There I go again
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Posted 05/03/2023 - 12:25
I still have some D76 developper somewhere in a can (hopefully, it hasn't turned into a rock), so with a little bit of luck, I could try to develop it. A word of warning: old exposed undevelopped b & w film generally turn rather dark with a lack of contrast when developped.
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
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Posted 05/05/2023 - 22:26
I've had a good look at the cartridge and it has a crack in it. I fear that the contents will be long past recovery.
Thank you for your kind offer Yves, it is appreciated.
I'll keep the cartridge on the shelf as an ornament: a piece of photographic past technology. The memories it once held will have to remain as memories
Nigel.
Getting older and grumpier. Taking longer to decide which lens to use today.
K5 with auto-everything lenses
A collection of manual primes to keep me in touch with the pleasures of doing it old-school.
Thank you for your kind offer Yves, it is appreciated.
I'll keep the cartridge on the shelf as an ornament: a piece of photographic past technology. The memories it once held will have to remain as memories
Nigel.
Getting older and grumpier. Taking longer to decide which lens to use today.
K5 with auto-everything lenses
A collection of manual primes to keep me in touch with the pleasures of doing it old-school.
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LongTimeLurker
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Ilkley, UK
One of these is that I can never find what I'm looking for if I'm looking for it, and 'it' will be found at a later date when I'm looking for something else.
A variant of the above is I find something that I wasn't looking for when I'm not looking for anything at all. The latest occurrence of this pattern had led me to discover a cartridge of 126 film.
I can only think that this is from when I had my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic, and must be circa 40 years old. It was in a box that has followed me (somehow) through teenage years, university days, various shared houses / flats, and several family house moves. It will have been subjected to various degrees of cold, heat, damp, dust etc.
The images on the film, assuming anything exists at all, will be shaky, out of focus family snaps or snaps of my feet. (I had a habit of leaving the shutter cocked and hitting the shutter button at the wrong time; a clumsy habit that has evolved into the modern iteration of taking high resolution pictures of the back of lens caps.)
Is there anywhere that would know what a 126 film cartridge is, let alone be able to process it? Is it possible to process at home using modern chemicals?
Nigel.
Getting older and grumpier. Taking longer to decide which lens to use today.
K5 with auto-everything lenses
A collection of manual primes to keep me in touch with the pleasures of doing it old-school.