This is one of the last of the Black-Eyed Susans still hanging on in my yard. As a matter of fact, there were only two flowers in my yard this week, this one and a small rose, so there wasn't much in the way of flower subjects to choose from for the challenge this week. For the Saturday Self-Challenge group, whose theme this week was "Flowers Straight Out Of The Camera."

Taken with my Russian camera – a Zenit ET. It was taken to test my Sears 50mm prime lens on the Zenit body. Other than processing the film, there was no other post-processing used to get it to look like this - it's basically straight out of the camera, except for reducing the size for the internet. Unfortunately, I had to leave the bug bite holes in the leaves, as I wasn't allowed to clone them out.

Camera: Zenit ET (Made in Russia in 1984)
Lens: Auto Sears 50mm, f/1.7 (Made in Japan)
Adapter: Montgomery Ward Auto 2X converter (Made in Japan)
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: B (bulb) 1/2 sec.
Date: September 12th, 2018, 12.54 p.m.
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41
Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees
Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees
Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean)
Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees
Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees
Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature
Water rinse: 2 minutes
Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute

This was the 19th roll of film I've managed to develop with this same 1-litre kit.

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