Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Oof. Showered. Pawed through a couple hundred rolls of film to find the four I need to take to the lab. Feel myself slowing down. If I were to get into the car right now (as I start writing this, at 17:04) and manage to not hit too many of the lights red, I could get to the lab just in time to hand them the film before they close. But I'd be going there in my bathrobe. Instead, I'll see if I can drop it through a mail slot or something after hours. And just work on feeling energetic enough to go to the nail salon and the music store before they close, and my mother's house before the roads get too icky again.

Looking forward to seeing what I managed to get on these rolls. Two rolls of colour Fuji 800 which may have been rather pushing my luck with only a monopod to steady the camera, one roll of clour Fuji 1600, and a roll of black and white Kodak that I shot at 6400 which was probably fast enough to be useful. There was also a roll of colour slide film (Kodak) shot at 3200 that has already been developed, and the slides are darkish in overall look, but useable exposure-wise (and slide film is much pickier about that than print film ... and a few frames are actually as bright as they can be without white clothing blowing out and losing detail).

It was a dim church, no flash ... fast film is my friend. I no longer think of 800 as fast. (I don't think I've pushed anything farther than 12500 though. IIRC, both the Kodak and Ilford high speed BW films are supposed to be pushable to 25000, depending on which documentation you read, but they're already pretty grainy at 12500.)

Oh my. I should see whether I can scrape together money to buy film to shoot at the wedding I'll be attending next weekend.

Okay, I might have enough new strings on hand to get away with skipping the music store as long as I don't wind up breaking the wrong ones during the recording session. Can I get away with putting off the trip to Bowie until Saturday night or Sunday? What do I absolutely have to stay awake and functional enough to get done this evening?

That's been the kind of week it's been. It'll get better. It has to.