The #FrugalFilmProject, February 2025: Oh, I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

February 21, 2025

The #FrugalFilmProject, February 2025: Oh, I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

I'm getting more familiar with the Golden Wonder (a.k.a the Welta Penti II, half-frame camera), so this month, when we went to Vagueira for lunch, it was the perfect opportunity to try some half-frame Rapid film on my favourite buildings.

I already have some Rapid canisters filled with Harman Phoenix, and I'm getting much better at loading the Golden Wonder, so before lunch was the perfect opportunity for a walk around the sea front. For exposure metering I used the Camera Meter app and rated the film at ISO 160. This day was a bit overcast, though. The weather has not been good for those lovely high contrast images and blue skies that just 'pop', but I wanted to see how Phoenix behaved on a dull day.

Before heading for the sea front I wandered around the market square, taking photos of the stunted wind-blown trees and the famous (in the local area, anyhow) sculpture of the sardine on a fork. I should add that as before, the crappy 35mm cassettes I use to transfer the Rapid films to before taking to the lab have horrible light leaks. Mind you, I do find these appealing.

I wandered along the sea front then walked back to the restaurant around the 'block' (like many US towns and cities, Vagueira is made up of square blocks of buildings). At tge corner of one empty block was a wonderful little metal kiosk. Long abandoned, the rusty white kiosk probably sold ice cream, or the popular Portuguese fried delicacy of Tripas. The front and back windows were covered by venetian blinds, so old they were sagging. There were still a few frames left on the roll, so I used the rest of the frames up around Aveiro.

I've posted the whole roll in an album (https://www.flickr.com/gp/147583812@N06/X75r0xuj77) on my Flickr, light leaks and all, if you want to see the rest of the images. Next month will be more of the same, but hopefully I'm going to try some half-frame redscale with Harman Phoenix.

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