Down the hill from my neighborhood

I bought a box of forty rolls of expired Kodak Supra 800 a couple of

years ago. Today I took the last three rolls out of the fridge and

noticed the box said the film expired in December 2001. I've been

generally shooting it at about ISO 200 and getting decently exposed

pictures. The grain is another matter altogether, but I like the

pointillist sort of detail that I often get. Here I also have the

strange glass of the Agat-18 making its Holgaesque effect.



The Agat-18 is really one of the wonders of photographic history. The

exposure is adjustable by means of a devious Sunny-f/16 calculator.

And it has a real-glass focussing lens -- it seems to go beyond its

otherwise all-plastic construction. I've gotten interesting pictures

every time I use it. But remember that that word "interesting" is

part of the traditional curse, "May you live in interesting times."



All that said, I like this squarish crop from a negative shot on Supra

in my Agat this week. If I could paint, I'd probably paint like this.



This is part of "Red Oktober" for using Soviet-era cameras.