Tuesday, September 16, 2008

10 years old roll of film ?

Some time ago, I pulled my old SLR camera from its bag and noticed it was loaded with some film. Half of the roll was used, and I had no idea what was on it, only thing I knew was that it was from before I switched to digital in 1999. I decided to finish the roll, and got it developped and scanned (poorly btw, I'll need to find a way to get better scans) at a nearby photo store. I was surprised the film was still in decent shape.
Once developped I realized that most pictures were from my vacations to the alps and Cantal 10 years ago with David, plus some pictures from Fleming dorm. The quality is definitely far from the files I get with my current digital camera, but there is a kind of old fashioned mood in these pictures that I like. Maybe I'll get an old film body that can take my new rangefinder lenses and go through a few rolls (it's not really worth it with my gigantic old/not so good optics SLR). We'll see if I get the courage to get the films developped and scanned or if I'll give up because of the hassle.

Anyways, here are a few examples:

My old tent

Some old church

a pass in Cantal

10 years later, my home in Haifa

and a rose in my living room.

The rest of the film is there.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is great ! Dada is not far away :)

It reminds me about this web site "foundphotos" : some people collect photo gathered on P2P file sharing network.

I think it is some kind of art, just like your old picture. Well if not, it definitly have the magic of art.
FoundPhotos : http://www.10eastern.com/foundphotos/

fefe said...

Unfortunately there are just too many pictures to be reaqlly enjoyable as a form of art. To me it really just looks like a collection :).