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Bought an old box camera off Fleabay. A Conway Camera, Synchronised Classic. Lo and behold, there is a film inside which was at the end of the roll. Worth sending off to see what is on it? Could have been inside for years!
 
If it's a B&W film, one of the good people who does home souping MIGHT stick it in their next batch.
 
yes I would say so (y)
 
When in the throws of a house move, I came across half a dozen cassettes where the tab had been retracted, appearing as if the film had been exposed. A camera shop, now defunct, reckoned they had a method of developing that took into account the age of the film, in my case at least 20 years. Only two had been exposed. The images were a little grainy; I was told this was due to the developing method, but they were pretty good. Holiday images as it turned out.
 
Pass!

IIRC, Kodak used to use yellow backing paper BUT please bear in mind that I may well not RC...
 
Kevin Allan said:
Kodak backing paper is yellow. Even if it is a colour film, developing it in black and white chemicals is going to be more likely to produce some kind of image from a decades-old film than doing so with colour chemicals.
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Thanks for that.
 
Kevin Allan said:
Kodak backing paper is yellow. Even if it is a colour film, developing it in black and white chemicals is going to be more likely to produce some kind of image from a decades-old film than doing so with colour chemicals.
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I remember Dad getting some newsworthy shots on a ferry home on colour print film. The local office of one of the big papers sent someone to the ferry terminal to collect the film and processed it in B&W chems. Dad lost a couple of shots of their holiday but gained a decent amount of financial reward in recompense! Must have been about 45 years ago.
 
Out walking the dog tonight and had a thought. Two options. Whoever the camera belonged to; had either rewound the film but not taken it out of the camera or had loaded the film in but hadn't taken any images. Hmmm.
 
Mozziephotography said:
Out walking the dog tonight and had a thought. Two options. Whoever the camera belonged to; had either rewound the film but not taken it out of the camera or had loaded the film in but hadn't taken any images. Hmmm.
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Generally you don't rewind roll film, when you load a new film you put the empty spool from the pervious film into the take up position and wind the new film around the empty spool as you take pictures. Which side of the camera it is on should give you an idea if it has been through the camera, the take up spool will be the one with the wind on lever or knob.
 
zx9 said:
Generally you don't rewind roll film, when you load a new film you put the empty spool from the pervious film into the take up position and wind the new film around the empty spool as you take pictures. Which side of the camera it is on should give you an idea if it has been through the camera, the take up spool will be the one with the wind on lever or knob.
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Totally understand what you are saying but my brain seems unable to work this out. I looked at the hole where the numbers appear and as I wound it on, it was only a short distance, no numbers appeared. The end of the film appeared was slightly folded, so I'm assuming that the film was used and wound back most of the way "home". My brian hurts again.
 
Plain Nev said:
You know you have to get it developed. I've only ever had pretty uninteresting stuff on old films I've had developed. But, you never know. ;) I'm sure yours will be interesting. If only by virtue of their age.
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Off Topic, I'm afraid, but with regards a piece of paper with the time written on it. I used to be a police officer in London and a PC, when asked by a member of the public what the time was, would open his tunic pocket, remove a folded piece of paper, open it and appear to read it. He'd then tell the enquirer what the time was. He would get it off the reversed watch on the wrist of the hand holding the piece of paper. A number of people were affronted by this, I was told. One went directly up to one of his colleagues and demanded the time from them. The chap replied, 'Go ask my mate over there. He's got the time written on a piece of paper.' In those days, the complaints system was more open to interpretation.
 
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