Found film in FSU camera?

[wilt]

Has anyone, after buying an old FSU camera, found an exposed film in it? Developed it? Got pictures out of it? Film can be timemachines ...

 

[bobofish]

Sortof...
When my grandparents moved here from Kiev 25 years ago, they brought a couple of cameras with them, along with everything else, including, almost, the kitchen sink.

We developed those films about 10 years ago, and they had some interesting pic's from many years ago in the Soviet Union, and a couple shots from Israel, one of which corresponds to my very first memory, made when I was two, and lived in Israel for a year.

 

[wilt]

That is just so cool, bobofish, a moment in time saved in your memory and on emulsion in parallel and then brought back together.

 

[sf]

what does FSU mean? I should know by now, but I don't think I do.

I have found cameras with film in them though. My own, which isn't very interesting. And I've had shops hand me relatively ancient rolls of film that i dropped off years ago with a "somehow this never got to you, sorry!"

But, certainly, finding film in a camera in a shop or from an auction sale, or whatever, would be interesting - the camera stops being merely a camera and instead becomes a sort of time capsule, sort of alive in a sense.

 

[reagan]

FSU ~ Former Soviet Union

 

[optikhit]

Surely develope it! Maybe some historical events recorded in it that would be invaluable. Or maybe you do it just for fun. It should be verrrry interesting.

 

[wrenhunter]

Pretty cool. Buy this lens, get a free Zorki and some nifty travel photos! 🙂

 

[AlexC]

Just this month I received a KMZ Drug with a roll of film in a bulk-load canister still inside. The film was cracked and torn in places, but I managed to get it onto a reel.

Tried HC-110 (dilution H) for 12 min; it was mostly fogged beyond recognition, but a few frames came out.

I hesitate to attach the pictures, but hey, maybe someone will recognize them!

 

[wilt]

Wow - very interesting story and pictures, Alex! Thanks for posting them.

 

[dll927]

Bobofish: If your grandparents came rom Kiev 25 years ago, HOW did they get the kitchen sink out of the Soviet Union?? That would have been back in "eyebrows" Breznev's day.

 

[reagan]

I hesitate to attach the pictures, but hey, maybe someone will recognize them!

AlexC ~ I applaud your [probably difficult] labors on the "surprise" pics and your posting them. In fact, I would encourage you to email those to the person you recieved the camera from in hopes that they would find their way back to the subjects or at least their family or even friends. If those were pictures of my family, I would be very grateful to recieve such wonderful momentos. Just a thought. In any case, I really found them interesting and very special. Good work.

 

[peterc]

I hesitate to attach the pictures, but hey, maybe someone will recognize them!

Cool, a Lada ... had one of those once.

Peter

 

[Stu W]

Classic Camera had an article about a year or so ago about a Leica 1 that had film in it from the thirties. They developed it and the pics were fine. They were of an Arctic expedition. Never know what you'll find.

 

[gabrielelopez]

cool thread guys..and thanx for posting the photos..I was writing to a friend days ago about these things, expecially that would be funny if cameras had some kind of hidden memory inside...I guess what will my zorki 4 ever had shot in the past??