Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 17810

These are four adjacent frames from the roll of Life Brand 100-speed film which expired in the 1980s and which I shot in the "broken" half-frame Ricoh Caddy at about ISO 50. I should probably have shot it at 12 or 25 -- the negatives are *very* thin making for difficult matters in scanning. But I did some colour-channel & spotting jiggery-pokery and came up with these scenes of the lane known as Symes's Bridge (or just Symes Bridge, as most people pronounce it). The Ricoh Caddy was sold to me very cheaply as it was broken. But once I added a shutter-release cable, it seemed most often to work. It has a selenium meter and, based on ISO 50, I generally followed its instructions for exposures.

I scanned this 30-odd-years-old film (Life Brand 100, but "Made in Japan" so Fuji) and the colours were very askew. I tried a variety of colour shifts and none was at all lifelike, so I've simply chosen the one I liked best. Here it is. I wish I had taken these two pictures as faux-stereo, but I did not -- the one on the right was taken about a half metre lower; I leaned down to below the railing on a footbridge. They were taken (at about ISO50) in my Ricoh Caddy. I don't know how the line across the top got there; I thought it was a scanning artefact until I looked closely at the negatives -- the entire roll has it.

I've been taking a lot of pictures with modern cameras lately but I still love shooting with old cameras and expired film. A young friend gave me three rolls of film formerly belonging to her grandfather. She and her father figured the film must have been from the 1980s and I think they are probably right. This was Life Brand (=Fuji) 100-speed film. I shot it in my half-frame Ricoh Caddy at about ISO 50. It probably could have used another stop or two of exposure. Here I was a passenger in a car driving through a place where new pylons were being strung with wire. We were travelling at only about 30 km/hr. I don't usually take pictures in horizontal mode in half-frame cameras, but I did with this one.