Rangefinder and HC-110 Blues

I’ve been very disappointed in my inside snapshots lately. With my old eyes, I’m not sure I can adequately focus a rangefinder in anything but bright light anymore. I try to push my film to 1600 to give me a couple stops of aperture forgiveness on focus, but the grain is insanely huge with the push processing and my cheapo developer, HC-110 (dilution B). I think I need to switch to something more expensive like Ilfotec DDX to bring this grain back under control. Even so, I just went through four rolls of holiday snaps and the number of frames lost to crap focus was horrifying. I should have started with a rangefinder in my teens, maybe I’d be adequate at it now.

This dude on Flickr gets great results pushing Tri-X to 1600 with Dilution B… so I don’t know. I’m just depressed with all this.

Family snaps:

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