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The Mamiya C3 has been on my radar for some time but a bad experience had made me hesitant about a medium format bellows cameras (sorry again Peggy). However I came across this one at Real Camera in Liverpool and got a really good deal.

While away for a week in Wales, I had opportunity to try out my camera acquisition. The prevailing light conditions while visiting Berrington Hall would prove to be challenging to Kentmere 100 ISO, the only 120 film I had brought with me.

There was nothing else to do but to ‘push’ the film. So rather than taking light meter readings for 100 ISO I decided to try it at 400 ISO, two stops over the box speed.

Once the film had been exposed I was going to have to depart further from my comfort zone and use another film developer😳

I had been given some expired Ilfotec DD-X ( thank you John) which I was going to use on some Rollei Superpan 200 that has persistently been resistant to my Caffenol developer. So I decided to use this to develop the Kentmere as well.
The Kentmere was rated as ISO 400 and so given 11 minutes +30seconds. Then stopped in ilford Ilfostop for 1 Minute and fixed in Eco Fix for 5 mins, finally rinsing with three sets of inversions.

“Here are a few of my favourite things..”

But the reason why I wanted to try pushing the film was so that I could take some photos inside Berrington Hall.

Not bad🤔

The film was then scanned using my recently purchased Epsom GT 7000 scanner hooked up to one of my old Apple G4’s (more about that one another time).

I know I really shouldn’t have tried so many variables/ unknowns to me, new camera/ developer/ scanner, but I am really pleased with the results. On the other hand there is nothing like trying something different for keeping the enthusiasm going.🤪

What about the Mamiya C3? Awesome ☺️ You will be hearing more about it in future posts.

That’s all for now.