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Which Board? => Main Forum => : Francois June 16, 2013, 08:36:48 PM
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Don't you just love found pictures?
Often, they're just average... but sometimes you just find serendipity!
This is what happened to me this week. I went to a church basement to see if they had any good stuff and while looking through their little electronics corner, among the VCR's and tape players was this little box containing one of those instant negative scanners. You know, the ones with a 5mpx camera and a backlight that do slightly shoddy work? Well, I thought it might help me speed-up my contact index creation process, so I bought it. It was only 5$, so I figured that if it didn't work, I could probably salvage something from it (the USB cable is good). It's the model with built-in memory that has a little TFT matrix display and that takes the old style SD cards (not the SDHC or SDXC). I came home, plugged it in the USB port. I figured out how to turn on the thing and put it in USB mode to see how it worked with my computer. To my surprise, Windows opened it like a USB drive and there was a file in the folder!
It had been forgotten there by the previous owner and was in negative format. I inverted it and got this little gem of a picture.
I have no idea who's on it, but I like it a lot.
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Found films are great. I was just looking at http://www.found-film.com/ (http://www.found-film.com/) I follow him on Instagram.
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It's the Kennedy's !
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Not in Quebec!
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I love found photos and this is a gem!
It's always cool to see other families with one person not looking at the camera too!
You scored!!! 8)
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I've found a few cool rolls of film in cameras.
A dachshund party:
(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/56/111761948_d80d2484a5_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/111761948/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/111761948/#) by moominsean (http://www.flickr.com/people/sjrohde/), on Flickr
And this was from a Lubitel I got from Russia:
(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/91/242119792_565bcf892b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/242119792/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/242119792/#) by moominsean (http://www.flickr.com/people/sjrohde/), on Flickr
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Pretty much across the street from "white trash burger" in Berlin (forget about Sunday roasts) there´s a second hand shop who sells loads of old pictures and albums from what I suspect are dead peoples homes. I tend to spend some time there when in Berlin, guess the Voyeurist in me awakes ;)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/dame-hund-berlin.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/dame-hund-berlin.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/berlin-41.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/berlin-41.jpg.html)
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Lets hope those noodles aren't hot!!
:D
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Lets hope those noodles aren't hot!!
:D
Gah!
Things I love about that shot: the look on the kid's face ("Don't ask. Just...don't.") and the probably-accidental-but-strategic-nonetheless placement of the roll of paper towels.
Things I'm grateful for in that shot: the line of the table cuts the view so that I don't have to see any more than I already have. Oh my eyes!
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Some things we definitely don't want to see...
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So, another one with a question attached from me:
Not found but bought - came across some kodachrome and these busses caught my eye.
Supposedly taken in Japan, anyone on here who knows their purpose? Transportation of prisoners? Angry kids?
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan189_zps4f416ab8.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan189_zps4f416ab8.jpg.html)
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That's a great picture, Aksel. Looking forward to reading the answers.
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I personally vote for angry kids :P though it could also be for transporting the security forces to the scene of riots...
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You can also re-discover your own photographs from years ago.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/a-photographers-summer-of-luck-in-san-francisco/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1& (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/a-photographers-summer-of-luck-in-san-francisco/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&)
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Security transport - for the transportation of digital photographers through landscapes and interesting street scenes?
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Transportation of prisoners? Angry kids?
They are anti-riot buses. They hold police, and are used to get themselves through riot lines. I pass a set every day on the way to work. Any more on the roll? SKj.
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Transportation of prisoners? Angry kids?
They are anti-riot buses. They hold police, and are used to get themselves through riot lines. I pass a set every day on the way to work. Any more on the roll? SKj.
Thank you Skorj, that makes sense.
The ones you pass on your way to work, do you ever see any action or are they merely a proactive thing?
Yes, I`ll do a quick scan of the other snaps I got tonight, gmt+1 :)
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Could not help myself, a few other (unedited, from the scanner) Japanese frames;
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(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan184_zps0878c948.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan184_zps0878c948.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan183_zps1f3f1190.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan183_zps1f3f1190.jpg.html)
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Wow! These are just gorgeous! Makes me want to see them all, regardless of their art merit or not, they're pretty cool!
The ones you pass on your way to work, do you ever see any action or are they merely a proactive thing?
