B11

Taken at a local Mexican restaurant where I was being treated to a birthday dinner. I used a Magicube attached on the Instamatic for the lighting. This shot was taken with my eighteenth camera, which I've had since the 1970s. The owner of the restaurant saw my Instamatic with the flashcube attached and came over and commented on it. He said he used to have one just like it back in the late 1970s. I said I did, too, and this was it.

Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 1 (Camerosity code YTSC - Period 09/71)
Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge, expired on 10/2018)
Shutter Speed: 1/45th of a second (1/90 without a flashcube attached)
Aperture: f/11
Date: February 27th, 2023, 7.21 p.m.
Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A.

Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41
Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees
Developer: 3 mins. and 40 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

Kodak X-15-1 Vista Plus 400 2023 24ef