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The aethereal radar operator [Canon A1 | FD 24 mm f/2 | Ilford Delta 3200 pushed to 6400]
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Shooting my first roll of Delta 3200 went well. The development, however, did not. In this picture there are examples of bent film, fingerprints, film getting wet when being put onto the spiral and sticking to itself – but they end up looking quite cool in my opinion.
The picture itself is taken from the operations center in the now retired Finnish Navy minelayer Keihässalmi.
Wow. I went to photojournalism school in the late 00s, and we were all using Ilford Delta 3200 almost exclusively. I am stoked to see some of it on my feed again. That's a real blast from the past. Excellent print, great way to lean into the impurities of the process.
I assume you are spooling and hand-developing your film? If so, how long have you been at it? Spooling is a skill that really takes a fuckton of muscle memory for sure.
The end of the roll didn't end up getting quite so mangled in the process, so I'll add some additional examples here. The last two pictures are a bit more representative of what the results would've been like if I didn't mess up the development.