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Retrogamervx
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Username: Retrogamervx
Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2012
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2012 - 12:26 pm: | 
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Hi all, just to let you know that I picked up the above camera from a carboot sale for £5. To my surprise, there is also an undeveloped film inside.
I have made a video showing the camera and doing a teardown to show people how these cameras work. Hope you enjoy the video and leave any relivent comment :o)
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPIP7phdwAU
Best regards
Steve |
Denny
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Username: Denny
Post Number: 109
Registered: 08-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2012 - 08:27 pm: |
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Steve - here is everything you need to know
http://www.cameramanuals.org/kodak_pdf/kodak_brownie_2.pdf
This is the 67 page instruction manual. It includes how to do everything photographically, including processing the film.
I am quite sure the Verichrome Pan film is unexposed, especially if it was on the top. You are correct that you do not rewind roll film. I would suggest you load it and process it. However, since that film hasn't been made for the past 10 years, you will probably have to process it yourself, or find a lab willing to try it.
By they way, that leather "handle" on the top is usually missing or broken, so you got a pretty clean copy. You can easily cut a piece of mirror to fix the view finders. Windex and q-tips will be your best friend.
I recently picked up the green version of the same camera.j
Enjoy it. You will be the envy of all those Nikon and Canon Digital shooters  |
Marty
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Username: Marty
Post Number: 96
Registered: 11-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 10, 2012 - 10:21 pm: |
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That's a fun video. The chances are a bit slim, but film can hold a latent image for quite a while... I once had a roll of 116 film developed that I found in an old Folding Pocket Kodak. It came back with no prints, because the developer figured it had failed, but on close examination, I was able to make out pictures of a woman in a long dress with a little kid outside. I had this done in the 1970's, and the styles appeared to probably be 1930's or earlier. I would expect the film had darkened due to natural background radiation and simple chemical degradation.
The "wide open shutter" setting is for time exposures. You could put the camera on a tripod and open the shutter, or while it was open set off a flash... Usually a sort of indoor fireworks, since flash bulbs didn't come along til 1929 or '30. |
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