Well you don't get that opportunity every day! Too bad there weren't any salvageable images. It was certainly woodth a try! Thanks so much for sharing your journey with us! 😎👍
@@jong542 thanks a lot for your comment. I was quite excited, but even with that outcome, I learned a lot about developing old film. I read many days into it. Sometimes the journey is so much fun.
I'm pretty sure the first picture that was shown with the side by side was a train and train track. When the color version is shown, definitely looks like a train
The care and precision you take to attempt to restore the film is top notch. This reminds me of the camera Sandy Irvine was supposedly carrying on My Everest. One rumor was the Tibetan government had the camera and tried to restore the film but nothing came out Even though the results may be disappointing the process was A plus and you have my ultimate respect. Thanks for sharing. Dave from the US
I took a (B&W film) photography class in college and loved it. I love seeing all of your home developing process! I never considered it could be done without a darkroom. Very admirable attempt at restoring the film. Extremely beautiful camera!! 😍
Nice! I like how you experiment with a test strip, especially since there is always a higher chance of getting nothing out of rolls that has been waiting to be developed for many many years!
Thanks, I read about this kind of test several times and thought this makes totally sense, Today I went through it again in my head and thought that I use next time the next darker one. Maybe I should try it again with a normal roll of film to see how it would look like.
@@mhaustriaUsing the time of the next-to-darkest strip is generally the best (there are a lot of variables with film this old so it might not have helped in this case) because the test strip has basically been maximally exposed so there is going to be nothing denser in the roll.
I have one of these, though smaller format. The tripod mount is a tapered peg which fits the hole in the camera (put a 1/4 UNC thread on the bottom to mount to conventional tripods). I made mine by copying a picture in the accessories catalogue. Lovely camera!.
This was pretty cool to watch, very informative. I know nothing about older cameras (although I'm getting old enough to almost be in that age range for the film). Google suggested your story to me on petapixel and from there I saw the developed pictures on your site. It looks like possibly it could be pictures of a picnic in a park in the first couple and last one. Or that's just my brain seeing trees that aren't there, since I just came in from outside with my dog chasing squirrels up trees and dragging me along for the ride. At any rate, have fun with the new film and "new" camera.
Lovely video. Nice to see the AGO working in the wild and not in a sponsored video. I had a similar experiences about a decade ago bought a kodak picket camera at a stall in a market and discovered it had a roll of film in it. Took great care developing it. Turns out someone had exposed the whole roll to light. Nothing on it 😅
Thanks a lot! I have one of these pocket cameras as well, there was a film in it, but back then Somebody developed it for me... I love my AGO processor, its such a nice tool to work with and I can spend my developing time with doing something else...
always difficult with old film processing, you never know if its even exposed correctly or had some light leaks/accidental openings. but its still so fun to see what was forgotten in the camera 😄 could possibly try ir imaging to see if can pull more info out of the negatives? 🤔
@@mhaustria i just remember a documentary about the Mona Lisa, where they use some pretty advanced ir to see different layers of paint 😅 and since film can capture the ir spectrum, why not try 😋
Thanks! I have had some luck with found films once or twice, but other times seemed like they came from the same photographer in the past as yours 😂 Keep it up!
@mhaustria i just fold it over by hand. The crease is just enough to stiffen up the film, so it's easier to get into the spool. By the time you're done developing it, you can't even tell it was done.
I was excited, wanting to see images in the photos. Sorry it didn't work out for you. You did a great job. I didn't think it had anything to do with you or the chemicals. Maybe a child played with the camera years ago, it's difficult to say. Great video and very informative. Thank you
Thanks you so much. Yes, I hoped for more, but I also think it's good to show different possibilities to develop old film. I didn't find much about cold film developing on the web, with my video there is one more available now.
For many applications I agree, but after arriving at a point where a camera shoots 120 frames per second and pre shoots 60 frames before you press the shutter button, I am not sure anymore that I want to work with a computer like that. Sometimes its really nice to step back, take some time and capture an image by hand.
I learned to develop b&w film in 1983ish during my freshman year in high school in my Graphic Arts class, never did it again but WOW have things changed. 🤯
Absolutely, I will get some 127 film and build a plate holder so I can use it with the wet collodion process. I am also thinking to build multiple plate holders, so I can shoot different distances.
