In June 2008, I had to go up to Portland to see a neurologist. I had a Friday appointment so my wife and I decided to make a weekend trip out of it and we went camping at Silver Falls State Park near Salem. I was just getting into photography and was really excited to try and get some good waterfall photos with my then fairly new K10D. I had also recently acquired my first manual focus Pentax, a near mint ME.
I had shot a few rolls of cheap C-41 film with it so I new it worked, so I brought it along and thought I would try some waterfall photos on Fuji Velvia. In hind sight, I really had no idea what I was doing, shooting the roll or even what I was gonna do with it once I was done. There I was on a bright sunny trying to get good photos of waterfalls. The lighting was brutally harsh but being naive, I happily shot all 39 frames on a $11 roll of film. When I got home I went to the local photo store and they sent the roll of for developing which cost me another $10. I got the roll back as near as I could tell they looked okay. At that time I had no scanner so I wasn't sure what to do with the unmounted slides so I cut them up into strips of 5 to put into storage sheets. Then I decided to take it down to the minilab and have them scan it. The next day I went to pick up the film and the CD and to my horror they charged me $28 to scan the roll. Apparently, since I had cut the roll into strips it was much more work. I grudgingly paid them, took the film and CD home only to find out that only 2 or three frames even remotely worked out.
I recently found the roll again and decided to scan them myself.
So here are the 2 good shots from a roll of film that cost me $50
Pentax ME, M 50/1.7, Velvia, Epson V500
I apologize for being long winded but thought the story was worth sharing.