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fuji gfx100rf vs. leica q3: which is better? a personal, in-depth review exploring image quality, handling, and the joy of 28mm. is the fuji the new favorite?
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A busy day but a happy one. When, in 2011, I started doing my own developing and, shortly after, using medium format, I simply discarded the leftover rolls of backing paper. They were agreeable little objects though, and I began to save them. I lined them up like soldiers along the tops of windows and picture frames in my man cave. When, last summer, we moved house, they had to come down, but I put them in a box and took them with me. But, ho-hum, I can't simply go on saving them for ever. One must be prepared to "let go". I didn't like to part with them uncommemorated, so I thought I'd photograph them in some way.
It turned into quite an undertaking. Stacking them up took most of the morning. I knew I'd at least have to use a bit of glue, but this didn't prevent a backwards collapse when the stack had attained about one-third of its eventual altitude. I started again, piling up books behind to prevent any repetition. Then I thought of those "ties" they put between the two skins of a cavity wall. I glued strips of paper into the "mortar joints" (if we are thinking in brickwork terms) whose opposite ends I lodged between the pages of the books. I was quite pleased with myself for thinking of this clever stratagem. Anyway, there were no further catastrophes. I'd intended to bring the thing to a point, like a pyramid, but the added instability might have meant pushing my luck. So here we are. I think there are 297 rolls. Meticulous in my habits, I have been through my "back catalogue" and I seem to have developed 341 120 rolls ...the missing 44 representing those I threw away early on. I developed the film on which I'd taken this shot, smoked a cigar in my garage to occupy the hour it took for the film to dry, and scanned the film during the afternoon. Once I knew that the commemorative shots had "come out" I deposited the rolls in the kitchen bin, where they will repose until our next refuse collection on Wednesday. I saved a few of the more interesting ones: a Verichrome Pan, expired 1970, that I bought off eBay a few years ago and developed, a Kodak E100G, a Fuji Acros and Fuji Neopan. I remain hopeful that the E100G, recently reintroduced in 35mm, may also reappear in 120. Neopan is gone ...a great pity... and Acros seems to be in limbo. It has been withdrawn from sale but, last I heard, Fuji are reconsidering. Taken, by the way, with an Agfa Isolette II, with Solinar lens. 1/5th sec at f11. I measured the focus distance.