Having finished a roll of Kentmere 400 in a borrowed Yashica A, I was keen to develop and scan the film. The trouble was I was going away for a couple of days which would mean I would have to wait .☹️ Unless, of course, I developed while on the road as it were.
Developing film while away from home is not a new experience. All that I need can be safely accommodated in a carrier bag and placed in the car easily.
Jar of coffee, soda crystals, vitamin c, eco fix, thermometer, measuring spoon, mixing spatula, measuring jug, developing tank, changing bag, towel, blower, negative pegs.
However, I have always had to wait to get home before scanning the resulting negatives. Is this all about to change with the arrival of my new iPhone 16 with its much touted 48 megapixel ‘fusion’ camera?
I knew that there would be some in camera processing of the images of the negatives by the iPhone 16. One thing I did not realise, was that I wouldn’t be getting any where near 48megapixel images! Why? All is explained in the camera preference panel
”Photos taken with night mode, macro, flash or Portrait Lighting will be saved at 12MP”
As I moved the camera close to the negatives the macro mode is automatically activated and as a result the images saved as 12 MP, 3024 by 4032, 2 mb images. Maybe not so great after all😕 Have I missed something? Let’s see.
I mixed my developer as usual – 10gm of vitamin c, 15gm of soda crystals and 45 gm of coffee in 400ml of water at 20degrees. Then poured the developer in the developing tank and developed the film for 21mins, agitating every minute.
I then hung the negatives up in the bathroom to dry over night
Using my iPad as my ‘light box’, I could hold the iPhone in both hands using my elbows as support (hence the reason for no image of the setup) It was so easy to scan’ the negatives. No need for a tripod or special apparatus to hold the iPhone in position. That was definitely a plus.
Then, I ‘air dropped’ the images on to the iPad and processed them in Affinity Photo.
Here are the images, downloaded as ‘medium’ 800 by 787 from Flickr, not the full 3024 by 4032 that were uploaded to Flickr.
arhphotographic 