I share my house with a cattle dog puppy. His name is Ruckus, and his namesake is incredibly fitting. He has a lot of energy, and if you don’t burn off his energy he is an absolute menace to live with. So Tuesday morning I decided to take him for a long walk around town around sunrise to burn off some of his early morning energy and maybe get some respite from his craziness later in the day.

And what better time is there to grab a camera to bring on the walk than sunrise on a beautiful fall morning? I decided to grab my grandpa’s old Minolta XD5 and the 28/2.8. I shoot my Leica(s) a lot but my M mount 28 has a maximum aperture of f5.6 so it seemed like the faster 28 on the Minolta was a better choice. And, sometimes using an SLR is an interesting changeup.

I grabbed a roll of Kentmere 100, in part because I have a bunch of them and I’m trying to shoot through it. I haven’t enjoyed the 100 speed version of Kentmere as much as the 400 speed variant but that’s a topic for another article, perhaps. All that aside, I ended up rating it at 400 in order to get some decent shutter speeds. I opted to stand development in Rodinal, 1:100. You can almost never go wrong with Rodinal and as much as I’m not a huge fan of the grain structure of Kentmere 100 the results were pretty workable.

Enjoy the rest of the gallery below!