Both.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7130/7779815606_7c06347b0f_b.jpg)
They are parked at strategic locations mostly in central Tokyo - the Diet, US & Russian Embassy - and get quickly deployed around Police HQ & similar of the Loud Bus gets out and about. They regularly close the major intersections to inhibit Loud Bus activity with either the riot vans, or barriers & road-spikes. They're pretty serious!
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2923/14210384978_f02fd523b4_b.jpg)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3844/14210349809_de4b483dee_b.jpg)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3902/14395918404_938727189f_b.jpg)
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2923/14393642501_6c11f8b8be_b.jpg)
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2895/14210408380_67223da9e9_b.jpg)
They are also used regularly to steward protest marches and similar too. I've never seen them really do anything other than look impressive though. Skj.
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Wow! These are just gorgeous! Makes me want to see them all, regardless of their art merit or not, they're pretty cool!
They are parked at strategic locations mostly in central Tokyo - the Diet, US & Russian Embassy - and get quickly deployed around Police HQ & similar of the Loud Bus gets out and about. They regularly close the major intersections to inhibit Loud Bus activity with either the riot vans, or barriers & road-spikes. They're pretty serious!
They are also used regularly to steward protest marches and similar too. I've never seen them really do anything other than look impressive though. Skj.
Hahah, the Land cruiser! Talk about making oneself a target ;D
Interesting to hear they are out and about on a regular basis though. My impression of Tokyo and Japan in general are that it´s rather civilised, except for the odd protest now and then.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan186_zps7034edfb.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan186_zps7034edfb.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan187_zps6712d4d1.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan187_zps6712d4d1.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan185_zps2cfff84a.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan185_zps2cfff84a.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/scan180_zpsb0591dd4.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/scan180_zpsb0591dd4.jpg.html)
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Another frame that arrived with a bunch of postcards and other prints I bought years ago. I rediscovered it just now, I guess some cleaning can be rewarding after all ;)
Looks like someone got a pretty bad headache...
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/img2917_zpsvrwxgxm9.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/img2917_zpsvrwxgxm9.jpg.html)
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That's an interesting one Aksel. My brother has a box camera purchased at an antique store. When I found out there was film in it I told him to bring it over. I developed it last night and got six pictures off it, the last two were never exposed. It was shot on Kodacolor-X 616 film which was produced between 1963 and 1974. It definitely looks like they were shot in the 1960's. I semi-stand developed them in Rodinal 1-100 for 1 hour. They came out amazingly well considering how old they were. this is my favorite of the six.
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Somewhere I have some slides from Japan taken in 1948. I was able to figure out the year from photos of an ocean liner in the set and looking up when it visited Japan. Mostly just scenery but a few interesting photos of life in occupied Japan too. I'll try and dig them out and post a couple.
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More of the not found but acquired trough other camera purchases.
I went to a older gent advertising a camera collection near my home. Bad pictures, what could be seen in the ad was anything between consumer folders of the 30´s to plastic EOS bodies and a few polaroids. Of the hundred or so cameras there was really only a cupel interesting ones. Polaroid Land 195 and a Rolleiflex EVS that both appeared to be working. I made him an offer for the two and got them. Now his wife started to interrogate me as she got to know I lived on a street she knew and from there I ended up with a stack of about 50 glass plates + lots of Soundscriber discs with recordings of "dad speaks from Rio, 1962", "Uncle Odvar´s music" etc. I need to get those discs digitalised.
Judging from the images I gather they are all shot at someones summerhouse south of Oslo. Who I don´t know but I have the name of one of the photographers and will try to get the images back to who ever should have them.
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/Glassplate031%20copy_zpsoftkgwrv.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/Glassplate031%20copy_zpsoftkgwrv.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/Glassplate004_zpscpm5vtha.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/Glassplate004_zpscpm5vtha.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/Glassplate023_zpsdygu7oce.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/Glassplate023_zpsdygu7oce.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/Glassplate027%20copy_zpslxv2ncdf.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/Glassplate027%20copy_zpslxv2ncdf.jpg.html)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h143/akselasn/Glassplate001_zpspnuojtxx.jpg) (http://s63.photobucket.com/user/akselasn/media/Glassplate001_zpspnuojtxx.jpg.html)
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Reviving a very old thread here.
While at the rummage sale last Saturday, I found some negatives of unknown origin. So I thought you'd enjoy them :)
BTW, does anybody know that the heck those antenna like things are?
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Those could be HAM radio antennas, they have many different designs. That looks like a remote arctic community, I'm sure there's plenty of communities like that in Canada's North. They would probably need something like that.
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Could be, but why so many of them? And why put baubles on the ends like on the second photo?
