further #photography experiments: my first roll of medium-format film, on an untested 1950s folding camera, using Ilford XP2, which is not meant to be developed in normal B&W chemistry so I had to make up the times.
Amazingly, there are actually pictures coming out on the film. I mean, let's not assume they're in focus or reasonably exposed, but still.
Technically really interesting to use as well - the shutter controls are all on the lens itself, so you set aperture and exposure, cock the shutter, and then that's it. No meter, but thankfully a phone takes care of that these days...
Focusing is entirely by a distance dial - this was the cheap model of the series, with no rangefinder. (You paid almost twice as much for that, but you did also get a wider lens)
Second 120 film today - spooling a little fiddlier but came out OK. Quality looks excellent for a 70-year-old camera & lens! Going to be a pain to scan, though...
(in my notes this is "Dud shot at f/16 1/200", I had assumed it was underexposed and written it off. Phone metering remains a bit challenging.)