Remember these.? All our yesterdays

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes alive and kicking...

https://www.ilfordphoto.com/black-white-film/35mm-film

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I knew I had an old film on the office desk but I couldn't remember the make so I went to look and was confronted with an Agfa box. "Oh well never mind" I thought but had a quick look inside just in case (no pun intended) but was frustrated again:

MTMO

Name that film!

[CitroJim]

Started out with Ilford film, developing it in a Patterson tank, under the stairs in a mate's house.

I used to develop my own monochrome film, a very enjoyable and rewarding process. Shame was, at the time, I could never afford a decent enlarger to enable me to print and had to rely on the goodwill of a friend who had one...

There was a great deal of satisfaction and pride to be gained from it... And it was quicker than sending your exposed film off to some remote lab.

Also, you could photograph slightly risque things without risk of getting a telling-off from the processing lab

[myglaren]

I joined our local camera club and used their darkrooms (I was the only one who did) and their enlargers and graduated to processing colour film, transparencies only though.

[CitroJim]

I never got to colour processing Steve.. I'd have loved to and studied it but again, finances would not stretch to getting all the required kit.

Plus I did a lot of Ektachrome slides and that, if I remember correctly, was a specialist process that could not be done at home...

[myglaren]

No, Ektachrome can be done at home, it was what I used for years but by then I was doing it professionally, until I had the studio change to Agfa materials, which saved us around £1,000,000 a year.
Kodachrome was the one that only Kodak labs could process.

[CitroJim]

Kodachrome was the one that only Kodak labs could process.

Ahh, got it wrong!

My memory after 45 years failed me Steve... Ektachrome was the E6 process wasn't it?

[myglaren]

It was indeed.

[Rp0thejester]

I knew I had an old film on the office desk but I couldn't remember the make so I went to look and was confronted with an Agfa box. "Oh well never mind" I thought but had a quick look inside just in case (no pun intended) but was frustrated again:



Name that film!

Okay, I now feel old... Camera film... what will my kids say...

[myglaren]

Still have an Olympus OM10 that doesn't work and is missing its lenses as I loaned my other OM10, my OM1 MD and a handful of lenses to my (now ex) daughter in law and she buggered off with them.

[momag46]

I had a darkroom, but only used D&W and infrared. I used an Olympus OM1 & OM4ti, great cameras. I did take slides but never developed them myself. I think when you got into B&W, colour lost its appeal. Great times, sad to see it’s all gone now.
Maurice

[ChrisRobin]

@ Jim
"you could photograph slightly risque things without risk of getting a telling-off from the processing lab"
Tell me about it, I took a role of colour AHFA to boots and went to collect it a week later to have large stickers all over it say they had failed to process 5 images as they were inappropriate, they were from out Cornwall Holiday which we did in a Red Ford Escort RS turbo (nice) and the images, er in doors on the beach in her bikini and my son in his trunks and that was on a Zenith 12EX, cracking camera the amount of times it was dropped and still worked, I once dropped it on a tiled floor in Turkey as I was participating in the swallowing of a wee to much Raki and don't remember much of of the fall but I do remember watching the Zenith flying through the air and landing on the tip of it's lens, I do remember the sinking feeling as I watched it land, on inspection the next morning the lens was badly dented no way would a filter go on now but all the lens glasses fine, mechanism fine! That surprised me as it took a full impact as it was literally launched from my hand. lasted years after that, it was replaced by a Cannon EOS 300 35mm (Never dropped It would shatter) and eventually by an EOS 500D when my wife dragged me into the modern world kickin and screaming.
Russians can make a great camera, shame about their cars.
Sure I still have some unused rolls of AGFA film somewhere, I bought a load as it was going out of fashion, I had around 10 x 100, 5 x 200 and 3 x 400's

Do you remember was it trueprint where you sent you roll away and you got your prints back along with a new roll of film. Ah those were the days, when EVERY picture counted, there was no deleting done then for wrong framing of incorrect exposure was there in fact you paid to view you cockup which was rather annoying sometimes. I remember taking picture of our local bodybuilding competition for the Gym I was at, dark stage, bright spotlights, 36 exposures of the lads on stage all wrongly exposed.. fuming, and it cost me to find that out and then weeks of ribbing for it off the lads.

[CitroJim]

That was one tough Zenith ChrisRobin... Truly built like a tank! They were good and possibly the best thing ever to come out of Russia!

Shocked at Boots and your roll of film... There must have been a stern old prude on duty that day

[ChrisRobin]

Yes Boots.... I found out years later that the "Camera Club" use to take there portrait films to Boots, some of which were rather racy it seemed, but to be honest although not to her face I wouldn't' say er in doors on the beach in a bikini ws racy, the strangest thing, there was one of her on the bonnet of the RS similar ilk to those in car mags of the time, when we were young enough to get on the bonnet and they developed that, the only one, now you could say that would be the 1st of those images but it was as we were leaving the beach get rid of last frame for a laugh, I remember it as she put a dent in the bonnet as they were not particularly well made, we had to pop it back out.
The Zenith was all metal construction, body and lens, hefty bit of kit. I bought it for £24.99 with a flash unit brand new from Cambrian Cameras in Colwyn Bay, about 15 year later it sold on Ebay for £35 I had bought a 2nd had standard lens for it by then for £5, have to say it is not often you can say that is it, I sold it for more 2nd hand.
I have to say I now use my phone more than my Camera to take photos sadly, but they do take such good pictures now, and it's a lot of kit to take on city breaks when you are struggling for luggage size on planes.

[CitroJim]

I can't remember the last time I used a proper camera now, I've been using a phone for years now and they just seem to get better and better...

I still have two digital cameras here but they're really nothing more than ornaments...