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Could be, but why so many of them? And why put baubles on the ends like on the second photo?
Those help listen in on Soviet communications. ;D I have no idea, maybe it's a scientific experiment. The first one looks more like an antennae than the second one.
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I know it's a scientific experiment... but what kind of experiment?
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Could be, but why so many of them? And why put baubles on the ends like on the second photo?
You put tea in the baubles and add hot water. ;D
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It would be perfect for a nice fir tea. Just add a few million liters of hot water and let it steep ;D
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Here's some more from the same series
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Maybe they're measuring solar radiation or cosmic radiation. In the first and third photo's above that stand has a metal band mounted to it. The way it's configured looks like it would block direct sunlight from hitting the sensor throughout the day. They seem to be getting some kind of electronic data from those globes. There's probably not many people that could tell you exactly what they are doing unless they did work in the same field with similar equipment. This stuff could be very specialized. It's fun to speculate though, thanks for sharing these.
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Does make sense.. that black band had me scratching my head. It reminded me of a sun dial but but in reverse..
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If you're not following Andrew Sanderson on Instagram you probably should. He has somehow dug into a box of old glass negatives which threw up this gem - washing day in Palermo, dated 2nd May 1899.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxM_B-mAXLe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link (https://www.instagram.com/p/BxM_B-mAXLe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)
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Clothes lines always make for some good photos.
I still have some more where these came from.
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And for some reason there were also tropical plants on the roll!
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Here's the rest of another strip I found. This one takes you back to the glorious 70's in all it's color goodness.
On one of the pics, it looks like it was one heck of a Christmas party!
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Just reviving this old thread because I just found another picture!
I found it at the bottom of the box of a slide viewer I got for the box art :)
The text on the slide mount is in a hard to read handwriting. But I can make out that it was in Scotland. I think it says "at Scotland Beitz in car".
The slide mount says Ektachrome and Made in England, you don't see that everyday nowadays.
I wonder what model and what year those cars are?
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The car on the right is a Ford Anglia 100E (1953–59). The other car looks like a Morris Minor from about the same era. Seeing the front grill would help date the Morris better, I think they used that same basic design for several years.
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The text on the slide mount is in a hard to read handwriting. But I can make out that it was in Scotland. I think it says "at Scotland Beitz in car".
I know Scottish people are hard to understand when they speak, didn't realize the same goes for their writing! ;D
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The text on the slide mount is in a hard to read handwriting. But I can make out that it was in Scotland. I think it says "at Scotland Beitz in car".
I know Scottish people are hard to understand when they speak, didn't realize the same goes for their writing! ;D
:) The handwriting is worse than mine, and that's saying a lot...
At first I thought it was an Austin and a Morris. But I never saw any of them in real life.
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The car on the right is a Ford Anglia 100E (1953–59). The other car looks like a Morris Minor from about the same era. Seeing the front grill would help date the Morris better, I think they used that same basic design for several years.
You're up on your brit cars Bryan. Dead right on both. The 'moggy thou' might have been a Morris Oxford as the back end was similar on some versions but I don't think there was a two door version which looks like this is.
At first I thought it was an Austin and a Morris. But I never saw any of them in real life.
Here's a moggy traveller I saw in Lake Placid so they do make it in your (general) direction sometimes.
(https://i.imgur.com/rsNyzoil.jpg)
Sorry about the digi pic...! :o
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Here's the same place as it is now (courtesy of Google street view)
(https://i.imgur.com/EKVuPHUl.jpg)(http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6295.0;attach=35855;image)
And here's the location
(https://i.imgur.com/dqA6Kldl.jpg)
which is just north east of Glencoe
(https://i.imgur.com/wrQGBefl.jpg)
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Wow Peter!
That's quite a bit of sleuthing!
It's kind of amazing that the place has changed so little in all those years... :)
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Wow Peter!
That's quite a bit of sleuthing!
When I was at school (many years ago) our geography teacher had a favourite game which involved him picking a point on a map and we had to draw/describe what we would be able to see if we were stood on that spot. It works the other way too. If you want to identify where a picture was taken, identify the key points then find a point on a map that matches. It needs a lot of luck too ;)
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Knowing it was in Scotland was definitely a good start. :)
I must say I never had a good geography teacher. All the ones I had were egomaniacs who went into teaching to put people down.
