Small progress, tiny camera

[P C Headland]

I've shot another test roll in the Minox III, and I think I've worked out what was causing the horizontal scratches.

Was it the slitter or was it the 3D printed cartridges, or was it the camera? Having spent a little while with some fine sandpaper, and the scratches becoming "less bad", I'm now reasonably sure I just need to finish the film cartridges. I can then get a couple more printed at the local library.

Now, none of the images are particularly great from a photographic point of view, but it does look like I'm making some progress.

Lines, but the right sort.

Some thick lines in this one!!

Awaiting summer

Very shallow

Film was 35mm Fomapan 100 slit to 9.2mm, developed in PC-TEA 1+50 for 10 minutes.

[Julio1fer]

Glad of your progress. So many things to go wrong, with original film, slitter, cassette, procedures, camera, development, scanning the tiny negs…Those images look promising!

I have looked more than once to 8x11 Minoxes but never got the courage. 35mm and 120 are hard enough for me.