The chair in my hall

 

This is a Rollei SL66E shot and I'm disappointed to say it's a scan of the Adox 50 CHS Art negative and not, as I'd hoped, of a print. The gremlins that struck my Durst L1200 enlarger before I could even do a single print with the machine have yet to go away - the buggers. I'm working on it but in the meantime I've no choice but to upload neg scans.

I love the light that floods through the inside door when the main front door has been left open. The chair doesn't usually stand there - that would be really stupid! - but I plunked it the middle to give the scene a focal point. I mounted the camera on a tripod for this one - one of the great things about shooting round the house is that I can spend as much time as I like setting things up - and used the 40mm Distagon, equivalent to roughly a 24mm lens on the 35mm format.

As usual, the film was developed in Barry Thornton's high definition two-bath formula and all the highlight detail is readily available. The door at the end is etched glass and, despite a fairly large contrast range in the scene, none of the detail in the glass has been lost. The taking aperture was f11 and the shutter speed - hang on a minute 'til I check out the exif information - was around 1/4 second.

The Distagon is a nice sharp lens as you'd expect and seems to be very distortion free -take a look at the edges of the door frames and wall. Very little was done to this picture after scanning it. I adjusted the levels by a small amount and that was it, I think. I'm going to return to this shot from time to time and might play with other objects in the centre. For the next shot, I'm going to have the chair closer to the lens for a little extra wide-angle perspective, stretching the nearest legs out towards the camera.