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That's amazing Peter! You'd kill it at www.geoguessr.com (http://www.geoguessr.com) ;D
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That's amazing Peter! You'd kill it at www.geoguessr.com (http://www.geoguessr.com) ;D
Hmm, interesting. Not sure how the leader got within a few metres of the location with only 3 minutes to find it. But I got the correct countries at least. Could be addictive...
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I just played a game for the heck of it and it dropped me literally a few blocks from where I played a gig in Barcelona a few years ago, so I got within a few meters of it too :D Very rare that something like that happens (though it helps that I've toured the world a few times ;) )
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(Also, I give myself a huge leg up by playing the world cities games, as opposed to the "wheat field in the middle of Russia" games ;D )
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The car on the right is a Ford Anglia 100E (1953–59). The other car looks like a Morris Minor from about the same era. Seeing the front grill would help date the Morris better, I think they used that same basic design for several years.
Sorry to be pedantic but the car on the right is a Ford Prefect which was the four door version of the 100E although the production dates are the same.
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I'd pretty much be stuck googling street addresses and business names....
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The car on the right is a Ford Anglia 100E (1953–59). The other car looks like a Morris Minor from about the same era. Seeing the front grill would help date the Morris better, I think they used that same basic design for several years.
Sorry to be pedantic but the car on the right is a Ford Prefect which was the four door version of the 100E although the production dates are the same.
Good catch Dave. When dating cars from that era the grill is the best feature to look for, they seemed to keep body styles for several years but changed the grill quite often. On many US cars the grill was changed almost every year.
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When I was buying my Zeiss Ikon (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=6181.msg134151#msg134151 (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=6181.msg134151#msg134151)) a few days ago the seller had two other cameras he was trying to sell, an Olympus OM-G and an Argus TLR, neither of which I was interested in buying. The Argus had an exposed roll of 620 Kodacolor in it so I had him throw that in with the Zeiss. I developed it in Rodinal 1:50 for 11 minutes. There isn't much useful in the images for dating when it was shot. Kodacolor was first made in 1942 and discontinued in 1963 so that narrows it down to about two decades. Most of the other shots were poorly exposed, I think they likely used a flash for this one so it had the best exposure.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49117384386_abc3e89979.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hQkr9W)Man Feeding Dog (https://flic.kr/p/2hQkr9W) by Bryan Chernick (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/), on Flickr
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I wonder what the guy saw in the dog bowl? ;D
He's got that what the f*** is that look on his face :)
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Found some more film. I picked up a Kodak Signet 35 at a sale over the weekend and found a roll of Kodachrome 64 in it. This is how I developed it, all liquids were at about 20 C:
1. Pre-soaked the film in water for a few minutes.
2. Soaked the film in a mixture of 50 grams of Sodium Carbonate in 500 ml of distilled water for one minute with several vigorous agitations. This will remove the rem-jet backing.
3. Rinsed and agitated in tap water at least 3 times.
4. Developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 20 minutes with continuous agitation for the first two minutes then 10 seconds every minute after that.
5. Water stop bath, 3 rinses.
6. Normal fix.
7 rinse in running tap water for 4 minutes.
8. Gentle squeegee between fingers under running water to get any remaining rem-jet off. You will see black soot on your fingers if there is still some remaining.
9. Hang to dry with a weight at the bottom to help get the curl out. This is old film and it will have a lot of curl to it.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49129973373_ff377d8989.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hRrXqr)Horse Pasture Landscape (https://flic.kr/p/2hRrXqr) by Bryan Chernick (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49129973553_a4383a751c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hRrXtx)Poolside Kodachrome (https://flic.kr/p/2hRrXtx) by Bryan Chernick (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/), on Flickr
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Glad those came out Bryan! I tried a similar dev scheme with some very old Kodachrome and I got a whole bunch of nothing :'( A friend of mine had sent it to me to try to develop, so I felt even worse, but I did give him the disclaimer that 60 year old film has no guarantees! ;D
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I haven't seen a pool like that in years!
My grandma had a similar umbrella in the yard.
I'm really glad you got something out of it :)
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Less than half of the 20 exposure roll was shot, I was surprised how well these ones came out. The others probably didn’t come out well due to poor exposure when they were shot. I was trying to figure out what one of the shots was, I accidentally took a very fuzzy picture of my dog when I was fussing with the camera. The Signet needs some work, I’ll have to clean the shutter mechanism and replace the rangefinder beamsplitter. I’ve been hanging onto a broken Minolta Hi-Magic F just for the beamsplitter, they fit perfectly into the Signet.