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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2005 21:55:38 GMT -5
Eleven and a half years ago, I shot a lot of film. Eleven and a half years ago, we bought a house, moved, and in the process lost track of a lot of film. This year, I found a bunch of film. Needless to say we went and got it processed. What we got was pictures of our kids and camping trips we had thought lost forever. Of course, it means that everyone in the pictures is 11 1/2 years younger. I'll try to post a few pics from this old film here. The first one is my son Casey who is also a member of this message board...he is 23 years old now. Picture taken with my Minolta XG1n at F 2 with Fuji Film.
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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2005 22:13:47 GMT -5
This is Misty, my Tom Boy. She drives a big 4x4.
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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2005 22:27:12 GMT -5
Tami was the first one to make us Grandparents. She's been with Kmart for a long time.
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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2005 22:44:06 GMT -5
Stephanie is the oldest and wisest....and very artistic.
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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2005 22:59:00 GMT -5
This is Steph's husband Rob. Rob keeps the campfires warm and the bacon crisp. He was my friend before he was my Son-In-Law. We photograph trains together.
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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2005 23:14:47 GMT -5
Here is my Wife of many years, Freda. We used to take the shop vac with us to pump up the air matresses. I think she has it apart for some reason. Thanks for putting up with my family pics here.
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Post by paulatukcamera on Sept 13, 2005 3:09:14 GMT -5
Ah Randy, you have really hit the "nail on the head" with these pictures - your family record. What a shame so many people concentrate on taking "artistic" photos.
I don't want to start a controversy here, but I really believe the only long term value of my photography has been the record of my children's childhood.
Scenes of places & scenery visited so long ago seem quite uninteresting now and I really question if my pictures are so different from anybody elses. Perhaps I should have just bought the postcard instead? Thats why I find pictures from the 1850s of village life fascinating and those taken of scenery in the same period so boring
The magic of photography to me is still because it brings my past back to life. Or am I just getting elderly?
Paul
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Post by kamera on Sept 13, 2005 5:17:39 GMT -5
Randy,
Good lookin' family you have there!!
Even though I prefer to let other family members(since they all do it) take pics of the family gatherings, growing children, etc., I do agree with Paul that one must/should document all these events. Fortunately we have many family pics.
After the recent deaths of my parents, we children got out several old albums of family pics dating back into the late 1800's. Some have deteriorated a lot, but others are like new. But looking at them it brought back many memories we have and also reshared who in our extended family look like what.
In my den, I have several pictures on the wall of my maternal and paternal side of the family going back to my parents' childhood. I scanned, printed, mounted on gator board and laminated these.
My brother-in-law and I have split up the albums and are making such(as above) available to our family. It is a chore, but in addition to taking 'orders' of various pics, we are actually duplicating the albums as much as possible so that these remembrances will be available for the generations that come after us.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by Randy on Sept 13, 2005 18:47:11 GMT -5
Thanks for the comments guys, I'm still guilty of letting exposed film sit in the fridge until they stack up like cordwood. It's just that with my schedule, I don't get out much.
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Post by herron on Sept 16, 2005 13:38:06 GMT -5
Randy: I think the general consensus here is right on. Even though I prefer to take "scenics" and landscapes, the pictures I actually enlarge, frame and put on the wall are all of family and friends.
I recently used the Ofoto web site (now called Kodak "something") to upload images and make a small book about my father-in-law's farm (it's close to being a centennial farm...in the same family for at least 100 years) -- and I thought there were some really good scenic location shots (some of my posts on this board were from there).
But the pictures that had everyone commenting most, were the ones of people from a recent family reunion!
I just found about a dozen old rolls of exposed film and was considering not doing anything with them. But now I think I'm off to get them processed, just to see what might be there!
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Post by craigh on Sept 19, 2005 20:01:41 GMT -5
It's always a great treat to find "found" film. I just moved & found about 20 unexposed rolls, both 35 mm & 120.
Craig
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Post by herron on Sept 24, 2005 18:48:01 GMT -5
This is a "found" negative of my eldest son...who is now 33. He must have been about nine when this was taken! He had been "exploding" rolls of caps by banging on the entire roll with the end of his baseball bat. It was shot with an old Voigtlander Bessamatic (I still have it, and it still works just fine). Kodak 200 film, but the exposure settings have long since been forgotten!
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Post by PeterW on Sept 25, 2005 8:25:09 GMT -5
I love this shot, Ron. Your son's expression says it all - wondering if Dad's going to be angry at the explosions, with just a hint of 'If I wanna do it, I'm gonna do it!'
