Darkhorse
pointed and shot
Last year I went home and brought back a lot of old negatives with me. Most of them were uninteresting snapshots from the 1990s shot on Superia 200.
However I did snag some old negatives from my long since departed grandparent's trip to Europe in 1983. My grandfather was a photographer, a scientific photographer to be precise. He also was a reconnaisance photographer with the RCAF in WWII.
At any rate, he shot Europe on this mystery film with a Minolta SRT 200 with a 45mm Rokkor. I still have the camera - and a part of me feels a little guilty turning my back on it in favor of the OM1, but the SRT200 is huge by comparison.
I have a suspicion it's Kodacolor VR100, wikipedia has led me to think this. The film has no indication of what it is beside that it's Kodak and SAFETY FILM. As opposed to radioactive poison film I guess.
What film it is is beside the point though. Kodak doesn't make it any more, I'm sure. What struck me when I finally was able to nail down the film base color in Vuescan was how astonishing the colors and crispness of the images were!
I recall seeing the actual prints from this vacation from September of 1983, and I was under the impression that it was overcast the entire trip. The prints were just that dingy.
However I did snag some old negatives from my long since departed grandparent's trip to Europe in 1983. My grandfather was a photographer, a scientific photographer to be precise. He also was a reconnaisance photographer with the RCAF in WWII.
At any rate, he shot Europe on this mystery film with a Minolta SRT 200 with a 45mm Rokkor. I still have the camera - and a part of me feels a little guilty turning my back on it in favor of the OM1, but the SRT200 is huge by comparison.
I have a suspicion it's Kodacolor VR100, wikipedia has led me to think this. The film has no indication of what it is beside that it's Kodak and SAFETY FILM. As opposed to radioactive poison film I guess.
What film it is is beside the point though. Kodak doesn't make it any more, I'm sure. What struck me when I finally was able to nail down the film base color in Vuescan was how astonishing the colors and crispness of the images were!
I recall seeing the actual prints from this vacation from September of 1983, and I was under the impression that it was overcast the entire trip. The prints were just that dingy.
