the intention is to make a 10 min. short (color) film with this camera, once all the rough spots are hammered out a bit more. as you can see, there is still a bit of work to do. existing is about 5 min. of useful footage, which looks suprisingly good projected (posted were very smalll excerpts).
part of the problem is my processing abilities, as i have been using mostly guess work. so far this has yeilded far too little contrast. anyone who knows the "proper" way to process plus-x to reversal, i would love to hear from you, as kodak's chemistry for such things is not available to the public (d-97?). the formulas are available, but i'm not a chemist by any means, and i work in an unvetilated darkroom, so i have to be careful. i have been using the t-max reversal kit, which is really meant for a different film medium. next i'll try d-19, which some people have used with good results... the park footage is more recent than the face footage, so there were some changes made to the camera between the two. i think perhaps the park footage would have looked even better had i not been using expired chemistry (chemistry life is also a bit hard to gauge for very long lengths of film)... the first roll i shot was indeed color, and indicated to me that this project was worthwhile and entirely possible, but i have been using b&w in order to get faster results (home processing is very quick) to test the camera. the first roll was, however, way too blurry. /aaron >If you can find a way to enlarge those film strips to something like >8 inches wide by 4 or 5 feet long they would work well in a gallery >setting. (A sort of Andy Warhol style of anti-film film...)
