Lamp Batteries

This is another image from the Nordegg Historic Site.  These are old batteries, in the lamp house.  The batteries were used to power the lamps on the miners helmets, so that they could see underground.  Everyday when they started their shifts, each miner would pick up their helmet with a freshly charged battery, and leave their tag at the lamphouse.  Each miner had a tag with a number on it.  This was the way that they kept track of exactly who was in the mine at any given time.  If you take the guided tour of the mine, you can visit this building for yourself and the guides will explain in detail how everything functioned.  I was on a private tour of the mine when this photograph was taken.

This is a sheet of Kodak T-Max 100 that I developed on December 19.  The film was rated at 80 iso and given normal development in 510 Pyro, 1:100, for 8:00 minutes, at 24C.

I shot this image on July 29th 2025, at about 1:45 in the afternoon.  I used my Ebony SV45Ti view camera and a 180mm lens.  The exposure was for 1 minute at F25.0.