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I mentioned that we went to an antique store yesterday. I was hoping to maybe find some old camera gear. I saw a grand total of four cameras. One was digital so it doesn’t count. One was a Ricoh film camera that looked like it was probably from the 1990’s. I didn’t know anything about it so I passed. There were two really old cameras. The Kodak Autographic Jr that I posted yesterday. I was really interested in that one but I wanted to dig into it a bit first. That was a good move. They don’t make the film it uses anymore. Bummer. You can get adapters that let you use 120 film but that is a smidge above my interest level at this point. The fourth camera was a Kodak Brownie from the 1950’s that was interesting too, but looking into that told me what I was already pretty sure of. They don’t make the film that camera uses either. Oh well. Maybe next time.

There was this though…

That would look fantastic in our living room, don’t you think?

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/30/antique-store-wrap-up/

Flickr By robj_1971

Developing a roll of Fomapan 400. Long Stand method, 18 mins into a 60 min dev process + 1 min Stop + 4.5 mins Fix + 10 mins wash.

A test roll I have put through a new to me FED 2e (1962 vintage) with an Industar 61 f/2.8 lens (52.3mm) I acquired from the Ukraine recently.

The roll, hopefully, will have a varied and eclectic collection of images. It will let me know that the camera functions and is light tight or otherwise.