Found film in purchased camera

[css9450]

Another Ebay gem; I processed it just this evening. Unknown camera, 127-format Verichrome Pan. The pictures in the background are the 1962 and 1963 members of Pi Kappa Phi at whatever college this was. Some serious drinking was going to be happening that night!

 

[Greyscale]

Sometimes you get weird stuff, like this from a Kodak Signet 40


Found-film freakiness by Mike Novak, on Flickr

 

[Timmyjoe]

Found a few of the images I found on two rolls of Minolta 16 film that came with a camera from the auction site. Both rolls expired in 1964. From these and the partial images that didn't turn out well, I think they are from a wedding, the newlyweds' home, and their honeymoon in Italy.

Best,
-Tim

 

[bsdunek]

I can add some to this thread. I bought an inexpensive Imperial Satellite 127 camera, which had an exposed roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan in it. I needed the spools anyway, for re-rolling 120 film onto. So even if the film turned out to be blank, I was gaining two additional spools. Turned out, the film was intact, if a little fogged. Probably shot in the early 60s. I was born in 1964, so these pics may have been shot before I was born!

Don't know what's up with this airplane.... Mechanical issues?

Easy enough - you go to:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/
and enter the registration number. N5268B. Turns out it's a 1957 Mooney M20, currently registered to David Cabbage of Colville, WA. Of course, who owned it when the photo was taken is unknown.

 

[Greyscale]

I can add some to this thread. I bought an inexpensive Imperial Satellite 127 camera, which had an exposed roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan in it. I needed the spools anyway, for re-rolling 120 film onto. So even if the film turned out to be blank, I was gaining two additional spools. Turned out, the film was intact, if a little fogged. Probably shot in the early 60s. I was born in 1964, so these pics may have been shot before I was born!

Don't know what's up with this airplane.... Mechanical issues?

Easy enough - you go to:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/
and enter the registration number. N5268B. Turns out it's a 1957 Mooney M20, currently registered to David Cabbage of Colville, WA. Of course, who owned it when the photo was taken is unknown.

That looks like a 1960 Chevy Nomad station wagon, so your guess is probably spot-on.

 

[Greyscale]

Not found film, but found negatives from a local thrift store. Internet sleuthing puts the locations at Minnehaha Falls, MN, and what is now the Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station, and the date as shortly after the end of the Korean war, when the base was being refit for active status.


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr


Found negs from antique store. by Mike Novak, on Flickr

 

[seany65]

Hi,

I started a thread and no one answered but you might like it:-

https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163481

A digital camera was left on a rock near the sea,swept out to sea and travelled from England to North Germany. The camera filmed part of the journey and some of the images and video survived on the SD (?) card.

The owner was traced...

Regards, David

Well, umm, thank you for calling me "No one".😀

 

[css9450]

A new find on Ebay.... Kodak Verichrome Pan in 127 format. Processed yesterday in Rodinal, 1:50 standard development. Bizarre to think of the undeveloped images sitting there waiting for decades...

 

[Archiver]

Googling the plane registration number yields some interesting stuff:

https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb....ev_id=20080206X00140&ntsbno=CHI07LA317&akey=1

NTSB Identification: CHI07LA317
On July 17, 2007, at 0715 mountain daylight time, an Aerostar International Inc. S81A, N5069B, was being operated as a sightseeing flight when a passenger sustained serious injuries during landing near Custer, South Dakota. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed on the day of the accident. The 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 flight was not operating on a flight plan. The pilot and 11 other passengers were uninjured. The local flight originated at 0630 near Custer, South Dakota.

The pilot provided a written statement in which he states that at the time of the balloon launch, the winds were calm, but during landing the winds were "a little stronger than forecast but nothing unusual for the Hills... ." He stated that he briefed the passengers for a windy landing, and the balloon landed "...going to 10-12 mph." The basket then tipped over on its side and slid 20 feet across grass and a "few" rocks.

The passenger reportedly received a broken ankle during landing.

More here:
https://prijet.com/accident/20080206X00140

 

[shawn]

Any recommendation on developing very old Tri-X? I have HC-110 I just picked up an early non-export Minox B and it still had a cassette of Tri-X in it with an expiration date of 1965. Film is totally wound into the cassette but might not be totally light burned.Probably badly fogged. If I develop it typically it will take less than a ml of HC110 so I'm certainly going to see if anything is still on it.

Thanks,

Shawn

 

[css9450]

My new Komaflex camera arrived at my door with a half-exposed roll of Kodacolor-X in it. Process C-22. So last night I developed it in B&W chemistry. These are BY FAR the best "color" negatives I have done this way (some other rolls were so heavily fogged they were useless). So these were the last photos taken with this camera - that is, until I loaded it last weekend and shot some of my own (for another thread).

