Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have to love the pocket protector in place even in a casual family image. Plus, who took the family photo; possibly the owner of the camera? On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:39 AM Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote: > A few days ago a friend showed me his latest acquisition: a Vest Pocket > Kodak Autographic camera, which looked to be from the 1920s or so. There > was a partially used roll of film inside, which he finished with some > snapshots in the back yard. Visions of long-gone flappers filled the > imagination, saved on the film therein. > > I told him I'd process the film, but as with any photographic film that old > getting any discernable images was a crapshoot. I'd heard that the rule of > thumb for developing old film is lose one f-stop per each decade. When I'd > loaded the film onto the reel (not so easy with film that had been coiled > for decades!) and sealed the tank, I took a look at the backing paper. It > was decidedly more 50s-60s looking, and at the top include an exposure > chart > with a note that Verichrome Pan is ASA 125. That would probably peg it > late > 1950s and later, and the look of the backing paper reminded me of 50s/60s > Kodak product. > > With that in mind I figured that the usual VP developing time in D-76 1:1 > was about eight minutes, with each pushed stop adding about four minutes. > Given five decades, that would be an additional 20 minutes, the total > rounded to a half-hour. > > That seemed to do the trick. When I removed the film from the tank two > exposures taken decades ago were perfectly clear, but the recently taken > shots a vague, blurry mess. Perhaps the camera had deteriorated in the > interim. > > The picture shows a family with clothes and hairstyles of about 1965. Why > they were using a 40 year old folding camera is an answer lost to the ages. > I have no idea who they were, or the occasion of the picture. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/vest+pocket+family+1+sm.jpg.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com