Camera Related

I found this Kodak Gold 100 film that had been cold-stored and was shooting good - so I just had to have some again. I used to really love shooting with this film, until Kodak had the bright idea of killing it off. Don't know why they did that. This only expired in 2011.

A contact of mine here on Ipernity posted a shot of his film collection, so I thought I'd do the same. This is most of my film, the stuff I keep in the icebox, and not counting a roll or two here and there in various camera bags that I didn't bother to dig out for the group shot. Check the notes on the picture for more details.

I always liked Kodak Gold 100 and hated to hear when they killed it off. It was always my trusted film. Camera: Minolta XG1 No. 2 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Teleconverter: Soligor Auto Tele Converter 2X Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (expired on 3/2017 and shot @200 ISO) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/16 Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 3 seconds Date: October 29th, 2020, 8.38 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta XG1-2 Vista 400 Shawnee 2020 03df

Some old Kodak Kodacolor II film I acquired a couple years back. You can see the expiration date was May 1983 - perhaps I need to be shooting it. I shot a whole lot of this back in the day, but now I'm down to only five expired rolls of it in my film stash.

Kodak Ektar 100 is one of Kodak's "professional" color films. It's so expensive and that's the reason I don't shoot a lot of it.

I've been shooting some of this Kodak Gold 200 film lately. It's not as good as Kodak Gold 100, but it'll have to do. Especially since they stopped making Gold 100. That was my favorite film.

Some Kodak Gold 200 film. This image was taken on Kodak Gold 200, and is a fine example of what this film looks like when used. Camera: Minolta X-7A No. 4 Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 28-70mm, f/3.5 (shot @ 70mm and 1:4 macro) Film: Kodak Gold 200 (expired on 8/22) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/22 Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 20 seconds Date: November 2nd, 2024, 9.39 a.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta X-7A-4 Gold 200 Fall Tree 2024 33if

This is film made by Kodak called "Color Plus" 200. I get good results from it. This particular film was some I purchased online and it originates from someplace outside of the U.S.A. The film cartridge itself is named "Kodacolor." Kodak Kodacolor is what I used to shoot with in the 1970s and into the early 1980s, but Kodak doesn't sell Kodacolor in the U.S.A. any longer. They had new, better emulsions that were better than Kodacolor. Why Kodak sells Kodacolor in other parts of the world and not America doesn't seem right to me. It was superceded in America by better emulsions, so that makes me think that Kodacolor in a worse emulsion. Why pawn off sub-standard film to the rest of the world instead of their newer emulsions? Kodak, you got some 'splainin' to do.

The late great Kodak Plus-X film.

I finally got some 126 film so I would have a cartridge with which to reload with 35mm film and use in all my 126 cameras! A single roll of well-expired 126 film on eBay was always going for $15-$20 - I happened to pick this one up for $11.99 and it also included a like-new Kodak Instamatic X-15 camera and two flash cubes that hadn't been used! What a deal!

This is Kodak's black and white film that can be developed in regular color film developers. They discontinued it a couple back, but at least I still have about 8 rolls of it left. I really like how it looks.

Some old Kodak Kodachrome 25, taken on March 20th, 2007. It was actually shot about 25 years before then, but got pushed to the back of a drawer and forgotten about.

I shot a lot of Tri-X back in the '70's, and I still always keep some in stock.

"Kodak Film Inside" is all the box says. It doesn't say what kind of film it is, or whether it's color or black and white film. It does mention that it develops in the C-41 process. That really says nothing. I have Kodak color and black and white film that both can be developed in the C-41 process. The box does say that film is made in the United States, spooled in Mexico, and packaged in China. So that means this box of film you're seeing has travelled at least once around the world. You'll also note that it says "Cobra Digital" underneath Kodak. This film was boxed up in China and was included in the package with a cheap 35mm camera that came with this film and a battery for the camera flash. I'm not really sure why a "digital" company would need film.

I've used a lot of Kodak Tri-X in the last 45 or so years. This is a roll of the 120 size.

I haven't shot with any of this Kodak Tmax 400, yet, but I hear interesting things about it.

This is the earlier formulation of Portra 160. I really need to use it already - But I have kept it cold-stored, so it should be just fine.

I loaded some Kodak Portra 160VC into my Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash camera because I plan on taking it out this weekend and shoot with it. It normally takes 620 film, but a spool of 120 fits in it. As long as I use a regular 620 takeup spool winds better than a 120 spool, so this combination seems to work well in one of these cameras.