The Rock

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No, not “the rock” known as Alcatraz, but a rock in the park down the way.

This is only one of three images that were exposed on a roll of Portra 400 on my new-to-me Pentax 6×7 with an 135mm f4 macro lens. First roll of film is very disappointing. Apparently, rumors on the ‘net say, there can be issues loading the film.

It also looks as if there could be exposure issues with 7 missing pictures, but let’s ascribe that to user error until I get a second roll through it, logged for subject and exposure, to see what’s up.

This roll was Portra 400, and it’s a sad statement at the present. Sooooo underexposed, and the pictures are essentially worthless except to see what happens.

I am not happy. I have another fortnight within which I can return the camera . . . but I did test the sounds of the exposures and they seem okay. Thus, let’s wait to see what happens in this next roll.

To even make this image somewhat presentable, I messed with it rather a bit – doesn’t even resemble Portra, much less the original image!

3 comments on “The Rock”

    1. I found the issue with the weird label. In Vuescan I can put some comments in – which were leftovers from the previous batch. I think I will leave it blank in the future!

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