I took walks through my usual haunts including the neighborhood, the riverside bosque, and the botanic garden with my Kodak Retina Reflex.
I shot the roll of Kentmere 400 at box speed and developed semi-stand in L110 with just 4ml in 640ml of water. I thought the Kentmere in this instance did not show quite the tonal range I have gotten from processing with the L110 dilution B or with PMK Pyro.
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Always good to give a Retina Reflex some exercise. At blog size these look great, but I sort of see what you mean when I look at them full screen.
Looking back at some of my earlier results with Kentmere and stand development I see that the combination was ok. Can't rule out operator error. My consistently best results have been Kentmere in PMK Pyro.
What wonderful tones in that window shot! Love the subtle shadows! It is so New Mexico!
This is the same house with the big sheet metal sculptured figrures that I have photographed many times before. The old guy that made them has been there a long time, so I guess it is possible that he designed or made the window grillwork as well. I did like that shot of the window which seemed the best of the bunch to me.
As usual, this little Xenon lens is spectacular. These German leaf shutter SLRs were certainly capable if a bit funky and (dare I write) clumsy. Have you tried some slow fine-grain film in your Retina Reflex?
I'll admit to some prejudice in favor of my two leaf shutter slr cameras due to the fact that both are working thanks to some good luck in my repair efforts. The Contaflex got a thorough shutter cleaning and the Retina Reflex was revived with a prism replacement. I haven't tried any slow fine-grain film in either that I can recall, so that is something I'll try to remedy -- maybe some Kentmere 100 or FP4 in PMK.
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