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  • I developed the found film from the 50's today and found one usable old exposure and 4 that I shot to finish the film - I put it in rodinal 1+50 for 35 minutes and I am very suprised that the old image is quite visible. The newer exposure is also much higher quality than I expected from 50 year old film.

    The film is quite sticky and very very thin - it was a bugger to get onto the reel. The edge strip reads Perutz V.

    The old one

    The new one

  • Cool! Shame there aren't any landmarks, we could have worked out where it was taken.

  • Amazing. I'm surprised it held an image for that many years!

    Just won a mint XA2 on ebay... Really don't need more cameras but it just seemed like such a bargain for such a nice camera.

  • I'm hoping my Grandad will remember - I'm sure it was taken in Germany. He lived there for a while and the film is manufactured by a German company so I can't imagine it is a UK photo.

  • The film is quite sticky and very very thin - it was a bugger to get onto the reel. The edge strip reads Perutz V.

    Just be very careful. From your description this film is possibly cellulose nitrate based, as up until 1956 Perutz film was.

    Having lost our house and everything we owned 6 years ago to a fire caused by old nitrate based film decomposing in the attic, I speak from experience!

    You must read this.

  • .....

  • Are you selling the scanner?

  • looking to trade it at the moment.

  • Ah well, probably wouldn't have had enough for it anyway. How well does it scan medium format?

  • I have that one too, or at least a VERY similar one, can't remember the exact model, it does a good job of medium format, and can do high enough resolution to do it justice

    http://andrewcloke.tumblr.com/post/1651648880
    http://andrewcloke.tumblr.com/post/1651858917
    http://andrewcloke.tumblr.com/post/1651575586

    35mm is good too

  • MetroLandman - thanks for the advice. I will try to figure out if it is celluloid.

  • Just be very careful. From your description this film is possibly cellulose nitrate based, as up until 1956 Perutz film was.

    Having lost our house and everything we owned 6 years ago to a fire caused by old nitrate based film decomposing in the attic, I speak from experience!

    You must read this.

    argh what a nightmare. I am terrified of losing our stuff, especially in fire. we have lots of stuff and parents are a little blase about storing things. last night I asked my dad about it - he has become the person in the extended family who holds onto old film, a lot from the fifties - and he say he doesn't think we have any. hmm. I did keep stressing how hazardous it is as it degrades so hopefully he is at least aware of it.

  • Keep the films in one of theses:

    http://www.fireprotectiononline.co.uk/honeywell-2017e-fire-chest.html

    Just for good measure, keep it in the garden.

    Fuck having nitrate film in your house...

  • My Grandfather has just responded that the shot is from the Norfolk broads in 1956 - that puts it close to being celluloid.
    If you lit a thin strip cut from celluloid, would it react strongly or does it only become volatile when it decomposes?
    Just trying to figure out if it is celluloid or not.

  • I should be OK using 25 ASA film in a camera that only goes down to 33 ASA if I just overexpose slightly (according to the meter) - right?

  • Yemble: yes, it should be just fine.

    nickyspaghetti, nitrate film gets more and more volatile as it decomposes. Lighting a thin strip is a good idea but do it outside coz the fumes are nasty.

  • I found a load of old film when clearing out a draw the other day, spent £35 getting it all processed. Turns out to be 99.99% total shit, obviously a very good reason why I didn't process it at the time.
    The only thing I found that I liked was a mistake, from a visit to New York.

  • Amazing. I'm surprised it held an image for that many years!

    Just won a mint XA2 on ebay... Really don't need more cameras but it just seemed like such a bargain for such a nice camera.

    Hmm, I think I might have been bidding on that one too. Hope it treats you well, eh.

    This website will help you out chap;

    http://www.diaxa.com/xa2.htm

    Cheers!

    Edit: Also, I'd love an XA 4!

  • So I lit a strip of film and it just smouldered and went out - I guess that means it is regular film? Certainly not the fireworks I was expecting.

  • I'd love an XA4 - pretty much my perfect camera, 28mm so It's great for hiking and nice and light, chuck some slide film in job done!!

  • http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2011/08/18/natpkg.film.not.dead.yet.cnn

    CNN says that film is not dead yet. Gosh, they're slow on social events aren't they? Well behind Lfgss.

  • my scanner is up for sale now if anyone is interested:
    http://www.lfgss.com/thread71180.html

  • Came across some old low res copies of my A level photography portfolio from many years ago.

    I somehow wangled an A, though as there doesn't appear to be any cohesive theme I couldn't tell you how.

    The theme appears to be "potential postcard material for the Southampton area".

    The only camera I had at the time was an Olympus OM2, probably with a 50mm lens, using, I suspect, Fuji Provia.

  • A* if your horizons where horizontal?

    #trollface

  • At the time there were no A*'s :)

    And this one, which is the most obviously off-looking is actually not far off being horizontal. The thing in the foreground is a spit of sand at low tide which people fish from and comes in at a funny angle. Look at Fawley Refinery in the distance. Shit's legit.

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