Friend lent me an XPan

I could shoot with this all day.  What a fun camera.

We went down to Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, and I shot 7 rolls.  Pretty easy, with a new fun toy and the fact that it shoots long frames.    So you get about 16 frames per roll.

I was shooting some Ilford HP5 I’d just bulk rolled in a nearby cafe.   I developed it at home using Diafine.

I was shooting on aperture priority.  The lens was f/4, but I was mostly shooting at f/5.6.   Out of habit, I kept on focusing using the rangefinder, but I could have just zone focused and never touched the lens, as f/5.6 puts everything from 5′ to infinity in focus.    I was also using a red filter, which made the sky nice and dark.

Because I was shooting on aperture priority, and mostly taking pictures of the sky and buildings, the exposures made silhouettes of the buildings, but I really like how they turned out.

These pictures are just from the first roll.  I can’t wait to scan the rest!

Hope you like them.