and evolution to this point has been a learning curb as i thought id be doing a different type of work. im happy with where it went and what ideas have formed from the work.
“Inis Fail” is one of Oliver Sheppard’s earliest works, dating back to 1901. It is made of bronze, and is described as the female personification of Ireland. It portrays Ireland as an "island of destiny." Sheppard (1865-1941) was in the minority of Irish Protestants who supported Irish independence.
These insulators had two jobs. One job was to support and separate the electrical conductors. The other job was to protect the power pole from woodpeckers by intermittently yelling things like, "Quit that!", "How would you like it if I poked you with a pointed object?", and "Isn't that your mother calling you?" Obviously, the insulators failed miserably to accomplish their second task.
Redding, California 2015