Yet another mistake! 

I loaded the 4x5 b+w sheet  film incorrectly -- the wrong way round ie., back to front!  This  is something that I have never done before. I cannot explain how made this mistake. 

 I do have an image after processing the film in Rodinal, but the image quality is poor. There is little detail in the blacks.  To my suprise there was vignetting in both the upper corners, despite using a recessed lens board and a wide angle bellows. 

The particular subject is the railway yard at Quorn in South Australia. It is  early  cloudless morning during  the winter months.   The camera a 5x4 Sinar F1 monorail,   the lens was a Schneider-Kreuznach 75mm f.5.6 Super Angulon, and  the sheet film was Ilford FP4 Plus.  Though the camera is a monorail it is light enough for field use, which is how I use it. 

The background to this photosession is that we had just spent a week walking in  the  Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park using the  Nudlaamutana  Hut  as our base. We were staying in Quorn  for a day or so on our way back, so as to allow me to  do some view camera photography.  As it is unlikely that I will be returning  to Quorn in the near future so I will have to make do with a poor quality image.  

Hito Steyerl  has written an essay in  defence of the poor image (2009) which she defines as follows:

"The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution."

Her concern here is the poor image in relation to the dissemination of images, namely the transformation of an original  image and how it changes through time (compressed, ripped  remixed) and in the process becomes  a poor image.  It becomes a popular image.