I tested some old Agfa Agfapan APX 100 last week, it had expired in the same year that I finished high school, 1997. It was still shooting just fine and I settled on something between iso 50 and 100 and shot a bunch of sheets these past few days. They're each shot on the speed graphic with the 150mm rodenstock with a yellow filter, at F32. With the yellow filter I just metered for iso50 and called it done. I'm very happy with the resulting level of exposure.
Here are three frames from my trip to Guthega this weekend. Various compositions and crops happening, I'm pretty happy with them... but the Mt Tate shot in particular still looks like a snapshot to me... Not really sure how to make these vistas look more... I'm not sure what I mean, but I guess polished? Classy? I dont know But anyway, I hope you get some enjoyment, or at least a sense of the place, from these.
Roots on rock with brush by J P, on Flickr
Toward Mt Tate by J P, on Flickr
This last one is a solid crop showing just the top half of the frame... there were a lot of bushes in the foreground and it was quite windy so they were a bust. It was a shame because its a bit of work getting downward tilt on the speed graphic (dropping the bed, but that loses focus, and also looses the ability to refocus, so its a bit of to and fro, up and down to nail focus.) and the bits that I tilted for were cropped, and the areas left were compromised slightly... oh well! That was a pretty big lesson from the weekend, the graphic is not that much fun to front tilt!
Porcupine rocks towards Jindy by J P, on Flickr
I whipped through a few more sheets down along a local river here on Friday morning. Those are drying now, but will try to scan them tomorrow.
Hope you had a top weekend!