As wonderful as it was to shoot with the Pentax K2, it has unfortunately come to an end. The electronics of the camera died halfway through this roll, and no crude self repair did the trick. This means the camera has no built in light meter, which could be worked around with light meter applications or an external device, but unfortunately the K2 also has a mostly electronic shutter. Without working electronics the body is restricted to only 1/125s and bulb mode. This makes the body very nearly useless for general photography. A shame, but at least the seller was kind enough to refund me!

In this roll I played around with more infrared photography, just as in the last IR sensitive roll. There’s more faux-aerochrome shots and a repeat of the waterfall composition which came out so dark previously. I also tried scanning the film roll in using my DSLR rather than just my phone, which increased the image size considerably and (I think) increased the quality of the scans. However, getting the focus right was tricky, especially with the limited depth of field and having to align the film and camera. This roll was also an experiment in developing, in which I used a more dilute solution of LC-29 (1+29) and pulled the film to ISO 200, developing for 10 minutes 30 seconds. The results, I think, are pretty good! The aim was to reduce film grain compared to the last roll of Rollei 400S, which I believe I have achieved.

Camera: Pentax K2

Lenses:

Film: Rollei Infrared 400

Post Processing: GIMP

Trichromes

Other Shots

A friend! This lovely fellow was quite inquisitive, maybe the ducks remember me now.
A nice macro flower shot, perhaps too close but still beautiful.
I much prefer this macro shot. The focus landed perfectly on the stamen of the flower, but the petals still have some detail. I think the lack of contrast may well be from the developer + pulling combo, though.
I make no claim to this masterpiece, this frame is from a guest photographer! A good friend of mine had his introduction to shooting film and macro all at once, and gosh darn it if he didn’t make one of the better shots on the entire roll!
A nice view over the reservoir. This was the start of a trichrome, but was also around when the camera’s electronics started to fail, so I had to abandon this particular attempt. Still, the composition is quite nice.
Without electronics, these last frames are metered more-or-less by eye. Frankly I’m happy half of them turned out at all. The black spots to the left of this photograph and leftover water spots where a not-so-dry portion of film stuck to this strip while waiting to be scanned.
More water spots. I think the sky came out well, otherwise, considering I wasn’t shooting with any filters here.
The side of a building with just a hair too little contrast. Maybe a stop faster shutter would have helped. Maybe not.
Here’s a bracketed shot I took. The first shutter speed I tried was probably the right choice, because the second one…
was FAR too dark.