On Terminal Island

[Brian Moore]

Took these the other night with the Kodak Cartridge Hawk-Eye Model C. The film was Ilford HP5. (400 ASA.) I did a 60 minute "semi-stand" development in Rodinal diluted 1:100. I used a different agitation technique
from my usual and I'm not sure if that is what caused the uneven development in some of the images. Basically, instead of the flip and rotate agitation I normally do, this time I used the little spinner tool that the tank came with. (I call it swizzle stick agitation.) The swizzle stick allows you to turn the reel while a cam molded into the bottom of the tank causes the reel to simultaniously, and continually, lift and settle.

Harbor View
I must have moved while tripping the shutter because this shot is a wee bit blurry. Also, because the camera has no viewfinder in the horizontal aspect, the image isn't quite what I would have shot had I been able to see from the camera's viewpoint. Nevertheless, I think its at least an OK view of what the harbor looks like.

Crane
This one turned out better than I thought it might (except for the uneven development). The sun was to my front right--quite strong, too. And because the viewfinder is murky after 80-odd years of sitting around lord knows where, I wasn't sure if I was able to get the crane's arms in.

 

[Pete Askew]

I quite like the slight movement in the first. t kind of echoes the blur you see in reflections and that seems appropriate somehow. Shame about the development marks. They affect the image more in the second I find. I guess the agitation doesn't match the stand process.

 

[Brian Moore]

Thank you, Pete!

I guess the agitation doesn't match the stand process.

I wonder though if the reel is hanging up inside the pot? Maybe it's not fully immersed in the soup, thus allowing some of the developer on one side of the film to drain down? (The central shaft upon which the reel fits is something of a friction fit--not too much, just a bit--to the inner core of the reel.)

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I do like the light breaking through in #2 - very nice

 

[Paul Lange]

Terminal Island - Sounds like a place from which you are never seen again!