Films you never got around to developing
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
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and have now forgotten what's on them.
I have a disposable camera, which I think dates from a company conference in Tenerife from around 1996/97. Lord knows what is on it, I am now happily married and dread to think
I think I'll just ditch it
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On a similar theme, only with a digital camera ...
A colleague was trying to sell his digital camera to me or to one of our other colleagues. This is going back some time when none of us had ever seen a digital camera before. He explained how convenient they were, how you could upload pictures to your computer, edit them and print out just the ones you liked. It all sounded great.
Anyway, he handed the camera to us and we took a succession of snaps round the office. I asked how I could look through the pictures and he replied that I needed to press the button with the triangle symbol on it and I would be able to scroll through a slideshow of all the pictures stored on the camera.
So there I was, searching for the playback button, when the vendor suddenly yelped, went crimson with embarrassment and snatched the camera from my hand. He stabbed feverishly at what turned out to be the delete button. He checked the camera a few times and finally handed it back.
It turned out that he'd left the pictures of his wife's private striptease and porn show on the camera!
He told us that it would have resulted in divorce proceedings if we'd seen those pictures and his wife had found out about it. (Knowing some of the people I worked with, I reckon she'd have been teased about the photos the very next time she picked him up from work!)
and have now forgotten what's on them.
I have a disposable camera, which I think dates from a company conference in Tenerife from around 1996/97. Lord knows what is on it, I am now happily married and dread to think
I think I'll just ditch it
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On a similar theme, only with a digital camera ...
A colleague was trying to sell his digital camera to me or to one of our other colleagues. This is going back some time when none of us had ever seen a digital camera before. He explained how convenient they were, how you could upload pictures to your computer, edit them and print out just the ones you liked. It all sounded great.
Anyway, he handed the camera to us and we took a succession of snaps round the office. I asked how I could look through the pictures and he replied that I needed to press the button with the triangle symbol on it and I would be able to scroll through a slideshow of all the pictures stored on the camera.
So there I was, searching for the playback button, when the vendor suddenly yelped, went crimson with embarrassment and snatched the camera from my hand. He stabbed feverishly at what turned out to be the delete button. He checked the camera a few times and finally handed it back.
It turned out that he'd left the pictures of his wife's private striptease and porn show on the camera!
He told us that it would have resulted in divorce proceedings if we'd seen those pictures and his wife had found out about it. (Knowing some of the people I worked with, I reckon she'd have been teased about the photos the very next time she picked him up from work!)
wildjetskier
Active Member
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- Ascot
On a similar theme, only with a digital camera ...
A colleague was trying to sell his digital camera to me or to one of our other colleagues. This is going back some time when none of us had ever seen a digital camera before. He explained how convenient they were, how you could upload pictures to your computer, edit them and print out just the ones you liked. It all sounded great.
Anyway, he handed the camera to us and we took a succession of snaps round the office. I asked how I could look through the pictures and he replied that I needed to press the button with the triangle symbol on it and I would be able to scroll through a slideshow of all the pictures stored on the camera.
So there I was, searching for the playback button, when the vendor suddenly yelped, went crimson with embarrassment and snatched the camera from my hand. He stabbed feverishly at what turned out to be the delete button. He checked the camera a few times and finally handed it back.
It turned out that he'd left the pictures of his wife's private striptease and porn show on the camera!
He told us that it would have resulted in divorce proceedings if we'd seen those pictures and his wife had found out about it. (Knowing some of the people I worked with, I reckon she'd have been teased about the photos the very next time she picked him up from work!)
Classic, I can believe it cos last year needed an emergency phone for a couple of days, until my new one came. Anyway my mate lent me his old one. Well had a shoofty thru the photos, as you do, and apart from his missus topless on the beach, very nice by the way, were a couple of photos he had taken of himself, in particular his manhood, well i PMSL, the excuse was he wanted to see what it looked like from someone else's point of view, yer right. Had endless fun with that
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
[QUOTE 1506442"]
and have now forgotten what's on them.
I have a disposable camera, which I think dates from a company conference in Tenerife from around 1996/97. Lord knows what is on it, I am now happily married and dread to think
I think I'll just ditch it
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Post it to me and I'll get it developed.
If there is ANYTHING embarrassing I'll post it all over the internet. Deal??
Seriously though, gies it here, don't just dispose of it.
I still have some 120 films (120 size films, not 120 films) taken by the venerable old Blad from 2005 that need developing. They sat in the fridge in the garage, forgotten about for years.
I have already got quite a few developed and the best bit is definitely unrolling them (dev only) and seeing the negs (and Positives) for the first time, and figuring out what they all are, when they were taken, and where!
and have now forgotten what's on them.
I have a disposable camera, which I think dates from a company conference in Tenerife from around 1996/97. Lord knows what is on it, I am now happily married and dread to think
I think I'll just ditch it
[/quote]
Post it to me and I'll get it developed.
If there is ANYTHING embarrassing I'll post it all over the internet. Deal??
Seriously though, gies it here, don't just dispose of it.
I still have some 120 films (120 size films, not 120 films) taken by the venerable old Blad from 2005 that need developing. They sat in the fridge in the garage, forgotten about for years.
I have already got quite a few developed and the best bit is definitely unrolling them (dev only) and seeing the negs (and Positives) for the first time, and figuring out what they all are, when they were taken, and where!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
yeah I've got more old film in my fridge than food.
How cheap/easy is home developing? (just to get the negs)
How cheap/easy is home developing? (just to get the negs)
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
If it is black and white, then it is quite easy, providing you know what you are doing. It isn't as cheap as it once was, but it is still reasonably ok.
