Today’s deck is Anne Stokes Dragon Tarot.
I had to double check, because I vaguely remembered another Anne Stokes Tarot, but the other one I used ages ago was her GOTHIC Tarot instead.
Deck’s good, though. I might not be into dragons, but it says something that I remembered this author’s name.
Today’s reading is a push on the back that the wounds have healed and I should go out there and do all the stuff I’ve wanted to do.
The emotional wounds at least, the ankle I twisted a month ago is still annoying me.
Today is Pissing Rain. Which is a statement I will be repeating for the next couple of months I feel.
I had to pick up the film I developed in Yodobashi Camera like two weeks ago, but I waited to see if the rain calmed down a bit. I had to wait for a box anyways.
There wasn’t anything exciting outside of that, I just went to pick them up and then did a bunch of busywork at the office. So let’s talk about the photos themselves.
First the Nikkon F4 ones. For these ones I didn’t really do anything, in the sense that I was using the same settings as last time.
In these I tested different settings. It kinda shows the (slightly confusing to my brain) principle that you should err on the side of making the pics too bright, which is the opposite of how it usually goes in digital photography.
The idea is that due to the way the photos are scanned by putting light on the other side of it, lighter photos require less light than dark photos.
Then this was the point where I realized “oh right, this had an Auto setting”. I tend to avoid Auto in digital, but using it while I figure things out in film isn’t a bad idea.
Then there’s the Pentax. If you’re wondering why so many pics are on the side it’s because the Pentax is a Half Frame camera. What this means is that each exposure (each photo slot) uses only half of the frame. Aside from giving you 2x as many photos per roll, it inverts the way the camera works in that the regular horizontal setting takes vertical photos.
The results are what I expected from using the Auto settings, but curiously I had a bit of a parallax issue.
You see, the Nikkon is an SLR, which means that when you use the viewfinder you see what the lens sees, while the Pentax has a viewfinder separate from the lens.
And while the Pentax does have a square in the viewfinder that’s like “this is what the lens will take”, I’m guessing the way I held the camera meant I kept looking slightly to the right or the left and so all the photos are shifted more to the side than I intended when shooting.
There’s still the roll from Yodobashi, but I’ll check that one tomorrow.