Found film in purchased camera

Some of these unknown photographers' work here qualifies as fine art.

How many more undiscovered Vivan Mayers are out there, lost forever?
 
I bought from the US a c.1903 Rochester Premo B 4x5 camera, with two plate holders and one film pack adapter with film inside. Ten sheets were exposed. I exposed the two remaining (wich turned nothing) and developed all. Although heavily fogged by a century left in the camera... most of them showed something. Mostly what it looks like a weekend trip to the forest, and the backyard of the owner. As it was a Kodak Film-Pack (introduced with this name in 1922) and the camera by that year was 20 years old, I asume the pictures were taken in the mid 20's, probably in what looks like north-eastern USA, or the Pacific coast. I bought it from someone in Michigan but that could mean nothing by now.


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Had never seen a Sigma camera, so bought an SA-9 from Goodwill in Racine, Wisconsin. It had a roll of Fujicolor Super HQ 200, which I cross-processed in HC-110. Scenes appear to be south-eastern US.

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Timmyjoe said:
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.

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Best,
-Tim
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Interesting pictures indeed! the last image was taken on the big stairs at Trinità dei Monti in Rome and it shows a Corporal of a Bersaglieri Regiment (by the way I served as a young officer for this Corp of the Italian Army)
 
carbo73 said:
I bought from the US a c.1903 Rochester Premo B 4x5 camera, with two plate holders and one film pack adapter with film inside. Ten sheets were exposed. I exposed the two remaining (wich turned nothing) and developed all. Although heavily fogged by a century left in the camera... most of them showed something. Mostly what it looks like a weekend trip to the forest, and the backyard of the owner. As it was a Kodak Film-Pack (introduced with this name in 1922) and the camera by that year was 20 years old, I asume the pictures were taken in the mid 20's, probably in what looks like north-eastern USA, or the Pacific coast. I bought it from someone in Michigan but that could mean nothing by now.


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Other rescued 4x5 images from this Century old film-pack are these:


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maigo said:
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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Who knows what unexpected amateur granny porn you may have discovered on that card. :D
 
From Ebay, I bought an exposed roll of 127 Verichrome Pan. Still in its box (expired in 1962). I developed it last night in Rodinal, standard processing:

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I seem to have a knack for finding old films with airplanes!
 
I loved Verichrome Pan. Look at all the tones that even this poorly cared for negative has. Too bad we don't have a two layered film today that even if wasn't the sharpest at least everything tone wise was there. No matter what exposure you gave.
 
I tried looking up the tail number on that Bonanza at the FAA web site, but came up blank. I also looked up variations on that number, assuming we're missing the final letter, but came up blank there too. Too bad, because fork-tailed Bonanzas are a personal favorite airplane for me.


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The V-tail Bonanza is a favorite of mine as well. Sadly, all we know about this one is that it belonged to "Ray" and he's on some dirt airstrip.

There's probably a V-tail Bonanza forum that might like that photo and may be able to provide info. There's beechtalk.com, which requires registration.
 
From Ebay, a roll of 127-format Kodacolor-X, unknown camera. I developed it in Rodinal, 1:100 stand development.

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Wanted to resurrect this thread a bit and share this "Found Film" thread from filmwasters.com (some good - and humorous - ones in there plus interesting discussions):

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Found 120 film in a recently-purchased National Graflex Series II. The film only said 'Panchromatic' on the backing paper, so I took a chance on D76 1:1 for 10 minutes.


Graflex Found Film1 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr


Graflex Found Film2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr


Graflex Found Film3 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr


Graflex Found Film4 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

I really love those last two shots - something spooky and cinematic about them. Almost like the person is looking out of the window of a train.

The film was on a metal spool, so I'm figuring the film is at least 50-60 years-old. If anyone has a clue as to what this film might be and an era based upon the backing paper, I'd appreciate it!


Mystery Graflex Film by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
 
I've only ever found a roll of film that I shot myself as a child when I discovered my 1st camera stored away for safe keeping with a cartridge of 126 film still inside. If I remember correctly, the photos it contained were from a grade school class trip to Springfield, IL to see the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.

This thread has reminded of the video "This Is Why We Should Keep Film Photography Alive" from New Zealand photographer Paul C Smith:

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