A Day Out With The Metra

The film was Kodak Pro Image 100 for all images

 

Good true colour, despite the developer issues. Those little slotted doors over the selenium cells were designed to create maximum confusion, from my experience with similar meters. Thanks for the post; it was all a worthwhile project.

Good true colour, despite the developer issues. Those little slotted doors over the selenium cells were designed to create maximum confusion, from my experience with similar meters. Thanks for the post; it was all a worthwhile project.

 

You won't believe it but the bottom fell out of the brown bottle of the freshly mixed color developer - literally. Talk about bad luck, one liter of developer all over the sink after only two rolls of film, just before I was ready to do the film from the Metra. I put it down to the warm up water heating up too quickly, and the glass bottle couldn't handle it

 

I had a Digibase C41 kit still in my cubby hole of chemicals. The Digibase had been divided in half years ago, so I decided to risk all and use the remaining stock solutions for the Pro Image 100. I swear, part C of the developer was pitch black, and permanently stained anything it got onto, even the marbles I used to remove air were neatly stained black and no ordinary cleaning would get it off

 

And yet, this old developer worked fine on a test roll of Fujifilm 100 I put through a never used Olympus Zoom 80 P&S. Nevertheless and throwing caution to the wind, I developed the Pro Image 100 from the Metra and got a reasonable processed film which maybe was spoiled more by overexposure from the camera than any effects an old developer would have on it. I must say though, using old developer, especially if it's been divided, is very risky. I've divided both powder and liquid, and I won't be doing it again. not under any circumstances

 

Sure Rick, selenium cell doors are brain teasing, however I'll keep the Metra's light meter cover closed from now on, and only open it in deep shadow

built like tanks! mamiya's reputation for quality stems from this era of over built to last forever.

 

nice restoration. your grand children will certainly appreciate the quality compared to the toys we see today.