Dead Horses

If The Rolling Stones mashed together their songs “Dead Flowers” and “Wild Horses,” they’d get “Dead Horses.”

My first attempt at reloading 35mm film into a 126 film cartridge and shooting it in an Instamatic camera. I cropped out the sprocket holes from the 35mm film so it would look more like an Instamatic photo should look - that is, square.

Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72)
Film: Kodak Max 400 (Expired)
Shutter Speed: 1/90
Aperture: f/11
Date: October 29th, 2019, 2.20 p.m.
Location: Eldorado, Illinois, U.S.A.

Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41
Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees
Developer: 3 ½ minutes at 102 degrees
Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean)
Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees
Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees
Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature
Water rinse: 2 minutes
Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute

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