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Some from a 1950s Kodak Brownie that I bodged some 35mm into. I got fourteen exposures from a 36exp roll, but they are much wider than normal:
Took it to Jessops for D&P. I know they're crap at printing (these are scans of the negatives), but there's no other camera shop in Coventry and at only £6.50 including a new 36exp colour roll, it's cheap enough for testing (I didn't know if these shots would come out at all). Asked the guy if he could cut the negatives by hand because the exposures wouldn't be regularly spaced -
'Yeah no problem, we have to do that sometimes'
Go in and collect, and the sods have cut them halfway through the exposures. I ask about it and he says
'Cut by hand? No they just go through the machine. They get cut before they get printed. There's no way to cut by hand, we never have done'.
Time to spend hours in Photoshop seamlessly stiching them all back together...
They didn't print too badly to be honest. All the exposures are spread over two or three 6x4 prints, which I've sellotaped together and stuck in my album. The colours are off between the two prints, and the join is obvious, but that just adds to the charm (the 'charm' of crap photos).