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So like it says, i recently purchased a watkins bee meter off the good old bay and it mentioned that it came with spare discs! So in my excitement upon receiving the said meter i thought i would try it out and see if the paper had any life to it.
So i popped it open to find the felt pad, lifted that to see a stack of discs and took out the top one, which was white (unused) i swiftly moved that onto the felt pad and as i closed the meter i noticed one of the discs below it had an image of a man on it!
Now my only guess is that someone has used the paper for a contact print. I closed the meter as quick as i could to avoid fogging it. I know the paper in the meter is basically printing out paper and in this application is just used to work out exposures but as its been used for a print im wondering if i could fix the image. Im into historical process and make my own sodium thiosulphate hypo so making fixer is not a problem, im just a bit wary of destroying the image.
And as i type this the new paper has blackened so its still sensitive!
Its the second time this month something like this has happened. I borrowed my brothers enlarger kit the other day, he's never taken it out of the box and our father bought it for him about 8 years ago. So we open the box to check its all there and see a 35mm canister, i open it up to find some film coiled up inside, with images on them. Turns out they are some very underexposed photos of a woman in lingerie lol with very 80s hair i can make that out lol
So i popped it open to find the felt pad, lifted that to see a stack of discs and took out the top one, which was white (unused) i swiftly moved that onto the felt pad and as i closed the meter i noticed one of the discs below it had an image of a man on it!
Now my only guess is that someone has used the paper for a contact print. I closed the meter as quick as i could to avoid fogging it. I know the paper in the meter is basically printing out paper and in this application is just used to work out exposures but as its been used for a print im wondering if i could fix the image. Im into historical process and make my own sodium thiosulphate hypo so making fixer is not a problem, im just a bit wary of destroying the image.
And as i type this the new paper has blackened so its still sensitive!
Its the second time this month something like this has happened. I borrowed my brothers enlarger kit the other day, he's never taken it out of the box and our father bought it for him about 8 years ago. So we open the box to check its all there and see a 35mm canister, i open it up to find some film coiled up inside, with images on them. Turns out they are some very underexposed photos of a woman in lingerie lol with very 80s hair i can make that out lol
