The Very First Rolls - TMAX100

The very first roll I shot was at Chandni Chowk. I had gone to get the shutter for my Pentax ME F repaired. It was there that I stumbled into Madanjee’s. It felt like I walked into a different realm. Surrounded by cameras, tripods, lenses, drones and all other hard to find photography paraphernalia, it took me a second to take it all in. What caught my eye was a wall of film. It was split in two, one side stacked to the top in various rolls of Ilford film, the other with Kodak TMAX100.

The Kodak as I soon learned, expired in 2014 (and so was cheaper). With absolutely no experience with film, I chose to go for the TMAX100. Wasting a brand new roll of Ilford film would’ve hurt more than a roll of old TMAX. At Madanjee’s I also found a Paterson Dev Tank, a Packet of Kodak D76 and a packet of Sodium Thiosulphate fixer. (Hypo).

I was too excited to wait, so I loaded up the roll and overexposed it by 1 stop. Since the film was a few years expired and was not refrigerated, it had to be overexposed to make up for the loss of light sensitivity.

Darkroom notes and photo samples below.

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