I said in an earlier post that if my goal was to burn through 120 film at an unprecedented pace the GA645 has been a roaring success.
I may have taken this too far yesterday. Four rolls of film in about the same amount of hours or less.
I have a few local haunts that I use as baseline testing sites for new to me gear. Even though it was just above brick (Where I am located anyway.) I decided to layer up and hit a few of them in one day yesterday. Was on a food run errand for the Mrs. while I was at it.
As also mentioned previously I have had a larger than usual number of self owns with this camera. So I took care and paid close attention to what I was doing and was successful. No silly unforced errors this time out.
- Took my time loading film so no fat roll issues.
- Remembered to adjust the ISO when loading a new roll of film.
- No absent minded opening of a loaded camera while taking product pics.
- Unlike most of my film cameras this one has stayed loaded with film so I will let this go for now.
Cool.
For this roll I went with a rare relative film bargain, Kentmere Pan 100, and it was developed with Cinestill df96. An Ilford made lower cost film that does well in 35mm strength with a bit of grain but really shines in 120 strength with more surface area to work with.
Same goes for the Kentmere Pan 400.
I had finished roll 3 in “downtown” Durham after seeing something that caused a bit of a detour for the last pic.
At first I thought to leave the camera empty, but I decided to go ahead and load the next film just in case I saw something that caught my eye. And I did. A past its prime Rolls Royce in fact.
I then finished my roll in Chapel Hill for a Ramen run at my wife’s request while waiting for the food to be prepared.
Kentmere Pan 100 likes light. So it comes as no surprise that the pics I like most are the ones that had the most light available and the fewest shadows. But still…
A good result.
While I am having a lot of fun this could get pricey if I keep this pace up. But I am not bothered by that all for now.
Happy capturing.
-ELW
Eric L. Woods 