Topic: The miracle of the reclaimed Fujipet negative

[artpunk]

Now here's an interesting one (maybe)... A while back now, we took a family holiday to Lakes Entrance on Victoria's east coast and my newly acquired Fujipet camera went on holiday with us (even though it had just had a nice little flight from Tokyo to Melbourne)
Anyway, we had happy days, playing in the sea and having fun getting sand-blasted when the wind really picked up (*note: Peel-apart Polaroid photography is a real pain in these conditions)
So I got home & handed my roll of Fujipet holiday memories to the local lab to develop. When I went to pick them up, the manager comes over and says "I'm sorry Mr. Stephen, but one of our more inexperienced staff accidentally exposed the film to light at some stage during the development process and the roll is ruined" ARRGH (I'm thinking) ~ OK, what can you do? Ranting and raving doesn't bring back your lost photographic memories, so I asked for the film roll anyway with the thought of using it for practice loading onto a tank reel if I ever get around to developing my own film... errr, yes, I'm sure I'll get there eventually!

About 8 months later on I purchased a 120 neg capable scanner, and was looking through my old negatives to scan some in and whilst unrolling this rather exposed negative (having forgotten what it was from) looking for some images, I faintly see a few suggestions of something. So what the hell, I loaded them into the negative carrier and started scanning. Lo and behold, with the aid of some digital darkroom image reclamation processes I managed to get about 3 images from the roll! These two images are the best of them...
(...and the moral to this story? I have no idea! Never give up? Honestly, I don't know, it's just an anecdote)
 

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[lauraburlton]

What a story! Looks like the photoshop magic worked, the 2nd one is so sweet

[db]

#2 is a keeper. The fogging may even have helped it?

[artpunk]

Thanks Laura and Don. Laura, I have to try really hard to get a crummy shot when I shoot my youngest, she is such a sweet kid (most of the time!) and the outfits she wears are just classic!

#2 is a keeper. The fogging may even have helped it?

I rekon you might be right Don, this was the first "reclaimed" image I scanned and initially I thought that at the bottom of frame it was sand blowing up, but I remembered even we weren't that silly to go out when the wind was that high! (and I had no desire to get any of my lenses sandblasted)  I then scanned the other image of my lovely wife and realised the film had been more fogged at the bottom all along. It certainly does add an interesting element to the 2nd shot anyway. Quite frankly, I was amazed to get anything from this roll, so I was really fortunate here!

[Skorj]

The color in the second one really makes it fly. Great subject too of course...

[artpunk]

The color in the second one really makes it fly. Great subject too of course...

Thanks Skorj, yes a great subject indeed, heaven knows she keeps reminding me how great she is!