Note the weird shutter-bounce thing that seems to be going on. Maybe they're using a slow shutter speed? The Komaflex has a large reflex mirror, so maybe it introduces some camera shake.

The Ford truck is - I think - a '63 or a '64.

 

[carbo73]

Not found in a bought camera, but this is a glass plate (Agfa) found with some papers of my grandfather. It shows my grandparents with my father, then just one or two years old. So this picture must be around 1930-1931. And I even identified the place a restaurant outside Canet de Mar, north of Barcelona. My grandmother lived nearby for a while.

My sister has what's probably the camera used to take this picture, and which was owned by my grandfather, an Ihagee Patent Duplex 720.



The same place now, still a restaurant:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:253_Restaurant_del_santuari_de_la_Miseric%C3%B2rdia_(Canet_de_Mar).JPG

 

[Archiver]

I follow a number of flickr accounts where old photos are posted, many from old US army bases, and from around Hong Kong, China and the general Asia Pacific region. What is particularly poignant is the thought that the subjects of these images meant something to the photographers. Family, friends, lovers, places of interest. I look at the photos of servicemen in the Korean War, of British families in Hong Kong, and wonder if these people are still alive, if their descendants are out there, if anyone would know these forgotten faces.

The images in this thread are especially poignant as they are obviously lost to the original photographers. The scenes of a wedding, honeymoon and new apartment, who was this couple? Are they still alive? How would they react if they saw these long lost photos from decades past?

 

[jsrockit]

Steve Huff`s could have had evidence of ghosts! You should have looked!

http://huffparanormal.com/

 

[Timmyjoe]

The scenes of a wedding, honeymoon and new apartment, who was this couple? Are they still alive? How would they react if they saw these long lost photos from decades past?

Full story on the wedding pics above. I bought a Minolta 16 off the auction site from a seller who had it listed with "Two new, unopened boxes of film". As we all know, that is rarely the case. Sure enough, both boxes of film were exposed so I processed them and one came out. I contacted the seller and asked if he knew who the original owner of the camera was, as I had images they might like. He said he did know the original owners but wasn't interested in contacting them about the pictures. So there you go.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Archiver]

Full story on the wedding pics above. I bought a Minolta 16 off the auction site from a seller who had it listed with "Two new, unopened boxes of film". As we all know, that is rarely the case. Sure enough, both boxes of film were exposed so I processed them and one came out. I contacted the seller and asked if he knew who the original owner of the camera was, as I had images they might like. He said he did know the original owners but wasn't interested in contacting them about the pictures. So there you go.

That's actually pretty sad, and selfish on the part of the seller. Then again, there may have been a tragic death or tumultuous conflict in the family and one of the wedded couple might have been excommunicated, so I guess we'll never know.

 

[rfaspen]

@CS9540 - would it be possible to identify the plane from the markings on the side? Might be a way to figure out who the photographer was, or who/where he was shooting.

The closest I've come to mystery pictures are:

- I once bought a new camera from a shop, only to discover a few photos in the in-camera memory. One was of a window covered with rain, another was a close up of a small potted cactus. EXIF data suggested that the photos were taken not too long before I bought it, so I suspect the camera may have been a return sold as new. Not cool. I found that I didn't like the camera anyway, so I took it back and exchanged it for a Fuji X100 black limited edition.

I like your RFF name -- Archiver. 😉

Seems like a good start for this thread

Do you have any images from the aforementioned cactus photography, or any of your dad's adventures with cactus and/or succulents?

I rather like cactus and succulents. I was once a genuine afficionado and had several hundred different kinds of cactus and succulents. They are amazing and diverse plants.

 

[lynnb]

from an op shop p&s camera in 2005

found-film_201501 by lynnb's snaps on Flickr

 

[Sega]

I've found them lurking in bags but I've never developed as I've always had to send mine out and been concerned knowing the area on what might lurk, mostly I just drill a hole in the spool and make a keyring out of it.
That being said I do have a roll of Portra 400 waiting in a box that had the first shot taken by somone else that I used to test out a Lubitel 166 that it came in and digital wise I've had cameras with a couple of shots left on them (fortunately family friendly shots) and stuff lurking on Laptops and the iPad 2 I inhertited that has stuff from my late Granddad mucking about.

 

[goamules]

I'm doing something similar right now: trying to determine what Korean War unit is depicted in a bunch of kodachromes I found. So many interesting shots....but a little detective work required.