Nice 'found film' stories on PN

[taffer]

I found this at the classic camera forum on PN the other day, really enjoyed those threads so I thought I could share them here:

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00AJDM

and

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00AJvJ

Btw has somebody ever had a similar experience with a forgotten roll of film on a camera ?

Dunno but for me adds a very strong human perspective to the whole act of photography.

Oscar

 

[sfaust]

Thats really cool. I found a roll of film I had forgotten about that was tucked away in my office last year. It was from 1996, and was of my son's birthday party and some other household shots. Kind of neat, but nothing like those stories though.

 

[peter_n]

Thanks for posting these links, Oscar. I think the ruminations of the poster made the pages well worth looking at - did he go off to war, did he come back?

I recently visited an exhibition of such snaps at the BU Art Gallery. A local person called Roger Kingston has collected over 4000 pictures taken from the 1840's to around 1950 and about 170 of them are on exhibition. The exhibit was called In the Vernacular and got a terrific write-up in the Boston Globe a couple of weeks ago.

Apparently collecting these "vernacular" photos is becoming very popular...

 

[nwcanonman]

While I didn't find undeveloped film, the old albums my 80 year old mom gave me are much the same. Only 60 - 70 % of the people are known family, all the others are "?" (friends, distant relatives and places).
My avitar is one from those old albums. It's of my father around 1921.

 

[taffer]

Thanks for that link Peter, to some point reminds me of the film 'Amelie' with that girl collecting trashed pics of anonymous people on the photo booth.

Will have my eyes open and check the red windows when I see a camera in the flea market 🙂

 

[RML]

There's a large central square in Ulaanbaatar where many "pro" photographers take people's portraits. They develop and print the rolls quickly, and an hour later you can collect you memento of your stay in UB. However, these photogs often throw the negs simply on the street, ready for me to pick them up, scratched and all. Sofar I haven't done that but I'm thinking of doing so next summer. Might be interesting to see these shots and to wonder who these people are and why they had their pictures taken.

BTW, these photogs all seem to be equiped with all manual Nikon SLRs. No wonder, of course. These cameras keep functioning even when the photog freezes to death. 🙂

 

[Doug]

I did recently experience "found" pictures... When I got my used Canon Elph Jr from eBay, it had a roll of Fuji 200 in it, and 7 exposures taken. I put batteries in it and shot the rest of the roll, interested to see what those first 7 were!

As it turned out, they'd been taken by the previous owner nearly a year earlier, and now forgotten, I emailed the scans to him, and he was pleased to get them.

It's interesting to speculate about found pictures!

 

[SolaresLarrave]

The found photos from the Rolleicord's continue in a thread titled Mystery film, which you can read if you click this link.

Odd feelings... kinda voyeuristic... But the shots are strangely dramatic.

 

[rover]

My father last week was given a Ricohflex and he says it has two rolls of exposed film with it. I will pick it up this week, and now I will have that film developed.

A friend of his gave it to him. I believe it was in a box of old cameras this man's aunt had. She recently passed away and they are cleaning up her belongings. It will be nice for my father to give his friend prints from the film if anything comes out.

 

[taffer]

The saga continues...

http://westfordcomp.com/classics/brownie3/index.htm

 

[vladhed]

Instamatic

Instamatic

About 30 years ago while canoe-camping in Algonquin park (Ontario, Canada) we found a cheap Kodak 126 Instamatic camera at an empty campsite, probably left behind by the pervious campers. I had 6 shots taken and 6 left so we used it up and had the pictures developed. The previous owners were a young hippy couple - what was funny is they were essentially 3 posted shots, 3 of him (by the tent, in the canoe, with a fish) and 3 of her (same shots)!