the lucky pan scan man
A while ago I bought these things so that I could use the films inside the camera to make photographs. How clever I thought I was, buying cheap chinese film to experiment with to save money not using expensive stuff like Ilford film.
Christmas day rolled along and I thought I’d document it using film like some sort of artistic genius – a couple of weeks later I pop to the local film processing place and ask them to develop it. “What type of film is that” asks the man. Um….. “It must be C-41″ says I thinking at the same time “how could I possibly be wrong?”
Wrong I was – the processed film looks like this:
Believe it or not, although it looks blank there is actually something on these negatives. Trouble is you can’t pick it up with a scanner without it looking like a real mess – witness:
These look like something taken in 1820 with the first ever camera – and are rubbish. So now I’m left with 9 more rolls of this stuff and no bleeding idea what to do with it. Suddenly I find myself contemplating buying a home development kit and setting up a dark room…
February 8th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Woups…
Don’t buy cheap Chinese film?
I have a hard time even finding good films in 400 ISO. They’re starting to get sold out here in Oslo. They just assume nobody shoot analogue anymore. Great….
February 9th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Wow, I cant beleive B is from Oslo, thats like in Lapland near Austria or something. I wonder if its actually Bridgette Neilson, or even Bridgette Bardot; I think she’s Spanish.
It’s such a coincidence, my Diving Instructor in Dahab was from Finland, where they designed the first dishwasher.
Her name was Pilvi, which I think is Norse for “let my piss flaps hang out of my bikini bottoms”, because that’s all she did for two weeks, much to our merryment. No, we never said anything.