Well the last week at home was sucky yet productive, honestly I need to be better at the whole journaling thing, as so many things happened while I was home it’s going to be bonkers to update everything
Here’s the cliffnotes version
Film developing failures figured out
Film fixer was bad, all the ruined film was because I was too lazy to make a new batch. New fixer equals decent negatives! Next step it to go back to HC110 and make sure it’s gonna work for me then I can abandon D76 all together. It’s such a pain in the ass!! New fixer too. I want to give fotographers formulary TF-4 a shot!
Cars:
the Subaru is in for surgery getting the heads done with new hopefully non leaking gaskets!! Next I need to find spare winter wheels so swaps are easy.
Tundra starter died Thursday morning as we were going to go on a trip to seeley lake! I guess it’s better than dying while we are in Canada!! It was a little frustrating being stranded but it’s fixed now. A mere $1400 for a fucking stater, you have to remove the exhaust manifolds!! what the fuck
SCANNING! Yeah I figured out how to get great looking scans finally! 135 film only at the moment but I got it. Evidently my scanner needs all of the feet removed from the film holders to get sharp scans. Next test will be with a 120 holder then the 4x5. I still want to order better scanning holders. But at $100 a shot that can wait. I’m really considering a Jobo!
Lighter side of things, we took a trip up to seeley lake yesterday and had a good time. Did some exploring and I found a few places I really want to go back to with either the 4x5 or Hasselblad. Oh and I made some killer ribs for a change!!!! I e probably already lost the recipe