Tag: Pota
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Grain & Granite: Hiking Lac de Gaube on Recordak AHU 5786 Film
A spontaneous overnight hike in the French Pyrenees turned into a field test for a rare and long-expired microfilm: Kodak Recordak 5786, manufactured in France under the Kodak-Pathé label. Armed with a Nikon F5, a Sigma 24mm f/1.4, and a 55mm Micro-Nikkor, I shot the roll at ISO 6 and developed it in POTA —…
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Shooting Svema Mikrat Orto Direct in the Pyrenees
What happens when you take a nearly forgotten ISO 0.8 direct positive film, POTA developer, and a tripod up into the French Pyrenees? Magic, it turns out. In this post, I take Svema Mikrat Orto Direct Positive on a 14 km mountain loop around the Pic du Midi d’Ossau to see if this ultra-slow microfilm…
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Underdeveloped exposures from the mountains…
Sometimes, even though I try my best, I fail. But with every failure comes a learning experience. In this instance, I developed old rolls of Copex Rapid in POTA, which I had already used for two other rolls. The developer was likely too oxidized to fully develop my negatives. I tried to salvage what I…