Armed Forces Day: The Red Arrows

I mentioned I bought rolls of this film a few weeks back and how cheap it was from Poundland…£1 to be exact. I bought the same roll from the photography specialist in Edinburgh’s High Street and it cost me a lot more at £3.50 (I still don’t know why I did).

The first thing I shot with it was the Red Arrows display on June 24th as part of Armed Forces Day. I was quite surprised at the Red Arrows flying over Edinburgh for what, to me, seemed a low scale event (I will explain how this caught me out in another post) but it was something I have seen a few times through my childhood so I was keen to catch them on my doorstep.

The film had a tough battle to fight to start with as I had decided to use this film with my Zenit-E. The Zenit-E has a selenium meter which isn’t very practical so I had spent sometime reading Fred Parker’s Ultimate Exposure Computer online and learning how to judge exposure values by the conditions I was shooting in. It’s a Soviet camera and a bit of a brut, on more that one occasion when trying to advance the film when it has finished, it has ripped the film right out the canister…this happened on that evening.

The results are mixed and I can’t put my finger on the cause of the problem…it’s rough camera, it was a film I had never used before and the lab didn’t do a fabulous job of developing it (which concerns me all the more since handing in six rolls of film on Friday from my holiday) but the exposure calculator worked a treat. Here are only a few of the photos from the evening:

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  1. amchphotography said: Those are some fresh photos, honest!
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  3. pathlost said: The EV guide on wikipedia is pretty good - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex… My Zenit likes ripping the film up too :)
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