Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 14313

Gerry had dropped by to tell me that the PhD he'd worked on for several years was just completed -- he'd passed his defence a few days before. He was pretty pleased as you can imagine. And he got to give a little grad-school advice to a student who was in my office. This was six-years-expired Kodak Ultra 400 film in the Minolta Autopak 450E, using its flash. I didn't do much to the lab scan (by Lomography) other than to take out a few bits of dust and to build the border.

I always like pictures with mistakes. Here the Minolta Autopak 450E's close-up slide was in place for what is not a close-up picture. Somehow there was a light leak, too. I like the film paper number showing up so sharply. Kodak Ultra 400 (expired July 2007).

The Minolta Autopak 450E was unable to fully pull the film along, shifting it only enough to chop the top of Gerry's head off in this scan from the lab. I look forward to getting the film back myself because presumable my own scan will be able to include the top of his head. (Though that little white sliver on the top left worries me as it may indicate the negative was cut there!) Kodak Ultra 110 film, expired July 2007; this picture exposed in March 2014.

The Minolta Autopak 450E (110 film camera) has a very simple, sliding close-up lens. It is very simple but I kept putting it in place when I wanted it out of place. Oh well. It was my first time using this camera. I have that excuse. The camera calculates simple flashed exposures like this situation well. The Kodak 400 Ultra film expired in July 2007, and this picture was taken six and a half years later, in February 2014. It didn't seem to deteriorate much, perhaps because most of that period was spent in my freezer.

Kit is a local photographer and, by day, a salesperson at a chain camera shop. She was showing me the Olympus O-MD bodies that day and I took her picture with the Minolta Autopak 450E, with its six-years-expired Kodak Ultra 400 film. The flash is on the end of the camera and you can see the huge shadow it throws. Without actually covering part of the flash (which I probably should have done), there's no way to manually adjust the flash output. The flash is actually quite good at more ordinary people-shooting distances, say three metres or so. I did think of turning the camera ninety degrees, to get the flash above the camera, and I probably should have but it's very clumsy to hold in that position. The border (including burning in the edges) was done in PSP X5, as was the extra noising on the merchandise shelves.