I have been going on a tear with the darkroom, I printed three photos from my one and I think only Don Valley Brickworks visit late last Summer. I got a lot of grain with these photos courtesy Classicpan 400 but I think it enhances the look. There is no way I can go above 8x10 with enlargement. With 20/20 hindsight I should have gone with Ilford HP5 and push two stops but the end result would have been different. I scanned in as a colour photo on my cheapie scanner and converted two of the three into greyscale and I left the Junction Boxes Brought to You by the Letter F alone giving an almost sepia look.
Rollei 35, Rollei RPX 100 on the October Photo Walk
I got all three of my Rollei 35's serviced recently by @lensmedicyyc and packed the one with the 40 F3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens which is magical for black and white films. I went meta with Rollei RPX 100, because, why not? The Rollei 35 to recap is a very compact zone focus camera, first made in Germany, then production in Singapore in the early 1970s. They came with the 40 f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens wich as mentioend above great for black and white film, the 40 F2.8 which has always been made in Singapore, made for colour film and a limited production of Schneider Xenar 40 F3.5 lens in the early 1970s. The camera due to its design is ass backwards with loading from right to left which makes scanning the negatives a treat as you have to start at the end of the roll and go to the beginning. Zone focusing takes some practice but it's not hard to get the hang, just make sure you check to see the measurement is in feet or metres, that will matter, a lot. That said, I love my Rollei 35
Comments
You have lots of good pictures in your blog. I like the "Don Valley Brickworks" series a lot. These shots remindes me of movie sets I've worked on in the studios. I agree with what you said about how the "grain enhances the look.
Congrats on making your own prints. I'd like to give it a shot one day but I recently got a DSLR and I want to play with that for awhile.
I think it would be very kewl if you decide to sell some prints. You should give it a shot. What have you got to lose?
All the best.