Trying out one of my Canon FTBn bodies -- the one given by a Camera Club friend some years ago. It still has a working 'Illegal' MERCURY Battery ! I have cleaned up the 35mm f3.5 SC Breechlock lens I got for £ 1-00 in a Camera Club auction -- there us still some 'hazing' inside and on one ( not scanned) I got lens flare. I also used my 300mm f2.8 Tokina AT-X lens bought some years ago expensive for when I was getting some 'Sport' Photography work for local newspapers and then they no longer wanted FILM photos and then all the work stopped, so I am left with the lens I hardly use ! I also used the short length of outdated 02/1999 Kodak TMY 400 I had used before in home-made ID11 formula and which developed to a dense black with grain like Golf Balls-- this time I mixed a new batch and gave it the 'Ilford ID11 'time of 10.5 mins instead of the 'Kodak D76' time of 12.5 mins and some negs were thin but where I had given slightly more exposure the contrast was good. It seems the first batch of ID11 had increased in activity over a period of non-use. Here I used the 35mm f3.5 SC Canon Breechlock lens with 'Mirror up' for 'candids' as this 'Character' walked down my road in Brentwood using his phone. FTBn 01 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr Here I used the 35mm f3.5 Breechlock lens for this Candid outside the 'Spread Eagle' pub in Brentwood FTBn 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
