These were all at 400 so I used Xtol 11 22degrees for 8.5 minutes with one inversion every minute.

Its not quite the 2500 rolls that Gary Winogrand left but given a fair wind with my health and a continued need to click a shutter, a small mountain might yet be in my grasp.

Using Ilford HC instead of Rodinal gives slightly better grain with Ilford HP5 to my eye though that is using the Epson V700 rather than darkroom printing.

I will fire up the enlarger at some point if only to see the difference.

The HC has turned a tinge of brown in the bottle but still seems to have some potency.

A lot less dust this time but I kept the windows closed (Im a bit of a genius on the quiet) which is somewhat easier with autumn coming on.

I changed back to the Ilford wetting agent and scanned the film as soon as it was dry.

Nothing exciting tweaked in Lightroom with a bit of noise reduction and an Antique preset.

Ive started on a dozen rolls of Ilford HP5 Id shot but not processed, just to get my hand back in.

These were shot with a Leica M3 and an old 50mm Summicron ISO400 with a yellow filter.

Some of these photos are processed in Adox Adonal and some in Ilford HC, both attesting to their ability to still work after a long period of sitting on the shelf.

Im not a big fan of the grain but that might be accentuated by the Epson V700 scanner and my ham-fisted processing.

Dust was the thing that got me using a digital camera most of the time.

I find myself dreaming of a drying cabinet when a shaft of sunlight reveals the dust floating in the air as a wet length of film drys.

These are moments in time, waiting to be revealed to a world they could not have imagined.

Not me, of course; I would never allow 10 rolls of film to back up on the shelf for years, convinced that nothing in the viewfinder was of much interest, but merely created because the sound of a shutter clicking is rather pleasant and fondling a film camera is a delight.well, OK, maybe.

I think youd have to agree that these images capture the true flavour of the spirit that gripped the nation during that heady summer.

Its hard to believe such a remarkable record of nostalgia could remain unprocessed for so long.

The only problem is the dust, which drives me nuts and which I get bored trying to clone out.

In a world with some staggeringly good photographers, I feel I could claim a niche in the dullness movement.

I just need to work up my artistic statement and then, look out, Turner Prize.

These were shot on a Leica M3 with a 50mm Summicron DR both of which have been recently serviced by Malcolm Taylor.

It is a beautiful camera and the lens seems to shoot like Im still living in the 1950s or maybe everything black and white looks like that.

This Rollei 400s is a cheap film but I really like the grain Im getting processing it in Rodinal.

Summicron 50Mm Dr