Found film in purchased camera

[css9450]

I bought a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, and the one I picked had a roll of film in it. Kodak Verichrome Pan. Unfortunately about 2/3 of the roll was ruined because someone had open the camera one or more times over the years, but the ones that weren't ruined were pretty clean:

 

[Dpingr1]

I purchased 3 rolls of Kodacolor II 127 rolls for the backing paper and spools. One had been exposed. This is the clearest image, cross-processed as black and white in D76. The float represents Citizens Against Barriers, an early disability rights group. Probably early-mid 1970s.

Found Film 5 by Daniel Ingram, on Flickr

 

[Muggins]

I occasionally develop films for a collector friend (like I'm not a collector...) - in fact I think there's one in the fridge as I speak. Many of his cameras have come from French car boot sales, here's a few from him:

 

[Muggins]

...and some magnificent from a VP Twin (Verichrome Pan, this time), from someone whose photography skills were really pushing the envelope. Downhill, into the mud.

 

[css9450]

Its from an unknown camera, but I bought some old Verichrome Pan in 127 format recently from Ebay. Developed it this morning in Rodinal, standard processing.

 

[ka7197]

Have you ever run a data-recovery program on a memory card found in a used digital camera? Augh ...

 

[maigo]

Have you ever run a data-recovery program on a memory card found in a used digital camera? Augh ...

I just bought a Canon Powershot G11 at the thrift store for $13CDN. It came with a battery and 4GB card. Only three images visible on the SD card but I’ll give this a try!



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[jwc57]

I've had this happen twice. The second time was some family's camping trip. It was the seventies and Kodak color negative film. I tossed it in some old Diafine to see what was what.

The first time was from an auction site and I was buying some Kodak metal film canisters, 35mm and inside of one of the cans was a developed roll of B&W film. Apparently, it was a test roll someone shot in 1954. Oddly enough I now live in NC and bought the canisters from Oregon. The photos were from Millbrae California...where I worked in 1977-78.

 

[maigo]

I just bought a Canon Powershot G11 at the thrift store for $13CDN. It came with a battery and 4GB card. Only three images visible on the SD card but I’ll give this a try!



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The memory card had two visible images of a grandmother’s Christmas dinner at home.

I couldn’t find a free image file recovery app for OSX (did not look hard though).
The free preview apps showed hundreds of recoverable (latent?) files. However I just was not curious enough to justify going any further to discover grandma’s pictures of her grandkids and flower garden.


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[css9450]

This week I bought two old rolls of Kodacolor-X in 127 format. I processed them in Rodinal (an hour stand at 1:100) and found two dozen pics from some family's vacation in Oregon, probably 1970-72 or so.

 

[drewbarb]

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

That second to last image is a shot of the Venus de Milo, where she stands today in the Louvre. Cool stuff. I've processed a few rolls of old found film but it's always been just random snaps, never anyone or anything specific I could recognize.

 

[Montag]

Very cool. My own wedding (UK) and honeymoon (Portugal) shots might still be sitting in some Portuguese thrift store inside the generic 35mm panorama camera that baggage handlers lifted from my checked luggage in the 1980s. I blew a whole roll of film on those two as well!

 

[chambrenoire]

Found this film couple of weeks back, very cool to see camera-related stuff on them! Seems to be from the Swedish city Örebro.

 

[carbo73]

Found this film couple of weeks back, very cool to see camera-related stuff on them! Seems to be from the Swedish city Örebro.

Those pictures are amazing. Not only rescued from the past but also showing this incredibly giant TLR 😛

 

[carbo73]

That second to last image is a shot of the Venus de Milo, where she stands today in the Louvre. Cool stuff. I've processed a few rolls of old found film but it's always been just random snaps, never anyone or anything specific I could recognize.

The last one shows a bersagliere (Italian light infantry) with parade uniform in the famous stairs of Piazza Spagna, Rome.

 

[Malcolm Stewart]

This thread has brought back uncomfortable memories for me. Some years ago I picked up a used camera at a camera fair, and on getting home found that there was a part used film in the camera. At the time, it was easier to get the film developed at a local supermarket than clear my darkroom for action. Once I'd handed the film in for processing I got home and the TV was running a piece on child pornography, and how tough the laws were.



Help!

Could I have incriminated myself by handing in someone else's film? I sweated for 2 days, but fortunately, all the film contained were shots of holiday resorts in Normandy!

 

[Ed G]

I love this thread; it inspires me to look more closely at ALL cameras I see for sale to look for film. A few years ago I bought a Yashica TLR and these images were on the film it contained.

 

[Tom hicks]

https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124642

here is a link to some I found from an ebay purchase and was lucky enough to track down the grand daughter and give them digital file and prints. USMC Korea war time.

 

[css9450]

I bought a loose roll of 127 Verichrome Pan (no idea what kind of camera) and developed it yesterday. One shot (just one!) looks fantastic...

But the rest of the roll was muddy, blurry, grainy etc. Hard to believe it was the same roll! Maybe the rest were taken in heavy shade... And/or someone handed the camera to one of the kids who had terrible hand shake. The only one I scanned was this one, because it had some old vehicles in it:

 

[olifaunt]

I bought a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, and the one I picked had a roll of film in it. Kodak Verichrome Pan. Unfortunately about 2/3 of the roll was ruined because someone had open the camera one or more times over the years, but the ones that weren't ruined were pretty clean:

Fabulous find!