Aengus MacNaughtonA follower donated a *LOT* of expired roll film to Mike at FilmBoy24 on YouTube (mainly Super 8 found film topics), and he gave them out to a bunch of his viewers (including me) to shoot under the theme of ‘My Place.’ Most of the viewers have older cameras so it’s a great proof-of-concept that old film and old cameras can still be used.
I received a roll of 120 Kodak TriX that expired in 1987. I shot this as the first roll in a used Ricoh Diacord G TLR that I had recently purchase and seemed in fantastic shape:
It’s similar to the more expensive/more known Rolleiflex and similar TLRs. Focus is done with sliding push-pull knobs on either side of the front lens board instead of a large knob. The advance is by a knob and locks in every 6×6 frame — no need to check a frame-number window on the back. f3.5 80mm lenses, B-1/400 shutter speed, f3.5-f22, flash hotshoe that looks normal but turns out to be proprietary, but I used the PC socket on the front of the camera for the shot of my condo door with a cheap electronic flash. Worked really well except for my ‘shadow’ selfie where there was some camera shake.
I exposed the film at ISO 50 due to the age (orig ISO 400) and used Sunny 16 to determine the exact settings. Below is a link to the album of shots — all as developed and scanned by The Darkroom lab — no edits. There are some scratches and marks on some of the negatives, but I think that those are due to the age of the film.
The shots were at Rockburn Park in Elkridge, Maryland, a few outside of my work (flags, statues) in Columbia, Maryland — and one shot of my condo door.
