Plastic Fruit

This plastic fruit and milk glass bowl used to belong to my late Mother.

I was reading the manual for my new camera, and it said it could take exposures while set on automatic from 1 second to 1/1000 of a second. Nowhere did it say it could take longer exposures than 1 second in automatic aperture priority. I was testing the cameras with the batteries and before I put in some film, and I found out that the camera would take longer exposures, depending on the subject and available light. So, I made some test exposures using low light to see if the camera would expose things properly. It would! This bowl of fruit was lit only by one light in my living room and the exposure lasted for 35 seconds. It wasn't supposed to be able to take exposures this long. I always try to push my cameras to the limit and see what I can get out of them above and beyond normal requirements.

The film was some old, expired York film, so I exposed it at 25 ISO instead of it's rated 200 ISO. That was what it needed to get a decent exposure, apparently, because this shot turned out perfect! Except for a little bit of extra graininess from it's being expired. And I can't tell if it has a bad color shift or not, because I'm color blind.

Camera: Minolta X-7
Lens: Vivitar MC 28mm, f/2.8
Film: York 200 Color (long expired and shot @25 ISO)
Shooting Program: Aperture Priority
Automatic Adjustment: +2 exposure
Aperture: f/16
Shutter Speed: 35 seconds
Date: May 6th, 2020, 1.38 a.m.
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41
Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees
Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. 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

Minolta X-7 York 200 2020 03ff