CONTENTS Introduction 1-2 Organising Collection 3-4 Developing Film 5-6 Story of Film 7-18 Photographs 11-18 Conclusion 19-20
MY COLLECTION My Collection is a collection of film cameras, some of them work and some of them haven’t worked in a long time. I had never collected anything until I began to collect cameras and I now have many different brands and types of cameras. Many of the cameras I own have been passed down to me by older generations of my family, my most recent cameras that have come into my posession were found at a recently deceased family member’s home and none of my family reconised the cameras, so i’ve had no idea who they could of belonged to. I discovered that two of the cameras I had been given still had film in and have been wanting to develop the film ever since to see what could be on the film itself and to maybe find out who’s cameras they could of been. I decided to ask my lecturer about developing film at university and she gave me the email to the senior lecturer of photography, where he told me the process that I would have to use to develop my film but I would have to get in contact with the Analogue Photo Technician who could assist me.
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ORGANISING MY COLLECTION For this project I decided to organise my collection, which I thought would give me more knowledge of the cameras that I owned. To start off with I wrote down what sort of catagories I could put them into; Origin, Purpose of camera, Most Used, Type of film, Brand, Age, Weight, Technology, etc. For that stage I used post it notes to organise the cameras into potential sections.
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OLD VS NEW The Kodak Brownie made in the 1950s is a plastic box camera for eight 4x6 cm pictures on 127 film. The camera has a plastic lens, identified with no aperture or focus controls, and a single-speed shutter.
Kodak Brownie 127 Made in 1950s
Kodak Instamatic 133 Made in 1960s
Pentax P30 Made in 1980s
Instax mini 8 Made in 2012
The Kodak Instamatic made in the 1960s is a camera for 126 cartridge film, It has a fixed focus lense, 24 exposures and a shutter speed of 1/80 a second. The Pentax P30 made in the 1980s is a SLR camera for 35mm Film and uses manual focus lenses. The Instax Mini 8 made in 2012 is a modern polaroid camera with a fixed shutter speed of 1/60 and the flash is automatic.
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DEVELOPING FILM To get the film developed I went to the photography department at university. First I went to the analogue photo technician who looked at the two cameras still containing film, we worked out which one was colour or black and white, this was tricky as the film was so old in the Photo Magic camera that it was impossible to find any information on the film to find out which one it was so we decided the safest option was to just develop it in black and white.
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HORSE
Horse standing proudly at a livery yard, tacked up and ready to be riden. Person in the back unknown.
GIRL ON A HORSE It’s quite hard to see who this girl could be, my best guess would be that it’s either my auntie or my mother.
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MY AUNTIE IN THE EARLY 80’s
HORSE IN STABLE
MYSTERIOUS HOUSE
MYSTERY PERSON After speaking to my family trying to find out who this could be, no one seemed to know and because the face is so blurry so it remains a mystery.
DRIVEWAY GIRL This is my auntie standing in the driveway of my grandparents house in the early 80s
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CONCLUSION Looking more deeply into my collection i’ve learnt more about my cameras, how to develop black and white and colour film and how to edit the negatives into photographs. Although the best thing about this was discovering what was on the old film still in two of the cameras, it’s brought back many memories for my family as well as finding some mysterious photographs that can’t be identified.
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BY HOLLY BLOOMFIELD