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            Edinburgh's National Monument (aka national shame). Zero 45 + Portra160VC.

At the beginning of August we spent a few days in Sutherland, and on the return journey stopped off at Ffordes, the wonderful camera shop in Beauly, near Inverness. The plan was to buy a Rollei 35 and some dark slides. The gentleman serving me kindly gave me a couple of boxes of expired film to accompany my dark slides - 25 sheets of Delta 100, and 10 sheets of Portra 160VC. Great service!

Here is the first shot taken with the colour film. I had it developed and contact printed at A+M Imaging (Leith Walk, Edinburgh), a few minutes from where I work. Given that this box of film is seven years out of date, I was expecting some weird colours, but it isn't actually all that bad. This scan is from the contact print (I couldn't be bothered to scan the neg - too lazy today!)

It's always fun using odd cameras in public, and the Zero is no exception. I had it on a tripod, and was using my Rollei 35 as a meter, so both cameras got some attention. Calton Hill in August is always busy, so there were plenty of DSLR toting tourists giving strange looks. A few passing Germans seemed to have a better idea of what I was using (one couldn't keep her eyes off it, she seemed quite taken with the camera, and why not!).

Overall, I'm really pleased with the result, although a glance at the neg suggests I could probably (with time and care) extract further detail from the shadows.

Taken in: United Kingdom / Scotland / Edinburgh / Calton (show map)

Taken on: August 1, 2009

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