Paul Schwartz over at Kodak’s great A Thousand Words blog was kind enough to link to my Found Film archive in a post about the subject of finding long-forgotten films in antique cameras. It’s probably one of my favorite moments with a camera I’ve bought on eBay. The anticipation of what could possibly be on [...]
A few days ago I found a Brownie Target Six-20 from the late 1940s with two rolls of exposed film. One was a color roll and I will have to see how to get that one developed, but I already have the developed black and white roll back from the shop… here are the results. [...]
This Found Film came from a slightly damaged Kodak Duaflex camera I got from eBay. The film is a roll of 620 Ansco Pan film and only the first two pictures were ok, the rest had probably been destroyed when somebody opened the camera without winding up the film. This is the better of two [...]
Here a picture from my latest Found Film: Hold on to your helmet – and secure those pants, too! This image was one of about 4 usable shots on a roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 620 film, all the others were double exposures or destroyed when the camera was inadvertently opened. The film came together [...]
I obtained two rolls of exposed Kodak Verichrome Pan film in the obsolete 620 format from eBay, figuring that if nothing else, I can always use the spools for my vintage cameras. The rolls were only loosely taped over and I had my doubts if there were any photos left after probably bouncing around some [...]
Recently I got another Kodak Bull’s Eye from eBay, and it still contained an exposed roll of film. I was intrigued, to say the least. There was a small notebook (imprinted with advertisement from Indianapolis, Indiana) in the box with entries that ended in 1964, and so it’s as good a guess as any that [...]