photo time capsules
Cameras Inc. had a February "film amnesty month" special to encourage lamers like me to bring in old rolls of exposed film to see what might be on them. Recent decrufting efforts had turned up 15 rolls of exposed film and several rolls' worth of negatives, so I brought them to the shop and paid for developing and photo CDs only for $5/roll. I had a pretty good idea of what might be on them and from when, estimating that most of them would be from 1999 or 2000, and I knew that the negatives were from film that I shot over a week in Hawaii in 1999 that I had gotten developed, but returned the prints for a refund because the contrast and saturation were for shit.
Yesterday I picked up the results of 12 rolls and discovered that they were indeed from 1999 and 2000, shot in places as varied as the New Zealand (Bay of Islands and Rotorua), Joshua Tree National Park, and England (London, Bath, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, Sidmouth, and the Cotswolds). The image quality is mostly surprisingly good, considering the age of the film and the relative unsophistication of the camera used at the time. I can't wait to see the results of the last 3 rolls, which I'll pick up after work.
This month I'll take a huge load of negatives to Cameras Inc. for scanning, as they're having a really excellent special ($0.15/strip). I know that I have many more negatives than just the ones from Hawaii. If I can just dig them out of my room, I'll find many rolls' worth of negatives from Australia and New Zealand, not to mention stuff much older than that. And once I've got all these shots on CD, I can upload them to Flickr and organize them in a way that I've never managed to organize all my bazillions of prints.
Yesterday I picked up the results of 12 rolls and discovered that they were indeed from 1999 and 2000, shot in places as varied as the New Zealand (Bay of Islands and Rotorua), Joshua Tree National Park, and England (London, Bath, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, Sidmouth, and the Cotswolds). The image quality is mostly surprisingly good, considering the age of the film and the relative unsophistication of the camera used at the time. I can't wait to see the results of the last 3 rolls, which I'll pick up after work.
This month I'll take a huge load of negatives to Cameras Inc. for scanning, as they're having a really excellent special ($0.15/strip). I know that I have many more negatives than just the ones from Hawaii. If I can just dig them out of my room, I'll find many rolls' worth of negatives from Australia and New Zealand, not to mention stuff much older than that. And once I've got all these shots on CD, I can upload them to Flickr and organize them in a way that I've never managed to organize all my bazillions of prints.