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Downtown Streets

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 I hit downtown with the Bessa R, color skopar 35mm and a couple rolls of HP5. Rated the first one at 800 and the 2nd one at 1600. There were a surprising number of folks around considering it was still pretty cool out. I have never been a huge fan of downtown Dallas but I think the issue is I have not really spent enough time to properly walk around. There's a lot of little restaurants and things to see, it can be every bit as metropolitan as other big cities. Anyhow enjoy the photos.
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Lakeside

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I received an unsolicited DM on discord from one of my keyboard friends asking for my shipping address. We are running a gift exchange but he said he wasn't my secret santa so I was curious what was up... Intrigued I shared my info and started waiting for the surprise, and what a wonderful surprise it was! A Holga and a few rolls of film!  I used to have one back in the day but didn't end up keeping it since it was tough for me to scan 120 film but now that I'm all set up for it I'm excited to use it.  I went out to a park by the lake where I went in my "Mamiya m645: new (to me)" post, with the colors changing here finally, hoping to grab some nice tones oh the 645 and give the Holga a run.  Shockingly - not really - the m645 had winding issues yet again, causing some frame overlapping but the Holga performed admirably in b/w.  The Holga has a 6x4.5 mask too so I guess with the latest issue with the m645 body from KEH, I will just be happy to have a working me...
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The second half of the trip, I shot Kodak Vision 3 200T. This is bulk loaded 35mm motion picture film, yes the same stuff they make movies out of!  Motion picture film is incredibly cheap compared to consumer 35mm film in 2022 but is processed quite differently from normal C41 film. The film contains an anti-static, anti-halation layer called remjet which is very messy to remove which makes it only suitable for at home development. I develop my film with Cinestill's Cs41 kit and I mixed up the chemical pre-bath prescribed by Kodak for removing the remjet. While the pre-bath works extraordinarily well compared to the more simple options (of which there are a few), it still isn't perfect as the actual motion picture processing uses rollers and water jets to remove it. So I am still learning how to process this film and get clean results.  As with the other shots from this day, these were taken on my Bessa R with the 35mm Color Skopar. 
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