Analog Therapy: Rollei 35AF + Kodak Gold 200.

Analog Therapy: Rollei 35AF + Kodak Gold 200. @gary228ho @rollei35af

One of my favorite things about developing my own film is that when I am ready to finish a roll of film I can just stop. No fiscal down side. Why would I want to stop early? I am glad I imagined that you asked.

Was not the fault of the camera.

The camera.

I covered a lot in my original Rollei 35AF review post linked here.

The camera was fine. More than fine. Excellent, in fact. No, the issue was with the man behind the beef mitts holding the camera.

May have to with overcooking it that day. Before my bright idea to go out for an analog therapy run I had done the family yardwork. Two yards. A couple of acres between them. Solo. My usual assistant was otherwise occupied.

So what possessed me to go out for an anolog therapy run? Easy.

As I was wrapping up a neighbor shared that his better half had passed away recently. We have known them for many years. We are contemporaries. I dropped what I was doing and spoke with him for a while.

Very sobering.

Where is my camera?

Where to go?

I had no idea. So I decided to just strike out and figure it out.

So what of the user errors I mentioned.

Strike 1.

I loaded the film wrong. Not the camera’s fault. As noted in my last post…

Analog Therapy/Rollei 35AF 20th Roll Anniversary: Kentmere Pan 200.

…I have gone through 20 rolls of film with no film load issues. All me. Realized it when I felt the film slip and the gear by the rewind lever was not moving.

I had already started taking photos… or so I thought… so I loaded it again and retraced my steps/

Strike 2.

Film was advancing with no resistance, and then I saw it. The film rewind lever was on… Seriously?

This is when I realized I was more tired than I had realized.

So I retraced some of my steps, retook some of the photos, and kept it moving.

The eventual setting. A local park at first. Then I used it alongside my chosen digital combo that day.

So if I recovered why did I stop the roll early?

That large orb in the sky called the sun. It was going down. I was using 200 film, and after my earlier fiddling about, I was losing light. Courtesy my film loading shenanigans, the camera had no hope of reporting how many exposures I had left. It was now showing an exposure count in the forties for a 36 exposure roll of film.

It got to a point that I would take a pic, wind on, and then be disappointed that this was not the last exposure.

This is not the way that I want to take pictures. Development is free 0.99, so I stopped.

The film.

Kodak Gold 200, chosen at random, developed with Cinestill CS41.

Here are the surviving images.