I have a bunch of expired Agfa Scala B&W slide film that was given to me for free (I answered a local Craigslist ad). The film is four years past date, there are no Scala lines running in Canada anymore, and it’s too much hassle for me to do B&W reversal these days — so I’ve been developing it as a negative.

Last weekend I ran a couple of rolls through the Rolleiflex, metering as for EI 100, and developed them in Rodinal 1+25 for 6 mins at 21C. They came out looking pretty good but I would probably expose a little less next time. Scala really is just a normal B&W negative film at heart!

Reposting some images from the past that never made it onto the site — this one was taken in 2002 when I was in Monterey for a chemistry conference. At the time I was using an old Moskva 5 folding camera (long since sold) with Fujichrome MS100/1000 slide film. I scanned it on a rented Coolscan 9000 in 2005 and just revisited the PS file this afternoon. It’s the one picture from my Moskva that I really liked.

Sometimes I feel like my photography has worsened in the intervening six years!