Peter
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Post by vintageslrs on Sept 25, 2005 11:14:24 GMT -5
Peter
my experience is with Fujica ST 801s and I love the camera. I have 3 of them.......one of which I bought new in 1973....all 3 of them still work perfectly including the light meter. And the Fujinon lenses are very, very good. They are very underated........as it seems only Fuji SLR people know just how good they are. So, I think you made a great purchase, I know the ST 605 is a different model but the basics are the same (the metering system is different---the ST 801 used LEDs instead of match-needle system---in fact the ST 801 was the first SLR to use LEDs as their metering system.) and the same Fujinon lenses were intended to be used on the ST 605 as the ST 801 (they are the M-42 screw type). So, enjoy it...........have fun...........and if you ever come across an ST 801---grab that too. here are some specs for your new camera: Type 35mm focal-plane shutter single-lens reflex camera with TTL exposure meter coupled with the shutter and diaphragm. Film Used 135 cartridge-packed film Picture Size 24 x 36mm. Normal Lens FUJINON 55mm F2 2 (4 component, 4 element). Automatic diaphragm, multiple increment F-stop calibrations with click stops for intermediate values, screw mount. Rectilinear helicoidal focusing 1.83 ¢ inch (49 ¢ mm) screw-in filter Distance Scale F2.2 55mm: 2 feet (0 6m)~infinity. Shutter Focal-plane shutter. B 1/2 - 1/700 sec Film speed indicator window built into Shutter Speed Selector Dial, built-in self-timer X contact and hot shoe. Viewfinder Pentaprism eye-level viewfinder :0 96 X magnification, 92% field of view (with F2 2 55mm lens): shutter speed scale and indicator needle: microprism focusing center. split image and ground glass Stopped-down TTL center weighted averaging type light metering Silicon photo-cell receptors coupled to FET (Field Effect Transistor) circuit, zero in type indicator needle visible in viewfinder Mirror Quick return type Exposure Meter coupled Range ASA 25 - 3200 (1/3rd step), EV2—EV17-2/3 (f/1.4 1/2 sec —f/16 1/700 sec with ASA 100 film) Power Source Two 1 6V nickel-zinc batteries (Toshiba NZ13) or 1.5V silver oxide batteries (Eveready S76E, Mallory MS-76H or UCAR 5-76E) 4www.butkus.org Film Advance Single-stroke lever; 140. winding angle: self cocking shutter; easy loading Frame Counter Automatic resetting additive type Film Rewind Hand crank Flash Synchronization X. Hot Shoe Lens Mount Praktica screw mount, 1 65 ¢ inch (42mm), 0093P inch (1 Pmm) Dimensions 5 24 x 3 39 x 3 47 inch (133 x 86 x 88mm) with F2.2 lens Weight 730g with F2.2 lens mounted (including batteries and lens cap). 565g body alone (including body cap). Optional Extras Hard Case. Eye Cup. Eyesight Adjustment Attachment Lens, Right angle Finder, Closeup Lens, Extension Tube (auto). Microscope Adapter, Leica mount Adapter, Reverse Adapter, Extension Bellows, Macrocinecopy, Lens Hood
be well............have fun Bob
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Post by herron on Sept 25, 2005 15:41:24 GMT -5
I found another interesting shot. It was taken with my Mamiya-6 folder (c.1949), probably on an Ilford 120 film. The lens on that old folder is a 7.5cm f/3.5 Olympus Zuiko. My son (who is now a professional architectural photographer in Florida) used to enjoy going with me on photo shoots of all kinds. He's still setting up in this shot. We were on the Windsor, Ontario, side of the Detroit River, and this shot was literally right under the Ambassador Bridge, facing east. It was bitter cold that day, in the minus degrees farenheit, as I recall. We would take a few shots and then run back to the car to warm up! We would leave our cameras on the tripods, so the lenses would not fog up from coming in and out of the cold. This would have been taken about five or six years ago, before my son moved to Florida (I wonder if photo shoots like this one had anything to do with his decision?). I don't have the exposure data but, given the brightness of the day, I would say this was about 1/100 at f/16. I do remember the camera was mounted on a tripod. The flaring at the top and bottom edges had nothing to do with the camera (it's the same camera I took the river shot with in a previous posting). It was all about handling the film to remove it from the camera when the roll was complete. My whole body was shaking from the cold, and I know it was my clumsy handling of the roll that let a little light leak at the edges of the film!
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