{"id":55444,"title":"Inside the Paris Catacombs [Hasselblad 500 CM | 50 mm distagon & 120 Makro Planar | Ilford Delta 3200 | self dev in XTOL (1:1)]","author":"RobG_analog","permalink":"https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1xoieuc/inside_the_paris_catacombs_hasselblad_500_cm_50/","description":"Hi all, I was in Paris last month, and I had always wanted to go to the catacombs. I was bringing the Hasselblad and I thought it would be fun to take medium format pictures down there.\n\nI bought a couple of rolls of Ilford Delta 3200 and I figured I would bring my 50 mm wide angle, so I could still handhold the camera at 1/60 of a second.\n\nWell, it was a lot darker than I thought it was going to be down there. I found I needed to be using a minimum exposure time of 1/30, but often 1/15.\n\nBecause you have to wear your backpack in front of you so you don’t bump into the bones, I started sort of balancing the back of the camera on my backpack while focussing the waist level view finder.\n\nThe last couple of pictures are of the passageway on the way to the ossuary, and the stairs on the way down into the catacombs.\n\nThese photographs are dedicated to the airport employees at Toronto Pearson and Charles de Gaulle who hand checked my 3200 speed film.","caption":"A human skull is visible among other bones in a dark setting.","score":396,"nsfw":false,"grayscale":true,"timestamp":1793884681,"created":"2026-11-06T00:01:43.352328Z","updated":"2026-11-07T01:00:36.800271Z","sprocket":false,"camera_make":"hasselblad","camera_model":"500c/m","film_make":"ilford","film_type":"delta 3200","film_speed":3200,"focal_length":50,"images":[{"resolution":"low","url":"https://i.analogdb.com/7e45aa71816646619f4b1e0c-low.jpeg","width":720,"height":720},{"resolution":"medium","url":"https://i.analogdb.com/7e45aa71816646619f4b1e0c-medium.jpeg","width":1080,"height":1080},{"resolution":"high","url":"https://i.analogdb.com/7e45aa71816646619f4b1e0c-high.jpeg","width":1440,"height":1440},{"resolution":"raw","url":"https://i.analogdb.com/7e45aa71816646619f4b1e0c-raw.jpeg","width":3500,"height":3500}],"colors":[{"hex":"#050505","css":"black","html":"black","percent":0.49982832},{"hex":"#0f0f0f","css":"black","html":"black","percent":0.13902006},{"hex":"#1d1d1d","css":"midnightblue","html":"black","percent":0.11017747},{"hex":"#2f2f2f","css":"darkslategray","html":"black","percent":0.09010802},{"hex":"#454545","css":"darkslategray","html":"gray","percent":0.07171103}],"keywords":[{"word":"skull","weight":1},{"word":"bone","weight":0.9167},{"word":"catacomb","weight":0.8333},{"word":"paris","weight":0.75},{"word":"dark","weight":0.6667},{"word":"still life","weight":0.5833},{"word":"monochrome","weight":0.5}]}