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Found Film Friday: Holy Toledo! It’s an Ansco Anscoflex!
This week’s Found Film Friday is a fun find… This week’s film is a roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 620 film. Â I was the winning bidder on eBay, and asked the seller where the film had come from. Â He told me he was selling the camera separately, so I bought that as well. Â It’s an…
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Cross Processing 127 Film
When I first started playing around with vintage cameras, I wasn’t sure what kind of film to order, and just for fun, ordered a roll of Rollei Crossbird, without really knowing what it was. Â It turns out this is slide film – i.e. “positive” or “color reversal” film you would use for old-fashioned slides, rather…
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Ansco B2 Cadet: Photography with an Old Box Camera
Sure, today’s fancy digital cameras have a lot of tricks to ensure your photos turn out picture-perfect. Â But compared to the simplicity of an old box camera like Ansco’s B2 Cadet, the photos aren’t THAT much better! Basically a wooden box without any real lens, and a 1/60 second shutter that allows light into a…
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“Found Film Friday”: from Fort Wayne, Indiana
This blog bounces around a bit depending on what I’m interested in on a particular day of the week, so maybe I will post “found film” articles on Fridays from now on. Â There are a few folks out there doing “52 film cameras in 52 weeks”, which could be fun (I’d probably be up to…