Admittedly a horrible shot of the building across the street, apparently I metered it wrong and overexposed it by a couple of stops, then the Reagant #3 is obviously uneven, and careless handling of the fragile Efke 25 (and it has been sitting in the Riteway since April) resulted in numerous scratches. The photographer failed to focus or compose his Speed Graphic, and used the Xenotar 150 f 2.8, which was fun but not terribly sharp. Other artifacts include dirt, mud and clods of who-knows-what. A larger file (200 MB) was scanned in and there isn't much grain, and there is little to no clumping.
Anyway Efke 25 4X5 sheet film, here shown processed in a couple of minutes. By that I mean processed with a monobath/reagent that works fast, and no presoak, nothing much except a final wash in sodium sulfite to get the hypo out, just like we do with 55, and a splash of Poland Springs bottled water. I used the Paterson Orbital tank and a very small amount of #3, but this can all be incorporated into a sleeve or holder that could be taken to a location, shot, and processed on the spot. Click to enlarge it. Click it again if you have to. Look under the tree.
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