43rd PSPCS Camera Sale. Ilford Delta 3200. Diafine #38.

PSPCS stands for Puget Sound Photographic Collectors Society. They have a sale and swap meet in Kent, Washington, twice a year.

Last Saturday, before I headed to Seattle, I stopped by to see what was available. I met a few friends, shot these images with my Nikon FM3a, and purchased a Sears 10 B camera. The camera is rebranded and is actually a Mamiya 4B. It cost $5. I ran a roll through the camera yesterday and will post the images later this week.

I had the Voigtlander Ultron 40mm 1:2 Lens attached to the Nikon. I shot most images at 1/60th of a second with apertures between 1:2 and 1:4. The film was developed in Diafine and scanned with the PrimeFilm XEs scanner using VueScan Software.

I should buy a Speed Graphic someday. Most of them shoot a 4×5 negative which is manageable to develop and scan. Below is an image of a 16×20 Camera. Film is still available, but it is expensive (

https://www.adorama.com/ilfp4pbw1620.html)

Dry plates are pieces of glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion that will capture an image when exposed to light. It was a revolutionary photographic process in the late 19th century, allowing photographers to take photographs anywhere. 

https://www.eastman.org/node/5335#:~:text=Dry%20plates%20are%20pieces%20of,take%20photographs%20anywhere%20they%20wanted

The next show is October 7th. I hope to spend more time than I did this visit. There are so many options for the film photographer to consider that the 60 minutes I spent there was insufficient.

https://www.pspcs.org/our-annual-show