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The Work

            Farmers Grain Co-Op, Ogden, Utah tear down - Study failure.  April 2024.  

Elevators shot with Miniature Speed Graphic from about 1945 based on serial numbers.  Shot with Graflex Optar 90mm f/6.3 lens in Rapax shutter.  Shot on AGFA Aviphot 200 from about 2006 / 2007 at ISO 125.  Developed in Kalogen 1:100 - Usually the tank held 800 ml so 8ml developer and 792ml distilled water.  

Stand developed for 1 hour at 70 degrees F, with one rotation at 30 minutes.  Development appears to be accurate, all problems considered. 

This started as an experiment to develop 70mm film without a reel -- because I have some 3 1/2 inch rolls I want to develop.  The first experiment was almost a complete failure and the second one was maybe worse.  After those I realized I wanted some shots of the elevators before they tore it down, so I shot another roll and developed it on a conventional reel.  And, so the problems began.  The 70mm Mamiya back is hammered - one reason I got it for next to nothing.  No working counter, door is funky, everything scarred - however, that kind of made it just a basic back.  The film advances with one crank of the winder and has plenty of space between the frames.  The lock doesn't work so you can advance the film all you want, and you can take multiple exposures.  

So, the back opened up mid roll the first time, however the roll is in a magazine inside the holder so that was minimal.  I forget sometimes to close the lens, which causes multiple, and unintentional, exposures of varying degree when you set the focal plane shutter.  
Finally, my last roll, which I thought would be great, I again forgot to put the dark slide in or close the lens between shots a couple of times and had a number of strange exposures.  Also when I first got there, I shot 3 or 4 pictures without advancing the film!  LOL awesome.  

Then, I was using an old FED daylight developing reel - which handles up to 116 film / 70 mm, and after I properly loaded the film and put the lid on, the lid rose back up when I was initially rinsing the film, causing some fogging and extra exposure.  SO, to make a long story longer -- Every roll I shot doing this had some kind of problem or failure.  Either in camera, or in darkroom.  Someone said maybe the shots didn't work because the place is haunted.  Probably.

So here most of the shots are -- in all their failed glory.  I started liking them so I decided to put them together and make a set.  LOL

The Miniature Speed Graphic I purchased with no lens and a Mamiya Press back of some sort.  I took off the back and it sat for a couple of years because the graflok back I acquired was not a perfect match for the screw hole reinforcements.  (Because the original Miniature Speeds had spring backs...) I finally reworked the back of the camera a bit and filled in the Graflok back where it might leak and I drilled new holes in the back and the camera back.  All good.  The focus scale seemed to be about 100mm and the stops were placed about 90 to 100mm.  So I dragged out lenses until I found one that was the best fit for the rangefinder and the scale - the 90mm Optar.  I am still going to mess with a 80mm and ?? My 101mm was off enough.  

So, enjoy this set.  I have a couple of favorites...

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Taken on: April 18, 2024

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