Earlsfield

This is another recently processed 4" x 5" negative.  This is a sheet of Kodak T-Max 100, rated at 80iso and developed in 510Pyro, 1:100, for 8:00 minutes at 24C.  I ran this batch on December 23rd.  This was actually a sheet from a Kodak Readyload Packet.  These film packs are no longer available.  They were rather costly, even back in the days of much cheaper film.  But they were really convenient as each sheet of film was flawlessly dust free and factory loaded in a cardboard packet.  You only had to carry one film holder, and then insert the individual packets as you used them.  It made for much lighter hiking.  I still have a few left in stock, and have them reserved as back up film on longer trips, or when I'm doing a hike and want to lighten my pack.  In this case Chris and I were on an extended road trip in Saskatchewan and I brought along a few Readyload Packets in case I ran low on film.  That proved to be the case when I went to shoot this old building.

We found this abandoned farm house along a side road in Saskatchewan, not far from the town of Vera.  This was an Eaton's catalogue home.  People could purchase these homes in kit form from Eatons and have the materials package with instructions sent out to their property.  This particular model was called the Earlsfield, and it was probably the most popular one.  We have seem many of them on our travels throughout the prairie provinces.

I took this photography on May 8th of 2025, at about 2:45 in the afternoon.  I shot it with my Ebony SV45TE view camera and a longer Nikkor 210mm lens.  A #22 Orange filter increased the contrast a little and created some separation between sky and clouds.  The exposure was for 1/8 second at F18.0.  The expiry date on this pack of film was June of 2009, so it held up pretty nicely 16 years later.