Bad, Ugly Photos, Ugly, Old Film...

Random photos, luckily unimportant things, shot with the Flexilette on a very bad looking roll of 35 mm ORWO TC27 film. The cartridge was rusty and the paint on it was blistered, the 1st 10 cm of film was sticky and crusty. I cut off the bad looking part of the film and shot the film at ISO 400. All looks ugly, blotchy, grainy, underexposed, over contrasty, and generally heinous. The film smelled sour and rather rancid when I opened the canister. I should have thrown it away. BTW, this was the 1st roll through the Flexilette, who turned out to be full of kitty hair and is now with Harry at Camera Max for a thorough CLA'ing. She does work OK, however.

ช่างภาพ:
herbert-4
อัพโหลดแล้ว:
2014-11-16
แท็ก:
bad film blotchy dark grainy ugly photos underexposed
กล้อง:
Agfa Flexilette
ฟิล์ม:
ORWO TC27 400
เมือง:
Tujunga
ประเทศ/จังหวัด:
United States
Year:
2014
Time:
afternoon
อัลบั้ม:
Ugly, Nasty Photos, with Sour, Rancid Film...

6 ความคิดเห็น

  1. alienmeatsack
    alienmeatsack ·

    I think for film as bad as you describe, it turned out better then some of the off brand stuff I've bought new. :D

  2. herbert-4
    herbert-4 ·

    @alienmeatsack The negatives came out weak, underexposed, some places lighter, some darker, this frame a bit darker with a funny microtexture on magnification. I hope the roll didn't contaminate the developer's chemistry... Anyway, I messed with the contrast, luminosity, gamma, and scanning perimeters to actually get a photo. And it smelled when I put it in the camera.

  3. hervinsyah
    hervinsyah ·

    Good, Great Photos, Great, Classicool Old Film =)

  4. swordsplay
    swordsplay ·

    Cool noir album. Creepy

  5. baxaviv
    baxaviv ·

    Kitty hair...??

    A very b&w-album indeed, not much of gray tones! Did you develop it your self or at the lab? I'm not too sure how to develop my old ORWO-films, the film base (?) on the negatives is very dark and not as clear as it usually is on b&w film. Maybe that's what comes from using old b&w, it was my first try with the ORWO.

  6. herbert-4
    herbert-4 ·

    @baxaviv The film was developed at the lab at Samy's camera in an old Versamat machine, in some generic D-76 type chemistry for some standard time. The negatives came back very flat with film base rather dark. I messed with scanning perimeters to make the pictures I got. The camera had fuzzy animal fur in the viewfinder, and it smelled rather catty. It has now been cleaned, lubed, and adjusted, and works wonderful now. More Photos soon...

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