Monday, December 23, 2024

Briquette Press

This is the last image.... for now... from the Nordegg Historic Site.  During the various tours that I took part in last fall, I shot quite a bit of film.  I haven't processed much of it yet, so there will undoubtedly be some images shared in the future.
This was from a batch of Kodak Tri-X Pan 320 that I processed on December 5th.  The film was rated at 320 iso and given Normal Development in PMK Developer, on my Jobo CPP-3 Processor.
This is one of the briquette presses at the mine site.  Pulverized coal was treated with steam and mixed with a binding agent and then pressed by this machine into briquettes.  They were very similar in appearance to the Charcoal briquettes that are used on BBQ's.  But these were coal, not charcoal, and were mostly used for home heating.
I shot this on September 30th at about 2:00 in the afternoon.  I used my Ebony view camera and a wide 75mm lens.  The exposure was for 8 seconds at F16.0.



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