Photo Info

I cleaned and re-sleeved two rolls of old black and white negs yesterday - remember, boys and girls, PEC-12 is potently aromatic...two rolls was about all I could take. I can't say as I'm overly pleased with the transfers from my old Nikon CoolPix 885 with the Slide Copier adapter, so much so that I'm considering a decent film scanner. If anyone has recommendations, fire away, 'cause I'm all ears:-)

So here's one from the vault - this one was shot sometime in the summer of 1981 (or '82, but I lean toward '81) when I was all of 13 years old. I was attending a summer program at an area college where I would attend four classes per day, three days per week. One class I took was a basic photography course that also included darkroom technique, something I was already fairly skilled with from having worked on my middle school yearbook during the previous school year - even so, the class was a blast and it amazes me now when I look at this roll how much my photographic style was showing even back then.

At any rate, this one is of fairly obvious subject matter - I can say that it was shot on Kodak Tri-X Pan 400 film with my Pentax K1000 SE and its kit lens at the time, an SMC Pentax-M f/2.0 50mm prime, but I do not have the exposure details after nearly 24 years. The roll was processed by me in standard Kodak chemistry and a single frame was selected for printing - I'll post this frame at a later date:-)

Camera Data

Pentax K1000 SE | SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2.0
circa Summer 1981 | Kodak Tri-X Pan | ASA 400
transfer from 35mm negative with a Nikon CoolPix 885 and ES-E28 adapter