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Hangover, Helsinki |
While we were on our way to the market in Helsinki,
in Finland, I sotted these two characters sitting on fish boxes and wondeered
if they were down and outs looking for a handout. My Finnish companion
said no, they were far too well dressed. He said they were sailors from
the fishing boats who had been signed off the previous evening and spent
all their money on alcohol. Now they were trying to get over a hangover
before looking for another boat to sign on. I took the picture withy my
Zorki C loaded with FP4 which had only recently appeared. I thought it
was quite an improvement on FP3 with better gradation between good blacks
and good whites. It was rated at ASA 125, but I had a tip from an Ilford
rep that this was a 'safety margin' rating, and the film gave best results
rated at ASA 200, which I did using a Leningrad 4 hand held meter and
taking a reading from the asphalt dockside as being a fairly neutral grey. |
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