This image from the past was captured with a cheap Diana camera loaded up with a roll of 127 black and white film. The next Christmas, Santa brought me a Kodak Instamatic 104 which took significantly better pictures.
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This image from the past was captured with a cheap Diana camera loaded up with a roll of 127 black and white film. The next Christmas, Santa brought me a Kodak Instamatic 104 which took significantly better pictures.
Several years ago while cleaning out some old boxes of junk, I found the Holy Grail - an unprocessed roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 120 size film from my first camera. As I recall, it was a cheap "Diana" camera. Decades ago, at the age of 8, I had placed the roll back into the original yellow Kodak box and for some reason never got around to having it processed into prints.
I searched around on the internet and found Film Rescue International. Although a little leery about what they could capture from film this old, I was pleasantly surprised with the results. Foggy, grainy... it all adds to the atmosphere of images of time long gone by.
I guess you've noticed the curvy door and water heater on the left. My sister took this shot using a Kodak 104 Instamatic loaded up with a cartridge of 126 Verichrome Pan film. With time, the left side of the negative has curled. Also... then, as now, shooting directly into sunlight is NOT a great idea!
This abandoned beauty sat for several years by the edge of the Surf Club's tennis courts at the very end of their parking lot. The lot was basically a large paved-over salt meadow which smelled extremely foul on hot summer days.
Try as I might to improve the image quality of this print, this is about as good as it gets. The original was very blurry.
Do you know know what kind of car this abandoned old wreck was?
Not too shabby for a 110 film camera on a rainy day. Kodak provided a number of quality features on the higher-end models like my pocket 40, the 50 and 60 model as well. These cameras were fully capable of shooting vastly more than just blurry family snapshots.
Hey, nothing was quite as astounding as the precision optics of a plastic "Babette" camera! The package even proclaimed it contained an "Optical Lens!" The camera cost 50 cents plus 20 Bazooka Gum wrappers and it used (abused?) rolls of 127 film.
I wonder how many Babette camera photos still survive today?
This is a crop of a 126 film photo I shot out the back window of a friend's parents car. It's not the clearest image, but it does show how forlorn parts of New Haven's waterfront used to be. Those two large tanks used to be visible for miles along the shoreline.
Here's a link to exactly the same place as it appears today....
www.google.com/maps/@41.2943998,-72.9177163,3a,75y,36.53h...
Hey, nothing was quite as astounding as the precision optics of a plastic "Babette" camera! The package even proclaimed it contained an "Optical Lens!" The camera cost 50 cents plus 20 Bazooka Gum wrappers and it used (abused?) rolls of 127 film.
In keeping with the vintage nature of my Flickr account, I thought this analog photo would be just right.
While visiting friends in West Haven last summer, one of them snapped this with a dollar-store disposable camera. (why? beats me!)
I have to admit that the grain, blur and color-shifting do give the photo a kind of vintage look and feel. Yes, there's really Mountain Dew and bottled water in that cooler.... no intoxicants. (chortle)
