Justfolk's photos

I have affection for expired fast films. Big grain, low saturation, off colours. This is from an old roll of Fuji 800 film, given to me by friends who stopped shooting film more than ten years ago. It was in their fridge for a decade or so and in a desk drawer of mine for the past year. This week I put it in my Agfa Paramat. The Paramat has an auto-exposure system but the film speed only ranges up to 200 which is where I set this. That's usually not a problem with older, even fresh, film. It was a foggy day and that sort of old film was well-suited to it. When the image was scanned, it was scanned as a pair of half-frames but I cut the other one (on the left of this) out of the image. Because two were scanned together, the right edge of this image was not included, making for a sharp edge there and a fairly skewed picture but, again, I don't mind. I added the noisey frame on the top, bottom and right, but it was to (sorta) match the noisey dark area between the two images, on the left. You can see the rough edge of the Agfa frame at the top left. If I were to scan the whole image myself, you'd also see a substantial notch almost half-way down the right side.

Ah! Since it was brought up. . . . On that same roll of expired-in-April-1989 Kodak VR-G 200 film, I have these three shots (numbers 2 - 4 on the roll). The first shot on the roll was cut in half by light exposure in the lab; it sits to the left of these but actually represents a bit of a fourth that could have been at the right. I didn't move it into the picture since these three are really adjacent to one another on the film. This ancient VR-G film doesn't hold its colours very well but what's left can be transformed into a reasonable b&w image. This is just the red channel. Very grainy. Poor resolution. But fun. Shot in the Instamatic 500 which allows me to overexpose easily. This was shot at about ISO 50.

Three shots from my neighbourhood graveyard. They were taken a couple of days ago on a roll of Kodak VR-G 200 film in a 126 cartridge that expired in April 1989. I shot it in my Instamatic 500 which allows me full control over the exposure. I guessed at all the light levels but I was guessing to give exposures about two stops over normal. That is, I shot the film as if it were rated at ISO 50.

High contrast shots over a farm field, taken out the car window at about 60 km/hr. Kodak ColorPlus 200 in Ricoh R1. And me in the corner.

Kodak Colorplus 200 in Ricoh R1. About four seconds.

The underside of a plane on plinths. Kodak ColorPlus 200 in Ricoh R1. I oversharpened the graffiti.

From a moving car. Olympus Pen D3. Kodak ColorPlus 200 film. Haf frame. The original picture was shaky and blurry -- the car was moving about 25 km/hr past the people and I was moving the camera, too. So I cropt somewhat and then started increasing contrast, and dropped a bunch of noise into it. I don't believe there is such a thing as "straight from the camera."

The view reflected in a neighbour's cellar window. No one lives in the house and it's actually quite delapidated (despite the tidiness apparent in the picture).

August 1987