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Old rolls of film

Damo

Short One Marshmallow
Sep 7, 2006
4,603
27
French Alps
Don't we just love these surprises?

I was given an old Nikon (EL-2 I believe) camera with a few lenses (Nikkor 55mm 1.2, 105mm 2.5 and a 28mm 2.8 plus various extenders etc) many years ago. Well, I recently 'found' this stuff again from storage and discovered a film still in there. Took it in for developing a couple days ago, not expecting anything at all (the expiry date on the film was 1991) and picked up the shots today.

Found photos of our dog when he was around 5-7 weeks old. Awesome find!

Not amazing photos, certainly I have no idea of scanning them, but here y'go:





















Anyone else have this happen? It's kinda like finding cash in a pocket of your old jacket. But better.

I've also found another old roll of film (same expiry date) and may just play russian roulette with it in the body... Why not...
 

bean

Turbo Monkey
Feb 16, 2004
1,335
0
Boulder
My mom stopped developing film somewhere around 1986 and I had it all developed last December. Unfortunately, most of it didn't come out nearly as well as what you've got here. Lots of fogging and shifted colors. It's going to take a lot of processing to get anything usable out of them.