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Found Film Friday: Santa Fe Porsche Show
This week’s roll of found film came to me from “Mike” – a collector of old slides who was giving up on a “found film” hobby, he sent me a half dozen or so rolls and acknowledged there was a small chance one of the rolls might be his own. Up until now, none had,
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“Found Film Friday” on a Sunday
Since around May, 2013, I have been posting “found film” finds pretty regularly – and for the last 8 months, it has been every Friday like clockwork. Â This weekend is the first time I missed a Friday, thanks to an outage by my internet provider. Â We get great high-speed internet, but sometimes are surprised by
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Photowalk: Gritty Black and White
One of my favorite camera/film combinations is a (relatively) cheap Ricoh Kr-5 Super II – at just over 20 years old, one of my newest cameras – and Tri-X black and white film. Â Lots of people go for “fine grain” black and white films, but I like the gritty look you get from this particular
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Found Film: 1949 Chevy
This week’s roll of “found film” comes from a Kodak Six-16 Brownie Junior, made between 1934 and 1942. Â From a technology standpoint, it’s virtually indistinguishable from a Brownie Target Six-16, made between 1946 and 1951. Â Given the pace of technology these days, it’s odd to think that a camera would have one so many years
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Shooting with Expired Film
One of the folks I often get “found film” from accidentally shipped me unused film. Â Typically people will discover a partially or fully shot roll of film that has been completely forgotten inside an old camera. Sometimes (rarely) the roll will be inside the camera without having been exposed at all. Â You know you’ve messed