Today I got my first roll back from the Rolleiflex. Not as fun or fulfilling as the Holga. I got to figure out how to focus the thing. And I got to get use to the scanner, I have a heck of a time trying to get the 120 negs in the tray right. I also had a light leak on the Rollei film but not on the Holgas which is backward.
Utata had a summer project. I thought about it all summer then ran out of time. I did manage to get some shots up but didn’t get to shoot what I was planning. Anyway, the editors were going to pick some shots from there for the magazine they were going to print. They said they sent out emails to everyone selected. I didn’t get anything so I was a little bummed. Then a couple weeks later they said they just sent the last bunch of emails out and I got one! They selected an odd photo but hey, cool anyway.
Pretty scenery photos won the Abbott photo contest. I didn’t submit any of those since I thought this was to fill their stock photo collection so I sent them stocky things. Whatever.
At work they are doing away with the large format printing so Jim was trying to run out of stock. I now have 18 large prints of some of my photographs mounted on foam core. Wicked cool. Some of them I sized to fit in the window frame I made. I feel like I should have a museum show 😉
While picking up the large prints (which I had to get a cart to get them to my car) I showed off the Rollei to Jim. He gave me the old light meter he had (which looks exactly like my 25 year old one), some 120 neg sleeves and Jeff gave me some anti static negative cleaner.
I just wasted a roll of 120 film trying to load the Rollei tonight. I forgot to put it under the bar and wound the whole roll onto the other size. I guess I could of went into a dark room and rerolled it but instead I tried to reroll it in the camera. That didn’t work out too well so I threw it away.
The Canon 20D should be back tomorrow.