Praktica BC-1

Excalibur · Expire: 2014-04-21

I'll never make a press photographer....I was using my BC1 with 70-210 zoom (for shots of the local area) when this beautiful Rolls Royce came towards me, I had my camera in my hand at the ready and it was only when it went past that I thought of taking a photo of it Sad

BC1 with 70-210 zoom:-

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

I need to get a film scanner, but my first attempt at developing film since 1998 seems to have worked okay.

Expired Kodak Color Plus !SO200 C-41 film shot in my BC1 with Pentacon 1.8/50.

Developed in Microphen made in the 70s in the kitchen sink without a thermometer and using the clock on the wall as timer. 15 mins dev with lots of agitation, 3 mins wash under running tap, 15 mins fixing with sodium thiosulphate, 5 mins wash under running tap then 2 mins soak in warm water with a drop of washing up liquid.

Squegeed with fingers than hung to dry overnight in shower with a clothes peg either end. Dried lovely and flat with no drying marks.

Delighted it actually worked, some of the negs look a bit underexposed but most look good, I cut em into strips of 5 and popped em in an envelope to await the arrival of my scanner.

Second from the left looks underexposed, middle one looks a wee bit underexposed too, the other three look good, seems the meter in my BC1 works fine as I shot the roll on automatic mode.