I wouldn't recommend trying to develop colour unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing. Colour film is less forgiving when it comes to chemical temperature than black and white, and it can all go wrong easily.
swee'pea99
Squire
How do they generally work out? I have some 15 year old ones that have just been knocking around in drawers - not refrigerated or anything - and I read about 'base level fogging', whatever that means, and stuff like that. Any suggestions on developing a 15 year old roll of HP4?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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- Craggy Island
I don't know about that, seeing as the oldest ones I have are only about 6 and I am intending to get them done soon (I'll let you know if I have any significant problems).
By the way, mine were from a *MASSIVE* freelance project that I did in London and the south east in the last year of the 'Slammers'.
I was trying to photograph them in as many different locations as possible, so, although I remember where most of them were taken, there are already some pictures which I have no idea about, and the frames round about it don't help much. Then, there are the ones where I seem to have jumped from one location to somewhere completely different and I have no idea what on earth I did! I'll obviously need to read my notes from the time.
The last lot I got developed were, in fact, from after the Slammers had gone in December 2005, and consist of long exposures of class 166s, '450s and '458 arriving and departing from Reading one bitterly cold night (I remember it well, my hands were so incredibly numb by the end of it that it is a small miracle I actually managed to use the camera!). The '458s were about to go off lease from SWT and I wanted at least some pictures of them you see.
I might not have bothered, SWT got them back at a later date.
By the way, mine were from a *MASSIVE* freelance project that I did in London and the south east in the last year of the 'Slammers'.
I was trying to photograph them in as many different locations as possible, so, although I remember where most of them were taken, there are already some pictures which I have no idea about, and the frames round about it don't help much. Then, there are the ones where I seem to have jumped from one location to somewhere completely different and I have no idea what on earth I did! I'll obviously need to read my notes from the time.
The last lot I got developed were, in fact, from after the Slammers had gone in December 2005, and consist of long exposures of class 166s, '450s and '458 arriving and departing from Reading one bitterly cold night (I remember it well, my hands were so incredibly numb by the end of it that it is a small miracle I actually managed to use the camera!). The '458s were about to go off lease from SWT and I wanted at least some pictures of them you see.
I might not have bothered, SWT got them back at a later date.
Interesting one. A couple of years ago I re-discovered my two Nikon film cameras (consumer early 90s models) to find the backs had sprung open revealing slide film I hadn't known was there (C1996). It was an endemic door catch problem with the model apparently but the fix isn't financially worthwhile.
I've no idea what was on the films but I found another slide film I hadn't developed from the same era and it triggered a love of film akin to meeting an old flame. In the meantime time I've acquired loads of film cameras in various formats and process B&W, C41 and E6 like I did back in the old days. I have a digital camera but it's mostly used for movie, not stills.
The price of film cameras and especially lenses has risen in the last five years and film companies reported that 2010 was the first year since the nineties film sales stopped falling. Film seems to be the preserve of the young and fashionable and old codgers like myself.
I've no idea what was on the films but I found another slide film I hadn't developed from the same era and it triggered a love of film akin to meeting an old flame. In the meantime time I've acquired loads of film cameras in various formats and process B&W, C41 and E6 like I did back in the old days. I have a digital camera but it's mostly used for movie, not stills.
The price of film cameras and especially lenses has risen in the last five years and film companies reported that 2010 was the first year since the nineties film sales stopped falling. Film seems to be the preserve of the young and fashionable and old codgers like myself.
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How do they generally work out? I have some 15 year old ones that have just been knocking around in drawers - not refrigerated or anything - and I read about 'base level fogging', whatever that means, and stuff like that. Any suggestions on developing a 15 year old roll of HP4?
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If it's black and white, it should be fine. (Indeed, I buy out of date B&W film from ebay. It can often be had very cheap and it works fine) The colour quality can degrade on colour neg film but should be otherwise okay. I have never had a really old slide film processed so can't comment on them.
How do they generally work out? I have some 15 year old ones that have just been knocking around in drawers - not refrigerated or anything - and I read about 'base level fogging', whatever that means, and stuff like that. Any suggestions on developing a 15 year old roll of HP4?
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If it's black and white, it should be fine. (Indeed, I buy out of date B&W film from ebay. It can often be had very cheap and it works fine) The colour quality can degrade on colour neg film but should be otherwise okay. I have never had a really old slide film processed so can't comment on them.
I'm too old to be young and fashionable and too young to be an old codger but still do most of my photography on film and enjoy doing so.
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
- Location
- Cwmbach, South Wales
Not so much developing but I have DVD's full of unedited / viewed digital pictures.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
I have a developing canister filled with nothing but B&W rolls of film. I'll need to get it all sorted out, but of course, if they haven't been developed, then I'll need to be careful with them!
C41 and E6? wow, you are keen!
We were always encouraged not to do that unless you were desperate as doing Colour was seen as being more trouble than it was worth.
I take it you have temperature controlled equipment for it??
Since I stopped a few years back and my Big Brother took it up a couple of years ago, yes, there have been a LOT of changes. He seems to get what he calls 'boutique films' these days, made by small niche companies.
That is interesting, I never knew that! To be fair though, there will always be a place for film and the drop in sales was always going to plateau out eventually.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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- Craggy Island
Yes, you can get away with so much on Black and White because you don't have to take into consideration colour casts et al.
It is why I only ever really developed B&W and left the colour films to the people who knew what they were doing!
Developing C41 and E6 at home is, fairly hardcore, it has to be said!
