Joakim Målare
Established
Hey folks,
Winter isn't that much fun photography-wise up here in Sweden, and the lack of sunlight affects your body as well. Vitamin D is produced inside you when you're exposed to sun/light. You might need an artificial boost of those during this time of year.
For those of you with 24/7 daylight (!? 😎), how about experimenting a little with Vitamin C developers? There are recipes to try out, just for fun if nothing else.
To get to the point - buy a tube of vitamins. They're very useful even when you stuffed yourself full of the contents - as film containers! Two rolls of 120 fit perfectly in the size I buy (they're mostly all the same size, here at least) if you trim away the inside part of the lid. Take care though, the lid is filled with silica and you don't want that all over the floor.
As a bonus, I made a cover for the tube that you can print out, cut to size and tape on. It's long enough to hide the first piece of tape that you use to fix it to the tube. Then you wrap it with some more tape, all around.
Like this:
Here's the file (no idea why it's so large, about 1,5 MB)
http://nioform.se/tmp/IlfordVitaminCovers.pdf
It's A4 size but should print appropriately on most papers if you deactivate downscaling in the printing dialog.
Also, I followed Tom A's idea about taping two 135-cans together, bottom to bottom. It's nice when things are a little organized, methinks.
Have a nice day/night! 😉
Winter isn't that much fun photography-wise up here in Sweden, and the lack of sunlight affects your body as well. Vitamin D is produced inside you when you're exposed to sun/light. You might need an artificial boost of those during this time of year.
For those of you with 24/7 daylight (!? 😎), how about experimenting a little with Vitamin C developers? There are recipes to try out, just for fun if nothing else.
To get to the point - buy a tube of vitamins. They're very useful even when you stuffed yourself full of the contents - as film containers! Two rolls of 120 fit perfectly in the size I buy (they're mostly all the same size, here at least) if you trim away the inside part of the lid. Take care though, the lid is filled with silica and you don't want that all over the floor.
As a bonus, I made a cover for the tube that you can print out, cut to size and tape on. It's long enough to hide the first piece of tape that you use to fix it to the tube. Then you wrap it with some more tape, all around.
Like this:
Here's the file (no idea why it's so large, about 1,5 MB)
http://nioform.se/tmp/IlfordVitaminCovers.pdf
It's A4 size but should print appropriately on most papers if you deactivate downscaling in the printing dialog.
Also, I followed Tom A's idea about taping two 135-cans together, bottom to bottom. It's nice when things are a little organized, methinks.
Have a nice day/night! 😉
