8 Buses

A row of school buses parked for the summer at our local grade school. I didn’t think I’d ever get to use this camera, because they haven’t made the special type of film it takes in probably 50 years. But, I noticed the shutter worked, even without batteries, so I cut down some 120 film, positioned it carefully where I thought it should be, (in total darkness, of course!), and then shot with it. For the first attempt, I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Now I can mark off another camera in my collection that I’ve used. My goal is to be able to say I’ve used every camera in my collection - all 267 of them.

Taken with my hundred and twenty-sixth camera. This image is not cropped, I simply scanned it to all the edges. It turned out the same dimensions as a 35mm negative, so I suppose that’s the shape the original instant prints must have been.

Camera: Polaroid Land Camera Swinger Model 20
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, cut-down120 sized B&W (expired 05/2012)
Date: June 30th, 2023, 12.47 p.m.
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

Developing chemicals at 68 degrees F
Adox Adonal – 14 minutes (1:50 – 2 tsps. of Adonal and 500 ml of water)
Water rinse – 1 minute (to keep the chemicals clean)
Ilford Ilfostop stopbath - 1 minute
Water rinse - 1 minute
Kodak Kodafix fixer - 9 minutes
Water rinse – 1 minute

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