When I took this exposure I had pretty low expectations. I had an expired roll of Fujifilm Sensia 100 loaded in my Nikon FE and the Meyer Optik Trioplan II 35mm f2.8. I set the camera to automatic exposure and opened the aperture wide open to f2.8. It was quite dark so I peered through the finder and adjusted the composition until I could see stars and mountains in the frame. From there, I focused to infinity and thought to myself, “let’s just see what happens”. This is a phrase many of us in the film community can relate to. I actuated the shutter and seconds turned to a minute, then two minutes, three minutes. At this point, I was convinced that my trusty Nikon FE with a dented prism had finally decided to quit on me. After what felt like 4 minutes, the shutter finally closed. “There is absolutely no way that worked out” I thought to myself before heading to bed for the night. When the negatives came back from the lab I was shocked at the results. I can’t wait to mount this frame at look at it in my vintage Argus slide viewer.
Nikon FE
Meyer Optik Görlitz Trioplan II 35mm f2.8
Expired Fujifilm Sensia 100