@@mhaustria wow!!!!!! I actually held tintypes a few years back from a senior where I worked…. Very Cool to see the old stuff… Thank You for the Upload 😊👍❤️
These look like heat damage artifacts like in Robert Landsburg’s famous photos, RIP my dude Low key some synth band could make some banging art from these
which software did you use to convert the images into 3d ? I built a 3D camera but unfortunately the software I could find (which I could find for free) didn't work well.
I think that the two photos is of a baptism. In the left photo I feel like you can see a hand in the front-left foreground raised palm upward like praying and in the second photo you can see it reaching out more in the center of the photo to bless the baby. First photo I feel like you can see in the center there is a woman, I think the mother. To her right someone is holding the baby I think the priest but he has one of those tall hats on and in the second photo the woman is holding the baby, closer to the camera, I think she has a veil on. Bottom right I believe there is an alter boy kneeling with cross. I traced it out on the photos, I can send it to you
@@mhaustria It is. Its my first camera I'm working on, but I like tinkering. Preferably I'd get the mechanism functional again, but I find it hard to figure out how it works exactly. For me it's not really about actually taking pictures, but more so the repair process.
@@laurensnieuwland4657 I feel you, I like this kind of work as well. I serviced and renovated lots of my cameras. You probably will find a tutorial here on RU-vid . Enjoy!
@@mhaustria Thanks! Sadly it is so old and unknown that I haven't been able to find any information apart from the original sales advertisement and a vague description. I'll have to keep looking I guess!
I linked the full video that I show at the end in the top corner, or you just visit it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-75rvBERu9xE.htmlsi=WUIIguyM82p-hUow
@@WitnessTheComingOfoh Boy, I was so excited when I was opening it. I already had dreams of a family picture or something like that. But I actually have a box of 100 year old glass plates
I am working already on a concept for tintypes and will get some 127 film for it. Forrest sounds good, I have to figure out the hyperfocal distance. But I will create a plate holder that allows portraits as well.
The film probably dates from the 1950s, mid -60s at latest. It used a proprietary Agfa color process not compatible with Kodak color negative chemistry, both pre-dating the current C-41. The stepped development of a trial strip in B&W developer is a cute method of getting it into the ballpark. Using the film processing at very cold temps meant that whatever the development achieved, there was almost o=no effect fixing, and the film transparency was probably obstructed by a heavy veil of undissolved, undeveloped emulsion.
Thats why I said in the video that I guess the film is between 50 and 70 years old. If you meant fogging, I don't think there happened much fogging and fixing on the film in the tank looked like it worked as expected. Otherwise with no fixing happening, it should have been a black roll of film? Have you had a look at the original article that I linked on my blog about cold developing? The more I think about it, the more I want to try, normal developing vs stand developing, vs cold developing with a new black and white or color film.
@mhaustria I've run into some very old AGFA color film from the late 1930s and 40s that was undeveloped and used old chemicals to develop it and it worked out fine. I have a few rolls of old unexpired Kodachrome stock in the freezer. I'm saving them for color cars shots to simulate it on digital formats to get the right color profile. There are a few labs out there that can process it in color. I used to develop it myself, but the process is very complicated to do by hand. I used to use it all the time in 4x5 format for commercial photography.
@mhaustria Yes, for the most part. The very old AGFA color film wasn't a chromogenic subtraction process like Kodachrome reversal film. The bleaching and dying process can be approximated unlike the Kodak processes.
The 10 minute process was still worth watching. Well narrated and interesting. While he knew the outcome he still sounded like someone thoroughly enjoying his craft as he did the voiceover and, even though the result didn't come out, it's still nice to hear someone who has passion share their niche.
Thanks a lot, often the journey is more fun than the result. For me it was important to share the cold development process. Because I searched for it and did not find much about it. Most people recommended a specific restrainer, that is not easy accessible. On the other hand a fridge is available in most households
Weil ich seit Anfang mit Englisch begonnen habe. Ich habe zwischendurch versuche eine zweite Sprachspur hochzuladen, die Funktion gibt es auch, aber die wird auf meinem Kanal nicht freigeschaltet… Ich hab dann mal sogar die Videos in deutsch und in englisch hochgeladen, das sah sich damals niemand an. In der c‘t fotografie gibts meine Artikel in deutscher Sprache.
RU-vid runs on English. It promotes English videos more often if you have also previously watched English videos. If you only watch videos in one language it will promote that language to you more. So, if you don't like English, don't watch English RU-vid videos and you'll see less of them.
