An Ode to the Sprocket Hole

I kludged together an adapter to fit 35mm film canisters in my Pentax 67, here are the results! There's more after the break, too.

Unknown flower species
Pentax 67, 105mm f/2.4, Superia 400

All of these are on very expired Superia 400, and I reckon that I agitated a little too much during development, leading to the ghosting from the sprocket holes.

Dreaming
Pentax 67, 105mm f/2.4, Superia 400

 Hopefully sometime soon, I'll make a post about how to hack up a couple of empty 120 spools to make an adapter for 135.

Hapu'u Fern
Pentax 67, 105mm f/2.4, Superia 400

 Sprocket holes are a wonderful thing. They were never intended to be part of the image, just there to facilitate film transport. Yet when caught in the image, they have a presence all of their own.

Mailboxes in upper Ainaola
Pentax 67, 105mm f/2.4, Superia 400

 So long as film exists, sprocket holes will never go the way of the dinosaur. I pray that they will not one day only exist as a hipsteresque option in the menu of an iPhone app.

View from the Top
Pentax 67, 105mm f/2.4, Superia 400