Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 15610

Mark has spent a couple of months on an internship in this room where I am one of the researchers. I took this picture with my Olympus XA on film of unknown vintage but certainly 25 years, perhaps 35 years old. It was part of a load of film a friend gave me around Christmastime when he cleaned out his freezer and cupbards. I think this film was part of the freezer batch so it was fairly well treated during its storage. However, it started life with a handicap being a cheap film. This is probably the best of the dozen or so shots I took. I cropt away a little of the window and wall at the top. This picture is on a roll of Zellers brand ASA80 colour print film, a twenty-exposure length (that dates it somewhat already) in a reusable cannister. The cannister had a sticky label with the brand and speed information. My friend told me he thought it was from about 1979 and I would not be surprised. It certainly predates DX coding. Given my friend's guess, I decided to over-expose the film by a stop or so, and I rated it at ISO25; this seemed to be about right for some of it. Nonetheless, I probably would have had more successes if I had rated it at ISO10. There are no clues on the negatives (at least that I can make sense of) as to what the film was before Zeller's labelled it as their own. The frame numbers are a small sans-serif font, and at the edge near the end of the roll are the numbers 297 98 followed by the word SAFETY. (This suggests it is a machine-cut length, not spooled from a bulk roll.) Between the sprocket holes on both edges the whole length of the film are green circles, like large dots.