Negative results

I’m still working with my large format Intrepid camera. It’s great fun. I’m down to around twenty minutes per photograph now….. On Wednesday I sent off some negatives to Harman Labs for developing. Their service is excellent. Yesterday I got a call from them saying they had received my film but I’d neglected to tell them what kind of film I’d used….

Today the negatives arrived back fully developed. I’d taken four pictures so I could check out the film holders and make sure that my light tight changing bag (which is where I loaded the film and then put it into box for posting) was actually light tight. I was very pleased to discover that all the pictures had come out. They were negative though. All the whites were black and vice versa. The clue’s in the name.

I opened up an empty white page on the iPad and then took some pictures of the negatives laying on the screen with my iPhone, Then I used a free app to reverse them. This is not an optimal workflow. I’m going to have to figure out how to get a film scanner in on the action to extract more detail from the negatives. However, as you can see above, they seem to have come out OK. I love the quality and the way things seem to stand out of the frame. I think I am now a large format convert. Next step is home processing….